ISSUE #02/ 2010

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www.huffmagazine.comArt DirectorBentar Sadani

Information CollectorAmalia Faris

EditorThe Picnic Girl

Editor in Chief Dito Yuwono

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editors note/

guest stars/

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Three most important element of Dimas Ario’s life consist of ‘Melody’, ‘Word’, and ‘Visual’. He deals with melody when he plays in his band and be-come a radio producer who prepares playlist for a music show in a private radio station. He deals with words at his job as copywriter in a studio design and as a freelance writer. He deals with visual when play-ing with his plastic cameras.

Dimas Ario Farid Stevy AstaA talented young visual artist who graduated from Indonesia Art In-stitute. Beside working as a free-lance designer, he is also active in several visual exhibition and as a vocalist in a band named Jenny.

Although it wasn’t intentionally stated as a theme, but the word ‘change’ has dominate the process of making this edition. Every member has to face changes; whether it was change in the personal condition, status, or class. These changes also become our millstone to publish this magazine on previous selected time. Maybe ‘change’ will also occur vaguely in every article, but, once again we stated that it was not our intention to state cer-tain theme. Changes happen so suddenly and hopefully changes can be

something fun, for us and for you.

photowork//

by dito yuwono

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This is some kind of a impediment

I face in the capital city. Suddenly

taken out of my comfort zone, I got

lost in the concrete jungle. Maybe

I really have to be lost here for

awhile, but I hope it won’t last for-

ever because there are some sad

and lonely spaces between these

concrete trees towering to the sky.

Maybe these pictures are the sign

of how much I miss the warm prai-

ries without these concretes.

CONCRETEJUNGLE

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This photo essay is actu-ally a part of my mixtape that comes out in the same title. The series of photos and songs in the mixtape is intentionally put together to strengthen the theme of both elements. The major theme of this photo essay is visual snapshots of an utopic es-cape to a tropical island cov-ered with nostalgic mist. The audio series of this photo es-say can be freely download-ed in this link: http://bit.ly/bzZK4a

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by dimas ario

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NOSTALGIC SUMMER OF AN ES-CAPIST DREAM

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By the time I’m writing this, I am in a process of letting go a job that is referred by a friend as a promising job. My work place is located in the center of the activity in this coun-try, precisely at the heart of the capital city and in one of the lining skyscraper. The working hour start at 9am to 6pm, the time passes so fast.

There is nothing wrong about my job, I just feel that the time moves so much faster than I have ever imagined. This fast flowing time phenomena has actually occurred before in my hometown, yet, be-tween those speed of the time I usually have some time to stop for awhile and enjoy the world my own way. Unlike now, what I currently feel is that there is no time to stop for awhile; not even to enjoy the crowd and the fast flowing move-ment itself.

Passing the day feels like driving a car in a packed traffic and all the other vehicles are passing through rapidly. If we stop, we will make a mess such as domino crash.

My question is, is it wrong if we stop and enjoy everything in the simpler way? For me, it is not a mistake if we stop to make a preparation for moving forward more confidently. For me, leaving this superfast life feels like a fun retreat if one day I have to be stuck again in this kind of life.

Does it mean that I have to despise this superfast life? I don’t think so. Besides, I don’t want to stop and die useless. At least being in the superfast cycle becomes a proof that I look more useful in other peo-ple’s point of view. Beside, the time is ours and we can lead the way as we please. Whether we want to jump in that cycle now or later, it’s

by dito yuwono

Super-fast Life

“Life goes by pretty fast. If you don’t stop

and look around once in a while, you

could miss it.”

the world according to.....//

up to us. As long as we don’t die ridiculously in the name of hatred or in the other hand because of self-verification. One thing for sure is that I want to get out of this cycle and enjoy everything while it’s pos-sible.

(Ferris Bueller Day Off)

by the picnic girl

the world according to...../

Have you ever had a heart-to-heart talk with your best friend and on the second before your tears burst, your friend’s cell phone rang and she de-cided to pick it up, talking nonsense for a minute or two, before getting back to you saying ‘Sorry, what was that again’?

Or maybe, have you ever stuck in the middle of busy texting friend with her laptop on, telling the world what a wonderful lunch you two are having although the fact is she’s busy making the world jealous and you’re practically having lunch alone?

These things have never been a ‘prob-lem’ ten years ago, and even to some, it’s never even considered a problem at all.

