SkyLimitsMe™

I do love smoking, but not only cigarettes but also words, words would appear like smoke, floating around, dancing, mingle, and struck back to our brain, but well, word just being limited by universe power, just like smoke limited by the sky. open your soul with my eyes : esperoproject.weebly.com

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BIMYANA

Kim Zuniga

  DONI MARMER, Indonesia

I was suprised that this movie fly 4 hours away (according to Cebu Pacific flight time) to my screen. But I can see that this movie is actually has universal purpose and impact to whoever the audience is (especially people from South East Asia and several countries) that basic education and the power of luminated knowledge for each future generations is important to fight for inequality and gain prosperity. But, let’s see, this movie is based on the main character’s name BIMYANA, and kids are Kim’s target audience. Then, she and her team briliantly brought this movie up with important issue to be noted to every kids in South East Asian countries. With animated visualization of Bimyana imagination, we were invited to Bimyana’s world. Indeed, I can feel the spirit of Bimyana that have the willingness to join the competition by finding out how to gain funding for the expenses with her friends and try to convince her mom to learn how to write and read, so she could gather courage and power (represented by the pencils turn into spears animation) to fight the monster of illiteracy and the lack of access to proper education and facilities for sub-urban kids.

In the other hand, I can say Kim is a great director for sure, because working with kids to act is pretty much to make them feel the character and bring the movie alive. And in Bimyana, I can see that the main character pretty much convincing, eventhought the other cast still have this awkwardness to express their dialogue. As from the cinematography perspective, all the pictures and ambiences captured beautifully with proper setting. Moreover, the soundtrack perfectly match with several scenes, eventhought there are several dialogs that weren’t clear enough to hear because of the noise and backsound. The animation itself completed the package of the story. But, the editing wasn’t tidy and the placement of the ambience sometimes aren’t right with the mood that this movie wants to bring. And sometimes there’s no expression coming out from the dialog. Anyway, all of this setbacks washed out by the best scene in the movie, the epilogue!

As Indonesian, this movie supposedly screened in every countries in this region because story about education for younger generations needed to be aired. This movie can raise people awareness about the importance of chasing a proper education for a better life and fight inequality. Good Job!

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Jane Fonda and Rod Taylor in Sunday in New York (1963)

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Self-posses myself

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Bayangan Tingkat Luar Angkasa

Mungkin sudah lumrah untuk menyajikan ekspresi tercengang dan takjub sehabis menyaksiskan film garapan Nolan bersaudara yang menjadi buah bibir masyarakat urban, Interstellar. Sebuah sajian film yang sangat luar biasa, dimana hampir banyak kritikus takjub dengam gambaran realistis yang dimasukan dalam elemen cerita mengenai penjelajahan angkasa luar. Dalam tiap laman situs dan jejaring sosial, mengatakan bahwa Nolan berhasil menggambarkan realitas manusia yang kehilangan gravitasi, gambaran dan hitungan yang sangat matematis untuk penyajian materi grafis lubang cacing dan lubang hitam.

Sungguh, sebuah terobosan setelah 2001 : Space Odyssey dan Star Wars (karena saya bukan penggemar Star Trek) dalam dunia per-filman dimana orang-orang tercengang dengan segala benturan pengetahuan yang disuguhkan dalam film tersebut. Para awam mulai merasakan bahwa pengetahuan mereka butuh untuk di perbaharui, dan mengunggah referensi-referensi baru mengenai Luar Angkasa. Perbincangan mengenai hal-hal di terestrial, teori-teori inter galaktik, dan kemungkinan-kemungkinan mengenai asal muasal kehidupan dan kehidupan lain selain kita yang berada di Bumi menjadi sebuah topik pilihan bersama kopi hangat di gerai kopi masa kini.

Mengasyikan akhirnya ada teman-teman yang bisa diajak berbincang tentang topik astronomi ini, karena biasanya yang menjadi bahan obrolan justru astrologi. Luar Angkasa sudah bukan menjadi topik pilihan hanya untuk kaum intelek yang sangat tertarik dengan bidang tersebut. Jujur saya sangat menggemari pembicaraan yang berhubungan dengan Luar Angkasa dan semesta, keajaiban-keajaiban yang terjadi dalam dunia kuantum fisika antariksa adalah sesuatu yang dapat membuat bulu kuduk merinding. Menjadi sangat girang bahwa topik ini menjadi sajian beserta kopi hangat dan rokok kretek.

