Phoebe Wang

 

I cannot wait to reveal Phobe's photo shoot today, while I am figuring out how to do class registration (but I think I am gonna do it tomorrow morning). She is my first person to be modeling with me here in the U.S. 

The photosession was pretty spontaneous. I just texted her the night before. And we walked so far away until the first tunnel. I told her that, it was not that far. But the thing that I forgot, the last time I went to that place by bike. Obviously, it was not that far by bike. 

I really like her face. She said that she also loved to take pictures.  It reminds me of Alexander Wang's model, the different is; she has shorter hair. She also has a really cute style a mix of Harajuku and classic. But then when I asked her what her style is she said, "Old fashioned". I was surprised. 

Plus, she is going to be my roomate too next year. And we already planned so many things together about home decoration and fashion. 

And I am hunting for more people to collaborate with! Next time it could be you!

x

Rut

Monotone

I played around with my new Adobe Photoshop CS 5. Holy cow, it has the best Black and White properties. All these pictures were colored, too many colored. So before, there were too many colors going on; my shocking pink converter, yellow wall, my peach clothes. The Black and White mode works better in all these pictures because it gives them more field depth and ambiance. It makes the surrounding looks rock and roll. It gives my face character; sexy, sassy and messy. No need for cigarettes roll!

Happy Sunday

We just came back from the church, the family, father, mother and I (yes without my brother, since he is in Singapore having himself a vacation, dang!). Since my brother was not with us (otherwise he will have always asked to go eating after the mass), ask my mom and dad to just go to Gramedia Matraman, the biggest and most complete bookstore in Jakarta, not even Gramedia Grand Indonesia. I was looking for two books that I couldn't find in Gramedia GI, and yes to buy Andien's CD, thought it was just relesead last month but last year, well - since I was in Italy I did not know about that, but the songs are beautiful and very easy-listening but not kind of cheap songs, you know. My favourite songs are Pulang (Come Home) and Keraguan (ummm, Doubts -maybe) here is the lyrics in Indonesian tho..

oh indahnya suasana bila ku tahu siapa namanya
tertunduk malu dia tersenyum simpul
lirik kehadiranku di sana hmmm

ku berharap dia menyapa mengajakku tertawa bersama
menyibak duka di dalam hati ini
menyambut pertemuan dengannya
bilakah terjadi semua angan ini

reff:
ku harapkan ada bayangan diriku mengisi hari-hari
di dalam gerak dan langkahnya walau jarak memisahkan
diriku dengan dirinya ku tak akan peduli
semoga waktu kan berpihak kepadaku

fantasiku kian menjua membawaku melayang ke awan
semesta ada kelelahan menerpa
pas ribut candaku dengannya
biarkan semua seperti adanya

repeat reff

di saat ku ragu akan perhatianmu uuuh

ku harapkan ada bayangan diriku mengisi hari-hari
di dalam gerak dan langkahnya walau jarak memisahkan
diriku dengan dirinya ku tak akan peduli
semoga waktu kan berpihak

di saat ku ragukan adakah bayangan diriku
mengisi hari (di dalam gerak dan langkahnya)
(memisahkan diriku dengan dirinya) ku tak akan peduli
(semoga waktu kan berpihak) huu

(adakah bayangan diriku di dalam gerak dan langkahnya)
walau jarak memisahkan (diriku dengan dirinya) diriku dirinya
(semoga waktu kan berpihak) kepadaku

(adakah bayangan diriku) mengisi hari-hariku
(di dalam gerak dan langkahnya) walau jarak memisahkan
(diriku dengan dirinya) ku tak akan peduli
(semoga waktu kan berpihak) kepadaku

(adakah bayangan diriku)

Five Years Time

We were planning to make "Five Years Time" video by Noah and the Whale, but it didn't quite work. I've introduced the song to my friends few weeks before holiday started. I think the song matches our summer energy, cheerful, fun and intense. Also the five years words describe that our friendship is not a temporary but lifetime. In five years, we will have such a big vacation after I will have graduated - was mentioned to go to Europe (since I will be the last who will graduate in 2015 while the others are in 2014). However at some points Thailand, Lombok, Bangka Island, and Bali (yes this is always mentioned) would be nice too. Hope it will all go well and we can make it work. Five years time..

Oh well,
In 5 years time we could be walking around a zoo
With the sun shining down over me and you
and there’ll be love in the bodies of the elephants turning up
Put my hands over your eyes, but you peek through

And there’ll be,
Sun Sun Sun,
All over our bodies,
and Sun Sun Sun,
All down our necks,
and there’ll be,
Sun Sun Sun,
All over our faces,
and Sun Sun Sun.

