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Toiletpaper Magazine

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Toilet Paper is an artists' magazine created and "manufactured" by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Brazil's Q chocolate launches at Fortnum and Mason

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Q chocolate, is a new amazing Brazilian chocolate brand which is quickly expanding and taking chocolate making to a new level. With collaborations including the legendary Oscar Niemeyer, Samantha Aquim, chef and "chocolatier" came up with an exclusive recipe and process to "reveal many different, intense aromas".

Curvy chocolate - collaboration with Oscar Niemeyer

“Once you try a bar of Q you will be reminded that chocolate is made from a tropical fruit and its subtle notes of dried banana, mango and passion fruit will bring you even closer to the Brazilian rainforest.” Samantha Aquim - July 2013.

The images used for the packaging are elegant, colourful and truly Brazilian. I love it!

Discover Q chocolate here: http://www.chocolateq.com/

Lyric V.I. Seungri - What Can I Do? (Japanese Version)

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[Kanji]

VI VI VI like this

Come step to this

I’ m breaking down

down...down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

I’ m breaking down

down..down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

信じてたのに Why?

俺だけ You said

俺のためってもう言わないで

Don’ t say

So tell me

どうしてこんな事に

Baby 納得できないよ

こんな馬鹿みたいに

俺を置き去りにしないで

So please don’ t let go

何もかも嫌がる君が

そんなに俺を責めても

どうすれば良いんだよ

So please don’ t let go

君に全てを捧げてたよ

愛を失いたくないから

これ以上俺をさけないで

I’ m breaking down

down...down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

I’ m breaking down

down..down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

再び逢うはずはもう無いって

No way

毎晩夢の中

I see your smile your smile

So tell me

どうしてこんな事に

Baby 納得できないよ

こんな馬鹿みたいに

俺を置き去りにしないで

So please don’ t let go

君に全てを捧げてたよ

愛を失いたくないから

これ以上俺をさけないで

Let’s breaking down

So please don’ t let go

Hey! I’ m slowly breakin down

I’ m slowly breakin down

So please don’ t let go

君を行かせたくない

So please don’ t let go

君に全てを捧げてたよ

愛を失いたくないから

これ以上俺をさけないで

I’ m breakin down

down...down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breakin down down

I’ m breakin down

down..down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breakin down down

[Romanization]
VI VI VI like this
Come step to this
I’ m breakin down
down...down...down...down
Breaking down now
breaking breakin down down
I’ m breakin down
down..down...down...down
Breaking down now
breaking breakin down down

Shinji teta no ni Why?
Ore dake You said
Ore no tame tte mō Iwanaide
Don’ t say

So tell me
Dōshite konna koto ni
Baby nattoku dekinai yo
Konna baka mitai ni
Ore o okizari ni shinaide

So please don’ t let go
Nanimokamo iyagaru kimi ga
Son'nani ore o semete mo
Dōsureba yoi nda yo

So please don’ t let go
Kimi ni subete o sasage teta yo
Ai o ushinaitakunaikara
Kore ijō ore o sakenaide

I’ m breaking down

down...down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

I’ m breaking down

down..down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

Futatabi au hazu wa mō nai tte
No way
Maiban yumenonaka
I see your smile your smile

So tell me

Dōshite konna koto ni

Baby nattoku dekinai yo

Konna baka mitai ni

Ore o okizari ni shinaide

So please don’ t let go

Kimi ni subete o sasage teta yo

Ai o ushinaitakunaikara

Kore ijō ore o sakenaide

Let’s breaking down
So please don’ t let go
Hey! I’ m slowly breaking down
I’ m slowly breaking down
So please don’ t let go
Kimi o ika setakunai
So please don’ t let go

So please don’ t let go

Kimi ni subete o sasage teta yo

Ai o ushinaitakunaikara

Kore ijō ore o sakenaide

I’ m breakin down

down...down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

I’ m breaking down

down..down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

[English Translation]

VI VI VI like this

Come step to this

I’ m breakin down

down...down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

I’ m breaking down

down..down...down...down

Breaking down now

breaking breaking down down

I did believe Why?

