29/07/2010

Velorbis Studine Classic Bicycle

It's already 6 AM and I supposed to prepare some reports and notes, but I went through this web instead. Bike, what else. 




These two beautiful city bikes already made me regret that I already owned a BMX bike. I always easily in love with classic bike. My BMX is also the classic one, not with a rotor or typical BMX Haro. I am not a bunnyhopper nor flatlander, but I do slowracer. ha-ha. I squealed for Velorbis Studine, the black one please.

27/07/2010

Do You Bring Your Lunch?

Jakartans love to buy their lunch, instead of making and bring it to the office. But for someone who couldn't afford eating-out everyday or just their office is a bit far from the street vendors and too lazy to move their asses off the seats or having a great cook at home, it's time for you to pack your lunch with these lunch bags.
Still from the same series "Flocks & Feathers", save more money with buying altogether with the plushies :)

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Banyak warga Jakarta yang malas bawa makan siang, tetapi untuk yang uangnya tidak cukup untuk jajan setiap hari atau kantor mereka letaknya jauh dari pedagang kaki lima dan malas berjalan kaki...atau punya koki yahud di rumah, ini saatnya mengemas makan siangmu dengan tas makan siang yang manis ini.
Masih dari seri "Flocks & Feathers", mari berhemat Rp 5.000 dengan membeli sepaket plushie dan tas makan siangnya seharga Rp 50.000 (kalau dibeli secara terpisah, plushie Rp 10.000+tas Rp 45.000 = Rp 55.000). 


lunchbags 
length: 23 cm
width: 9 cm
height : 21 cm


peacock



raven

owl

close-up plushie

plushies

23/07/2010

Mikisi Notebook Frenzy

Mikisi notebook now available at the shop! We add some extra fun: you could pick one out of four marvelous color for your notebook stitch. please e-mail us at hellomikisi[at]gmail[dot]com for any purchase and customized color stitch.

Notebook Mikisi kembali tersedia di toko kami! Kami tambahkan kegembiraan dalam notebook yang dipesan dengan kebebasan untuk memilih warna benangnya. Untuk harga dan pilihan warna bisa langsung via e-mail ke hellomikisi[at]gmail[dot]com.





22/07/2010

"Bukan Bazaar" by KAMAR (Aug31-July1, 2010)

Please come to this supercool crafty picnic, Mikisi will be there too, amigos.




Ini Bukan Bazaar,
Ini... piknik di taman sambil bikin pritilan, borong belanjaan sambil denger musik-musikan. Ada juga es limun & cemilan...! :D


July 31 at 10:00am - August 1 at 6:00pm
@KAMAR workshop, Jl. Pulo Raya No. 136, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan
 
Tersedia:
handmade, crafted
...knick-knacks, toys, silly things, vintages, notes, bags, shoes, dress,tshirt, asesoris, pajangan, bantal, interior, decoration, buku bekas, komik, collectible items, rahasia, ada deh, mau tau aja, musik, film,...cemilan, limun, cemilan, masakan, FLEA MARKET, & many more!

Workshop & Demo:
- Yubiami (finger knitting) by Vitarlenology (from Tobucil)
- Recycle craft by Finger Power Friends!

21/07/2010

Colorful Stitches





Now Mikisi Notebook available in 4 colorful stitches:

Red

Turquoise

Black

Green

and...Mikisi's are ready to launch 2nd batch of "Flocks & Feathers"! All plushies, notebooks and lunchbag you craved and out of stocks for more than a month or so, now back in store. Please send your queries to hellomikisi[at]gmail[dot]com or just simply leave comments here. We'll reach back to you. Oh, we also got scissors sisters notebook now, not only the pouch :). Wait for the next post about it, dear amigos.

19/07/2010

"Dune 4.1" on Erasmus Huis, Jakarta

"Let's meet up this saturday", she said. So we went to this super cool exhibition by Daan Roosegaarde. An interactive landscape art combined with motion technology, "Dune 4.1". Inspired from greeneries that grown sporadically in dunes. It would be better for him if his arts left traces in the audience's mind and applicable in daily life.

This high-tech Dune received various reactions in many country. Such as Slovenian elders refused to get close to it, since they still got imagery "walls have ears" from back then. Probably they thought, this project was somehow a govt secret project that could sent them to jail or else. For Enggar and I, who visited this in 2010, it's an exhibition where we could shout as loud as we could and no one there to bother (it was dark, by the way). It's Enggar who talked behind the camera and I'm the one who running about the Dune and say "aAAAaaaAAAaaa".

