First of all, pardon me for being such a bad blogger a.k.a not posting at all a.k.a even though my exams had slowed down a.k.a sorry but I'm not sorry, anyways also pardon me for having a moment here because I just realized I almost have 250 followers(which I thought I don't even have 200-ish). Anyways, sorry. Hey unions! How are you? I've been quite busy and not-so-busy lately, and so, here's the long way. I am posting my birthday party. It's been a year since my birthday like it had always been, and thank you all of you guys for always being there for every momentum of my art documented here. You guys rock to the moon and back.
(Left To Right)(Top to Bottom) Me doing an Infinite Sign with Talking Girls, Adlyn's super Fail expression with Vivi's Hounstooth Look. Caroline Having a Girl Talk with Delicia, Theres Photo-Bombing Delicia and Henry dating-ish.
Anyways, this year I decided to spice things up, I mean YOU ONLY TURN SIXTEEN ONCE IN A LIFETIME. The party took place in my family's favorite dinner resort, Nav Bima, since you can both feast and sing on a karaoke here. Anyways, you might've hardly seen these group of people since they're all my friend from school, well it's not that I don't have shoots with them I mean you totally spotted the hair-flipper Irene looking extraordinary in a faux leather vest and a pair of checkered shorts with a high pony and some others you might've spotted.
So the night's party's theme would totally be Monochromatic Prints, but as you might've spotted, you can see some dudes entering in denim and several other colors, but nevertheless it's mostly prints in black and white. The reason I had all of my friends dress in monochrome is that theres' just too much beauty in the simplicity of the shade, I mean, you can effortlessly nail something so simple yet so crisp and chic, how can you simply not have a party with that. However I did have a bit of guilt because some people actually shopped for clothes. But anyways, yeah.
(Left to Right) Emmanuela doing a Lady Face, Cicilia with Darren's sleepy face, Livia doing her American Accent.
Fianny, Cecilia, and Stephanie(the earliest attendances)
Spotting Adlyn's Polkadots and Dave's Plaid.
Feast! and the two Christophers playing Clash of Clans
Feast!
On What I Wore for the night. I wanted to spice up the whole monochrome idea since I didn't want to look like some other guest, so I wore RED. Some people went "Wait Kenneth why aren't you wearing something slightly edgier bla bla bla", the idea I didn't really wore something over the top was that, I simply wanted to wear something crisp and chic, something clean, something not overdone, I wanted to be the inhabitant sometimes I wish I just was, something chic in every state. I wore a printed t-shirt, which quite shocked several people since It was my party, but little do they know this shirt is the most art-ish piece I've ever pulled off.
I was accompanying my mother the other day to the mall on my birthday and they had this piece on Zara, which reminded me of the new Givenchy line a.k.a I'm buying it directly. I layered a white blazer over it to make it look more formal and chic in every way, it does look clean and very sophisticated. Something nobody in the room would pull-off, which should've still been "over the top" in this case. I wore a pair of crimson colored pants to resemblance my inner power of both passion and art, the streams inside my arteries flowing like a river, and a pair of leopard kicks since I remember I needed to stay in character. I had my hair tucked up into the sides with a high consistency of both hair gel and hairspray.
Me with Aurellia in Diamond Prints, Gillian in Stripes, Vivi in Houndstooth, and Cicilia in Diamond Pants.
NOW LETS EAT!
The Feed-Everybody Game!
Moving onto the party. It was more of like a buffet-set-up, we ate Chinese, which were actually really really tasty. The soup had to be the top choice for many who took several cups of it, and the sauces were a top love for the night. Yet, there were SO many leftovers, me, Irene, and Sonia decided to make something out of it. I had the waiter randomly spread 4 pairs of chopsticks(which ended up with people going I don't want to play) to the guests and I had them play a very, very, very, intriguing game. We had the guests who finally volunteered them to go and have them feeding all of the guests. William won the first round, where they can feed anyone with a requirement of one bite per person, it was a tofu pot stickers dish which was extremely hard to eat with a pair of chopsticks. We had Evan winning the second round, where they had to feed someone from the opposite gender, with everyone going hysteric when one of my Anonymous female friend got to feed a boy which was slightly awkward but mostly fun. Michelle and Kelby lost and they had to eat a cup of mixed dishes, with Kelby winning and ending up with Michelle singing a Christina Perri song.
