Royals

Is it better to be Love-Oriented, Money-Oriented, or Art-Oriented?

The answer is that everything is good on it’s own phase, and that in particular, we all can just lay back and have a good time without being oriented on anything. Sometimes when we get too productive, which is the best thing, we tend to little by little flutter away from the things we cared, or used to care about. Sometimes we all just need to put our heads in the clouds and just have a particular good time, and keep it real. You can never get enough laziness in a particular day—however remember your principals of living, no one wants to regret for not doing they love due to sleeping, right?.

Anyways, the first paragraph probably doesn’t actually explain the rest of this content, the first paragraph is just a refreshment from the particular stiffness on how this post is going to sound.

As many of you may have known, I just got my first magazine feature on Estela Magazine’s Issue X(Le Beaute Issue II). I am totally grateful of everything, I mean like, I am thankful for God’s amazing support in this journey, I am thankful of such a supporting family, I am grateful of such an AMAZING team.

I decided to just gather my friends and plan a Lorde-inspired shoot. I’m a HUGE fan of her, I mean like her voice is literal perfection and her look is just otherworldly-next door girl. It’s the type of look that never bores you even though the look is possessed most likely by girls who are most likely to get bored of you. Since I live in super-Asian Surabaya, of course my version of Lorde, is Asian. Not trying to be racist, but this photographer right here would appreciate a more variety in facial features(I mean like, a more interracial choice I guess).

Anyways, we were going for a lazy royal sort of look. Just like that look that’s just too glam to give a damn. I decided to shoot my friend Catharina since she just got a Lorde inspired hair, and there’s just this exceptionally unusual beauty that’s so classic in her that I can’t resist to photograph. Of course I had to gather all my amazing team mates for this, like Lorde sang, we’re on each other’s teams. HUGE shout out to my favorite hair stylist, Livia Kriwangko. Livia learns all of her hairstyling from D.I.Y-s and such but her work is exceptional! She can give you any type of braid!. Pricillia Lumantoro does the make up and you know she’s always awesome right? I mean just go look at her blog, how is she not amazing?. Oh and special thankies to Kevin Jackson for helping me with the props, you work amazing in front and behind the lens(and your welcome for the CAS hours).

I am so thrilled hearing Estela loving the images. I was super insecure because more “mature” perspectives marked the pictures to show distaste the facial features as a beauty shoot(oh since Estela’s new issue is a beauty issue), but then I’m super glad they find the extra quirk in the classic beauty. I am still thrilled up to today on my first magazine feature, and my issue appears the second on the editorial, how COOL is that?

"C(RUSH)"

Honey and a Smack

I think that’s what O is fond of

The constant impressions about drapes and whatever Gianni grants

Whatever the new temperature defines a cut

Whatever inking has leaked a linking

The bond, the bond of a home

The home, the home of a bond

I think it’s scary

How much time consumes a thought of pure gold

One hour for the smile

The other for the insecurities

The fear of defining, the fear of falling, and

The fear of loving

An idea so old yet so new, so thick yet so thin

An idea only a fox as white as snow may comprehend

Because my heart has been frozen by art for so long

It may’ve turned a much lighter shade than my

Skin

A casualty about a clingy retard

How a M.Cover sounded good

And just how a favorite is a frush

A favorite crush or a fucking rush

Honestly

It’s best to play along

And never show the camouflage

But then

It’s a road from the rush

To the extreme

It’s forever

A

Rush

Or A

Crush

I think the poem above clearly describes who I am right now. An older friend the other day told me how life moves so fast after seventeen, and I do feel like the years are passing by slowly before. I am soon to be legal, I am soon to be seen by the world seriously. And the idea of being young, that’s the heart where I will always belong. The passion, the dreams, the lingering feeling of just being who I am. The urge to be on the peak, then realizing how an immense amount of time is being taken up just to be on top. In the end of the day, is this fast life worth the ride, or is fast life worth just the art.

Then there’s a anti-accelerating version of the part of life above that plays along. The ethics of a bond. The love between an individual and it’s surroundings. Seeing the beauty on how individuals bond with each other and create a complication in expression. Both of the descriptions above scream the term ART. In the end of the day, however, a lane should be picked. To be on top or to have a bond. To be Wintour or be the housewife down the lane. It’s all up to us to become which artistic portraiture we end up being. Even though it’s a subjective matter of perspectives, it’s not about giving up on something for the other, but SACRIFICING one to the other. And to reach an optimum white or black in that is so hard. We humans, live in the grey lane.

Wow, umm..that’s much of a riddle eh, but whatever. I know I’m always against the idea of love taking over, but then I read Daul Kim’s suicide story and I just felt like, it’s best to be an artist when you’re lonely, but then at a point I need a vacation from the loneliness and start living. I think that The Photographic Sense is striking back on vacations, and well..just wait for my next strike.

I live in a city you never see on screens. Anyways, I’ll probably watch Mean Girls or some other movie since my wifi is literally not working (so not fetch…) (edit: I ended up watching “To Be Fat Like Me” and it’s actually an AWESOME movie! It teaches us so much on how society react to the obese and how to react to it logically! Anyways, how was your day guys? Leave your thoughts BE-L-OW!)

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SENSE

Royals

PAR. Reinhardt Kenneth

Model. Catharina Avellia

Hairstylist. Livia Kriwangko

MUA. Pricilia Lumantoro

Photographer’s Assistant. Kevin Jackson
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