rizky's posts with tag: jakarta
|  | thanks to the babies, our mitu baby liquid bathe soap tvc shoot went smoothly. paasch didn't complain at all so did not jeremy holmes, and most of all, rajesh menon enjoyed his book 'the god delusion' while i was so busy....taking pictures and joked with the rest of the team. thanks to bang harris sulong, rachel and yudi datau and the rest of the gank. well done guys.....my first and last tvc production with the advantage ; ) |
| | last saturday night the ex parking lot was cluttered with hip-hop, r n b fans from all over the city. with the opening act of local electronic band 'goodnight electric' successfully led the crowds to dance for the whole 1,5 hours. then followed by the spectacular performances from the main act 'x-makeena', originally from the city of rennes, x-makeena was noticed in 2002 after a concert with percubaba. the band's music ranges from hip-hop, dub to drum n' bass. composed of 5 people, this band displays unfettered imagination in all their concerts. |
| | its happened to me that i’m currently working at a company situated at a ‘let say’ prestigious location in southern Jakarta. to get to my office i take bus and sometime taxi cab, and if i take bus i have to get down at the main road and walk down for another 15 minutes. but for the last two weeks i’ve observed people passes by from and in to an empty lot (so i thought) covered with metal fences. and its actually a short cut to my office. so then ever since i just walk over that area to get 5 minutes faster. but what i found was just beyond a short cut, i eventually found a ‘life’ there. a very humble, simple life. sheltered by used ply woods and boxes.
this social injustice scenery is part of everyday life in this megapolitan city of jakarta. i’ve learned of how shocking and disturbing it is from the point of view of some of my friend whose coming from the ‘so called’ first world country. but for most jakarta’ers this kindda place sometime just invisible, hidden behind the tall fancy apartments, malls and even being well kept under the flyovers. or maybe we just pretends they’re not even exist at all.
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| | performed at the taman menteng on last saturday, june 7, 2008, mime bizot a teacher, director and an artist, gained a long applauses from the audience. he was not just performing the rehearsed play. but he was also doing some improvisations requested by the audience. |
| | less alternative for lunch and dinner...warung sebelah kantor ludes di makan api... |
| | this contemporary dance group consist of 6 frenchmen was performed at the graha bakti budaya - taman ismail marzuki. the dance was mix of hip hop - free style with the touch of traditional middle eastern - african on some movements, musics and costumes. an outstanding performances that gained a long standing ovation. the show was part of the printemps francais 2008, an annual program to celebrate the indonesian & french long relation. |
| | this manifesto at national gallery - gambir is surely one of the biggest and also the finest art exhibition in this year, exhibiting the nation best artists from the 60's to the latest one with 350 artists in total. painting, installation, sculpture, multimedia, craft and photography works will be on display until the june 14th 2008. |
| | the cemetery also known as kebon jahe kober (the ginger garden cemetery) the name 'ginger garden' might refers to the name of the area where the cemetery situated. this cemetery was also one of the first cemetery applying the concept of modern cemetery park/garden with arboretum concept in the world.
however i've been visiting this place for three times, the first time i made my visit here was back in 2003, not much i could recall except for some mixed romatic gloomy feeling about the tombs. the second one was for sure couldn't be deleted from my memory slot, since i had to spend 7 days in hospital bed, and the whole week after, for total bed rest at home for dengue fever, which i'm very much sure i got the bites from the mosquitoes at that place. the 'funny' thing was, actually i went to the place with a friend of mind, and we both suffered from the same fever. the last time i went to the place, things were pretty much messed-up, i got bites, again, thanks god nothing happened up to now, but some sour notes got to be made:
1. some tombs were broken, miss-placed and some even mutilated. i got a very strong impression that this place hasn't been properly well taken care.
2. some huge trees fallen over the tombs, leaving the huge root, and made some old metal tomb fences broken. however nothing has been fixed.