Left to Right, Kelby, William, Evan, and Michelle a.k.a the Feed Everyone Contestants
Dave Throwing his Veggies Out, and Caroline(Bottom Right)'s Super Fail Expression.
We had another game of punchline jokes and asked Henry and Delicia to pick which was the corniest, with an unexpected win from Reno and Elza, which was pretty much awkward, fun, and full of oh my god-s. Kelby and Dave then sang a song each and ended up being laughed at since it was pretty much hilarious. I wanted to create a disco atmosphere so I sang Clarity and had some girls jumping with me which turned out to be awkward. There was a drama thing afterwards If you read it on my twitter when everyone decided to go home before the best-dressed show, and I really wanted to share a best-dressed and a whole guest picture event but well, I guess there's always turning seventeen and a bigger party too right?. But here's the best part. Kelby, who's mother was calling for like all the time asking him to go home actually stayed with a couple of friends he drove home, this is the best thing I can learn from the event, that some friends are really worth. We sang several songs since I was so pissed and I ended up being alright the next day. No hard feelings on anyone, it really was a blast. Had some people texting me like "OH MY GOD BEST PARTY THIS YEAR EVURR X" ish. Anyways it would've been really nice to have a best dressed award so I'm just gonna announce it here.
The Punch Line Game. Left-Right, Claudia smacking Kelby!, Evan's punchline to Irene, Reno's Punchline to Elza, and Crystal's punchline to be supposedly Matthew.
Dave's "Auto-Tune-Needed" sing, Matthew's Punchline to Crystal, Kelby's Bruno Mars Performance, and pretty much the party in the DARK!
Left-Right Aunty Wenny, Beata, Cicilia, Me, My Mom, and Kelby // Kevin, Darren, Cicilia, Me, Beata, Kelby, and Aldo // Me, Michelle, Claudia, and Emmanuella // Fianny, Me, and Stephanie
The Best Dressed Award Goes to...
Irene Wihandi
Ok Hands down she rocked Leather and an Opal colored choker, Irene had always wow-ed people on parties, her attempt just seems so effortless, and the fact that she finds several stuffs in unexpected places is the best part. I requested her to do a high pony, which ended up as a pony tail but am still loving it. I still wish the shorts were long checkered pants but I am still in love with her look for the night. Not forgetting to mention her faux leather vest alongside, like who saw that coming?. Alongside her, Cicilia Budiono with her diamond skinnies and dark eyeliner look, Beata Ligo with her super crisp simple outfit coming around, Adlyn in polkadots, and Gillian with her stripes going on had to be my alternative choices(I hope I did tag them along some pictures on the above).
Evan Ray
I was quite pissed at him since he had some people going out somewhere else but I had to just grow up and accept it. Evan didn't actually went super mod for the night, pairing a clean white button-down shirt along with his bangs going on(which I like since It's not over everywhere) and an attitude with the stache going on. He looked like an eye candy as usual, matching the white with a dark brown pair of skinnies. Nothing unexpected, just simply crisp. Alongside with Evan, both Dave and Kelby rocked the night with plaid, which is just exceptional, and William did look awesome with the mohawk going on.
Anyways, I'm going to end here. Thank you everyone for your wishes, have a nice week! Remember, All The Way To The Halcyon Days, a hopefully clothing line I haven't told you about, and an EP are coming up! Now Unions Lemme Here You Scream!.
Me with SOME of the Guests(since we didn't manage to take a picture with the whole guest)
Top(Left to Right) Kevin, Me, Beata // Cicilia, Me, Kelby // Emmanuela and Me // Livia, Me, and Darren
Bottom(Left to Right) Claudia, Me, Michelle // Jesslyn, Me, Theresa // Crystal, Me, Elza // Me and Cecilia
All Photo Credits to Nissi Abraham and Henry Harly and WHOEVER TOOK PICTURES
We live in such a judgmental statement, we perceive a view on one side, and we never really reconsider that every color has a shade. Red is Red, Blue is Blue, Green is Green, but in the very end, we all have crimson hearts, the hearts we were supposed to mend and bend a little, the heart which is as hard as stone, which can't even contract a single love. Because art, in the very end, is only a statement of living, a mindset to love and to loathe.
Alongside loving and loathing, there's a part in between, and that would be the right part I am talking about here, the human nature. We are all a shade, some of us stand in a lighter grey, some of us lie in a darker grey. We had always believed being good was a good way of living, but in the very end, being truthful and honest is the best policy. How can you basically sleep after helping a group of thieves stealing for being good to them?
The Broken Sonnet, The Broken Tunes, and The Broken Hearts, The Broken Cult always leads to nothing but survival, some of us hold on in the state of murk, in the state of disbelief, but some of us just rises to the edge and believes that nothing can stop their way. Believing in one's self and their own belief is the only way of redoing the beauty of life. Stand for what you believe in, even if you're standing alone.
The truth is that most of us wear floral crowns of good relations and love, but we just hold on again to the fact that we cannot fake that feeling throughout generations. We are chasing papers of our own identity, because we are whoever we wish to be, because our mindset is determined by those wishes again, and that the mindset we believe in affects us on evolving on being who we are and the person we want to be. You are the belief you believe in.
This portfolio was inspired by this McQueen-eerie feeling, as a statement to live in our own dreams, as a statement for not being afraid to be one of a kind in the space you live in, to never let being mainstream a choice of living. Our colors are our own nature, and doesn't mean you have the darkest shade doesn't mean love and living is a shade we don't believe in. Because the lies are always pretty, and the truth can be extremely ugly. That is why it's called LI(f)E.
Why do we glamorize ourselves to remain Pretty when our hearts are just Witty?
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SENSE
PAR.Reinhardt Kenneth
Model. Mitzy Kallula
MUA/Stylist. Mitzy Kallula
Anyways can't wait for The Great Gatsby! This Lana Del Perfection video is just PERFECT.
Hello unions! Sorry for the one-week-and-a-little-bit-more-blog hiatus, so, as some of you may had found out somewhere about my birthday(mostly at me tweeting in twitter), and it was exciting seeing all of your wishes and prayers, I really appreciate them. So, yes, this outfit post is inspired by One Direction, well more like a not-too-head-to-toe-but-sort-of One Direction merchandise. Anyways, I shot the whole outfit on the same day as my birthday(last Tuesday) with my new photographer and an old friend who is actually like talented, Nissi Abraham(who also lend me every One Direction thing in this outfit, THANKS NISOOOO!)
Okay, so first of all I would like to thank God, thank you so much for your love and creation, thank you for the art, and for all of the pain which reforms me as I turn out today. I would like to thank my parents for raising me, teaching me how to live under civilization and love, my friends, who are always there for me and who NEVER dims my shine, and everyone else who had made a huge impact towards my life, this years for God, Art, and Love!
Anyways, I decided to come up with a blue toned outfit, I decided to keep the color blend in with all the blue and the mint going on since I thought too much blue will never go wrong, and that after all the shade is a shade of a cool color, and you can never run with too much cool colors. I decided to commit a sin towards the blue shade with adding a warmer color. I believe using a pair of leopard printed sneakers works terrific enough. I know I've been re-using these pants and sneakers for like a while now, let me tell you something, our job as bloggers is not to only experiment with new colors or fashionable cuts, but it is our job to make a new outfit with re-styling it.
Anyways, let's start with the top. So many of you might've been girl-fanning over the "GEEK" top, I saw several knockoffs for sale sometime earlier, and I just didn't like the whole idea of GEEK and all that. I believe buying one would just be a waste and it really is a statement t-shirt, which I usually end up using for like twice before dumping it onto my closet, but this pullover, my dear, is an exception. Haley Williams appeared with a perfect crop t-shirt saying "DWEEB" instead of "GEEK", and I've heard they're actually already on stores. So when my friend(again, Nissi) went to London, I decided to have her buy me this grey pullover, and not only that it is comfortable, but I can just use this everywhere too, right?.
Moving on to the layering, around a week ago my friend tried to define my style to vary around the circle of layering, and I actually didn't believe in the statement. I mean of course I've layered something over the other sometime around, but It doesn't really happen every time, too, right? So whatever, moving on, again, I'm layering a jacket without inserting my hands into the jacket. This time around, a royal blue varsity jacket. Ok, so if you're gonna ask me now whether I actually like One Direction, yes, yes I do, I'm usually more of a punk-indie-synthpop-divaish pop-and all that artsy stuff guy, but I also do listen to mainstream materials(in fact I actually once wrote a One Direction fanfiction here. I do think that Liam Payne is a lot more of an eye candy figure than Mr.(ahem don't kill me Nissi) Horan. But since Nissi is a hardcore Horan fan, and she had only like one One Direction varsity, so I decided to tuck myself under the blonde irish bloke's last name.
I believe I have once talked about these pants, and they're still undeniably chic up to this point, I'm glad the color isn't actually much of a pastel, so I can still enjoy mint's state under the lime everywhere else this season. It's one of the most comfortable pairs I've ever worn, and this is actually a gift from my friends last year on my birthday, so, thank you again! I wore a matching 1D cap, also Nissi's, I absolutely love all the patterns going on with the mint, and it just took this outfit onto a whole boyish level. The shoes are actually a last resort choice and the second choice would be wearing only socks, so no, I wore these pair of leopard sneakers at school earlier that day and we actually went directly to Nissi's place, so, I decided to just wear these. I brought a One Direction Poster Book and a Calendar to spice up the whole fan-boy/fan-girl feeling. I also wore a directioner infinity necklace, and it actually looked so rad in real life, totally loving the statement!. If they do come to Indonesia or like South East Asia soon, I'll definitely come, of course also to accompany Nissi duh-uh.
Anyways, I think that's it for today, my IGCSE Exam starts next week so WISH ME LUCK!, oh and don't forget to keep waiting for All The Way To The Halcyon Days, which I just finished *flips fake hair*. Oh and my Birthday party will be held tomorrow night on a karaoke, I hope the party turns out fine, so I'm going to post photos sooner or later, oh and also I am actually a verified amateurish DJ right now whatever that's supposed to be. Good Night Unions!
Hey UNIONS!!!!!! So, no more ghetto english, mmhmm...? So anyways I'm finally here with a portfolio(I've actually got tons of material but I'm really hanging there to actually do it all, you know, a.k.a I'm usually too bored or I've just got sooooo much to do!). So, OKAY, finally I'm doing something in season for my portfolio, the 60s Mod.
My dear friend Pricillia Lumantoro from Nude Beige contacted me to help her out for a university project, where she is required to submit a set of photo-s focusing on fashion, which ends up being formatted like a fashion editorial in a magazine, and this time, we're combining the whole mod feeling with nothing more but avant-garde, futuristic imageries, of course, with an edge of the whole 'Strong Woman" and Chic imageries.
The idea of styling a Mickey Mouse Beret with a Studded Edge into a Modern Styling Dominated With Stripes, a Floppy Beach hat with a Chic Bartender Outfit, a Bodycon Dress with an ENORMOUS headpiece, and a Striped, Sleeved, Bodycon Dress with a Striped "Helmet" Shaped Like A Square was being implemented in the shoots, the whole idea of the future, being implemented onto a vintage statement is to blend two different feelings on the same outfit. It's like seeing vintage Chanel being modified by The Late Sir McQueen, or we can assume to be a mixture of post-moderinism and something popping out of a 90s movie on Time Travel.
The whole idea of only using two BOLD colors, BLACK AND WHITE, is to create the effect of dualism, or again, to represent the human nature these days. We had always went like "the world these days are so evil", but believe it or not. There will always be an equal shade of both colors in one soul, we can assume someone to be cold hearted, or someone to posses the heart of an angel. But again, both Mother Teresa and Hitler are sinners, but again, both of them have purity in their hearts. It's just a matter of our perspective, as human beings, to implement it all. Remember, "If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light"(originally said by Mother Monster).
