Down Is The New Up

" Eskalator adalah sebuah oksimoron (oxymoron): kombinasi dua unsur yang berlawanan. Eskalator membuat kita berpindah sementara kita tetap diam di tempat - jadi, perpindahan dalam diam. Gerakan eskalator telah memenuhi kebutuhan untuk berpindah ... Pada saat yang sama terpenuhilah kebutuhan untuk tidak berpindah demi mengadakan kontak fisik. Jadi, di mana lagi orang dapat sedikit bermesraan secara terang-terangan kalau bukan di eskalator. " - Tubuh di Mal (Chua Beng-Huat) - Kalam 15

At Fish and Bird Market - Part 1

Saturday, June 14th 2008, me and some fellows from fotografer.net had a photo hunting at Splendid, a pond fish and bird market in Malang, East Java.

Stuffs at Malang Old Festival

Wooden truck

Dodge

Old radio. No FM tuner.

These are called blangkon : Javanese traditional cap with batik motif

Wooden statue of wayang and Javanese bride

Old movies posters and advertisement

Old Chevrolet

Steel statue of man in Javanese outfit

Pedicab

Indonesian Portrait - part 5

Some portrait of people in Malang Old Festival ( Festival Malang Kembali )

Malang Old Festival / Festival Malang Kembali

Malang Old Festival (Festival Malang Kembali) is one of the event to celebrate anniversary of Malang City.
The event took place along Ijen Boulevard. For the last three years 2006 - 2008, Malang Old Festival was conducted on May.

The theme of this festival is old or traditional culture and stuffs.


Visitors of this festival are expected to wear traditional outfit like kebaya for ladies or sarong for men

But not all visitors willing to wear that kind of outfit. Some just wears jeans and t-shirt.

Maybe hudred thousands of people visit during the 3 days festival.

Traditional candy

Exhibition of Indonesian traditional martial arts or pencak silat

Even buffalo was considered as old stuffs. Maybe because it is rarely found at the city.

Old car from 50s or older

Local TV reporter resting awhile

A high school girl learn to create batik


......... to be continued ...........

Wooden Pallet

On April 2008 I did a visit to a pallet manufacturer (located in Pasuruan, East Java) to audit as required by ISO standard, since they supply material for the Company I work. Here’s some snapshot there.

More about pallet here . Thanks to Wikipedia.

Btw, photos for this post I scanned with Canoscan 4400F I’ve just bought a few days ago, @1600 dpi, tiff file.