Another work for VERSE Zine. Read the article here:
http://versezine.com/content/editorial/2012-May/maybe-yes-on-mayday/
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Another work for VERSE Zine. Read the article here:
http://versezine.com/content/editorial/2012-May/maybe-yes-on-mayday/
@VERSE_Zine #MayDay
Claycat’s THE RAID
The new action film THE RAID retold with claymation cats.
Made by Lee Hardcastle
Sound by Tim Atkins
Score by Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese
My first work for VERSE Zine. Read the article here:
http://versezine.com/content/article/Promotion-and-Tours/
Cheers!
Petarung Kecil
As soon as your born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be…(Begitu kamu lahir, mereka membuatmu merasa kecil,
Tanpa memberimu waktu sama sekali di saat mereka bisa memberikan semuanya,
Sampai rasa sakit yang begitu besar, kamu tidak dapat merasakan apapun,
Menjadi pahlawan kelas pekerja adalah keharusan,
Menjadi pahlawan kelas pekerja adalah keharusan…)
Kalimat di atas merupakan sepenggal lirik yang diambil dari lagu John Lennon di album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Dengan mengambil ide mengenai perpecahan kelas di tahun 1940 sampai 1950an, lagu berjudul “Working Class Hero” menceritakan tentang seseorang yang lahir dan tumbuh di kelas pekerja. Sederet cerita pilu yang dituangkan dalam baris kata-kata yang begitu menohok. “Working Class Hero” adalah sebuah penghargaan bagi siapa saja yang ikut tergerak untuk memperjuangkan hak–hak kaum buruh sehingga pantas disebut pahlawan.
May Day atau Hari Buruh lahir sebagai perlawanan terhadap kekacauan kondisi kerja akibat minimnya upah dan displinnya jam kerja karena berkembangnya kapitalisme industri di wilayah Eropa Barat dan Amerika Serikat pada awal abad ke-19. Perjuangan kaum bawah melawan orang-orang merdeka merupakan sejarah yang tak terbantahkan. Harapan untuk diakui dan disamakan atas kenyataan pahit dipandang sebelah mata. Si kuat melawan yang lemah, inilah seleksi alam di mana tak pernah satu hari pun terlewat tanpa perlawanan. Dari dulu sampai sekarang hal semacam ini terus terjadi, bagaikan lubang besar yang terus menganga antara si kaya dan si miskin, tuan tanah dan pekerja, serta kaum buruh dan majikan.
Kenapa kita harus memperingati Hari Buruh? Kalau setiap perayaan hanya berakhir kisruh!
Ditambah demonstrasi dan pemogokan kerja yang tak lagi digubris pejabat birokrat. Inilah masalahnya. Ketika manusia tak lagi mau mendengarkan, jeritan pun tak akan terdengar gaungnya. Buka mata dan lihat betapa mereka tak gentar, bertarung bukan atas nama materi, melainkan pengakuan dan perlindungan hak untuk diperlakukan sebagai manusia biasa.
Pertarungan kelas sudah ada dan terjadi setiap periode kehidupan manusia. Dulu mereka ditindas, sekarang pun demikian. Tak heran Karl Marx pun hadir menggunjingkan pertentangan kelas, antara borjuis 1 versus proletariat 2. Sampai-sampai dia dan Fredrich Engels mencetuskan ajarannya untuk menghapus hak milik perseorangan dan menggantinya dengan hak milik bersama yang dikontrol negara. Bagi Marx dan Engels, kaum pekerja dianggap sebagai kaum revolusioner karena mampu melumpuhkan proses produksi sekaligus menguasai alat produksi, tetapi mereka diperbudak oleh modal yang tidak mereka miliki. Sejarah mencatat isi Manifesto Komunis sudah mulai terwujud saat ini, di mana kaum buruh telah memiliki suaranya sendiri. Titik baliknya pada 1 Mei 1886 ditetapkan sebagai hari perjuangan kelas pekerja untuk perayaan tercapainya tuntutan delapan jam kerja oleh aksi buruh di Kanada pada 1872.
Semoga kaum buruh di Indonesia mampu memperoleh hak-haknya sehingga bisa bekerja tanpa tekanan dan mendapat perlindungan yang semestinya mereka dapatkan. Melalui perayaan 1 Mei ini, kita diajak untuk beraspirasi menyampaikan harapan, keluhan dan impian tentang kondisi kaum pekerja saat ini dan di masa mendatang khususnya melalui pameran seni rupa.
Jayalah kaum buruh di dunia!
Agni Saraswati
mahasiswa ISI Yoyakarta angkatan 2008
1 Proletariat: 1.lapisan sosial yang paling rendah; 2.golongan buruh, khususnya golongan buruh industri yang tidak mempunyai alat produksi dan hidup dari menjual tenaga.
2 Borjuis: kelas masyarakat dari golongan menengah ke atas (biasanya dipertentangkan dengan rakyat jelata)
Daftar Pustaka
Marx, Karl dan Engels, Friedrich, The Communist Manifesto, and Its Relevance For Today, Resistance Marxist Library, New South Wales, Australia, 1998
Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional, 2008
A tsunami warning was issued after 8.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Aceh, with tremors felt in neighboring countries.
I’m praying for everyone’s safety. I’m praying for hope and courage in these unsettling times.
Spread the love and hope, reblog.
-Proud Indonesian
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LUCIDITY - My first mixtapes. A guide that lead me into my unlimited world. The power of imagine. Dream.
1. Dashboard Confessional - Dusk & Summer [4:33]
2. The Envy Corps - Fools (How I Survived You & Even Laughed) [9:19]
3. Maksim Mrvica - The Velocity Of Love [3:15]
4. Mogwai - Hound Of Winter [3:54]
5. Silverchair - Asylum [4:28]
6. King Of Convenience - Gold In The Air Of Summer [3:33]
7. The Calling - Stigmatized [4:30]
8. Toe - Goodbye (Ft. Toki Asako) [7:05]
9. This Will Destroy You - Quiet [4:53]
10. Sigur Ros - Heysatan [4:11]
Enjoy. Relax.
The painting that I did of Kurt Cobain I painted just after he died. Like you, I was a fan of Nirvana, but not a “super fan”. After Kurt Cobain died, they were showing so many images of him on television here in the US, and there were parades and vigils with candles in the parks and crowds of young people crying and praying and leaving notes to him. I really thought it was too much sympathy. I thought to myself, “Wait a minute.This guy who everyone says is a hero just shot his head off with a shotgun. That’s a fact. That’s not very heroic.” I wanted to show the reality of what he did in contrast with the overflow of emotions that was in the air. I decided to do a painting about his death.
So I started looking at paintings from history and I came across this painting:

