The QZ8501 flight

Four years ago, Aceh has been swept by the greatest tsunami wave of the century.
Four days ago, December 28, 2014, AirAsia Flight QZ8501  disappeared on its way to Singapore from Surabaya. Today, on the fourth day of search and recovery, BASARNAS only discovered seven bodies and debris, 10 Km from where the plane had made their last contact. The search has slowed down by bad weather over the location at Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan.

The only thing that came to my mind since yesterday's devastating video on local TV was the orange emergency sliders/life raft, floating on open sea. It left me stunned for the rest of the night.

This morning, I quickly sketched the storyboard and painted eighteen 8,5x5,5 cm drawing cartridge and worked things out on Photoshop Timeline feature. iMovie went wonky for this job.

To me the accident sounds similar to David Bowie's Space Oddity

"And I think my spaceship knows which way to go, tell my wife I love her very much, "she knows. Ground Control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead, there's something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom?"

All my thoughts and prayers for the passengers, crew and families of Air Asia #QZ8501.

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Happy New Year, dear Friends, may 2015 bring you plethora of good things!
"Avignam Jagat Samagram"

Changing Neon

Wise man says, staying too long in our comfort zone means death to creativity. I took this quote seriously by buying series of subzero brushes (read: brushes that comes in size 0 or below, which means 0,00,000) and changing my color palette into mostly bold color. I already printed them in series of greeting cards.

By the way, Mikisi's greeting cards and note cards are now available in Alun-Alun Grand Indonesia, Jakarta. (I have these in postcards too, only for special order or upcoming bazaar)

Custom Bookplate Illustration

It was pretty early in the morning as a college friend buzzed me. She was looking up at google when she accidentally hit slorasauna & mikisi. "I hardly believe that now you're selling artsy stuff, is it new?" she said. We did some catch-up and ended up with a notebook order and an add-on quote. She agreed with my idea of a quote sticker, since there's no way to screenprint another small size quote inside the book.

Morning seems to be my greatest partner, I awake at 4 this morning and sat up on my desk, leafed through bird-watching pocket book. A red robin would be great! I took some time doing rough sketches -god knows how hard to draw again after awhile- and finished with the sketch. Transferred them to sticker paper afterwards and put the color on.

While inking, I was thinking of a person she's going to give this notebook to. Her friend is a young, smart fresh-graduate, whom recently pursuing scholarship abroad. Hence, red robin or generally, a bird theme, would suit her fine. It's about going far away, with all forces we had and hopefully it might leads into a good life.

"Doaku adalah caraku untuk memelukmu dari jauh" (My prayer is the one that hold you when we're apart) really hit the spot, I kept reading it all day long.

Delayed, but It's Okay, Son

(Done while my flight had been delayed for 1,5 hrs yesterday, inspired by Patek Philippe ad on Monocle)

Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea