I just abandoned this personal blog, even this is one of my first blog in the web. Now, since 2009, I have my personal website-blog addressed on Top Level Domain (TLD). You can access @:

http://www.bhayu.net

However, my very updated writing on the net still on my daily updated blog @:

http://www.lifeschool.wordpress.com

For you who want to read my newest writing, please visit those blog. However, thank’s to coming here. I just can’t keep my own promise to updated this personal blog at the near future. At least, I try hard for it.

Best wishes …

Bhayu M.H.

http://www.communicationworld.wordpress.com.

This blog is under construction also. I hope I can finish this moving so on. But I just worry it won’t as so on as I hope by my self, because of my daily routine bussiness.

At the future, this blog will contain my opinion about interesting problems, especially in my country: Indonesia. It will provide some of my journey or activity also, but only the important one. However, I have no intention to write my diary online. Oh yeah, I will move some posting also from my boosted hits blog:

http://www.lifeschool.wordpress.com

to my personal blog. Especially if its contain about my daily life. At the early time of blog writing, I used bi-lingual. But now, those blog written in bahasa Indonesia only.

I just try to give you some valuable reading. Hope you will like it. Thank you.

Whenever he was president, there were many cases related to human rights violence. Maybe you already now about Timor-Timur (our former province which liberated at 2003 through open referendum) or Aceh. He also commanded several action like Petrus (this is Indonesian acronym for “Pembunuhan Misterius” or “Mysterious Killing”). Not only that, since the beginning of his New Order regime, his hand not clean from blood since he indicated to order mass killing to PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia-Indonesian Communist Party) member & Soekarno’s supporter. But all of that ‘messy thing’ were not appeared on Indonesian media during his funeral covering.

Soeharto, the longest former Indonesian President died today on 01.10 PM. He will be burried tommorow with state official military ceremony in his family’s cemetery. All Indonesian bureaucrats visited his body in his family’s house complex at Cendana street, Jakarta. As one of the famous third world leader, his burial ceremony will be attend by several world leaders.

Photo caption: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited Soeharto body. Photo by: Abror Rizky/Presidential Secretariate

Event: Edward Sheriff Curtis Photo Exhibition. Place: Bentara Budaya, Jakarta-Indonesia. Date: January 15-29, 2008. Organizer: United States Embassy in Indonesia.

I was amazed when visiting this photo exhibition. All photos which showed true greatness of pictorial photography. What I most amazed is, those photo taken in the beginning of this century! Wow! How perfect the techniques had by it’s photographer, shown here. As stated in this exhibition brochure, this photographic exhibition explores the extraordinary diversity among Native American peoples, their culture and history, the diversity of American society, and the technical and aesthetic achievement of Edward S. Curtis.

Like the photo shown as illlustration above, shown one Indian ethnic chief using regalia or crown and given title as Crater Lake. The picture like gold, appearing sepia tone color. For you who live in Jakarta, especially who like photography, I think you should visit this exhibition.

I found one story about one of the oldest Indonesian printmaking art/poster which I posted before. The poster in black/white was made by Affandi, but the body copy made by Chairil Anwar. Here I translate quotation from Sjuman Djaya book titled Aku (I Am). For Indonesian young generation, this book well-known because in the box-office Indonesian Movie Ada Apa Dengan Cinta (What’s The Matter With Love) the role playing actress Dian Sastrowardoyo has brought and read this book in many scenes.

Chairil come back to studio. His appearance without clothe, has made Dien and other female artist shy. But Chairil continuing his action and stand up in front of Affandi’s poster that showed a man picture raise his hand and scream, Chairil said:

“Ha, look, it must be like this the word we use on it!”

Chairil spraying paint under that wet poster wrote: “Boeng, Ajo Boeng!” (“Man, Come on Man!”). After put his writing, he look at the other artist and said:

“Boeng, Ajo Boeng! How, is it great, isn’t it?”

Without waiting for reply, he was walking away to the front side. But everyone present shaking their head as their way to show their agreement with Chairil contribution into that freedom poster.

For you who don’t know who is Affandi and Chairil Anwar, I think I will write about them later. I will put them on inspirational people category in this blog.

Quotation source: Sjuman Djaya. 2003. Aku: berdasarkan perjalanan hidup dan karya penyair Chairil Anwar. Jakarta: Metafor. p. 63-64. Pointer 70.

I feel like fool when visited this exhibition. As an autodidact graphic designer I just thought that the only way graphic is the way that I know: using sketch and finishing it with computer touch. But I surprised –considering I never became a graphic student- that graphic has a long history. And the definition of graphic art or usually call printmaking also is they can duplicated as many as the artist want. But in every copy he/she do careful supervision and give their own mark or signature on it. After that, the master or plate that used already for made the arts copy will be destroyed. In this way of arts, there are several techniques. They are woodcut, dry point, linocut, etch, screen print, aquatint, stencil, canvas cut, hardboard cut, or lithograph. Of course the newest technique that I already know included, it is photocopy and digital printing. Like another kind of arts these printmakings also allowing using mix media technique. The exhibition itself already held at Bentara Budaya Jakarta on November 1-15, 2007 and Galeri Nasional Indonesia on November 2-11, 2007. Beside showing arts collection of Dewan Kesenian Jakarta (Jakarta Art Council), Bentara Budaya (Culture Habit) and Galeri Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National Gallery), this exhibition invited 19 artists also. For art lover, this exhibition gave a brief history about graphic art in Indonesia. Illustration I used in this posting is one of the oldest lithograph by Affandi –latter became Indonesian famous impressionist artist- made at 1947 titled “Boeng, Ajo Boeng!” (“Man, Come on Man!”) which still in black and white (left picture). The other illustration is Sri Maryanto’s Mati Tersenyum (Death with Smile) which made at 2003 on hardboard cut (right picture).  

Source: Hafiz (curator). 2007. Seni Grafis, Dari Cukil Sampai Stensil. Katalog Pameran. (Graphic Art, From Cutting until Stencil. Exhibition Catalogue). Jakarta: Bentara Budaya Jakarta.

SPS (Serikat Penerbit Suratkabar – Newspaper Publisher Union) of Indonesia has chosen a new chairman in their XXII congress. He is the leader of Jawa Pos Publishing Group, Dahlan Iskan. This congress held on November 13-14, 2007 at Jakarta. Meanwhile former two times chairman Jakob Oetama whose Commissaries President of Kompas Gramedia Group appointed as Chairman of Advisory Council. For Daily Executive Committee Chairman acted by M. Ridlo Eisy whose the Director of Galamedia Bandung Perkasa.   

Photo caption: Dahlan Iskan, the new SPS Chairman. Photo source: MYE/Kompas

One sweet appreciation come from my “Blog Best Friend” Marisa Duma. She has review my blog and gave high recommendation for it. Just check it out on: http://journal.marisaduma.net/2007/11/11/on-bridge-blogging-ii-the-list-and-more/

Once more, thank you (especially for Marisa Duma). I hope you all can give me feedback through comment (directly or through mybloglog.com account).

Remember, good communication is the key factor for success.