3. admission fees seems to be not well managed, some people who wanders around the museum even collects some money for camera and unofficial entrance fee from visitors. and it certainly caused such inconvenience. |
| | the museum situated near the national monument, monas, formerly was a noble western and dutch high official cemetery built by the netherland indie government in 1759 and was known as the kebon jahe cemetery (ginger garden for direct translation).
there are many noted dutch people buried there including two military men maj. gen. a.v. michiel and maj. gen. j.h. r. kohler, who respectively led wars in bali and aceh, as well as the founder of stovia school of medicine (now the university of indonesia ) h. v. roll. and the jakarta arc bishop 1874 - 1893: a.c claessens.
other important people buried there are olivie mariamne raffles -- wife of british governor general thomas stamford raffles (also the ruller of colonial era singapore).
bearing a skull and crossbones, one headstone at the museum that draws comment is that of pieter erberveld, who died in 1722.
erberveld, who had a wealthy german father and a burmese mother, was sentenced to death for plotting to murder several dutchmen.
It is said the sentence was carried out by the tying of a horse to all four of erberveld's limbs, which, when the animals bolted, tore him apart. this is the reason why the area on jl. jayakarta in central jakarta is called pecah kulit (broken skin).
this obscure landlord was remembered because the dutch made too much of him -- his house in batavia was whacked to the ground, and his head was put on an iron stake to crown a monument neatly scribbled with dutch and javanese scripts saying he was the filthy bastard who wanted to initiate a pogrom of europeans and lead natives to a revolution.
“as a detestable memory of the punished traitor pieter erberveld nobody shall now or ever be allowed to build, to carpenter, to lay bricks, or to plant in this place.
in memory of the 'traitor' pieter erberveld
batavia, 14th of april 1772.”
he was, many believed, only framed, though no one can tell why.
the ghastly monument with his skull disgraced jakarta for around 219 years despite the disgusted indos' appeals to have it removed -- no other testimony about the paranoia of the dutch colonists was that clear.
erberveld had to wait until the japanese soldiers landed in java and the dutch fled to australia before his posthumous torture was ended in 1941. the japanese demolished the monument to dust. |
| | monas has been the landmark of jakarta for years. monas is an acronym of monumen nasional, the national monument. this monument began its construction in 1959 and fully erected in 1961. however monas was not open for public until 1975. the monumen nasional is a 450 ft (137 m) tall tower in central jakarta, symbolizing the fight for indonesia's independence.
the design of the monument is meant to combine elements of masculine and feminine. the design based on lingga-yoni, the symbol of fertility in ancient hindu-javanese belief. the phallic shaft comes toward the ground and is engulfed by square base meant to symbolize fertility. the monument body was made of steel and concrete covered with italian white marble.on the top of the tower there's a square terrace that can be reach by visitor with elevator. from here visitor can see aerial view of jakarta. the monument is crowned by gold-coated flame, right on the top of the peak terrace. this golden flame symbolize the spirit of freedom and the struggle for independence of indonesian people
tree men responsible for planning and designing this monument were; soedarsono, frederich silaban, and ir. rooseno as the consultant. however the idea to built such tall monument came from the first president of ri (republic of indonesia) as well as the nation’s founding father ir. Soekarno.
now days people coming to monas area to do morning or afternoon exercises. some sport facilities available in this so called the city’s lung. from futsal and basket ball filed to acupuncture and jogging track. some efforts to bring back the ‘natural life’ in to the area has started to gain results. doves, parrots, finches, and some other species of birds has made this area as their urban nest. |
| | it's old yet beautiful...my old looked new office: Advintage....nope it's Advantage, located at the shady road of pulombangkeng, near senopati jakarta selatan. |
| | wandering around the city from it's central to the southern part. by metromini to mayasari bakti. under the shinny sun to rainy day. jakarta, it's love and hates collides. |
| | this ArtVertising exhibition is being held at the national gallery in colonial district of gambir. the exhibition shares the artist prespective and interpretation toward advertising industry through various art medium. being the curator of this fine exhibition were dr Oei Hong Djien and Hermanto Soerjanto |
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