dear God :)
I want to know what I need to know
dear God :)
give happiness to everything
and give awareness to everything
dear God :)
let me be in You
so that everything I do
will always fits You
dear God :)
thank You for the keyboard
to write this
dear God :)
it's kinda weird to talk with You with letter
like in letter
dear God :)
I think It's a LOT to ask You
but You are the only one
who could understand me
and grant my wishes
dear God :)
if its not too much,
I want something more
dear God :)
thank You for giving happiness
so that sadness wont last
dear God :)
I surrender me
to You
dear God :)
thank You
I love You
and I'd love to meet You
dear God :)
I dont know that else to talk about
maybe now it's Your turn :)
// wednesday, may 19, 2010, 10:03 PM, weather: scattered clouds 28°C, a slice of conversation between Ganesha Adiguna and God
19 May, 2010
15 May, 2010
15 May 2010, still wandering around
After I graduate 1 year ago from the so called respectable university at my town. I've been wandering around, washed away by the stream, denying lot of things. And yet, still at the same state as before, wandering.
Who am I?
What am I?
What do I live for?
Why?
I'm sad, and alone.
I'm happy, and alone.
I know, and alone.
I feel so alone in this world.
I feel so empty.
I look at a lot of my classmate, being doing what lot of people say success. There's one who work at A company, while other at B company. There's one who have married. There's one who do school again to gain title. Sometimes I feel jealous, most of the time I feel sad. Sad by being alone.
I denied business and enterprise company, because I see lot of things that wont fit in my heart. Something like constrain of 8 hours work, deadline, chief and member, etc. The whole system is just sad. Lot of people doing that thing just because they feel insecure. Isn't that sad, doing things because of insecurity.
I denied professionalism, because what I see from professional is that they work for money, anything for money. Sad, so so sad.
Being alone is not better though. I don't like being alone. Right now, I let myself being washed away by the stream for once. Let's see what'll happen.
Who am I?
What am I?
What do I live for?
Why?
I'm sad, and alone.
I'm happy, and alone.
I know, and alone.
I feel so alone in this world.
I feel so empty.
I look at a lot of my classmate, being doing what lot of people say success. There's one who work at A company, while other at B company. There's one who have married. There's one who do school again to gain title. Sometimes I feel jealous, most of the time I feel sad. Sad by being alone.
I denied business and enterprise company, because I see lot of things that wont fit in my heart. Something like constrain of 8 hours work, deadline, chief and member, etc. The whole system is just sad. Lot of people doing that thing just because they feel insecure. Isn't that sad, doing things because of insecurity.
I denied professionalism, because what I see from professional is that they work for money, anything for money. Sad, so so sad.
Being alone is not better though. I don't like being alone. Right now, I let myself being washed away by the stream for once. Let's see what'll happen.
07 May, 2010
Do you really need desire?
Do you want to be great people?
So you wish other people to be bad
Do you want to help people? or to be rich?
So you wish there are poor people
As long as there is desire, then there will always a despair or desperate in this world
Do you really need desire?
So you wish other people to be bad
Do you want to help people? or to be rich?
So you wish there are poor people
As long as there is desire, then there will always a despair or desperate in this world
Do you really need desire?
02 May, 2010
Smoking is Stupid
As the title I write, smoking is stupid. No matter how I look at it. No matter who sip it, smoking's still stupid. Why do lot of people smoke? Kind of mass stupidity in society.
Why do smoke? What do smoking give? To look cool? Cigarette contain "tar". Tar, also known as total particulate matter, is inhaled when the smoker draws on a lighted cigarette. In its condensate form, tar is the sticky brown substance (filled with chemicals) which can stain smokers’ fingers and teeth yellow-brown. All cigarettes produce tar but the brands differ in amounts. So, do yellow-brown teeth with black lips and red eyes caused by constant smoke is cool?
To calm yourself? I don't think so. Cigarette contain nicotine, and Nicotine is contained in the moisture of the tobacco leaf: when the cigarette is lit, it evaporates, attaching itself to minute droplets in the tobacco smoke inhaled by the smoker. It is absorbed by the body very quickly, reaching the brain within 7-15 seconds.
It stimulates the central nervous system, increasing the heart beat rate and blood pressure, leading to the heart needing more oxygen. Carbon Monoxide, the main poisonous gas in car exhausts, is present in all cigarette smoke. It binds to haemoglobin much more readily than oxygen, thus causing the blood to carry less oxygen.
So, when smoking, the heart beat increase. Is it calming?
Because everyone do it? So if society think peeing on others lawn is ok, then it's ok?
Why do people thinks it's ok while it's not ok? To much question in my head. It's a stupidity for generation, for millenium. Why don't people think? And why don't people act? Why does the government allow stupidity? Well, government now somehow is stupidity.
