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Well, I’m attending SEVEN. (just click to know more ;))

So I’ll make this post sticky and try to draw my days for the next 7 days :3
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Kurang lebih seminggu yang lalu gue membeli buku The Book of Other People (2007), yang merupakan kompilasi tulisan dari 23 penulis (including Jonathan Safran Foer!), dengan Zadie Smith sebagai editor. Di buku ini, setiap penulis harus menulis tentang seseorang (atau sesuatu). Judul tulisannya berupa nama orang atau sesuatu tersebut. Fokus pada karakternya. Hasilnya out of the box. Ada yang membuatnya dalam bentuk komik (as in graphic super short story), atau Nick Hornby yang berkolaborasi dengan Posy Simmonds  membuat profil-profil singkat beberapa orang yang bernama J. Johnson (lengkap dengan ilustrasinya!).

Well, I’m not finished yet with this book, tapi gue merasa buku ini punya konsep yang sangat menarik. Gue sering memikirkan ini sebetulnya dari dulu: randomly writing about random characters.

Buku ini lalu menginspirasi gue untuk mencoba mewujudkan ide gue dengan membuat project menulis pribadi berupa sebuah blog, Pieces of P’s. Gue akan mengisi blog itu dengan karakter-karakter yang berinisial P. Mungkin rekaan, mungkin betul-betul ada. Yang pasti, gue akan mencantumkan hanya sepotong kecil dari kehidupan mereka. Maybe from my point of view, maybe from his/ her point of view, maybe yours, maybe God’s. Who knows, I don’t have exact plans. Just another erratic writing project :D

Silakan ke Pieces of P’s untuk melihat-lihat. Baru gue buat kemarin, ‘belum ada isinya’ :P

Doakan saja gue nggak terlalu labil untuk berhenti sama sekali menulis ini :)

Trust me I have so many drafts about how my long holiday was O-V-E-R, about how glad I am everytime this holly Ramadhan comes, and my other deep thoughts. However, I’ve been ummm, pretty-busy-lately to wrap those drafts.

It’s not that I want to sound so important or workaholic. It’s just, I’m excited about too many things including my new 7 subjects in campus (if you wonder what subjects am I taking, they are, ummm, geological :P Such as: Structural Geology, or Principles of Stratigraphy). Beside academic stuff, I’m also very very very excited about my freelance jobs in GADIS magazine. Wowww, I’m making some nice new friends :)

Actually there are still many things I haven’t told, but well, let’s just skip them. I’m just telling you my very next excitement:

I’m writing a script for a short film! :D

It’s titled: Seven Wonders.

Seven Wonders
Chris and Irene. Both had the same favorite menu and watched the same venue. Both were writers and caffeinated. Both were loners and loved to wonder. But they didn’t know that much to pair their loneliness. Even just to wonder together.

Somehow, not being together didn’t make them not-a-pair.
Because God was always on the timeline.

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A short film by Ramda Yanurzha, written by Puti Karina Puar. Starring Rara Sekar Larasati and Ben Laksana.
Coming soon, on October 2009.

Okay, let me write a bit about this.

At the very first place, Ramda, my partner-in-crime, invited me to join up with him, making a short film. Actually, film-making is not really my thing, but I love writing. I thought it would be nice to try scriptwriting. (well, I was right!)

Then I wrote the script. In English. I don’t know, but I’m not Goenawan Mohamad who can write in Bahasa Indonesia without being exaggeratedly poetic or cheesy. I know my English is not that good, but I took the risk.

It was about a girl (Irene) and a guy (Chris) who loved to wonder about many things. They both were writers. They visited the same restaurant, sat on the same site, looked through the same window, but they never met. They lived on the same place in different era.

So glad that many people like it (well, umm, it was actually Ramda who showed the script to our friends. I hardly talked that I was writing a script :P). The script (or, the story idea) also successfully brought Ramda to be a finalist of LA Lights Indie Movie short story competition from Bandung.

Well, currently, we’re on progress of this short film.
It’s quite unbelievable, since I’m NOT into movies. Actually Ramda takes care of almost all things. But I helped a lot :D I drew and designed the poster. I even became the tallentspotter :D

Uh. Please wish this-short-film luck.
Actually, I always have this little worry: getting bored of working on this.
Wish me luck then.

And in case you’re interested about this short film, you can visit or follow its tumblr, and its Facebook Page.

:)

Actually I have one or two drafts to post, but they are not that finished yet. So I’ll just come short.

I’ve just got back from Comic monthly event. Was invited by mas Amal. The theme was about photoblogging with Budi Sukmana and Eric Setiawan as the speakers. Well, I had previously talked a bit about this with mas Budi when we met for 15-rolls-of-KodakEktachrome100PLUS/EPP transaction :P This evening we talked more in group (so nice to meet Pak Budi Rahardjo eventually) :)

We talked about what the real photoblogging is. They showed many photoblogs, and told many out-of-the-box non-commercial photo projects. Like 2 people separately took pictures at the same time, and joined the pictures up. Wonderful! :D

What I could conclude is that photoblogging is not about taking perfect photos, with perfect composition, and perfect lighting. It’s about how you blog with photos. How you story-tell with photos. Even if the picture was blur, maybe it could tell that you had been in such unstable situation, or maybe, you had been laughing a bit too happily at that time. In this case he is my current favorite. WOW!

The meeting brought sooooo much inspiration for me, and maybe for all who attended. I already have some ideas on my mind. Fab! :D

Okay. While waiting for my upcoming personal project (not to mention prewedding lomo shots *evilsmirk at diki*), you can check my own Photoblog, in Oh.Photos.ByPuty.com ;) I don’t know but I love the name, with “Oh!” in front of it. Sounds exciting :D