There's always a story to tell
Lenka is a multi talented artist. She sings and plays music as well as writing the songs. She also an actress.
These are some photos Lenka playing with her ‘mini keyboard’. I thought it was an FX controller pairing with 2 Macs on the table :P
Heart Skips a Beat [lyrics] [play]
Don’t Let Me Fall [lyrics] [play]
Series #2. I’m not following the set list order.
Just realise that Lenka just sing 4 songs of her upcoming Shadow album. The album itself will be launched at June 2013
Nothing Here but Love / Heart to The Party / Find A Way To You / After The Winter
“Shadows” track Listing will be:
As I promised in my previous post and I will make a different posts for Lenka’s photos during her concert at Skenoo Hall, Gandaria City – Jakarta 4 May 2013.
This first part will cover her first 3 songs. I hope the sequence is correct :P
Trouble is a Friend [play] [lyric]
Roll With The Punches [play] [lyric]
Everything’s OK [play] [lyric]
Pada tahu Lenka kan? Kalo belum silakan baca profile penyanyi sekaligus penulis lagu kelahiran Australia di sini deh :)
Kenapa tiba-tiba nanyain tentang Lenka? Karena Lenka semalam baru saja mengadakan konser di Jakarta. Bertempat di Skenoo Hall, Gandaria City – Jakarta, ini merupakan penampikan ketiga Lenka di Indonesia. Pemilik nama lengkap Lenka Kripac itu sudah pernah tampil pada 2011 lalu. Lenka juga sempat menjadi bintang tamu dalam malam final ajang L.A. Light Indiefest pada 2009 silam.
Dan kali ini saya ga melewatkan kesempatan untuk nonton pelantun tembang The Show ini sekalian nge-date dengan Rara ^_^ *untung dah siapin budget buat nebus tiketnya he he he he*. Yang perlu perjuangan sebenarnya kuat-kuatan berdiri nungguin gerbang Skenoo Hall dibuka. Tiket bilang sih gate open 5:30 am, kenyataan jam 7 lebih dikit baru dibuka. Padahal yang ngantri sejak sebelum jam 5 sudah banyak banget. Cuman overall sih penontonnya emang tidak segitu banyak.
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Kalo Jum’at malam Lenka tampil sebagai bintang tamu di acara X-Factor Indonesia, di hari Sabtu-nya ini kebalikannya. 3 besar X-Factor Indonesia yang menjadi pembuka konser live Lenka.
Dimulai dengan penampian Nu Dimension. Menyanyikan lagu “Don’t You Worry Child” dari Swedish House Mafia, mereka membuka suasana konser malam itu. Not bad, mereka tampil kompak tanpa koreografi kaya boyband-boyband korea wannabe itu. Untuk orang yang ga pernah ngikutin X-Factor, kekompakan boyband X-Factor arahan Ahmad Dhani ini patut diacungi jempol. And somehow si mohawk yang bernama Ariel (bukan Noah bin Peterpan yah) adalah kenalan keluarganya si Rara di Makassar. Langsung heboh dia minta potoin si Ariel buat di kirim ke mama nya :P
Penampilan kedua adalah Novita Dewi menyanyikan lagu “I’d do Anything For Love” dari Meatloaf. Ada geng cewek di belakang saya nyeletuk “she’s trying too hard” (untuk nyanyi). Well it’s a rock song and obviously you never heard/knew that song ladies. Dan begitu Novita nyampai refrain serta tempo lagu mulai naek, baru deh celetukan-celetukan tadi berubah. That’s why she needed to try hard, ladies. Setelah itu Novita Dewi menyanyikan lagu yang kali ini saya ga tahu judulnya (later on i knew it was Langit Tak Mendengar from Peterpan). Bweh, pantes…
Penampilan terakhir adalah Fatin Shidqia. Wooooo, save the best for last nih. Dengan sebegitu hebohnya pemberitaan tentang Fatin dan lagu Granade-nya Bruno Mars waktu audisi saya rasa banyak yang nungguin penampikannya dia malam ini. Tapi apa daya. Walo berita di tribunnews.com menyebutkan “Fatin Shidqia Curi Perhatian di Konser Lenka”, for me it was like “save the worst for last”.
Mengecewakan. Diawali dengan lagu Perahu Kertas yang kayanya kurang cocok dengan vokal dia yang tinggi yang bikin saya jadinya mengernyitkan dahi dengernya. Kok gini?
Lagu kedua adalah lagu yang melejitkan namanya, Grenade dari Bruno Mars. Awal-awalnya sih masih OK, tapi mendekat ke ref dan the rest of the song for me is was awful. Entah Fatin sedang sakit sehingga suaranya kedengeran cempreng kaya gitu or maybe she’s just not good enough or try hard enough. Sorry buat fans nya Fatin yah, that’s what i felt last night. But she has plenty of time to master her own voice.
Untung cuman 2 lagu *fiuh* dan setelah menunggu berapa lama, Lenka pun muncul dengan 2 pengiringnya. Minimal banget. Bahkan mereka ga ganti konstum sama sekali sepanjang pertunjukan. Sederhana sekali. Backdrop stagenya juga sederhana. Tapi penampilan mereka jauh dari kesan sederhana lho. All out and it’s fun.
Dengan gaya yang ceria dan senyum lesung pipitnya yang gemesin itu, Lenka membawakan lagu “Trouble is a Friend” sebagai pembuka. Wah langsung heboh deh penontonya.