So what the heck,
Cuz’ I’ll be laughing at all your silly little jokes,
And we’ll be laughing about how we used to smoke (none of us smokes tho).
All those stupid little cigarettes and drink stupid wine,
Cuz’ it was what we needed to have a good time.

And it was,
Fun Fun Fun
When we were drinking
It was,
Fun Fun Fun
When we were drunk
And it was,
Fun Fun Fun
When we were laughing,
It was,
Fun Fun Fun,
Oh it was fun.

Oh well I look at you and say it’s the happiest I have ever been
and I’ll say I feel I no longer have to be James Dean,
and She’ll say,
Oh yeah, Well I feel pretty happy too,
And I’m always pretty happy when I’m just kicking back with you.

and it will be
Love Love Love
All through our bodies
Love Love Love
All through our minds
and it’d be
Love love Love
All over her face
and Love Love Love
All over mine.

And in the oddest moments and just scratching my head
I’ll be thinking about families n’ lying in bed
Even though I believe it may not even come true
But in my mind I’m having a pretty good time with you.

Oh, Five years time
I might not know you,
In Five Years Time
We might not speak at all and
In Five Years Time
We might not get along
In Five Years Time
You might just prove me wrong.

Oh there’ll be,
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love Love Love
Where ever you go, There’ll be
Love

Pretty in White

I just did a quick photo-id which ended up as a quick photo-shoot. Basically I was helping my friend in the college to make her ID. She is a wonderful girl, got into Yale. I worked with her too last year, with my other friend, Anya, to be the models for my portfolio, that I sent for my Art Supplement. The setting was in Porto.


I was trying to direct her in so many ways. It is actually one of the cool thing of being a photographer you style your model and communicate with them, on poses you want them to do.


This photo session was super simple. We didn't even use the studio-light since it is not working, we also found it difficult to avoid the shadow cause by the sun, but with a little bit touch of Photoshop it was managed.

This photo above was inspired by MaxMara or Max&Co ads that I saw in Bologna. The photographer tries to impose a technique that he takes the picture from above, therefore the face is exposed.



This is my favorite pose of all the idea is to make her put her hands up, however I asked her to make a curve and therefore it looks extremely girly.


I am planning to make one more planned photosession with a super stylish clothes after the IB exam, something really Italian, something really shows this location, Duino. Let's first deal with the IB exam, shall I? Yes.

Palazzo Te

Does anyone of you remember that this blog at some point was meant as a fashion blog, lately its fashion label has not functioned properly far I mostly post stories about me and my camera, call it more a Photography blog. And here people are not that into camera, unlike back home, me and my friends just now whatever occasions we have, dressing up is really important and if one brings camera we should take picture like crazy in a day - usually must be more than 200 photos. Call us crazy. In Duino, it just feels award to ask someone taking a picture of myself moreover if the person does not really know what kind of picture that I want and afterward I am going to put it to my blog - in the same time using tripod is way too narcissist.

These are the pictures from Mantova taken by my prima from Latvia, Ludmila. I assume she knows that I love to be in the picture where I can pose like whatever I want to. And voila, here are the photos.

p.s: I remember one of my boyfriend criteria is "takes candid pictures of me or
good at photography".

what I wear: Terranova coat, checked scarf, SATCAS asymmetric top, black tights, Pink Batik bag, Black flower ring and Salamander Oxford Shoes.

Le Fleurs de Rut

The Valentine Cards selling succeed, we raised about 200 euros. Thanks to Maria! I really love making cards, and I am easily attracted to pictures from magazines. Especially fashion magazines, I can't resist not to buy them here in Italy. The fact that the price of magazines here relatively cheaper than if I buy it home and they are just simply amazing, the give extra catalog sometimes and the ads are great. For me, spending money on fashion magazines is never a waste. It gives me a pleasure, I'd rather spend my money on magazines than snacks, it makes me happy to see all the pages all over again.

Fashion magazines here inspire me a lot, I usually buy Elle, since Vogue Italian is somehow too eccentric I can say, it is not that world taste, but it is bold indeed, very Italian. I also like an Italian fashion magazine called AMICA. Simple and chick. But Elle is my favorite. Once they gave a note book as a bonus for the December edition. The notebook is so beautiful. Its color is white, you can see the picture below. Then I thought I had to do something with that, yet I already have my own Parisian diary from my high school best-friends. Then one night, I was just reading my old Elle magazines and an idea popped out, I gotta make my own art slash scrap book. And now that Le Fleur de Chloe note book has became my artwork/scrapbook of my dreams, passions, ideals and anything, about my life. I give you some hints below how it looks inside.

