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Anna’s Headcraft

irfan hendrian — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:52:54 +0000

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New photos i did for my friend’s collection, dunno her real name but we call her Anna Bule. She was not the model though, And as usual I still don’t have time to put it in my main website, so just click Anna’s Headcraft.

New Photos

irfan hendrian — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:27:06 +0000

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It’s been so long I haven’t put anything new in my website. Apparently I did some programming error, somehow the template wouldn’t work well. When the time is right and whenever I feel like it, I’ll redesign a new website. But for now I’ll put my new works in this blog.
For the full collection, click Anna’s Photoshoot

Society’s Projection

irfan hendrian — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:46:32 +0000

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In a certain religious society, they tend to project their god as an ultimate deity without any single mistake, without any dark side. For projecting the dark side the society prefer to blame it on evil force. But this system creates a judgment system with the only ultimate truth, the others are heathen. The system doesn’t recognize relativism and the freedom for the society to explore what to be consider as the dark side fairly. The projection is not only god and religion, it could be ideology. The truth always has 2 contradicting side. Either its black or white, they have their own pro and con, thus it’s worthy to know both.

Blora

irfan hendrian — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:40:14 +0000

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Blora, Jawa Tengah, banyak orang yang tidak yakin di mana keberadaannya, bahkan banyak yang belum mendengar apapun tentang kota itu.
Daerah ini kaya akan kekayaan alam, di tanah yang subur ini ditanam berbagai jenis tanaman pertanian ,perkebunan dan hutan jati. Jati, dari akar, batang dan daunnya, menjadi buah sumber kebudayaan masyarakat blora. Banyak furniture dan peralatan yang terbuat dari kayu jati dengan design yang khas.

Di Klopoduwur, Kabupaten Blora, masih ada suku Samin, meskipun beberapa kebudayaan telah hilang dimakan era modernisasi; karena generasi-generasi yang konservatifnya pindah ke Pati, tapi beberapa peninggalan kebudayaan masih bisa ditemukan di sana. Yang menarik dari orang-orang Samin adalah sifat jujurnya, selama penelitian saya “nongkrong” di warung kopi seharian, diskusi santai dan “blak-blakan” tanpa sensor dengan masyarakat. Cara hidup sederhana suku Samin adalah suatu inspirasi.
Riset suku Samin akan ditulis belakangan, bukan di artikel ini.

Blora adalah kota yang tenang, sepi, sederhana dan damai, merupakan pelarian saya dari kota yang penuh dan penat. Waktu di kota ini terasa lambat, cocok untuk membaca dan menenangkan pikiran.

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Chess Analogy

irfan hendrian — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:58:12 +0000

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In the game of chess, the color doesn’t mean its own victory always depends on it. Nor it represent the meaning of the color itself, the white doesn’t represent the good & the holy side as well as the black doesn’t represent the bad & the evil side. Should an individual or collective group judged by its color? There is no meaning lies on their color, only the winner and the way they struggle will represent the better side. The war of the white and the black is a fighting for reason, the fighting inside the individual itself or individual against the collective, the strugle for control. There is no dogma that can control morality fairly, as there is no black or white, each individual and collective always has both of the color, as the nature intended, moral is all about proven rationality.

Indonesian Media of Stupidity

irfan hendrian — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:59:54 +0000

[english]
It’s a propaganda of fake, it’s an elimination of extentionalism, it’s an institution of mass stupidity that demanded to be exsist by its own people, ironically. The popular medias focus on pop-culture and religion,which is affecting directly on the elimination of self-extentionalism and rational intelectualism. Generally it creates a society with a fruitless opinion without any factual opinion, a hedonist society without consious mind, which its fate would be eaten alive by the fundamentalist group, the unhealthy capitalist and the corrupt goverment.
The situation of this society, who is lack on knowledge and intelectual facts, is still far away from the idealistic progressive movement if there is no consiousness inside each individual to re-open its insight critically and to demand for the radical change in our media.

Please liberate Indonesia first from this empty media clench and change this media to be a propaganda tool of pacifist social revolution as the answer to the real issues. Not the other way around, as a contributor of fact divertion with some easy, practical, hedonistic methods.