Ada kejadian yang rada menyebalkan juga sih waktu depanku (saya nomor 3 dari pagar pembatas) dengan gobloknya ngangkat karton yang otomatis bikin deretan belakangnya langsung kehalang pandangan ke arah panggung. Dah diminta baik-baik, masih ajah. Di pinggirin kartonnya dikit maksa, masih juga. Akhirnya cuman bisa bilang ke temen segengnya “Mas bilangin tuh temennya buat turunin tuh karton norak pls kalo ga mau digebukin rame-rame yah”. Baru deh tuh orang nurut :P Akhirnya bisa enjoy lagi ngikutin konser.
Nah, kalau menurut ucapan Lenka di panggung, konser di Indonesia ini terbilang cukup istimewa.
Kenapa? karena Lenka menyanyikan beberapa lagu yang belum pernah dinyanyikan live sebelumnya. Lagu-lagu ini bakal berada di album ke-tiga nya yang bertajuk Shadows yang jadwalnya akan dirilis Juni 2013 nanti. Dan lagunya enak-enak juga seperti “Nothing Here But Love” dan “Find A Way To You”
Nah berikut ini adalah setlist dari konser Lenka di Gandaria City semalam
Untuk foto-foto penampilan Lenka sendiri menyusul yah. Mayan banyak yang harus dipilihin plus mesti masak makan siang dulu nih :P
This entry should be part of Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life
But since I forgot to make the complete photo series in one day, I decided to collect the photos i took with my iphone for the last 5 days. I arrange those photos based on common activities to describe what is a day of my life.
Routines start at the morning, walk across my neighbourhood to the train station. I used to ride my CBR to the office but lately i chose to take the commuter train. Same 1 hour trip, costly but more comfortable. No traffic jam, air con, can read my flipboard feed or playing game during the trip :)
Route #1 – Sudimara to Palmerah Train Station
Route #2 – Palmerah Train Station to City Plaza
Ok, I was too naive to say that there’s no traffic jam :) You can see that Jakarta’s traffic is getting worse and worse. Driving a car is just wasting your life in here.
Route #3 – City Plaza – Palmerah to Sudimara Train Station
And these are some photos i took on my way home.
So, what is yours? What does your day look like? Here’s your chance to share with everyone a day in your life! Here are some suggestions to get started: snap a picture once an hour and share what your day was like, walk us through a typical day for you, or even just what happened today!
Another sleepless night and i wont touch those xanax the doctor gave me just to get sleep. Nope!
But in the other hand, this insomnia make me think brighter. Well not always ^_^. Tonight weather looks fine and it’s a quiet night actually here at Bintaro. I’ve read many articles in these last couple of hours, clear up some space after selecting some photos i shot lately. Wrote 2 blog entries. But still stuck doing some geeky stuffs. My fingers seems to reject me for typing codes, but they did good blogging :P
Anyway, I’m not a pro (yet) but I like taking picture. Got time to shoot some picture the couple of weeks. It’s good for health also, since you can interact with other fellow photographers, models, other people. Put you off the hook from office shit that sucking you like a dementor.
Last Saturday (well it’s 2 weeks ago actually) I joined a hunting session at Taman Langsat, Jakarta. Meet some old friends, make new ones. But there were too many people (‘photographers’) and it took most of the fun out of the window. You cant wish everybody to have manner unlike you and your group. Some of them will always be some egoistic people with only one thing in their mind. Their own self.
But it’s OK. It’s a risk you have to take. You’ll have one in your group. So no wonder if you’ll find many in bunch of strangers :P So spent most of the time having chat with some fellow shooter and models. Manage to shot some nice photos of the models, well I think so. These 7 photos below were taken using OM-D E-M5 in 1×1 square format feature.
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One thing i’ve regret that there was a group of local kid playing in the pool. It caught my eyes, but i have no evergy to cross the river for taking their picture jumping in the water from proper location.
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| taken with Nikon D7000 – Nikkor 85/1.8D | |
I’m ditching my Tamron 17-50/2.8. I’m planning to go FX in the future. Therefor I need to get use to FX lenses also. In this case my FX lenses are Nikkor AF-D 50/1.4 and 85/1.8.
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| These are my gears, an Olympus OM-D E-M5 and a Nikon D7k with 85/1.8D. Both were shot with iPhone 4 and Instagram filter :) |
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Finish at Taman Langsat, I took a walk to Gandaria City. Got some pictures of bajaj drivers waiting for their passengers. I spent almost 30 hours on bed after that. My head was like exploding for the whole night and losing motor control of my body. I could barely move my left body part only. If Rara not coming down to my house for helping me that day, this entry would’ve been made by somebody else.
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For the last 2 weeks I’m taking train again. Taking car and furthermore a sport bike to the office is like a suicide plan for me :P It’s not the traffic jam or 26km distance that matter. Just to avoid bad things coz i don’t know when my head will act strange again. It costly since i would only spent around IDR 100k a week only when taking my bike. This time I have to budget IDR 38k for one trip only to the office.
But in exchange, i got these pictures taken using my iPhone and also my OM-D. Yah, everything has 2 sides of story ^_^. It’s 4:44 am already. Have to try to sleep although for only couple minutes. Need to catch a train on the next 2 hours.
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OK, That was my story from last 2 weeks. What is yours?