Hip Hop 101 in Malawi

As i promised before, here are my design of the album art and the rising son's track.



I, personally, am not a big fan of hip hop, but i kinda like his sound. Easy listening? umm nah, i don't really know how to describe it. Try for yourself, Hip Hop 101.

What do you think about them? Critics and comments are very welcomed.

Rising Son

Kananji Msaka AKA Rising Son, my friend, my happy-time guy, one cool dude. Those, above, are some of his potraits i took for his mixtape, yes a mixtape, he is an artist, a rapper to be exact. He is releasing his mixtape titled Meanwhile in Malawi soon enough.

I'll design his cover art, i hope i can do good. After it's done, i'll post it here and also i'll post one of his songs after i get his permission. I am a little bit over-excited here right now, so smell you later?

The Era of The Geek

Whew, two and a half months since my last post. Alright, here's my second post in two thousand nine.

I had nothing to do today then i went to pick a random tv show to watch and it happened to be beauty and the geek: season 5. Well, the show was not as interesting as it titled, more of like battle of sexes in my opinion, but there was one monolog that catched me, it was said by one of the geek in the first episode.

"We, geeks, created your society."

Dang, he was probably right.

1. Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, totally a kind of geek that would get slammed to the locker by all those jocks. He made this social networking site called facebook. Facebook is a hit, superstars, businessmen, congressmen, teenagers, you name it, even grandparents, have at least one facebook account, i am not exaggerating.

Wait, you know what facebook is, don't you? No? What should i say? You, geek!

Here is a video about facebook, made by Julian Smith.

2. Blackberry or iPhone

Blackberry is a total trend, well back in my hometown for sure, same as the iPhone in the United States of A, i guess. They both are not only gadgets that could make it easier for you to communicate, organizing your schedule, sending emails, and whatsoever, but now, they are also fashion items, social statements, signs of coolness.

The product design might not be done by the geek, but inside, the programs, the operating systems, yes, the programming geeks made them. Without it, either your Blackberry nor your iPhone is useful, definitely uncool.

Here is a video to show you how cool it is if you have an iPhone, also made by Julian Smith.

So, those are two of the probably-much-more things that be made by the geeks, not only for the geek, but also for the society. Those are the proofs that the geeks has defined your lifestyle, changed your daily habit; whoever is using those things i mentioned; under your consciousness.

This is it, the era of the geeks, when the geeks are the cools. Now, who wants to be a geek? Well, i need to read more about those PHP programming language, wish me luck, hehe.

Continuum

Ten!
Nine!
Eight!
Seven!
Six!
Five!
Four!
Three!
Two!
One!
HAPPY NEW YEA..wait



It stopped at a quarter to eleven PM on the last day.
Does it mean my time has stopped?
I guess i would never really enter the eighth year of this milennium.

No resolution for me then, cliché.
Way to start, eh?

Square Ball

how old you are, how high your IQ is, what topic you talk about, what you are interested in, what you have under your wear, what you fantasize in the bathroom, how many checks you have in the back of your pants, who you party with, which nation you are in, what kind of music you prefer, what stick on your body, what size your t-shirt is, what food you eat, what book you read, what brand you wear, what you yell about, what you are good at, which school you go in every single morning, what you do for a living, what your last name is, what color your skin is, which supreme entity you believe in, how you die.

what a world we live in. what a life.

Finger Magic

Danny, 13 yo, beat Guitar Hero's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in expert mode, one hundred freakin percents. Any school for Guitar Hero? A course at least? Anyone?

Check out those fingers, i wonder if he could play the real guitar. Dang!

Unlikely Lunch

"Who pushed the button for Bigbang?"

"God."

"Who pushed the button for God? Who pushed the button for the one who pushed the button for God?"

"Hmm, this chicken salad is neat. Wanna try some?"

Lunch break, over a meal, started with "so, you're a moslem?"

Mankind, probably the most mysterious species on our planet. A mystery of open questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? How do we know what we believe to know? Why do we believe anything at all? Innumerable questions looking for an answer, an answer which will raise the next question and the following answer will raise a following question and so on and so forth. But in the end, isn't it always the same question and always the same answer? - Tom Tykwer

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I am blank. 

I am empty. 

I am null.

I am lacking. 

I am uninspired.

Someone said that inspiration could come when you are feeling bad or sad or in love or anything but happy.

Does that mean that i am in an i-am-so-freakin-happy condition? Geez

An-uh-gram

I was in System Analysis and Design class, SAD for short, hmm sad huh. I was sleepy. I was bored. The lecture was boring. The lecturer talked about craps that made my three hours felt like six. I started doing random things. One thing i did un-bored myself. Look



Sorry if it isn't clear enough, my phone's camera sucks. Anyway, i did anagram on my name, and this was what turned out to be my name's anagram:

"I FAN BAD VAIN"

The hell? Try yours

Gaming Expression

It's a video project called "Immersion" by Robbie Cooper, a NYC photographer. He captured those looks on the kids' face when they were playing video games, bet it was a Playstation, yeay. One of them was having so much fun bursting out people's brain in an fps game while one of them actually cried playing god-knows what a sad game that is. I wonder how i looked like when i was immersing myself into this other world. It must be cool, hehe. This is one of the power of video games, my friend.