It is called “The Death of Chatterton” and it is by an English artist, Henry Wallis, 1856.
Chatterton was a young poet in the 1700’s who many thought was the “voice of his generation”, much like Kurt Cobain. Chatterton committed suicide in the attic room where he lived, and many people regretted his death, saying his death was a romantic tragedy, just like Kurt Cobain more than 200 years later.
So I decided to use this image with all its similarities, as the basis for my painting:

I read the newspaper and saw photos of his death in TIME magazine.The floor is the same pattern as the floor in the room where he killed himself, the clothes are the same as Kurt was wearing, and the things beside him are the things reported in the newspapers: a box with his ID and wallet and a note, I think. The newspaper said that his head was so destroyed that they could not identifiy him even by his teeth.
So I painted the reality of what happened that day.
Outside the window is a view of Seattle.
The halo was to symbolize all the things that people were saying about him.
This painting was first exhibited in San Francisco in 1995. At the opening, many people were very upset about it. Some people thought it was funny. A lot of different reactions.
The painting was sold to a private collector.
It was later selected to be part of a large exhibition that toured around museums in the USA. The show was called “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll: Rock And Roll Currents in Contemporary Art”. It traveled to different cities for three years and everywhere it went this painting received attention, sometimes good, sometimes bad. The exhibition ended with a long showing at the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame.
During its three years traveling around the USA, it was seen by thousands of people.
There is a book out about the exhibition. Here is what the book says about the painting:
“Sandow Birk approaches a subject with a keen respect for the integrity of iconography……
Birk views himself as an objective observer of the world around him. True to the violent and often ambivalent nature of sensationalist docudramas and TV talk shows, he has left little to the imagination in depicting Cobain’s bloody remains in “The Death of Kurt Cobain, Seattle”. The compositional source for this painting is “The Death of Chatterton” by the pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis. Chatterton was an eighteenth-century poet who committed suicide at the age of seventeen. In Birk’s variation of the original, a halo has been added because Cobain’s fans tend to view him as a martyr.”

I hope that this information helps, and I hope the postings on your website become more thoughtful about Kurt Cobain’s death, about what he did to himself, and about what the painting might mean.
Sandow Birk
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#4 Breaking Dawn
Relax. Enjoy.
For Le Robe (YK, Indonesia)
#3 Egyptian
Wanna make a peace form that based on Egyptian painting, but in the end this is what I’ve got. Enjoy.
For Le Robe (YK, Indonesia)