Making those pages makes me so happy. I enjoy it a lot. My best-friend says I should be an artist. I told her, I would do something has to do with art in the college, and therefore I am applying to colleges that emphasize art too, however my dream is to work in an office, in a big city, meeting new people, a job that I can write, I can talk, an outdoor job, full of challenges, not that becoming artist is not enjoyable, but I want to have a career, career-woman. So, let us see how the next four years of my life will really drive me to my dreams, and it also depends on which colleges who accept me - and I am still waiting for most of them. Also, I just put up three posters of colleges that I apply to, I am still sitting, waiting and wishing. Most colleges will announce the acceptances on April. I can only hope for the best now, even I already got one, and I would love also to go there, since it has a good media an communication program. Let's take a look of my new artwork/scrapbook diary, I present you; LE FLEURS DE RUT!

This is the book, it is so classy


The first page, woman on top here means kind of "influential woman", you know.

J'adore diamonds, e toi?

The second page. It was just by chance that the front and the back page make such a good picture of female face with male body.

My favorite of all. It's so meaningful. Principle.

These quotes really move me to be a great giornalista, come pappa.

My best-friend/rooma, I caught here staring when I was making the arts.


Never throw away your fashion magazines. Someone's trash can be others' treasure.

p.s: I am still working and making on it, but not going to show anymore, since it would go personal, so you are lucky that you could see some!

Love is in the Air, this time Cupid will be fair!

This is what I did after I finished a task every night.
Front and back



The two of my favorites

Valentine is coming! What's about that? This is the February's hitting point. A day for love, wish it could be everyday in in every month. Let's call it occasion! Romance, romance - one needs no boyfriend but romance. Valentine is here.

One of the best week so far. Yesterday, when I was just waking up from a nap, I took a look on my phone, got an email that I am accepted in a college in the United States, Wartburg College, Iowa, mid-west. Made me feel good. This is what people say "Every little happiness counts'. But this one is a big happiness, I am glad I finally have a positive school to go next fall. Thanks, God!

Just like in Valentine. Eventough this week has been busy (tell me about it, two internals, a presentation, a self design and homeworks), I still managed to make some cards for Valentine's day. One of a friend in the college, Maria, from the Netherlands, came up with this idea to sell cards then a "Cupid" will deliver it to the one, just like last year. This year the money will go for the Merapi Victims in Indonesia. Thanks Maria!

We see cupid is fair. Cupid is everywhere. Is cupid a male or female? Anyway, cupid is there for you, for me and for everybody. Love is more than just words, action is love. So people, grab the cards and send it to your special ones!

p.s: Happy Valentine in advance (in case I won't be able to post a "Valentine saying" post on 14th)!

XOXO,
RUT

Duino Skies

Remember once I posted an article about the Offenbach Skies, last summer. Now, I would like to share another beauty of the skies, this time is Duino Skies. Duino is a small village in - this what makes it hard, I don't know how to explain this. Duino-Aurisina is a small village in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, under a city name Trieste. Duino itself is very beautiful. The fact that this village is surrounded by Adiratic Sea and Cernizza, a kind of rocky Forrest - makes Duino one of the most harmonic area in the world. You want the proof? Let me show you some.

Yesterday, we had a very intense photography classes leaded by Angelo Friolo, he used to teach photography in the college for 25 years. He taught many incredible features in Photoshop, it was in Italian - the good news is I understood every single word. One of the techniques that he taught us was how to change "un po interesante cielo" to "un interesante cielo". Cielo means sky. Also how to make our own "nuvola" which means "cloud". The class ended at 5.15, everybody clapped, we were amused how Photoshop would make one's image different.

That afternoon, I had my camera with me, when I went out from Ples B, I could see Porto at the north sight. I was just so impressed how beautiful the sky above Porto was. It was a mix of orange, red, yellow, blue, purple, gold and grey. Without no doubts, instead of going back to my resident I turned left, headed to Porto. When I arrived there I was amazed. The sky was immensely beautiful, it feels like an afternoon version of Van Gough's painting about that Starry Night. And I can't stop wondering how great God is and how everything has just been placed and put in order, and how the whole universe works. Call me crazy, but the sky that time had that power over me to dropped my jaw just to keep saying "Oh my God, this is beautiful".

These are the pictures I took from my camera. I did not edit them at all in order to be accurate, I need no Photoshop this time to make it wonderful. Duino Skies - I am gonna miss you next year when after I graduated.

In 3 minutes, the sun went down.

The trees and the sky from a higher level.

In thirty minutes


In maybe 45 minutes

In an hour

I met some of prime (first years, female, plural) asked them to take pictures of me.

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Silhouette of Reina and Yiran

p.s: will be very soon share the pictures and story from my visit to the one and only Illy Coffee Factory in the world!xoxo