Semoga dengan ini orang-orang akan terus memandang bintang, melihat gugusan planet yang tersebar luar, dan bersatu dengan semesta. Karena ruang dan waktu akan terus berasama dengan kita.

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Another Rough Day For You To Eat

I see that clouds stop dancing for me

And a dark gray sky trembling down

Thunder came across Atlantic sea, cover my fear

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The Box Of Summer

And after sun arise and kiss us hello,

I wake up with a majestic blow,

From the wind of future and happiness

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Breakfast With Your Heart

A year with suffer,

Another day full hope when hit the ground

Never I will starve for once more

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Eureka!

Dan dalam gelap subuh aku terbangun bersimbah peluh

Tersentak meledak karena mimpi buruk yang terulang

Sudah ratusan malam kau muncul mendesaku

Masuk dalam ranah yang tidak bisa ku gapai sendiri

Lalu sekiranya kau menghilang, aku bingung

Terbersit bahwa ternyata diriku berada bersamaku sampai mati

Dan di ujung persimpangan dimana kau tinggalkan aku,

Dalam mimpiku aku melihat diriku membawa lentera,

Dari persimpangan badanya babak belur namun tersenyum

Apalah yang aku tunggu lagi

Sampingkanlah ketakutan, dan inilah saatnya,

Lalu diriku mendekatiku, memberikan lenteranya,

Dan berbisik di telingaku, dengan suara yang puas

"temukan rahasianya, dan melangkahlah"

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The Morning That I Will Have After Years

Sometimes I forgot to see the sun when I wake up,

I realize, it was a kiss that he's trying to give

Another years, I forgot to wake up early to feel the morning's fresh air

I realize, they're trying to hug me

Just by last months, I forgot to taste the sweetness of morning dew

I realize, it helps to stay alive

Good morning,

For now, I wake up with passion, love, and sincere hearth to give you a kiss, hug, and coffee on your bed.

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If you want to say that the day might ended up by being in the darkness, then a thunderous night will come knocking on your window to make you stay up and search for the light.

All the sound of inconsistency and the heat, strangled you until you are awake with anxiety and insecurity. Whose to blame, when there's only a sun and no more stars gazing upon your naked flesh. The moon raped your dignity, and the next morning you'll just be a bluntly baby.

The day might come, the night might leave. Be happy, and dance like you'll never be. The floor is wet from your sweat, but don't break a leg, close your hands together and start to hum.

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It was a good weekend that I have to spend in Jakarta. After all the bluntness of life that I have to taste here in Bandung, some surprises and little things gave me more spark to jump and re-start. Moreover, I finally can have Frankie back, she's my little DSLR camera that now turn out to be my soulmate. She helps me figuring out having another exposure, angels, and saturations. She makes it all beautiful. Thank you universe, I'm ready to fight for another oozies and woozies!

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For sure life is not that easy to fold, like jump into present page (or if your life moving faster in advance and move by chapters not pages) to the next phase is just hard. Why? It’s just because the power of universe is way more bigger and heavier as our page rather than our tiny hands.

Moreover, it’s not that we can skim our sentences (oh yeah, sometimes words), in life, all of us are dyslexic. None of us can read clearly and fully understand with advance consciousness about the story of our life (I’m not taking any citation from One Direction’s song). In some other curious cases, people have to re-read from the beginning to find the exact meaning of the passage that we’ve been through and this life had been written. But, this read-through-book-of-life test is just for a person that exactly want to understand at least most of the lifestory or at least dying without clueless.

SO, as a conclusion of this rainy-day-lecture while waiting for a soup to come on my table, it’s that you can freely write down your own story and make your own book. For me, it has been written into a paperback book of life, and we allowed freely read them all, and interpret all the words into your own imagination. Read carefully from now on, maybe you miss a thing or some words that can define and give you more clue about what will happen or what you should do. For sure.

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I do pretty much sure that everyone will live in a cycle of lifetime. Around and around, in the ups and downs endlessly. Some other time we will feel tired of insignificant chores and routine and fed up with all the emotions, meanwhile there are other people that we see enjoying their happy moments all the time.