Erasmus Prersents

Dune 4.1

Feel Free

blinking Dune

Dune

Hr. Roosegaarde

my art should be like this

17/07/2010

New Birds




New postcards available soon in Mikisi Curiosities Etc.

Charming Bikes

Like Ms.Vantiani latest addiction, I'm starting to go crazy about postcrossing. Today I spent my morning at the post office, sent 3 postcards and bought several stamps. As I got home, I saw a candy-shape package on the desk. It's from Dita! I never thought it would be this fast, since she said she just sent it yesterday afternoon. Thank you so much, Dita!

Ketika saya pulang dari kantor pos, saya melihat sebuah paket berbentuk permen raksasa di atas meja. Ya ampun, Nona Dita Maulani baik sekali! Ia mengirimkan saya paket berisi charm bracelet dan berbagai kesenangan lain. Terima kasih banyak yaaaa Ditaaaa...

inside the plastic

giant candy

bike and autumn leaf

more bikes

d.i.y bracelet

14/07/2010

Lazy Sunbather

easy, boy

this is the chair I was talking about and how I spend my morning
(re-enacted by my imaginary Reynie Muldoon of Mysterious Benedict Society)

Mittwoch Macht Frei: Raining Afternoon





Working in a home-slash-office is really amusing, especially when it's raining in the afternoon. There are another NGOs nearby my office and one of the NGO is saving money from unused public phone box. I found a bit weird in Indonesia, that everything previously belongs to public ended up at junkyard. It's not because they're out of service, damaged or the gov buying a new one, but it's more likely everybody buys things for themselves. Like cars, private lesson or tutorial for students, cellphones or laptops.

I was thinking of some concepts for very short documentary film, about raining in the afternoon. There are few ritual-de-lo-habitual (as Jane's Addiction said) around my office when it's raining. Some people hang their newly-washed clothes outside (yes, we don't use dryer), then run towards it to save it from pouring rain. Sometimes they close their front door to prevent drizzles coming in. But I always tended to go nearby the window. To see the rain hits the window. Closely.

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Bekerja di rumah yang mirip kantor (daripada kantor yang mirip rumah) sangat menyenangkan, terutama saat hujan siang-siang. Di sebelah tempat kerjaku, ada sebuah LSM yang bergerak di bidang tembakau, namanya AMTI (Aliansi Masyarakat Tembakau Indonesia) dan sebelahnya lagi LSM yang mengumpulkan koin dari telepon umum (nah foto di atas itu adalah setumpuk telepon umum yang sudah tidak terpakai dan koinnya dikumpulkan oleh LSM ini entah untuk apa). Sedikit aneh menurutku sih di Indonesia, segala sesuatu yang bersifat publik malah tidak pernah terjamah. Semuanya menjadi privat. Les privat, "hargai kami, kami butuh privasi", mobil pribadi atau telepon seluler. 

Tempat kerjaku ini tidak bisa dibilang sepi, karena dekat jalan besar dan dekat rel kereta, jadi luar biasa ramai. Justru itu yang membuatku rutin berjemur di kursi depan sebelum masuk bersembahyang menghadap komputer. "'Ramai tapi sepi'-nya itu yang dicari", begitu pikirku. 

Ketika hujan turun di siang hari, orang-orang bergegas memasukkan pakaian yang dijemur di luar dan menutup pintu kantor masing-masing agar airnya tidak masuk ke dalam, sedangkan aku yang berada di dalam semakin mendekati pintu. Melihat hujan. Hujan siang-siang, seharusnya bisa menjadi film dokumenter sangat pendek. terima kasih.

05/07/2010

Her Drawing is So Gorgeous

Everywhere I go, I've been followed by super-talented people. Her name is Dinda, she's my colleague's daughter. She drew every single day, working so hard on her ballet-theme comic. Few nights ago, I was starting a small watercolor-collage workshop because of her. Her drawing was extremely gorgeous. Plus, she was just eleven.

look at her comics (click for bigger view)
watercolor lesson
her first attempt with watercolor

dinda's collage
we combined it with collage

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with Ms. Guru

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paint and blow