You said it's only me

What is more for me

Don't say Don't say

So tell me

Why such a thing

I cannot convince Baby

Like an idiot says

Do not leave me behind

So please don't let go

It is everything you hate

Even if you blame me so much

What I may be

So please don't let go

I had dedicated all to you

I do not want to lose your love

Do not avoid me any more

We should meet again

Even if there's no more way

In the dream every night

I see your smile your smile

maybe taken out with credit!~

Balada Pra TA dan PHP Dosen

Selamat pagi, hari kamis pagi yang mendung dan gerimis di Lampung dengan kelembaban tinggi. Bukan, ini bukan laporan cuaca. Puasa pertama tahun ini di rumah sendiri walau fatamorgana ini hanya akan berlangsung selama beberapa hari karena harus kembali ke jogja untuk mendaftarkan diri menjalankan tugas mulia, Tugas Akhir.

Khusus di prodi saya, Arsitektur UGM, mahasiswa tua harus mengerjakan Pra Tugas Akhir dan Tugas Akhir sebagai syarat kelulusan. Pra TA (Tugas Akhir) adalah di mana mahasiswa mengerjakan konsep desainnya, yaitu mengerjakan tulisan sebanyak 4-5 bab yang akan diseminarkan sebanyak dua kali. Pra TA ini dikerjakan selama 1 semester atau 6 bulan. Lalu jika nilai Pra TA ini sudah keluar, mahasiswa dapat mendaftarkan diri memasuki Studio Tugas Akhir, yang terdiri dari Transformasi Desain (TD) dan Pengembangan Desain (PD). Lalu kenapa saya menjelaskan proses rempong yang ada di kampus saya? Ah, iya. Saya baru menyelesaikan Pra TA lho yang sudah saya tunda selama satu semester.

Seminar dilakukan dua kali, seminar progress di tengah semester dan seminar akhir Pra TA, anak-anak di kampus sih menyebutnya sidang. Saat seminar progres yang datang hanya dosen penguji saya dan ketika seminar akhir yang datang hanyalah dosen pembimbing saya. Seperti biasa, dosen itu lebih PHP daripada gebetan ataupun mbak-mba ticketing di Empire. Dikarenakan dosen penguji saya tidak datang pada saat hari H, saya dan 2 teman lainnya terancam menjalani seminar dua kali. Namun, barakallah, bersyukur dosen penguji saya tidak rempong minta diadakan seminar lagi, hanya meminta datang ke kantornya, orangnya sedikit PHP juga sih, karena sama dengan dosen pembimbing saya, sudah cukup senior dan sibuk sekali. Namun, cukup melelahkan dan menyenangkan berdiskusi dengan beliau, hal-hal yang tidak pernah diperhatikan dan diajarkan oleh dospem saya, beliau ajarkan.

Revisi, revisi. Revisi periode satunya hanya dua minggu. Sudah dikerjakan. Sudah selesai. Permasalahannya sekarang, dospem saya jarang sekali berada di Jogja, hanya 3 hari dalam seminggu hari kerja beliau ada di Jogja. Terancam tidak mendapatkan tanda tangan beliau untuk lembar pengesahan. Oh, man. Masa saya harus menunda mendaftar tugas akhir 3 bulan lagi, saya selo mau ngapain lagi? Alhamdulillah dapat di hari Sabtu dan buru-buru saya jilid 4 rangkap.

Seninnya sudah jadi jilidannya, sudah dikumpulkan, sudah dapat tanda tangan untuk surat rekomendasi masuk Tugas Akhir periode Agustus ini. Namun, surat pernyataan dari dosen pembimbing akademik (DPA) belum dapat. Susah juga bapak satu itu dicari. Yakinlah, DPA dan DPS itu lebih PHP daripada gebetan ataupun mbak-mbak ticketing Empire. Hatiku teriris :|

Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2013 campaign

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Introducing the Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2013 campaign, featuring Edie Campbell photographed by David Sims.