Today’s people are frantically active and busy. It’s getting harder and harder to actually meet an old friend or rela-tive. So, there goes the hero: technol-ogy. It brings you closer to friends, dis-

miss the distance between people, and goes with various names such

as Facebook, Twitter, Messen-ger, and so on.

The time passes by and somehow, some peo-

ple get very used to the technology, at-

tached to it, and some even

enjoy meet-ing ‘online’

r a t h e r t h a n

meeting in flesh and blood. As a result, watching a couple eating in silence while each of them busy texting and giggling on their phone or watching children busy playing with BBM, PSP or iPad with headphones stuck in their ears on a Sunday brunch with his fam-ily is not so shocking anymore.

I saw a boy with this attitude and before I wonder why his parent let him do this, I realize that his mother is also busy texting over her meals and his father is on the phone with someone else talking about golf or something. Seeing that, don’t bother minding about that family’s Sunday brunch quality time, but they sure maintain a healthy relationship in their virtual life.

Things like this make me wonder whether technology was meant to en-close the boundaries between you and your beloved one or the other way around; giving you and the person right in front of you a visible gap instead. Things like that make the name “Social Media Networking” a complete irony.

On the other side, frankly, I have al-ready enjoyed the benefit technology offers too. When I move to the city far away from my friends, family, and my beloved one; the ‘social media net-working’ and cell phone becomes my great savior.

Whenever I feel insecure and lonely, I’ll tweet, make a phone call home, chat, or blogging. I start to get very attached to my cell phone, my netbook, and I’m happy about it. I wrote a lot and suc-cessfully maintain 5 blogs at a time. I have ‘connection’ with my friends back there, and a very active virtual life.

Then, one day my internet is down and my cell phones are running out

of batteries. I got completely lost. I later realize that I don’t have a

‘real life’ anymore and losing the sense of seizing the day.

I forget to enjoy the simple things along the road I’m

walking everyday because I’ll be call-ing home for ‘accompanies’ whenever I walk to and from the office. Unluckily, I didn’t even successfully maintain any healthy relationship with my colleague who also busy with their computers dur-ing lunchtime. My life has never felt any flatter.

I suddenly miss a high quality conver-sation over a cup of hot chocolate and homemade cookies with my beloved sisters; a lingering heart-to-heart con-versation and laughter of the customer of my little non-hotspot cafe that leaves warmth on every side of it; and the com-fort of real hug my beloved one gave me without giving the urge of twitting about how warm it is.

It is the contentment in life that lay in a private secret side we enjoy for our-selves and a quality time we spend wholly with the one we love who surely deserves a full attention. Those are such a simple little happiness about to-getherness.

I remember reading an essay on the newspaper once upon a time about the social culture we once had; discussion on a coffee stall that creates a sharp minded human with critical understand-ing and enriching knowledgeable mind. The closely bounded society that cre-ates warmth, peace, solidarity and let human be fully human. This society once creates legendary writers, poets, honest politicians, happy teachers, and a real-life society.

It doesn’t mean that today’s society can’t be as great as it used to be. We can create even stronger society now when we can maintain a healthy bal-ances between virtual and the real life relationship. It generally means by pay-ing a full sincere attention to people in front of us, and in other free time, use the technology as the way it suppose to be: brings you closer to friends some-where away; not the other way around.

In a Relation-ship with Technology

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Haloo..tell me a bit about yourself.Well? Hmm.. Felix Dass is a very tricky person with a lot of dreams and wants to travel around the world. I’m just simply building surprises on someone else’s tales from time to time.

What is your hobby/ passion/ work?There are three biggest passions in my life: 1. Mu-sic, 2.Writing, 3.Traveling. So far, with the blessing of Mr.Destiny, I am doing what I like and earn my living from those. Still become a free human being. Haha.

How do you define that hobby / works in your life?I can be categorized as ‘deficient’ academically. I made an important decision for my life by dropping out collage; just because I feel like having no future in that field of education. It just doesn’t fit. But, at the end, there is an enormous burden to carry on my shoulder. Being a high school graduate, it was not so easy to find a proper job. But, in the other side, I learn from my life experience that higher education is not the major choice. That is an excuse, but when you decide to focus on what you like and what you can, it will become a valuable experience that gives great personal peace.

I live from what I enjoy doing. That is the most impor-tant point of this life for me. Up to now, there is no job that I don’t like. That is because I believe that if we enjoy, focus, and work hard based on our passion, the result will be fun too.

