Closer to the sound of it

Thanks for your patience. Next week.

Blackened

Lucy begins to waste away suspiciously. All her suitors fret, and Seward calls in his old teacher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing from Amsterdam. Van Helsing immediately determines the cause of Lucy's condition but refuses to disclose it, knowing that Seward's faith in him will be shaken if he starts to speak of vampires. Van Helsing tries multiple blood transfusions, but they are clearly losing ground. On a night when Van Helsing must return to Amsterdam (and his message to Seward asking him to watch the Westenra household is accidentally sent to the wrong address), Lucy and her mother are attacked by a wolf. Mrs Westenra, who has a heart condition, dies of fright, and Lucy apparently dies soon after.

Lucy is buried, but soon afterward the newspapers report children being stalked in the night by a "bloofer lady" (as they describe it), i.e. "beautiful lady".^[2] Van Helsing, knowing that this means Lucy has become a vampire, confides in Seward, Lord Godalming and Morris. The suitors and Van Helsing track her down, and after a disturbing confrontation between her vampiric self and Arthur, they stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic

2 GIRLS IN A BED

2 girls in a bed by Jareth AladdinSane

is my favorite artwork to think in a middle of the night everyday

Digital Love

We are in the midst of the digital age. There are no flying cars, robot servants, and our houses are not orbiting above ground. The same stench of pollution and smog-filled skies still occupy our daily lives. For a while, it seemed like the future had us all fooled.

Thankfully, the thing the future did give us holds such an intrinsic value, that the other entire futuristic letdown seems miniscule in comparison.

This is what the post-millennial world is currently offering us: a constant stream of digital artistry in the form of limitless music. It’s time to give our ears some pampering.

Gone are the days when you had to travel to another country to buy an album that was not released in your homeland e.g. Indonesia. Those days when you had to purchase a luxuriously-priced CD single with your monthly allowance simply for that one song from your favorite band? Those days are no more. Perhaps – if you’re old enough – you remember leafing through imported music magazines and drooling for an album after reading a glowing review of it? These days, you would not even have to reach further than your computer or cellular-phone to have the album delivered to your doorsteps in a day or two.

In fact, you would not even have to leaf through a “magazine” any longer. These days, the artists’ mind is just a click away. The numerous webzines dedicated to covering music is numerous. Not to mention personally-maintained band blogs. You can visit a site like the Royal Artist Club and obtain exclusive news straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. The olden days of trying to figure out the lyrics to a song printed in superscripted text on the back of an album sleeve is today replaced with musicians informing you what they had for dinner last night – either through their blog or through hip mediums such as Twitter.

On the road and without access to a PC or your laptop – but you really need to hear a song right now? The mobile apparatus of today knows no boundaries. You could literally be almost anywhere around the world and have access to the most obscure song.

Needing that fix of Beatles rarities while having tea in a remote café in West Java? Perhaps you would like to bang your head to the newest Interpol song while you’re stuck studying for tomorrow’s exam in your dorm room in Kyoto? It takes a second to purchase or download for free those tracks onto your iPod or Mobile gadget from websites such as Nokia.co.id/layanan/musik

There is always that small quandary – many old school music fans believe the fact that everything is within reach drives away the intrinsic purpose of the art of music. The mysteriousness of certain bands is no longer possible in these day and age where every form of information is just a click away. And there is no denying the rampant ness of illegal downloads and album leaks.

Regardless of where one stands in the argument for or against the increasing availability of music (remember when indie rock band Pavement sang “There are too many bands”), one must be quiet the pessimist to not believe that the internet age has given us so much good music that during any other time would have had no chance of being heard. The word-of-mouth travels faster than ever before, and today, everybody and every musician get a chance to shine. If you’re not yet a musician, there is better time to be one than today.

Somebody, a long time ago said “Music should be free.” Perhaps we haven’t reached that plateau, but we’re getting closer than ever before.

http://www.nokia.co.id/layanan/musik

http://www.royalartistclub.com

Hand breaking a (1873-1898) by Babond Denanda

Awesome design input from Babond Denanda. Seriously awesome.

Study of Gneiss Rock, Glenfinlas, 1853.

Helo semua, Kita akan menyiapkan beberapa surprise edan di album baru kita yang pasti membuat lo semua berkata "wow hebat" lalu boker di celana karena begitu kagum. Kita sudah tau dengan siapa kita akan merilis album ini. Tapi judul, kover, dll, masih belum dapat kita kabarin. Ada beberapa masukan yang bagus hasil kontes design kover kemarin, tapi kita masih menimbang2 yang mana yang paling asoy. Kita juga sedang mempersiapkan beberapa video art, dan langkah tur awal untuk album ini. Tunggu saja, dan jgn lupa untuk bersiap2 untuk album SC yang kedua.

Lividity

HI EVERYONE, WE ARE STILL HERE BUT HAVE BEEN BUSY. HERE IS A CLIP FROM A SHOW AT TEE BOX.