Goldfrapp - Drew

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This is a very poetic and beautiful video.

Exclusive interview with the emerging video artist Kilian Kretschmer

Meet Kilian Kretschmer, an emerging video artist from Germany. We're catching up on his inspiration, his future and his heroes...

Tell us a bit about yourself as an introduction

How did it all start for you and are you now with a gallery?

I was raised in Kassel, Germany. Thanks to my father, who studied art here, I understood early on that art is about making art. My genre is performance and video art. I like standing in front of an audience, even if I sometimes need to escape after a show. I've always been shy but I am really rewarded being in front of an audience.

I studied media art in Karlsruhe, Germany. On myfirst day at the University of the Arts and Design, I got to know my good friend Thorsten Schwanninger, who I’ve exhibited with many

times since, and we talked about the possibilities of connecting a drum set and a video interactively. I associated the rattle of old film projectors with a drum crescendo, and a year later, in 2006, we came up with my first performance, SCOMP. This performance was a big success and I was encouraged to keep on creating performances and video installations with a performative character. Not all of them have to do with my passion for playing the drums, but it is a recurrent element. I am not represented by a gallery yet, but I’ve recently started investigating for one.

What is the meaning behind your art, if there's one?

I’m motivated to map out the borders between reality and the virtual I connect both fields using synchronization and comparisons. I talked about this at a lecture I gave on “the art of synchronization” in Ekaterinburg in 2009. With my performances and installations, I engage with the issue of transferring cinematic and virtual actions into reality. I bring up the questions of what is left behind, where the differences lie, and what the consequences of a direct transmission are.

The boundary between reality and the virtual world which in my work SUPERPOSITION is literally represented by a wall, also connects the two fields. The difference and the similarity between borders and connections is something that I deal with in many of my works. I try to create a sense of them by generating equal proportions of time-based and spatially-orientated properties in my art. I also like to follow a sense of balance.

Augmented reality, virtual reality and digital signage accompany us in everyday life. The technical developments behind these fields allow the borders between virtual and reality to blur. In my art, my priority is the emotional realisation of the positive and negative effects of this progress.

Tell us about the favourite piece you've made?

&4& remains very important to me. When I made this work, I found my way. It is also a performance and one that runs in a loop. The audience is encouraged to move freely around the work. I play with the perception of the audience, employing it to switch between time-based and spatial perception. I create a mutual juncture between both forms of perception. A pause in time, and in space, that both end synchronously. In this piece, I re-enact a film that consistently stops at a certain point and starts again at the moment when I return to this point in reality.

http://kiliankretschmer.com/und4und.html

Amongst others, I was inspired by the montage of filmmaker Artavazd Peleshyan, who I assisted during the first year of my studies. I had read a few books on film theory before that, but his way of defining a space in time within a film got me interested in trying out something similar on stage. As I said, I’m interested in the transferal that goes on between cinematic means of expression and reality.

&4& was my first real experience with an audience, because they were physically very close to me, and for myself as a performance artist, because the first time I showed it, it went on for an hour. The room was completely full and the people didn’t want to leave, so I kept on running it in a loop. I was trapped inside my performance and I enjoyed it.

What is your next project?

I’m currently finishing an original-style video installation. I just need a title. It consists of two CRT monitors from a video wall that stand two meters across from each other, facing inwards. Between the monitors, two mirrors in a sand heap form a two-meter high, rectangular pillar. If the viewer stands close enough to the pillar of mirrors, he/she will see the left monitor with their left eye and the right monitor with their right eye. Thus a three-dimensional impression of a stereoscopic 3D video is formed on the monitors, and you see me shoveling a sand heap in front of a mirror.