It has been proven at least this last decade; I started to work in age sixteen by doing thing I really like: writ-ing. For me, every journey has proven that hobby can be a job where we earn our living.

When did you start working on this hobby and why?The tempo is varied. In music, it started since the first time I saw and record a memory about my father’s music collection. Writing started since the fourth grade of elementary school. Travelling since 1996, it was the first time my father took me to Singapore.

Why? Just because I like it. Music happens to give me a shelter when I need something. Music can rep-resent a lot of moments of my heart.

Writing? Because I need to express something. I have dif-ficulties to stop talking; I always dominate conversation be-tween my close friends. So, writing becomes an important escape too.

About travelling, I want to see the world. Life is so short, so I have to carry myself across the boundaries and see the world as wide as I could.

Five words that you like about your hobby?Five? This is not easy:a. Freeb. Spends a lotc. Having lots of storiesd. Seeing lots of new thingse. Stay positive in life

All of my hobbies lead me to enjoy all the five things above.

Five words that describe your personalityLucky, ‘ngehe’, fun, chatty, happy.

Five things you like most on your lifeAnother five things? Now, this is difficult! a. Oasisb. Liverpool Football Clubc. Siomayd. Indiae. Woman

What does happiness mean to you?Quoting Hannibal J. Smith in The A Team, “I love when a plan comes together.” That is happiness to me,

What does life mean to you? I am a machine. My job is to be the best machine I can be.

How do you see yourself in the next five years?Maybe being a music columnist of Indonesia who stay in Liverpool. Every weekend watch Liverpool play in the entire Europe.

INTERVIEW/

F E L I X D A S S

image by Stephanie Mamonto

F R E E L A N C E W R I T E R

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Haloo..tell me a bit about yourself.Woman

What is your hobby/ passion/ work?My hobby is yoga, meditating, writing, and reading. My whole day routine can be spent in a box of radio broadcasting room, travelling, playing; adventuring in those kinds of room is like exploring the world.

How do you define that hobby / works in your life?My hobbies for me are a meditative act; meditation is not only sitting still and closing my eyes, meditation can be done in anything.

When did you start working on this hobby and why?Since I was little, because of the bustling mind, suf-fering, and big questions that landed in my head.

Five words that you like about your hobby?Suffer, surprise, play, dream, and conscious.

Five words that describe your personality. I don’t even know. Haha! And that’s the beauty of it. As long as I realize, what is call ed ‘I’ is changing all the time, even sometime I feel like ‘I’ is not even existed.

Five things you like most on your life.Talking to the cloud, deer, cat, and smell the fragrant sunset, moon, sky, star. I can spend hours to watch the beauty of many kinds of leaves, flowers, listen to the chirping bird, playing in the rain, talking to the universe.. hehe.. it’s too much, isn’t it? Five descrip-tions is not enough. :)

What does happiness mean to you?Happiness is when we realize things the way it is. I mean, when we can realize sadness as sadness, cry as a cry, and the vibe of heavy chest the way it is. Realizing that sweet smile is sweet the way it is. Just the way it is.

What does life mean to you? I’m all here for surprise!

How do you see yourself in the next five years?Being a person who is not attached, just like that. Maybe you’ll find me in the backyard, sitting on the ground and making pretty circles out of dry leaves, reading journals. I am there reading 31 poems for body and soul, listening to the universe.

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TRIA NIN

image by Alfonsus Lisnanto

BROADCASTER

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There is a wild animal with the fragrant ten-derness of a flower in-side everybody. Some has an urgent need to be released, some can be tamed and com-promise, some calm-ly asleep and never awake........................

by The Picnic Girl

MELANCHOLIC JOURNEY OF SHY, MERRY, STRIPE, SKIP, AND PAW

the world of wonder/

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“In a hidden corner of a tranquil garden~ a lovely little jungle, live a troop of happy floral animals:

Shy, Merry, Stripe, Skip, and Paw.”

Shy likes to hide and contemplate”

Merry likes to play

Stripe has curiosity big enough to observe and discover.

Skip likes to eat.

Paw likes to feel secure and mark his territory.

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“One day, changes hap-pen. Big, tall human inter-

fere and brings strange stuff along with them. Trap-like wire with lightning striking electricity, disastrous loud sounds, and everything else scarily unnatural”

“Aww..this is indigestible and it bites back!”, said Skip.

“I just want to play, but I can’t move”, cry Merry.

”Where am I? What is this? Where should I go? What should I do? What is happening and why? What am I? Am I different than I used to be or am I just oblivious? Who are they?” Shy starts to question thousand things because of this sudden change.