But then think for once again, it’s not that people will always have that all the time, neither do you. Can you consider to just relax and enjoy the process and the moments, chill and make a promise to yourself that you’ll lift up. Trust me, I’m in the loophole and being sucked up by the darkness will not help, thanks to Indra Prasasto, my recent partner. He helps me and accompany me in the downs moment and help me kill all the bees that buzzing around my head. Soon, I’ll be back.

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I remember my mother telling me that when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her left hand every time she wrote with it. Nowadays, if a teacher did that, she’d probably be arrested for child abuse. The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It’s also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right- or left-handed. After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home (via wrists)

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The Hope Itself

Dalam waktu beberapa bulan kemarin, saya dengan sendirinya memulai sebuah project yang saya lakukan untuk proses self-healing dan mencari pijakan untuk diri saya sendiri. Sebuah project yang saya beri nama ESPERO, yang berarti "I Hope" dalam bahasa Spanyol. Nama ini bukan saya pilih hanya karena memiliki makna yang eksplisit, yaitu memberikan harapan untuk diri saya sendiri karena setelah merasa gagal dalam mengejar cinta yang sangat saya berikan ke orang lain, akhirnya hanya bertepuk sebelah tangan. Saya mencari harapan dimana masih adakah ruang sisa untuk diri saya mencintai diri saya lebih lagi, alhasil saya menemukan foto-foto candid orang-orang yang ada di sekitar saya yang ternyata memberikan saya cinta yang lebih dari yang saya harapkan. Mulai dari pertemuan, cerita susah dan bahagia bersama, ataupun perpisahan. Orang-orang yang saya ambil gambarnya, saya masukan sebuah puisi yang merepresentasikan makna dari gambar dan cerita antara saya dan orang tersebut. Disamping itu, nama Espero ini muncul ketika pertama kali saya bertemu dengan seseorang yang membantu saya mencapai sebuah kesepakatan hidup, bahwa pada kenyataanya, jatuh dan bangun akan terus menjadi siklus, klise memang, tapi pada saat itu, di sebuah hotel mewah di Jakarta, saya bertemu dengan orang ini, dan password wifi hotel tersebut adalah Espero, dia menjelaskan apa arti dari password tersebut. Kita menghabiskan malam dan hari bersama, dan mungkin dia adalah orang pertama yang memberikan saya harapan. Fotonya belum saya pajang, mungkin akan segera, karena saya akan bertemu kembali dengan dia. Dalam waktu ini, saya belajsr, bahwa menjadi sedih ketika ada kekecewaan yang muncul dalam hidup itu wajar, tapi energi negatif dari kesedihan akan kehilangan seharusnya bisa kita transfer menjadi sesuatu yang justru bisa kita netralisir, dengan kreativitas. Kesedihan banyak menjadi inspirasi kaum seniman, mungkin kita bukan seniman itu sendiri, tapi alangksh baiknya, memulihkan diri dengan energi positif dan kreativ, bukan hanya duduk berpangku tangan, dengan mata sembab, dan tidak berbuat apa-apa. Saya sendiri sudah perlahan pulih, self-healing system saya sudah terprogram dengan otomatis untuk bekerja pada hal positif ketika hal-hal negatif muncul dalam kepala saya. Semoga project "Espero" memiliki keberlangsungan agar saya dapat lebih banyak mengapresiasi hidup dan orang sekitar saya. Hidup itu nyata. Anitya, nothing last forever, even sadness and happiness. Check on my project "Espero" on Instagram : donimarmer the only media that I use to work on this project for now. Gracias

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I am trying to see things in perspective. My dog wants a bite of my peanut butter chocolate chip bagel. I know she cannot have this, because chocolate makes dogs very sick. My dog does not understand this. She pouts and wraps herself around my leg like a scarf and purrs and tries to convince me to give her just a tiny bit. When I do not give in, she eventually gives up and lays in the corner, under the piano, drooping and sad. I hope the universe has my best interest in mind like I have my dog’s. When I want something with my whole being, and the universe withholds it from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself: "Silly girl. She thinks this is what she wants, but she does not understand how it will hurt.

THEORIES ABOUT THE UNIVERSE by Blythe Baird (via theflowershop)

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