the observatory

when Thor lost all his swagger, defeated and blamed himself for not killing Thanos and all the lives lost in Infinity War ( where he should gone for the head - he did ), he dig down deep inside, have a pep talk with Frigga, stretched out his hand for the Mjolnir and got back a litre of worthiness back. i found myself not worthy when i first stumbled upon the works of the Italian masters namely Leo and Mikey. The moment i mentioned their names, the theme song of the Ninja Turtles blared through my subconscious. That is why The Renaissance is one of my favorite lectures/sharing sessions in my art history classes.  How Mikey carved a fucking form from a marble made me stop drawing for months. Mind you its not a drawing but a freaking sculpture. This is before he took 4 years of his life to produce the mind-blowing Sistine Chapel. I dont want to talk about Mikey as i can go on and on. Balai Seni Negara brought all the reproductions at the actual size, displayed trough proje...

it's extremely nice to go unto a digital detox, stay offline for days. The mind is clear, focused from rubbish happening around the world. Its been while i wrote about something but this - my man, i have to write about it. Last year, a minister launched a logo to promote tourists to come to our country. When it comes to logo design - there are so many issues and complications to handle. Fonts, colors, lines and whatever is poured unto it. There will be arguments, endless comments and hours of justifications and artistic liberation and commitments involved. we are now in the 21st century, where Tokyo soon will incorporate robots unto their Olympics, so when the former Tourism minister Nazri Aziz launched a logo with orang utan and a turtle with ray ban - the whole country blew their top. First, few of my pals who works in the print industry told me that it was a nightmare to get the right color code and whatever fuck the gradient percentage is. But my gripe is the tagline ...

Investing your time in a mini-series ( now binge watching ) can be detrimental or beneficial, added couple of some values and layers to one perception and acceptance of how a story to be told, presented visually, ultimately leads to a some sort of cathartic outcome. Netflix's Narcos doesnt fail me Breaking Bad doesnt fail me The Shield doesn't fail me. I realized and concluded that the TV series above that doesn't fail me contained enough stimulus to keep me watching, guessing and yes hoping before they pull the curtain down, made me go berserk thinking what i should do next. The journey of searching something better, an elusive oh yet frustrating process of curating images and narratives in my mind. When the cast and story line stretched far and wide leading to further seasons, all the probable essence and formula that made things work dissipated to thin air. The whole structure composing the narrative molecular structure torn apart and finally exploded unto a m...

how far you can push John to the extreme? with the studio green-lighted another sequel in 2021 and a tv series focusing on The Continental -we witness John's wider skills by breaking a neck with a book, knife engagements, horses as his extended weapon,custom rigged an relic weapon, replied an answer in Indonesian with former Kanji Klub members and speed loading his shotgun. am i entertained? Yes - partly due to the brilliant choreographed stunts and have the ability to frame it nicely, no annoying shaky hand held cameras, multiple shots, close ups and shot in extremely dark location. With these thrown out from the window, the fight is focused, simplistic, visceral and edgy. The knife fight alone is seriously amazingly fucked up!!!   devoid of any clumsy human drama shit, plot complications and twists and turns which will mess John's journey to hell and back, here John goes unto another level to seek The High Table for redemption. the first film is ok, but the s...

the tropical pitcher plants also known as Periuk Kera able to hold rainwater due it's design - used as drinking cups by lovely Orang Utans and other notable jungle inhabitants, now used by human beings for lemang and marketed now as "exotic food". We have tremendous and excellent bamboo and yet people will choose the extinct plants to do these sort of "hipsterish monstrosity".   Maurice ( from Planet of the Apes trilogy ) will be not happy. 

how to fuck things up - let me rephrase again, how to fuck everything up gloriously, throw all the hard work, efforts poured unto crafting a tv series that glorify incest, sex, dragon and winter. the crew forgot to take away the Starbucks cup. Eagle eyed fans noticed this and the Internet blew up. Starbucks got free advertising worth billions. Not enough - with no source material to rely on, the show runners/writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, millions of fans got served with a bad instantaneous brew of vomits in Season 8. The plot, long build up screwed up, battle scene cinematography got so dark until they have to issue out technical note to adjust their screens in the final Season 8. I can only relate to the fans frustrations while laughing silently. for Film-makers at times love to shoot everything in the dark and make us guessing what's going on - you guys deserve a place in hell. Imagine spending 8 years following, endless favorite character got killed ceremo...