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“Nope, I don’t think it was my place. Mine doesn’t sound so loud like this one. Or is it?” asks Paw.

“What are they? What are they doing? What are they here for?” Stripe wonders.

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The last thing they remember is the time they gathers, start questioning things for the first time. Then, things get all black out. Everything moves so rapidly it’s blurry. Home is far away and they trapped in even stranger world. Something takes them away and throws them in the city. They are all lost.

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“It’s theirs, not ours. Their world. Their playground. Their garden. Their jungle. Their. Never ours.”

“So they eats plastic around here?”

“Is this what they’re playing with all day long?”

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“So this is where human eats, have some fun, and sometime thinks. It is their safe territory as well as the place where they discover

something new. Their garden. Their jungle. Their. Not ours. We’re lost”, that’s what they

say all over again

“Their territory is quite slippery, don’t you think?”

“I think I’m lost. Aren’t we all?”

“What is it inside this glass?

What is inside every-thing?”

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“This is where human gets old and spend most of their times away from

the sunlight, breeze, greenery, life and other nonsense. So, beware! It kills.” they conclude

“Wait! Why doesn’t anybody let me have sometime to think?”

“Why am I always stuck in their dangerous playground?”

“It’s non chewable. Sometime it bites.”

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“How could human ever live inside the screen?”

“Whatever it is, it doesn’t feel save”

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”Are we dying? Where can I hide? Am I lost? Are we lost? I’m scared! I’m not afraid of dying. I’m so scared of living here. I can’t think. Even running away as fast as I can didn’t take me far enough”

“Why doesn’t anybody play any-more.. Let’s play and have fun. Stop questioning things. I don’t like it here either. I’m trapped too.. So, let’s just play!”

“Where will this road take us? Which way lead us home? Is that the old sun I once knew? Where are we exactly?”

“Don’t know which way leads to home, they’ll take anything feels close enough with home. They are full of never-ending questions and

they never lose hope. Wishing that someday, someone will take them back home again in the wilderness. Right where they belong.”

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“Where will this road take us? Which way lead us home? Is that the old sun I once knew? Where are we exactly?”

“We need to find something to eat here. Everyone does.”

“Can we just make a home and a living here? It smells weird, I know, but can we try? Should we try? We

“Don’t know which way leads to home, they’ll take anything feels close enough with home. They are full of never-ending questions and

they never lose hope. Wishing that someday, someone will take them back home again in the wilderness. Right where they belong.”

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F I G H TB A C K

Fight back is one thing I rarely or even never do since I was a kid up to this day. I tend to accept domi-nation, unfairness, and bul-lying act. Through this work I try to dream of being a rebel. I hope through this work I can be a true rebel. enjoy.

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by Farid Stevy Asta

#THISISHOWPEOPLEDEADINMYCOUNTRY,RECENTLY #ITS’S POP

Is there anyone who can explain straightforwardly why do all these things suddenly happen in Indone-sia? Why do celebrities suddenly join the political issues? Suddenly music stages in the television con-tains a troop of local musicians with ‘melayu’ attitude? Teenage youth from all over the country suddenly uniformed in t-shirt with ugly creature printed on it? Why do domestic hashtags (such as ariel peterporn- keongracun - sawityow-it - pongharjatmo - IMB - harmoni)

usually become the most popular trending topic in global social net-work?

The same question goes to the reason why does suddenly lifeless body become more and more often to be found in the ‘mutilated’ ver-sion? I can’t answer those ques-tions, but maybe that’s the latest trend of how Indonesian die lately. Some kind of Twitter trending topic of Indonesian psychopaths.

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we like/ we like/film book

This book is all about insider view of jobs in fash-ion industry. Perfect for everyone who wants a job in this glamorous world. This book contains inter-views with real insiders in the fashion industry who gladly share their experience and answer ques-tions about how to start working in that industry.

Reader will be entertained and enriched by inter-views of famous designers from Rodarte to Karl Lagerfeld; Editors from the legendary Anna Win-tour to the interns; Stylist, Models, Beauty Spe-cialist, and Photographers. These legendary fac-es aren’t afraid to share their secret of success in their fashion work. Reader will discover many new things that didn’t even cross their mind previously.

A must-have book for everyone who’s seriously considers working in the fashion industry.