[indonesian]
Sebuah propaganda penipuan, sebuah cara pengeliminasian ekstensialitas diri, sebuah institusi pembodohan masal yang ironisnya terus-terusan di-demand untuk tetap eksis oleh masyarakatnya sendiri. Fokus media ini bertujuan untuk kepentingan popular culture dan agama, kedua fokus yang berefek langsung dalam penyingkiran ekstensialitas diri dan intelektualitas rasional, menghasilkan masyarakat irational yang beropini kosong tanpa opini fakta, masyarakat hedonis tanpa kesadaran.
Secara generalisasi efek dari media ini melahirkan dan menguatkan kaum-kaum irational yang nasibnya hanya untuk dimakan hidup-hidup oleh propaganda kaum-kaum fundamental, oknum-oknum kapitalis yang tak sehat dan pemerintah yang korup.
Situasi masyarakat yang kurang wawasan dan fakta-fakta intelektual ini masih jauh dari idealisme progresif jika tidak adanya kesadaran sendiri dari setiap individu untuk membuka kembali wawasan secara kritis dan meminta untuk adanya perubahan yang radikal dalam media kita.

Selamatkanlah Indonesia dulu dari genggaman media yg kosong ini dan rubahlah media ini menjadi instrumen propaganda revolusi sosial yang pasifis sebagai penjawab isu-isu yang nyata. Bukan sebaliknya, pengalih kenyataan dengan metode hedonis belaka dan jawaban-jawaban yang praktis.

Coffee Shack

irfan hendrian — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:45:31 +0000

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It was in the middle of nowhere, hidden by the high mountains and inside the simplicity of life. I was reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm and enjoying my cup of cofee, a cheap one, generic type of coffee you can find from any market. It wasn’t grinded with coffee maker and blended with foam, there was no such goddamn thing here. Just an already grinded coffee packaged inside plastic mixed instantly with hot water. The ordinary coffee enjoyed by the prolet, nothing fancy about it, but I feel more human each time I sipped it, since no one rich around to talk about how expensive their freakin car was or how inferior this coffee was and another reasons how they should never go to this lousy place in the future. Yes, just move to Starbucks, you snob!

But they never set their foot here to get the coffee, there is nothing to brag about here, the nothingness is the simplicity I enjoyed here. There is nothing bad of being enough.

Unconscious Judgement

irfan hendrian — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:46:53 +0000

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For this experiment I used my Op Art work as it is represent the black and white concept of moral and some bloody splif to develop unconscious stage. The dominant thing I saw in the first stage was the white. But later in the progress of in seeing it longer, the black and white combine into a form, that can be redefine as the result of the black and white unification. The movement behind the illusion created a bridge between the black and the white, thus made me lose control to judge which one out of them was the black or the white.

The unconscious stage of mind doesn’t recognize what black or white looks like or what it represents. It just affected my motoric and sencoric senses to do what they need to do naturaly without any consious third hand affection.

The ideal rationality doesn’t create the dominant side from the black or the white, instead it is a nature to accept the black exsist because of the white and so the other way around and to create a bridge between them without making an absolut solution, as individual may perceive it differently.

The Triangle of Hierarchy

irfan hendrian — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:16:56 +0000

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The indentity of a human being is a human as itself.
There is no hierarchy to define he/she is better than anyone.
No god can prove anyone is a better being from anyone,
even from the nature.
No leader & entrepeneur can dignify the slavery usage of the lower class,
as it is the only way to sustain the society.
No parents, teacher and minister has ever achieved the only “right” education for children.

The human nature shouldn’t be eliminated from any being
and nothing of its elements should be held higher than anything.
The difference of human makes themselves unique and shouldn’t be held as an identity.
The de-difference makes human in general as an enough mature being.

Decoding Utopia

irfan hendrian — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:33:58 +0000

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Every religion has their own version of Utopia, except Buddha with its promise to end its reincarnation cycle. Islam and Christian Utopia has a similarity in the goal, a good & holy place without any sin. But how the society can’t ever found a problem in its cycle. Every problems are created by individual and social interaction. Men has tried to manage this problem since the beginning of their ages, from imperialism, socialism, liberalism, even the most totalitarian system to every individualism created another problem. Religion use a totalism ideology, as you can see today and from history, it can’t answer to all society problem fairly. In my point of view, the idea of heaven seems vague. Even if a utopia filled with unlimited resources, the social interaction & the difference of each individual create problems.
The Catholics believe in purification of souls in purgatory concept, but isn’t it as same as making a new human as pure as the day he/she born, without the beauty of knowledge and thinking. Even the communist did that. It’s the elimination of human nature that makes human unique, isn’t it going back to the fear of emptiness that we’ve feared since the first time…