Interlude by Morrissey and Siouxsie

“What seems like an interlude now, could be the beginning of love.
Loving you in a world that’s strange, so much more than my heart can hold.
Loving you make the whole world change, loving you I could not grow old.
No, nobody knows, when love will end. So till then, sweet friend.”

(If I ever get married, this song has strong potential to be my wedding song. If.)
Good night folks.

I know Indonesia contains a lot of young talents, but seeing this Jakarta-based illustrator’s work really really made me proud. I first know Mayumi Haryoto through her Multiply (already deleted now), apparently she’s a friend of my friend, I met her randomly several times but I never got the chance to sit and talk with her. Her illustrations are cynical yet soft, well-crafted by not putting too much detail but exquisite. Her color choices are so faraway from our well-known standard RGB and CMYK, which make it a bliss.

These are her works for JEUNE Magazine, a collaboration with Christina Phan, a talented photographer friend of mine.

More to see on her Behance Network profile.

My latest work for Sharp’s new product: Aquos. CHECK IT OUT, IT’S ON AIR NOW.

Take a look a Olympus’s newest design for the Micro 4/3 lineup of digital cameras. Practically a ghost, it begs for a hackneyed Star Wars-ism about elegant tools from a more civilized age. With a DSLR-sized sensor, quality should be assured, though it’s hard to imagine plunking big black plastic lenses onto this stylish m3/4’s interchangeable-lens mount system.

Mommy, I want this for christmas.

//via boingboing, review is here.

The gig poster scene isn’t exactly the best kept secret among music fiends like myself. It is a tradition that started in the 60’s and is still going strong.
Nowadays, the majority of indie bands have a growing collection of poster art that is just too incredible to simply throw away once the show has ended. Not surprisingly, this has led to the gig poster being something of a collectors item for music fanatics everywhere.
The following are 50 hand picked gig posters whose creativity and imagination blew me away.

Sounds like a good sex, eh? Well, he might be is.

Patrick Tsai, an currently Tokyo-based American who is also a former part-photographer of his own love story, My Little Dead Dick (Restricted only to Flickr user), has never ever ever cease to inspire me. His photos are intimate, quirky and always give me this certain emotion of how people surrounding you, in every place you go, are part of this gigantic collaboration called: life. He’s simply brilliant.

Patrick Tsai’s PingMag interview

Lately I’ve been tired of all the same old indie pop stuff that just seems to be recycled over and over but there is something about Lykke Li’s combination of wonderful pop hooks, the beautiful and airy minimal production, and the fragility that seeps into the vocals of this Swedish singer-songwriter. Youth Novels is Lykke Li’s debut full-length and a damn good one at that. The record was produced by none other than Bjorn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn, & John) who (unsurprisingly) uses many of the same sonic textures he does on his own record and Lasse Marten (who produced Kelly Clarkson’s hit “Since U Been Gone”) so it doesn’t surprise me that it sounds both adventurous and sugar-coated.
Lykke Li can sound sexy, vulnerable, or distantly cold depending on the song and all while I honestly wouldn’t have thought I’d like her much at all, but hey, what can you do?

Lykke Li - Little Bit

Lykke Li - Everybody But Me

Breathtaking photos. Give me shivers.
2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Hi everybody. I haven’t been around lately. You know me for being moody. Well. Currently falling in love with this band. It’s an old album, I know.

Kreuzberg by Bloc Party

The Prayer by Bloc Party

I just got back from Phi Phi, Thailand. Again. I was traveling alone. Really spending great time there. I’m suppose to be broken-hearted, cause, you know. Yeah. But apparently no, I’m in love.