Because the video is also mirrored down the centre line, I can be seen twice in the

mirror while I am shovelling, whereupon an absolutely symmetrical sand heap arises out of nothing in the middle of the picture. The video shows a perspective that is impossible to achieve in reality. This work is about the separation of action and reaction, and false reflection. The viewer sees me shoveling in the mirror and the rise of the sand heap, but not in the same way as the sand flies from the shovel onto the heap.

Which other artists are you close to and who would you dream to

collaborate with?

Some works were developed in collaboration, like SCOMP and BEATMIKADO. A few

days ago I finished a flip book for the performance I want to become a millionaire by Thomas Geiger.

My website was designed with Nicolaz Groll. During my studies I frequently exhibited with Lukas Kindermann and Benedikt Dichgans. At the end of last year, I took part of a group exhibition at the Bonnefantenmuseum Roermond. The title NACHTFAHRT was borrowed from a work by Roman Signer, which was also part of the exhibition. The artists, including Roderick Hietbrink, Studio Oneindigheid, David Heitz and myself, were all selected because of their closeness to Signer.

My work can also be compared for example to Dan Graham, Anna Jermolaewa (my former professor) or Axel Kretschmer (my father). And since I’ve never quite let go of the dream of shooting a movie, I would love to work with a Hollywood actor, even if it would become a performance in the end. Ideally with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Lady Buckle bag by Gucci

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Ifeanyi Oganwu

This is a full circle bench from 2010 by the American designer Ifeanyi Oganwu. I think it's beautiful !

Hiking Centil Bukit Sikunir - Gunung Prau, Dieng

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Selamat sore! Hari ini hari pertama berpuasa bagi umat Islam yang menjalankannya. Saya memulai puasa lebih awal sehari, seperti Muhammadiyah dan beberapa ulama yang menggunakan metode hisab dalam penentuan bulan Ramadhan. Ah, sudahlah kalau perbedaan mulai puasa Ramadhan ini dibahas lagi tidak akan ada habisnya, yang jelas alhamdulillah bulan suci penuh berkah ini telah tiba :D

Sore ini sore yang sendu, langit terlihat kuyu kelabu paska menurunkan hujan tadi siang. Saya sedang menanti kajian rutin Selasa sore yang biasa diselenggarakan ibu kost di musholla kost dan teringat masih banyak pe er saya. Salah satunya khatam revisi bulan Juli ini, salah duanya menyelesaikan buku-buku yang tidak kunjung saya selesaikan (padahal tiap hari khatam baca temlen tuitter), salah tiganya masih banyak pengalaman yang belum terketik di blog cupu ini.

Bulan Mei lalu, tepatnya tanggal 11 Mei 2013, saya sempat berkunjung ke Dieng dalam rangka melaksanakan janji hiking cantik. Awalnya sih yang mau berangkat sebanyak 13 orang, si ini si itu bla bla bla~ Satu kejadian yang saya ingat sekali, tau sendiri rasanya saat kita ingin ikut mengadakan acara untuk bersama, lalu kita bantu woro-woro dan mengajak teman terdekat dan teman terdekat itu mengajak teman dekatnya dan teman dekatnya mengajak teman agak dekatnya lagi dan berakhir ribet. Ribet ijin lah, ribet jadwal lah yang pada H-2 membatalkan rencana, mereka gak ikut, dan semua keribetan itu sia-sia. Kita hanya bisa tersenyum. Hal semacam itulah yang terjadi pada saya ---- dan Adank, terjadi lagi, kejadian serupa saat akan berangkat ke Merbabu Februari lalu terulang kembali.

