RADHINGGA d. SETIANA

American Social and Art The 1930s was marked as The Great Depression. The Dust Bowl caused farm foreclosures, and farmers crisscrossed the country in search of work. Industry, business, and financial institutions faltered. When American painters turned their attention to the world of the working class, many of them were outraged. These artists felt a responsibility to affect change. Mabel Dwight observed that, “art has turned militant. It forms unions, carries banners, sits down uninvited, and gets underfoot. Social justice is its battle cry. War, dictators, labor troubles, housing problems, all appear on canvas or paper”. Photographers focused their camera on documenting conditions around them, and many painters turned to more expressionistic style in order to convey the extreme emotions they felt about what they saw. The misery these images revealed cannot be easily denied, and the empathy they engendered was powerful. Indonesian Social and Art Indonesian art is one important...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you HAPPY BIRTHDAY dear IBUK HAPPY BIRTHDAY IBUUKK !! i love you.. :D

Membuka mata dari kelelapan tidur semalam, membuka jendela kamar, dan... Suara burung-burung menyambut indahnya pagi. Terangnya sang raja dari timur membangunkan semangat di setiap kehangatan hari.  Hmm. I don't want to miss every single moment I pass, ku mulai menginjakkan kaki keluar rumah beraktifitas pagi ini. Sepertinya udara dari musim dingin tak lagi memaksaku memakai pakaian tebal, tapi setiap waktu aku harus siap dengan rain coat or umbrella. Setiap nafas yang kuhirup, harum bunga-bunga menghiasi langkahku pagi ini. Pemandangan indah memanjakan mataku. Kelinci-kelinci yang berkejaran, squirrel yang memanjat pohon, meloncat dari tiang satu ke yang lain, anjing-anjing dan majikan mereka yang menyusuri tapak di pinggir jalan protokol. Terang hilang, petang datang. Kind of chill to go outside. Menikmati teh hangat sambil menonton tivi show kesayangan, aku dan keluarga Kresge memulai hidangan makan malam di back porch. Angin malam pun berhembus membuat sedikit kegaduhan m...

SEKOLAH-SEKOLAH Seneng banget kan bisa balik lagi ke sekolah, kangen-kangenan ama temen-temen, peluk-pelukan ama teman-teman, cerita pengalaman whether during interim week or spring break (nih mulut ampe jeber cerita what I've done), soalnya basically my break was longer than my friends'. Bayangkan aja seberapa panjangkah ini, kita semua dapat interim week dan spring break, dan di sela-sela those 2 weeks, there was 1 week which we are supposed to go to school. But!! I didn't. So I had like 3 weeks off. Ohoho.. Tapi ini semua terasa cepeet banget. Soalnya banyak senengnya sech. Apalagi waktu aku di Grand Canyon. Wow It was just amazing being there. No other place as great as there. That's why we call Grand Canyon. benar dah, super-super grand. Kemarin cuacanya panas sekali, sudah terasa sich tanda-tandanya malam sebelumnya ketika kita datang di Lovely Ohio. Tapi sekarang hujan deres banget di luar sana, bikin lapar n ngantuk aja. Didukung kurangnya istirahat semalam...

Long way to get Grand Canyon National Park, I'm staying at the Red Canyon State Park tonight. It's still half way to get there after we left Yosemite at around 8.00 am this morning. It's exciting place. What'd you feel if you came in the desert at the first time. For me, it's so amazing. But it's dry all the time, my lips, my skin are dry. Dusty air blows every time I breathe. The cold is not like in the snow, it's windy. But I feel like in the western movie. Yihaaaa, Yodelehiii hiiiii... As you know, every time I clean my paper off the dust. My tent is blowed by the wind. And I wonder why dust can still get into my tent? My tent is supposed to be strong! :) It's not like in Yosemite that I gotta watch out for bears attack, now I get to be careful for scorpion and snakes. Hey I have to do something to these guys, even though they are my zodiac symbol, they can't be complained. Hehe..

Hiking all the way up to the top of Yosemite Fall today I've done from 8.30 till 4.30. It was tiring, but I made it. I'm proud of me, hehe.. Not only English spoken people I met today, but also Korean, Germany, and Italian. They were really nice. We talked each other as a friends. Yes, this is what I feel becoming nature lover. I love it very much. I met a girl from Michigan and a guy like a cowboy on the top. It was just amazing what these people did. They taught their kids to be patient to get the final. Some of them didn't care what hard work they were doing, they just said,"It's challenging". The world feels so small. Learning how to be patient, not as crazy as them who don't have so. They just do what they feel right even though is not true. Ech ya, bears didn't visit me last night, hopefully tonight will be so. Good night. Have a nice trip!!

San Fransisco times have been over. We left this cool city this morning around 11.00 am. A lot of things I've done there, like before yesterday I danced for Rae and Barbara, I went to thrift and I got a shirt I'm wearing now, I saw some mural walls, went ti some colleges, and obviously went to some restaurant which made my money flew away. I just came into the tent. This is kind of chill weather, it's warm enough if I see from how deep the snow on the ground surround me are. Yes, it is Yosemite National Park. High rock walls I can see if I get out of the tent. It's such a cool place to be at. Hey, but I'm worried. Bears could come anytime. Everybody doesn't know that I'm hiding my foods I bought this morning in my back pack. And from the video I saw, they are really aggressive at this time of season. I could do nothing about it. I need a person I can talk what I'm feeling to. To be with you is all that I need. I wanna get close to you. Sisa salj...