The Mickey Mouse styling was inspired by some citizens, who are clearly light-headed, and usually referred to be cheerful, jolly people. But again, they have their shades of black, and also symbolized by the Studded headpiece around her forehead, representing the potential to hurt, and the potential of darkness under her light.
The Chic Bartender Outfit(the set in the vortex of the circle) was inspired by the difference in CLASS and priorities in life. The hat was to symbolize a high state of authority and class, whereas the rest of the outfit is a lot more, (excuse me), exposed and has a bigger "mainstream and cheap" feeling compared to the hat. This represents someone's true colors, whereas the rules are meant to be broken, and our inner selves are again what matters.
The huge headpiece(on the right) represents the stress and the power to determine for the best the world has, the pressure to be perfectly stunning, to be a hundred percent perfect to the eyes of the superficial world, a burden striving throughout some of us, even tough the dress looks chic and slim, however her brain is constantly working much more. The last outfit(on the left) is a representation of our ignorance, how people would only care about themselves(the prints on the headpiece and the dress is pretty much in the same tone), and how we don't have the will to sometimes put someone else as a priority when they should be out priority in life. Now why metropolis? I'm trying to capture the whole High-End feeling the world revolves throughout now, how the city never sleeps, and how fashion acts as a representation of nature and art. How people these days can foresee something in a superficial behavior, which is to see something in blatant monochrome, how people would judge others easily without finding the color of their inner soul, and how these days perfection is a part of living a High-End life. Also as a movement to accept yourself in the beauty of your own prints of nature. Anyways, I would like to send all of my prayers to Boston, my heart is with the family of the lost ones, this is why the world these days foresee the world in the monochrome behavior, or in other words in Hate. The world doesn't need more of us, humans, the world NEEDS HUMANITY. Let's fight with Love, because LOVE, always wins!. So, in that occasion, I'm going to post another Paramore video, Now, which is the first single off their latest self-titled album, this pretty much should represent the message I want to emote.
Hey unions, or should I call you niggus from now on? I don't know why but I might grow myself a ghetto black man alter ego. I've been, very, candid, but all in the proportions of inhibiting a ghetto personality in the same time as being the artistic soul I've always been, that kid who would start going the corridor with a strong look and a strong walk, as a defense mechanism, but in the same time when I meet all of my friends I'll start laughing like a chirping, twittering bird.
Speaking of High School, yes, I am on High School, I'm currently on my 2nd semester on my 10th year, am soon to be an eleventh grader, and yes, everyone had always been like "High School is the best times of your life", and I am actually having quite a rush of fun this year, it's been a blessing and a thrill to just, go through all the fun and the pain of growing up.
Anyways, today(well on the 10th of April, just in case I post this on another day) I finally finished eevry single Mock Exam, but I'll still need to do an IGCSE examination on May-June, which kind of sucks since the schedule is all mixed up and it might only limit me in doing my arts, but, it's only another 2 months, too, right? how bad could it be? I mean, next year I'm taking the IB program where I can actually do subjects I LIKE(like for next year I'm taking Arts, English, and Business as my High Level Subjects), and I don't really need to deal with things which aren't important to me. My only key to fulfill everything would be to be taking this seriously as I "fight with all of my heart", and of course, relying it all to God. Anyways, I'm naming this post after all of my "experience" and of course, Nicki Minaj's latest single with Lil Wayne "High School", which is currently one of my hottest jams.
The whole idea of the outfit would represent all the ghetto and hip hop feeling mixed with an edge of the funkiness of the 90s(I may be born in the 97, but I too, can still be considered as a 90s kid, right?), what I absolutely just love about the 90s is that, it's just, brutally innocent, I mean, people would spend their time playing video games until the morning and just, not overdoing things, as they stick to the classics, but yet, they also stick to the modern vibe, which I absolutely NEED to experience all over again. Why hip-hop? because I believe that, all the hip-hop sort of styles are usually misunderstood to be "bad" or "stereotypically forced" in my country, I want this sort of style to be acceptable enough to actually play a role in every sort of ways.