Akhirnya kami hanya berangkat berenam. Saya, Adank, Deak, dan Sindy berempat dari Jogja, motoranlah dan Masros bersama princessnya, Bontang menyusul dari Kebumen, tempat di mana Masros tinggal dan sekaligus tempat Bontang akan menjadi princess Kebumen :3, rencana hati ingin bertemu di sana, di basecampnya gunung Prau. Namun, Monika berkata lain. Kenapa pulalah gue? Iye, kemampuan memetakan jalan di otaknya Monika parah sekali, berkali-kali nyasarin tiga temen saya itu. Entahlah mereka marah atau tidak, yang jelas sudah ndak enak sekali rasanya. Terlebih lagi hari itu sepanjang sore hujan turun terus dan Monika gak ingat-ingat jalannya.

Kami berenam bertemu di alun-alun Wonosobo, makan malam --- penyetan dengan sambal aneh yang bikin maag saya kambuh dan langsung menuju Dieng. Memang dasar perjalanan aneh, entah jin mana yang menggendoli, sudah nyasar-nyasar dan kemalaman di jalan, motor Masros yang baru seminggu lalu dibawa ke kaki basecamp pendakian Sindoro kehabisan oli. Satu motor mati. Dibawa jalan sekian ratus meter. Mati lagi. Begitu terus sampai di Dieng. Lelah, kedinginan, gak tau letak basecamp gunung Prau di mana. Kami beristirahat --- pura-puranya tidur di musholla di Dieng, masih kawasan Kailasa. Rencana hati awalnya ingin mengejar sunrise di gunung Prau akhirnya ludes karena waktu sudah menunjukkan pukul 1 malam, acara masih dunia lain di trans 7 sudah hampir selesai.

Sepakat melupakan sunrise di gunung Prau, kami pagi buta sehabis kedinginan semalaman, menuju bukit Sikunir berhubung Deak dan Sindy belum pernah ke sana, sunrise paling mudah, Sikunir. Jangan tanya saya dan Bontang sudah naik Sikunir berapa kali. Lebih dari 5 kali, sampai lupa. Sunrise pagi itu tidak seindah biasanya, ditambah dengan keramaian bukit Sikunir yang sudah seperti pasar :|

Sunrise pagi itu

Adank, Monika, Bontang, adek (tua) Deak

Sindy, Deak (guess who's younger, you'll surprise!)

Anak gadis; Sindy, Monika, Annisa (Bontang aja, ya)

fyi, itu yang di belakang Sindoro

Telaga Cebong

Full Team; Deak, Monika, Sindy, Masros, Bontang, Adank

Turun Sikunir, kelaparan. Kami sarapan di warung makan yang terletak di parkiran Telaga Warna, mahal sih, tapi mau gimana lapar :| Sehabis isi perut, baru deh cari bengkel buat isi oli motornya Masros.

Dari Dieng kami turun, ternyata gunung Prau kalau mau naik dari Dusun Patakbanteng bisa dan itu belum sampai di Diengnya, bawah lagi. Di sana ada basecamp, tapi cukup menipu. Basecampnya terletak di sebelah masjid, kebetulan banyak rombongan dengan warna kaus sama, rame banget, semacam ada pembagian carica gratis buat turis. Kami goler-goler di basecamp sambil menunggu nama kami dicatat oleh mas-mas basecampnya.

Kami naik diantar sampai tangga terakhir di kampung Patakbanteng itu. Patakbanteng merupakan desa yang paling cepat untuk mendaki gunung Prau, untuk pendakian dengan kecepatan normal hanya 3 jam dan kami mendaki dengan waktu sekitar 1,5 jam - 2 jam. Memang jalan menanjak tanpa ampun, melewati ladang-ladang, becekkan pipa air ladang lepas di jalan setapak ladang. Karena pendakian siang hari tentu mudah lelah, tapi faktor utama lelah karena kami kurang tidur dan karena maag saya sempat kambuh, saya tidak bisa makan banyak paginya, tapi untungnya hanya membawa tas ransel mini :3

Gunung Prau yang memiliki ketinggian 2.565 Mdpl ini memiliki padang bunga daisy, dandelion, dan bukit teletubbies yang luaaaaas, sepanjang mata memandang ketika sudah tiba di dataran tingginya, perjalanan di setapak dengan kanan kiri padang bunga daisy, dandelion, dan naik turunnya bukit-bukit hijau. Aduh, seperti di dunia peri :3

