In attempts to slow_myself_down_away_from_digital_life, I am getting my hands on film camera. Yes, the kind of camera where you need to put the film roll in and then start snapping. If you are lucky, the pictures will turn up good but if not then we let the fate decide. This is not my first rodeo on using film camera, but it definitely the first ever to buy the film and develop it using my own money. It is not cheap, which I know. What can I say, it's an expensive hobby. I used my first film roll to take photos of my favorite people. So it has more human than random pictures. It was on family event. After the last shot, I wanted to develop it before I flew to Bali but they had no lab. Luckily we have the lab in Bali. I developed and scanned the film in Ojisanfilmlab Bali. They're just a google away. They sell the roll as well. I had to tell the TSA to do the hand checking rather putting it through the scanner. They understood. Cimol hides himself in his favorite spot ...
Akhir-akhir ini sedang menyelesaikan bacaan Tetralogi Buru yang mana itu (menurut gw) merupakan buku wajib untuk dibaca orang Indonesia. Semacem buku sejarah tapi bentuknya nggak keliatan kalo lagi bahas sejarah. Bahkan kata Soesilo Toer aja bilang "Pram itu, bikin buku sejarah non fiksi tapi dibikin kayak fiksi. Nah yang fiksi dia bikin kayak non fiksi. Tau Minke kan? Dia itu nyata, tokoh asli, tapi Pram aja bikinnya kayak fiksi". Statement ini semakin menguatkanku mengidolakan Nyai Ontosoroh sepenuhnya. Diawal-awal emang krasa banget kebimbangan seperti "Ini buku kisahnya beneran nggak sih? Nyata nggak sih tokohnya?" Perlahan tapi pasti jadi mikir "Ah nggak lah kalo ini fiksi, semua cerita-cerita tentang negeri ini pernah gw baca dan datanya cocok kok". Penggunaan bahasanya pun cukup sekali, tidak terlalu tua tidak terlalu muda. Standar tapi tetap kerasa klasiknya. Terjemahan Bahasa Inggrisnya pun juga asik nggak kaku seperti buku-buku lawas. Ya m...