to wander...

Funny how things just sometimes relate to each other. I remember a quote by Steve Jobs saying ' you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.'

Anyways this perticular dot connection is not as big as life changing decisions and stuff but just few days ago my tutor suggested all of us to wonder around and be inspired. Someday the things you see will be useful and we'll be able to connect the dots looking backwards. 

"Wander off. Growth often happens when you where you least expect it. It may happen gazing in E7 or witing in B6. Explore everyting, prejudge nothing. Turn left every three minuets. follow someone. Tke any bus and stay on it. Travel Broadens the mind." - welcome to art and design a series of postcards by Nigel Bents 2008

Saturday.  19 Nov 2011. 

To walk, an act of traveling  by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once. 

Nabila and I took the train to Holborn and walk from there to east london, whitechapel station precisely. Walking a opportunity to do in a city like London. To walk gives the opportunity to see things you don't see when you travel by a vehicle. The slow pace gives you the chance feel and capture. By walking you can feel the change of atmosphere between two places. Smell different odors. Feel your surroundings; The people, architecture, texture, colour and landscape. The journey was exciting, my camera make me feel like a tourist again. Never seen this side of London. I never feel like I own the city. I don't think I can call my self a Londoner because I don't really know her. Things appear and disappear most of the time and everyday you will discover new things in the city. I love London.

Have always love reflections

A self portrait

Texture has always catch my interest

London street lamps

No War

Justice court

Nabila

New street lamps

I don't know what building is this but IT'S SOOO COOL

I don't usually prefer symmetrical photographs but I really like this one because the perspective draws into St. Paul

Underground :D

postmodernism architecture?

This particular sign reminds me a lot of Paris

 The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, and is located at 1, Lime Street, in the City of London, England. It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. It was beautiful. I don't think my photographs do any justice to the building. It was beautiful I cannot stress enough. Its beautiful. Huge pipes are like arranged tentacles embracing its lover. The small spiral staircase looks like a drill knife attached to its machine. The yellow sun reflected on the smooth surface emphasize its beauty.

 I fell in Love.

The Gherkin

Blue repetition

narcissistic moments with Anish Kapoor

Gherkin view from White Chapel

Photographed and Processed by Hana Tindjau

Have a good day everybody!

NorthEast to SouthEast

This is just one Autumn day. I decided to spend this saturday of mine in one of the best galleries in London. The Barbican Art Gallery.

12 Nov 2011

The Barbican art gallery is transformed, curated and design by Rotor, They make the portrait of OMA. Co founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas as the office for Metropolitan Architecture. It has seven partners and a staff of 280 architects, designers, researchers and support staff in offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing and Hong Kong. 

OMA works was magnificently astonishing. Mind blowing. I don't think Rotor did an excellent job curating it. The first part of the exhibition was rubbish. Some pictures are pixelized, somehow the organization of the presentation just doesn't do it for me. It was boring discouraging viewers to read. However I really enjoy the works. The model making, the drawings, really show the thought and time put in every little details; something to be shown. I realize the things they do in an a real Architectural firm is very similar with the projects I do in school. The process of plenty research, experiments and testing. 

I suggest you to go and see it before it ends on the 19th February 2012. If your in London of-course.

After the Barbican I realized... mmhh I don't have anything to do at home I'll just walk around. 

So there i was with my pocket camera walking around the gray city. 

A marching band?

Architecture in North East London

Beautiful hexagonal glass

Towering Buildings. Like this picture in particular to me it looks like a collage and the dull tone of dead pink and mint green.

Odd looking corner?

Corridor to a bar

Black telephone booth

Autumn leaves

didn't realize i was walking to the south! Summerset House :D

London is gray but is never boredom

All photographs are taken by Hana Tindjau

War Horse

The New London Theater

Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011

War horse, adapted by Nick Stafford from the novel by the former children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo and directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris.

With the south african puppet company Handspring, and the brilliant directors sweep the play that was emotionally dense prose into a drama of extraordinary power. This is a tale of love, loss and the horrors of conflict is harrowing, joyous and thrilling. And its sheer skill and invention are simply awe-inspiring. 

The story is a young lad Albert raising a horse Joey. His always drunk father sold Joey to the Army at the outbreak of the first world war and shipped to france with the cavalry. Alberts' love towards Joey encourages him to join the war with hope to meet joey again. 

Our first glimpse of Joey is a stiff legged skittish foal and become a fully grown horse gallops into view. A stunning sight. The puppets are remarkable. A skeleton of steel, wicker and leather, with three puppeteers visible within. The creature is manipulated with wondrous precision and delicacy. 

The first and last photos are taken by me and the rest are from google image. 

If you are in London go and watch this play :D

Apocalypse

John Martin was a controversial but key figure in 19^th Century art. He is visionary, eccentric, populist and epic. Like what shown in the size of his canvases, this wildly dramatic artist with his vision of heaven and hell was larger than life.

This exhibition presents a spectacular vision of his, capturing the full drama of his imagination. Much of Martin’s work is ghastly, but the exhibition is still packed with highlights, the ridiculously melodramatic Belshazzar’s Feast; the terrifying power of The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum; the mezzotint prints for Milton’s Paradise Lost; the devastatingly brilliant final triptych. His works gives a huge impact like a tsunami that’s going to hit one but my gosh the exhibition was repetitive. Rooms after room are filled with never ending succession of cliffs, forests, mountains, ancient cities, mythological figures, waterfalls and lighting.

There is something about his style I cannot really understand. His painting style is realistic but the subjects are over the top and the over contrast color he use gives a very dreamy effect whilst still holding on its dramatic and scoundrel atmosphere. The artist uses bold primary colors to emphasize the atmosphere but also the subject of his work.

I adore his paintings. The artist himself was a phenomenon in his own right as he had no formal training. Yet he is one of the greatest artists in the 19^th century.  Darkness dawns. Global meltdown. Rocks burst like boiling hot lava. Nobody did the apocalypse as well or as frequently as John Martin.

If you are in London see this exhibtion before it ends at Tate Britain.

Have a great weekend 

xoxo

China

China - Mei Xien and Gui Lin

24 Sept-4 Oct 2011

Im born and raised in Indonesia but my parents are chinese. Apparently my great grandfather sail to Indonesia for better fortune. A year before my grandfather died he come 'home' and visit his homeland rebuild our ancestors cemetery. Only until this year we can travel as a big family to visit our relatives in China. Its a little village called Mei Xien. It was a great trip and fascinating to see where I originally come from. I still cannot imagine the life my great grandfather had and how brave he was to travel to Indonesia without having any idea of the place for better fortune. (Click here for more info)

Relatives that still lives in the old original house. 

The tomb my Grandfather build for his great grandfather. 

The family Group photo :D

There was 22 of us so you can Imagine how chaotic the trip can be but I truly  enjoy our moment together as chances like this may not come again.

Gui Lin

It was one of the greatest trip I've been to, not just the exiting places we went but the companion I had. I feel grateful to be born in a family with strong chinese values. Im proud to say that I'm both Indonesian and Chinese. 

Photographs by myself.