Bukit-bukit teletubbies dan anak gadis

Padang dandelion

Padang bunga daisy

Full team :)

Kami mencari puncak tertingginya di mana, tapi yang terlihat hanyalah bukit-bukit teletubbies, selayaknya dataran tinggi. Kami goler-goler lagi, istirahat, dan ngemil di atas dengan menikmati Telaga Warna, Kawah Sikidang, pelataran candi Arjuna yang bisa dilihat dari tepian gunung Prau.

Falling in Love with 2NE1

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2NE1 - FALLING IN LOVE LYRICS

ROMANIZED:

Touch me over here
Touch me touch me over there
Touch me over here
Touch me over there
Touch me over here
Touch me touch me over there
Touch touch touch
Yeah yeah

Oh my nae mami wae iri seolleneunji molla
Ireumdo moreuneun geudae apeseo nan
O cheonguk gateun neoui nunbiche jeongmal
Alright alright alright alright

Tonight i drop it low
Gibuneun jjaritae
Simjangeun teojyeo blow
Neon nae johnny depp
Ipsuri mallawa nae ppyeossok kkeutkkaji jeoryeowa
Nunbusin neol chyeodabol su eobseo boy i’m so blind
Jinheulg sok jinju nan neoui sinbu
Neol nae geollo mandeulgesseo that’s what a queen do
Yeah in the club it’s getting ugly i don’t care
Can’t nobody stop the fire let them haters sit n stare

I keep falling in love, falling in love
Neoman bomyeon nae maeumi oh oh oh oh
Falling in love falling in love
Neol gatgosipeo na eotteokhae boy

Falling in love falling in love
Neoman bomyeon nae maeumi oh oh oh oh
Falling in love falling in love
Neol gatgosipeo na eotteokhae boy

Touch me over here
Touch me touch me over there
Touch me over here
Touch me over there
Touch me over here
Touch me touch me over there
Touch touch touch
Yeah yeah

Oh my naega iraedo doena sipeo lost my mind
Nege banhae jeongsineul nwabeoryeonna bwa
Ni sonkkeuchi nae mome danneun i sungan
Alright alright alright alright

Dugeun dugeundae nan jajonsimeul irchi
Sarang sogeseo nan gireul irheun gilchi
Nochiji ankesseo bangasoereul jaba
Ni simjangeul hyanghae sswa blakah blakah
You mine boy naege neomeowa boy gimme gimme
Guji mil danghagetdamyeon neon silly silly
Kkeuteomneun maeryeoge na sagochigesseo
Gachi hamkkehagesseo? Neowaramyeon nan yes sir

I keep falling in love, falling in love
Neoman bomyeon nae maeumi oh oh oh oh
Falling in love falling in love
Neol gatgosipeo na eotteokhae boy
Falling in love falling in love
Neoman bomyeon nae maeumi oh oh oh oh
Falling in love falling in love
Neol gatgosipeo na eotteokhae boy

Nan neobakke eobseo
Naega gidarigo gidaryeotdeon geu somebody
Neon rollercoaster
Nae maeumeul deureotda nwatda eotteokhani
Neoneun eotteolji
Manyak neodo nawa gatdamyeon malhae tell me
Yeah yeah i just keep falling in love again

Falling in love falling in love
Neoman bomyeon nae maeumi oh oh oh oh
Falling in love falling in love
Neol gatgosipeo na eotteokhae boy
Falling in love falling in love
Neoman bomyeon nae maeumi oh oh oh oh
Falling in love falling in love
Neol gatgosipeo na eotteokhae boy

Touch me over here
Touch me touch me over there
Touch me over here
Touch me over there
Touch me over here
Touch me touch me over there
Touch touch touch
Yeah yeah