I wore a shirt I bought on Sunday Market in Sutos earlier in March, my good friend, Larasati from Scream Loud soft-opened her brand "Deav"(read:DEF), which focuses on the 90s too(with an eccentric vibe of the 70s), and I absolutely love the statement t-shirts she provided, I bought a tee saying "Haters Gonna Hate", which definitely SUITS my mood, since some people's piece of minds seriously needs a bit of "understanding". I paired up the shirt with a pair of trainer pants, which are CRAZY comfortable, what I absolutely love about it is that, it's comfortable enough to be used EVERYWHERE, but still give an edge which can even be a factor of chicness(well considerably to me). I just realised that it says "Young Money, Billionaires, Cash Money", ok, I am so into the money theme these days, of course due to Rihanna's Pour It Up (if you go to my instagram, you can find posts with hashtags #stillgotmahmoneyyyyy or something like that. Also another factor that Nicki Minaj is from Young Money #dead.
I matched the simple outfit with a Boy London cap I purchased from Maria Widjaja, I never really wanted to buy one since the shipping was expensive, and my brother suddenly begged me to buy him one after seeing Maria's catalogue, so I decided to just buy the cap(which is a VERY good bargain)!, I matched it with another goodie I found on Sunday Market, a studded headband(which is also a very,very good bargain, chic and edgy indeed). I matched the whole outfit, with the pair of sneakers I wore to school earlier today, a navy blue and cream colored sneakers you might've encountered earlier, since it was the only choice, and I borrowed my friend, Beata's(who took the pictures for me) orange colored shades, MAJOR LOVE, super 90s too, indeed!. Oh and I also styled it with a plaid red shirt which I borrowed from my friend, Kelby, and decided to tie it around my waist, giving it a "tomboy" feeling, which remains very edgy, and actually quite boyish.
Ok, so you guys might've went "What is A Big Mouth Billy Bass?", ok first of all, am super sorry for not mentioning it earlier since I completely forgot. Big Mouth Billy Bass is the green colored Sea Bass which basically sings country songs and taps it's tails, and it's actually a hand-me-down from my dad who got it from America when he was in uni, I absolutely love it's iconic vibe and it's overall 90s-feeling. I also brought with me a green colored drinking bottle which I bring to school everyday, why? It actually popped randomly on my hands, and It looks good with all the school-ghetto-boy imagery, so I decided to match it in. I also brought a metallic pink colored 3DS, giving the outfit a nintendo vibe, so 90s!. Anyways, unions, I've got school tomorrow, am super tired, so, I'm gonna end here, I hope you enjoy the pictures (and the Paramore Video)-well I was supposed to put in Nicki's High School, but just thought the Paramore video is a whole lot more appropriate to some readers and that It's a new video out today and I'm absolutely loving it (especially the tights Haley wore), soooo, yeah x!
Ok Hands down she rocked Leather and an Opal colored choker, Irene had always wow-ed people on parties, her attempt just seems so effortless, and the fact that she finds several stuffs in unexpected places is the best part. I requested her to do a high pony, which ended up as a pony tail but am still loving it. I still wish the shorts were long checkered pants but I am still in love with her look for the night. Not forgetting to mention her faux leather vest alongside, like who saw that coming?. Alongside her, Cicilia Budiono with her diamond skinnies and dark eyeliner look, Beata Ligo with her super crisp simple outfit coming around, Adlyn in polkadots, and Gillian with her stripes going on had to be my alternative choices(I hope I did tag them along some pictures on the above).
I was quite pissed at him since he had some people going out somewhere else but I had to just grow up and accept it. Evan didn't actually went super mod for the night, pairing a clean white button-down shirt along with his bangs going on(which I like since It's not over everywhere) and an attitude with the stache going on. He looked like an eye candy as usual, matching the white with a dark brown pair of skinnies. Nothing unexpected, just simply crisp. Alongside with Evan, both Dave and Kelby rocked the night with plaid, which is just exceptional, and William did look awesome with the mohawk going on.
