I have reached the point in my life where I watch Nolan’s films to analyse it, and it couldn’t be more perfect with Dunkirk. ‘Time’ has been a recurring theme in Nolan’s works, but for me, Dunkirk is a great film where 'Time’ is experienced through visual and audio suspense. 

Nolan wanted us, the audience to empathise, not distinctively to certain characters, but with all the men trapped. There was barely any dialogue, character background. Just a situation, and what we all hope to come as a conclusion. 

The story was a snippet of history, like a snippet of a film, a phase reaching towards a climax. Familiarising Dunkirk gives away that Nolan won’t be experimenting a story like his previous films, but he had to deliver through an immersive experience with this film. And that was it, through ‘Time’.

It was said that this is one of the most notable war films in our generation, and I can understand why. 

Nolan is a constant game-changer in the filmmaking industry.

yanti-yanto:

With 6 days spent exploring 3 major cities, here’s our literal version of Japan in a nutshell compiled into a rather short travel vlog — now live in our Vi Ses Snart channel! 🇯🇵

yanti-yanto:

Yes, folks. Bram and I have started a youtube thing.

We’re trying something new with the way we communicate through our long-distance relationship, thus our channel was born. 

It’s exciting, it’s nerve-wracking, it’s everything in-between, but it’ll be great.
So, we hope to see you around.

Vi ses snart!

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For some, Kaesang Pangarep is known as the youngest son of the President of Indonesia, Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo. Yet to many Indonesians’ tech-savvy and up-to-date online society, Kaesang is known as the President’s son who vlogs.

At least this was how I was introduced to Kaesang.

I first knew about Kaesang when he recorded a vlog of his father’s visit to the barbershop for a haircut, which went viral. This was picked up by various press media after its release on his own Youtube channel. The video was as simple as how it was introduced:

“Mau kemana, Bapak?” [“Dad, where are you going?”]

“Mau potong rambut.” [“Going to get a haircut.”]

This lead to a three-and-a-half-minute long of documenting Mas Jumadi, the barber, trimming the President’s hair while his son accompanies him. In between were cracks of jokes and small talks. It was casual, as your regular trip to the barber shop would be.

Though he has gained popularity through the social media realm, there’s something uniquely apparent here. As Kaesang has recently been nominated as a Breakthrough Influencer in the Influence Asia 2017 — an award celebrating social media influencers, the 22-year-old is blurring boundaries.

Kaesang’s platform in using Youtube as a sight in to his daily life is not aimed as exhibiting and praising The President’s portrayal, but more on a twenty-something life’s insight with his father. This shows the mundane parts of life that are often unaware to society despite of the high-ranked job position. This particularly reminds society of their roles as father and son.

Unlike his predecessors, President Jokowi started his career as an entrepreneur. While accomplishing in being mayor then governor, he found a simple approach that eventually won the election in 2014. He is fresh, he is directive, and he understands the basic of reaching to his people. Jokowi revived the definition of the people’s President. This simple approach is reflected onto Kaesang in using social media, without forgetting where his position is as a young adult on a public media platform and as his father’s son.

Although the lives of the children of the nation’s leader tend to be private, Kaesang shows the importance of how self-representation and identification on social media is. His blunt yet comical responses in tackling questions such as, “Any significant changes in becoming the son of the country’s leader?“ and simply responding, “Not much, except for gaining more followers on social media,” in a TV Interview shows how apparent he is as your local twenty-something young man. Undoubtedly, there are those who simply do not buy into the approach, as criticisms saying that Kaesang’s representations were just merely to sugar-coat the idea that he was living nothing close to an ordinary life at all, and solely being identified as the President’s son who has the privilege of finance and power.

The privilege that the youngest son takes into account is his freedom of expression through his own humour and a good camera. Having the advantage to reveal details of one’s life on social media feeds is used as an insight to the Presidential life that is, to what Kaesang has frankly stated, not more than ordinary. This rare opportunity to see the President in his own son’s point of view shows how social media’s transparency is used that also reflects the family’s way of life with directedness. It is uncommon for Indonesians to see what Kaesang does, but being levelled with any young adult with the same access to social media platforms also redefines his role extensively as a young man tied in with his identified title.  

Kaesang’s Youtube videos that allow momentarily shared moments from within the President’s family lives give a reminder of how solely humane their relationship to society is. Social media may allow self-representation that can be articulated to an expression beyond how reality has set out, but not for Kaesang in that matter.

For he is just your average 22-year-old. 

yanti-yanto:

Last Saturday, we traded our sleep-in day off for a trip to Bandung. It was both of our rookie experiences in leading creative workshops to strangers. As it turned out, ‘Illustrating Words’ workshop allows extensive experimentation and ideas within the hour. And with that, last Saturday turned out to be pretty neat. Thanks for having us, Villa Merah Bandung!