How 'Pro' and Pro work...

Mike works on new material in the studio with Pro Tools 8. Look at Bourdie's hair. ;) Oh my Rob.... :p

SENDIKO DHAWUH

..... awalnya gw tau ni kata dari Bowo. Waktu itu, dalam perjalanan menuju Kiluan, gw lupa bawa kartu remi, padahal udah nyanggupin gw yang akan bawa. Nah, kebetulan kami melintasi beberapa perkampungan. (Oh ya, kami berangkat dua mobil, nah mobil Bowo dkk. itu mobil kedua, dan mereka lumayan ketinggalan nun jauh di belakang sono no). Dengan asumsi di kampung itu pasti ada warung, dan berasumsi lagi di warung itu mungkin menjual kartu remi, gw langsung sms Bowo bilang kalo bisa mampir ke warung dan beli kartu, soalnya gw lupa bawa. Eh tu orang cm bales ‘sendiko dhawuh’. Langsung gw tanya sama Bu Erma dan Pak Yus soal artinya, ya elah... mereka malah ngakak. Karena kagak dapet ‘jawaban’, gw langsung bales sms tu... *lupa waktu tu ngetik apa. Tapi yg jelas sms nya lumayan bernada sebel dan setengah mengancam, huehehe... Tiba-tiba gw inget, punya teman yang sepertinya fasih Boso Jowo dikarenakan dia tinggal di Malang, haha... *another assumption Gw sms Ari dan tanya soal ini. Yasud, dapetlah gw jawaban seperti ini:

SENDIKO DHAWUH Adalah bahasa yang dipakai seorang abdi kepada tuannya. Sangat feodal. Terjemahan bebasnya... 'Oke Bos!’.

Oh... itu tho artinya... Bilang kek Wo dari tadi. Wahaha... artinya gw Bos donk! LOL Yasud, the end deh, story nye... hehehe... ^^

Ikan tisu

I simply love these munches. Mmm... Yummy! ^^

We're all Photographers now

Circa end of January or early February, I've read a short article about 'We're all Photographers' event in Komputer Aktif magazine. It was said that all people across the globe could send their photos about anything. Each day there would be some photos taken randomly from the pictures received. Those chosen images would be displayed in the screen in The Musée de l'Elysée or also known as a museum for photography, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since I love photography so much -although wasn't supported by 'decent' camera :p, I sent some of my captures (around 7/8 pics if I'm not mistaken). Oh... by the way, the Museum would send you a notification e-mail if your image(s) happened to be displayed. So... here there I was, got my all photos displayed (but I didn't display all of them here) in The Musée de l'Elysée. I felt so happy, cos I'd never thought they might 'consider' my pictures ^^. In the end, I DO trust that EVERYBODY CAN BE A PHOTOGRAPHER INDEED!

Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne - A museum for photography

18, avenue de l’Elysée CH–1014 Lausanne, Switzerland tel. + 41 21 316 99 11 / fax + 41 21 316 99 12 www.elysee.ch / musee.elysee@vd.ch

* Remark : Image title/Time of Display

WHAT DO YOU SEE CEMENG? (2007_02_23__1[1].57PM)

SPAYDERMEN (2007_02_25__1[1].43PM)

BOSCHA (2007-02-24, 12[1].48PM)

TASYA (2007-02-24, 4[1].54PM)

THUMBS' WORKS

(2007-02-24, 2[1].19PM)

Get ready for Kings of Convenience!

Progress Report: Kings of Convenience

Twice a week, Jessica Suarez's Progress Report updates you on what your favorite bands have been doing. Or not doing.

NAME: Kings of Convenience

PROGRESS REPORT: Recording their third studio LP, Quiet IS The New Loud (working title), at Esagono Studios near Reggio Emilia, Italy

Things are coming full circle for Kings Of Convenience, at least as album titles go. "We have thought about Quiet IS The New Loud, says Erlend Øye of their upcoming third studio album. "But the record company might object to that." Quiet Is The New Loud -- the same title minus a capital letter -- was the name of Kings of Convenience's 2001 debut album. It's been five years since their last LP, 2004's Riot On An Empty Street, so a confusing title isn't the biggest concern, especially when most assumed the duo had stopped working together.

Though they have been busy elsewhere -- Eirik Glambek Bøe has a young son and a band called Kommode, Øye is prepping a Whitest Boy Alive album for late February -- the next KoC album remains a huge priority. In fact, the duo have been commuting between Bergen, Norway and another studio, outside Reggio Emilia, Italy, to complete the next LP. Longtime collaborator Davide Bertolini is also back to co-produce Quiet IS The New Loud.

Øye says they've got 14 songs they'll pair down to 12 for the album, though the process has been slow. "It's hard because we know how we want each song to sound, but not quite how to play it in order to make it sound that way.

Recording a song is like drawing a perfect circle, but we are determined," says Bøe.

"We'll get there." They've put other things on hold for this -- Kommode haven't recorded lately, and Øye has stopped DJing, among other things. "I stopped working with electronic music as I realized it's much more fun to play live with KoC and WBA," says Øye.

The guys have another side project as well, one that benefits from recording out in the middle of Italian farmland. "Now when we're 33, we're finally beginning to reap the benefits of not having been smoking and drinking," says Bøe. "On tour we play tennis and soccer. Erlend beat me last month, but my revenge this week was sweet."