A sketch for this poster I made with a friend (she tumbls here). We drew each figures separately (she used ArtRage on iPad, I used Sketchbook Pro for Mac. Combined them on Photoshop and InDesign.) I took a liberty here to jumble each and every figures we drew.

Damn fun.

Freaks, 2011

‘Hung down with the freaks and ghouls, no apologies ever need be made.’

— Smashing Pumpkins, 1979

illecebrosus retinentia is rare species of the odonata order which sat beside my coffee cup that windy afternoon. I waited at the coffee shop terrace, exactly like you wanted to.

You called me up yesterday, talk for hours as if we haven’t met for decades. It’s nice, anyway, to realize that we’re still conversing from time to time, even though our story ended prematurely — or simply, we didn’t have any to begin with.

So here I sat waiting, at coffee shop terrace across the plaza: your favorite spot of the town.

The insect was also here, sat motionless for minutes before began to flap its wings, flew to my left ear and whisper,

’She will not come. Not today, tomorrow, or the day after. Not for the next million years. Come now, we’ll go home.’

It fled away, zoomed out of the view and since then, no one saw illecebrosus retinentia again. Nor there was any recorded history of the species.

‘Lovers At The End of The World’, 2011

My kind of romantic scene would involve a couple running around in a city destroyed by giant T-Rex. With devilish horn.

“Here, only the mind can grant you power.” — Dr. Jonathan Crane, Batman Begins (2005)

I’m in love with the Batman universe since the dawn of Batman: The Animated Series.

When I’ve finally became a psychology student and learning a thing or two about the field, I found that Batman universe are full of psychological references: the dual-personality of Batman/Bruce Wayne, the mental asylum where Gotham locked up its most dangerous criminals, the complex relationship between Batman and his foes  (notably, The Joker) and the most obvious one: Dr. Jonathan Crane.

Once a psychology professor researching the nature of fear, Crane fall in love with the subject and choose to transform himself into something fearful. He don the mask of a scarecrow and begin to spread fear to Gotham citizen.

Funnily, I used to see this character as campy. In the Golden and Silver age era, Scarecrow looks like a joke. Bruce Timm’s TAS revived the character a bit, then later Jeph Loeb’s Hush and Geoff Johns’ Blackest Night also helped Scarecrow get back into the respected line of Batman villains, yet it’s the movie Batman Begins that represents the character best: an intellectual figure obsessed with human nature called fear.

’Fear’, 2011, Digital

The Hands and The Ship by Gilang Danu

“…And we will burn the fleet,
We can never go home;
It’s on to victory or under ground.
Burn the fleet, we’ll be heroes or ghosts
But we won’t be turned around.”