The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers

in Fashion

East Side Metal

The documentation of Indonesia’s current music scene might still be far away from satisfactory, but, the popping spirit that can trigger awareness of the documentation for this scene began to be felt. The emergence of East Side Metal compila-tion representing the Indonesian metal scene is a good example. East Side Metal becomes the documentation for 12 bands’ works that have different roots and long history in the metal music scene, which was carefully wrapped by video clips of each band. To name a few, there are Siksa Kubur, Straightout, Death Vomit, Down for Life, Hands Upon Salva-tion, Cranial Incisored, and the some other bands who also become part of the East Side Records. Not only capable in providing documentation of those bands via video clips; the involvement of vid-eomaker and photographers is also enhanced by short interviews. It is not surprising that this com-pilation does not only provide references about music but also provide a visual reference and vari-ous ideas. Among the most interesting videos are the video of Death Vomit (directed by Ayu), Hands Upon Salvation (directed by Videorobber), Parau (directed by Erick Est), and Down for Life (directed by Rio Kesuma). It is very interesting to watch this documentation of Indonesian metal scene which is represented by 12 bands from Java and Bali. Slowly but sure, hopefully such kind of documentation can be transmitted to any other different scenes.

Executive Producer/ Ari Setiawan (Korex)Editor/ Sandra. Year/ 2009

Produced/ East Side Records Editor/ Amy Astley. Publisher/ Razorbill

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.....in the morning.....

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Bring change and enlighten your life with crazy scenes of chaos and joy in public place or

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Zach Condon was strolling down, singing alongside his ac-cordion player, before meeting the rest of the band at the end of the pavement. Trash bins be-came percussions; he told us a story about a night in Nantes. Accordion, guitars, violin, brass instruments, trash bins, all meddled into one chaos con-ducted by Zach Condon.

But leaning against the wall was Will Sheff from Okkervil River, playing guitar and looking bored. Contributing, but clearly rather be in any other place.It was all a fraction of Beirut’s Take Away Show filmed in Paris, 2007. Les Concerts à Emporter, or The Take Away Shows itself, is part of La Blogothèque, French music website and community. It all started when Chryde, founder of La Blogothèque, met Vincent Moon, an independent filmmaker. Both their interests to present mu-sic in a different shape breed what then we know as the Take Away Shows. Musicians invited, performed, and filmed in various locations at various cities. Vincent Moon and Chryde first started in theirs; Par-is, the shows then grown to New York, Toronto, Cincinnati, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Mali, even the Je-rusalem.

Take Away Shows started with Chryde and Vincent Moon, but after a while the project captures other director to come and join. Nate Chan, Colin Solal Cardo, One Shot Seattle, Ty (Hecho El Cine), Val3rie are ones to be list-ed.

No stage required. Au Revoir Simone could wander down NY’s Bedford Avenue, same as when Jamie Liddell buzzed up the bor-ing Fifteenth Arrondissement in Paris. Sufjan Stevens was freez-ing in a roof, while Arcade Fire personnel had to cramp for space in an elevator while performing Neon Bible. Fleet Foxes sang in an abandoned part of the Grand Palais, yet in front of a sex shop, Amanda Palmer cussing like a sailor in a Jacques Brel’s song.Most Take Away Shows filmed in one take recordings, with mini-mum audio and video tools, and because there’s no stage; mini-mum preparation. This mirrored the purist filmmaking movement, Dogma 95, Lars von Trier once announced. Although the performance is still directed, sometimes even re-hearsed for a while, but not with the surrounding environment’s re-actions. This is the one that gives

color to the show, a spur-of-the-moment thing. A nice lady that opened her courtyard door for Mumford & Sons, a girl inside the train station confounded by group of singing Sweden from I’m From Barcelona. It also be Sigur Rós who has lost some of their po-tential crowd just because a pair of drum brushes was left in the hotel, or the misunderstood that happened in Beirut performance, leading to a bored looking Will Sheff.

Take Away Shows crafts the mo-ment, sometimes it’s the other way around, and most times we can’t even distinguish which one is it. The silence of the Sa-hara Desert that plagued Gaspar Claus’ cello playing, the familiar acoustic that happened while Mi-chael Stipe singing in his car, and the breeze sound that corrupting Sufjan Stevens recording of The Lakes of Canada even add a lit-eral feeling for the lyrics it almost felt funny.

To be able to frame moments like these, you can say Chryde and the directors are always lucky.

images from lablogotheque.net, screen-shot video, and flickr.

erudition/Take Away Momentsby Amalia Faris

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