The video above is the UK's Telegraph version, for the NY Times' version click here.

Movie Weekend

Weekend for me is a movie-watching time, so was last weekend. Yes, i'm a movie-whore and torrent is my bestest buddy. Anyway, i watched five movies last weekend and three of them shared pretty similar main idea. They were:



Call me lame, i just watched that famous Wall-E and i agree that it is a good movie. Idiocracy is one of those movies with great idea but badly delivered. Nineteen Eighty-Four, i like this movie big time, it almost perfectly visualized the novel, felt like i was somehow brainwashed.
Those three movies above, they tried to show you how the world could become later in our future, which none of us would like. So be good, be aware, big brother is watching.

My next movie weekend round-ups are:




I'm curious about this movie below, Juno look-a-like. I couldn't find it anywhere in the web. Anyone knows or has one copy of it?



Alright back to my assignment then, agh.

Friction of a Number

That day,
He cried.
It was the first breath of the oxygen that crept into him.
It was the taste of the real world that shocked him.
It was the truth of facing this transitory state that scared him.
So, he cried, loud, that day.

That day,
She smiled.
It was the day after the nine-months-ten-days of time that relieved her.
It was the sound of his crying that made her forget how hurt it was.
It was the beginning of the new thing that excited her.
So, she smiled, sincere, that day.

November nineteen,
He is wondering why he cried.
November nineteen,
He is wondering what he should do to make her smiling again.
November nineteen,
The number changes once again only now it is slightly different.

Happy Birthday to you, ego.

Coolist

I just read the NME Cool List 2008 and thought why not making one. So, here it is my personal cool list randomly ordered.


Steve Aoki - Ben Gibbard - Uffie - Thom Yorke - Alice Glass
Seth Rogen - Edward Norton - Erlend Øye - Agyness Deyn - Jamie Aditya

Yes, they are awesome in some ways, entertainment ways to be exact. Cool

Nevermind Baby

17 years has passed but still, a dollar he is. The inflation? yea nevermind.

The Hoax

Do you believe
that you woke up and found nothing left in your wallet
Do you believe
that you had lunch all on your own this afternoon
Do you believe
that you listened to your ipod shuffled until song number one nine four five
Do you believe
that you conversed with your friend and shut him down
Do you believe
that you had eleven shots and everything was correct
Do you believe
that you were on crack and cool to be so cool for it
Do you believe
that you tried so hard to fit the mold that was not even yours
Do you believe
that you really did what you did
Do you believe
that you are really there

Do you?

Tujuan Hidup

"Apa coba tujuan hidup lo?"
"Gw cuman pengen ngebuat orang tua gw senyum, tulus, bangga punya anak kayak gw. Setelah itu terjadi, mungkin gw akan siap untuk menghadapi apapun itu."

Tujuan hidup yah.

Jobs That Fit

I'm in my third year and my next step after college is getting a job. These are the workplaces in which, i believe, will perfectly fit me, my dream jobs, my molds.

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Lowe Worldwide

I have a big passion for art especially the commercial one, the one that could move people to do what it say. This, London-based international creative advertising agency, has it. Notice those "got milk?" campaign's print ads? Ones with those Hollywood so-called stars in them. Lowe made them. Here is also a funny TV ad they made.

Konami, Inc
It's a video game company famous for its Winning Eleven and Metal Gear. I love video games and Metal Gear Solid series is one of my top games of all time. I love them so i wanna make them, simple.

Google, Inc
Everything is google today. Looking for a guide to make your own tie-dyed tees ? google it. It even has become a verb for god's sake. Another thing that make me want it so bad to work there is its office, the google campus. Look at these, it's the one in zurich.



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In 2 years, i have to be in either one of them. This is my fantasy for now. Ciao

Done

History has been made, the first half half president of the United States of America. The world cheers, they are celebrating, the whole world. Even the guys in my hometown are having a party for him winning the election. So, please welcome our president, Barack Obama.


Oh, and please behold, the New World Order.

No Rainbow

"what about sun? wanna meet it?"
"i prefer the moon. it's always there during the night. without it, my night will only be dark."
"but still, I'll poke the sun just for you cos it's far brighter than the moon and you should've known it."
"you know that the bright of the sun is too much for me. sometime it makes me blind. I need something that really makes me feel peace, and I don't take the sun for my answer."

Moon? It's the sunlight that actually make night brighter, the moon is only a reflector, a tool. We shouldn't rely on something that couldn't even shine by itself.
Me, I'm seeking for the brightest star, and the sun it is. Without it, no moon, no rainbow, no life, nothing. I realize that it could blind me, but there are risks in everything anyway. The brightest bright makes me curious to know what behind it, well it could be peace. I'll pursue it, the sun, and whatever will be, will be.I 'm taking this risk for the greater good.

Crap, i'm writing with this super-massively-understood language of union jack in this whole post. After being so idealistic about my mother tongue, shame? Nah, once, harhar.

Tujuh

Tadi saya baru baca bahasan-nya disini. Fantastis, mungkin ini bisa dijadikan pertanda kebangkitan Microsoft setelah keterpurukan yang amat sangat dalam yang disebabkan oleh Windows Vista dan kecerdikan Apple. Tapi dengan ini, Mac? hoahmm



I'm a PC and I'm using iPod