Adriaen Van Ostade
Here’s a nice addition to my home studio slash bedroom, a print of Adriaen van Ostade‘s painting titled The painter in his workshop (a self portrait) from 1663. If I ever had the chance to visit Europe one day, I would love to stop by Dresden to see the original painting at Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.
The Altered Past
What if Eminem, 2Pac, and Jay-Z visited Tibet in 1938? Spitted rhymes with the monks, while The Dalai Lama moved his body to the beat?
The above picture was my first go at the idea of an altered past, partly inspired by the amazing work of Agan Harahap. The quality of my work is nowhere near Agan’s. I’m still learning, still particularly weak with shadowing and scaling.
I’ve always been interested with the idea of characters from different time and space visiting the past (our past). I often think what if so and so was at a certain place certain years ago, what would have been different?
So I took the best hip hop artists of our time and put them in 1938 Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, along with a story of what happened that day when the picture was taken.
No, the picture wasn’t photoshopped, it was Pixelmator-ed.
Background photo by Ernst Schäfer, Wikimedia Commons.
Projects Work: hudson jslint shinetech sitemonitor violations
by Cliffano Subagio
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Re Hudson SiteMonitor Plugin And JSLint Violations Support
Just a quick note about a post I made over at Shine Technologies blog re Hudson SiteMonitor Plugin and JSLint Violations support.
My current employer, Shine Technologies, allowed me to spend a couple of days to contribute to an open source project, so naturally I chose Hudson and worked on things that are useful for the projects I’m involved with at work.
SiteMonitor Plugin was a late follow up to this short thread on Hudson users mailing list about a year ago. JSLint support in Violations Plugin was an effort to add JSLint report handling in Hudson a la Checkstyle.
Cambodia Trip 2010
I’m glad I had Cambodia at the beginning of my two weeks trip in March, when there was still plenty of energy to burn. It was three days full of climbing and exploring temples in an oven temperature heat. Drank so much water but hardly went to the loo, literally sweated it all out.
So, early last month I visited Siem Reap, the gateway city to Angkor Wat, a popular tourist destination in Cambodia. We stayed at Golden Temple Villa guest house on recommendation from some friends who have stayed there before. Siem Reap itself was a typical developing South East Asian city, the roads were packed with vehicles, and you could often had to jaywalk to get to the other side of the road.
My favourite spot in the city was a relaxing place called The Red Piano not far from the Old Market area, where I had probably the best – ever – french toast for breakfast. We also found another place with great food, a restaurant near Pub Street called Khmer House Restaurant. Had a very tasty Khmer soup there, I was surprised that I liked it because I’m not much into sour taste.
We took a Tuk Tuk to travel between the temples and other tourist destinations. Our driver was 7644, he was almost as cool as The Stig, and here’s the proof:
NOTE: YouTube (rightfully) stripped out the copyrighted songs I used in the video below, and ironically they also put an ad for the song they removed, double low blows for YouTube users. To get a feeling of how much better the original video is with the songs, open up Jamiroquai’s Cosmic Girl video at the same time. The opening beats really suit 7644’s waving cape.
We usually started the day early in the morning, 7644 took us to each destination, he then waited while we explored each destination as long/short as we wanted to. In total we visited 21 places: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Thommanon, Chau Say Tevoda, Ta Keo, Ta Prohm, Banteay Kdei, Srah Srang, Prasat Kravan, Kbal Spean, Pre Rup, East Mebon, Ta Som, Neak Pean, Preah Khan, Bayon, Beng Mealea, Lolei, Preah Ko, Bakong, and Tonle Sap.
My personal favourites were:
- One of the temples (I can’t remember which temple by now) on a high hill, people climbed up there to watch the sunset. The steps were insanely steep but no one actually slipped and fell down.
- The trail walk to Kbal Spean at some national park. Figuring out where to step on the piles of rocks was quite fun, though the ‘waterfall’ at the end wasn’t really a waterfall.
- The boat ride to the floating village at Tonle Sap lake.
That’s the ‘happy go lucky’ part of the trip, I’ll add a little bit of serious endnote here…
Cambodia _is_ a poor country. That’s the main thing that hit me as soon as we visited the outer parts of Siem Reap. I felt a touch of guilt witnessing the level of poverty, but I’m neither Robin Hood nor Bill Gates. As an outsider, we can assist, but if there’s going to be a change for a better life, it’s the Cambodian people themselves who can make it.