Lot of people make an excuse of smoking. "Because i couldn't stop", " I do this for my country, because cigarettes is one of the top tax revenue", "Because my friend do it", lot of nonsense. Where is humanity? If i'm a human, then what are the smokers? If smokers are the so called normal human, then what am I?
note: some of the article are taken from this site
To calm yourself? I don't think so. Cigarette contain nicotine, and Nicotine is contained in the moisture of the tobacco leaf: when the cigarette is lit, it evaporates, attaching itself to minute droplets in the tobacco smoke inhaled by the smoker. It is absorbed by the body very quickly, reaching the brain within 7-15 seconds.
It stimulates the central nervous system, increasing the heart beat rate and blood pressure, leading to the heart needing more oxygen. Carbon Monoxide, the main poisonous gas in car exhausts, is present in all cigarette smoke. It binds to haemoglobin much more readily than oxygen, thus causing the blood to carry less oxygen.
So, when smoking, the heart beat increase. Is it calming?
Because everyone do it? So if society think peeing on others lawn is ok, then it's ok?
Why do people thinks it's ok while it's not ok? To much question in my head. It's a stupidity for generation, for millenium. Why don't people think? And why don't people act? Why does the government allow stupidity? Well, government now somehow is stupidity.
Lot of people make an excuse of smoking. "Because i couldn't stop", " I do this for my country, because cigarettes is one of the top tax revenue", "Because my friend do it", lot of nonsense. Where is humanity? If i'm a human, then what are the smokers? If smokers are the so called normal human, then what am I?
note: some of the article are taken from this site
22 April, 2010
2nd attempt to make 7 arts for 7 days: tuesday & wednesday
Internet connection going bad yesterday. I use cheap dial-up connection so I'm not expecting much from it. Today my $5 a month dial-up internet goes preety stable so I can update my works and make up for yesterday. Here's my tuesday:
And it was ugly as always. I use my canon s3is to capture, and i use GIMP to adjust the brightness, and I use my laziness to not cleaning the file first :D. I want to draw my girlfriend, but it ended up not as I hope. Here's my Wednesday art:
This is Canti from FLCL series which I admire the design so much. This would be better be categorize as fanart. I use GIMP as always. At the first hour of painting I still have energy to refine the detail. As the time goes by, my stamina didn't catch up with my desire, this is when I start draw the wing, the feather, the cloud, and etc that looks ugly. I just realize that painting require patience and stamina which I am lack of.
It took me about 4 hour to finish this one. God, it's a pain in my back. Originally I paint it in 3megapixel size. When it finish, I scale down to 1megapixel to upload it here. After I scale it down, not knowing that I haven't save it to jpg, I do editing again, and accidentally overwrite my master file. I try to undo it, but it's to late. My 3megapixel painting gone forever..
It took me about 4 hour to finish this one. God, it's a pain in my back. Originally I paint it in 3megapixel size. When it finish, I scale down to 1megapixel to upload it here. After I scale it down, not knowing that I haven't save it to jpg, I do editing again, and accidentally overwrite my master file. I try to undo it, but it's to late. My 3megapixel painting gone forever..
19 April, 2010
2nd attempt to make 7 arts for 7 days
Recently i've been busy playing assassin's creed 2 on my pc and am very absorbed to that game. It has a great gameplay, great graphic, great character, great story so I have zero reason not to play this game. It's superb!
By the way, my skill is a bit rusty, so I decide to make 7 arts for 7 days again. I post it here so that I have motivation to do this. And, here's the beginning art:
I like cute and relaxing 3d wallpaper, so I decide to try make one. I use blender to make this. It was a lame attempt with ugly rendering. Still, process is as important as final product. And that is a cute penguin, try to eat radioactive ball. In truth, they already eat some.
By the way, my skill is a bit rusty, so I decide to make 7 arts for 7 days again. I post it here so that I have motivation to do this. And, here's the beginning art:
I like cute and relaxing 3d wallpaper, so I decide to try make one. I use blender to make this. It was a lame attempt with ugly rendering. Still, process is as important as final product. And that is a cute penguin, try to eat radioactive ball. In truth, they already eat some.
09 April, 2010
Like this! Like no other!
This one, just happen. Without any planning, just flowing like the air. I don't even know why I draw something like this, but I like it. It's a deformed illustration of me and my girlfriend. Here:
The original title is Gag & Ta, a creepy couple. But because i first upload it to facebook, and there is a "like this" trend, so i put a second title, which is Like this! Like no other!
I've been with my girlfriend for about 5 years, and I'm pretty happy with her. Sometimes she made me sad, sometimes she made me happy :). But most of the time, she's nagging me for lot of things. That's why I think she's gonna be a great mother :D
The original title is Gag & Ta, a creepy couple. But because i first upload it to facebook, and there is a "like this" trend, so i put a second title, which is Like this! Like no other!
I've been with my girlfriend for about 5 years, and I'm pretty happy with her. Sometimes she made me sad, sometimes she made me happy :). But most of the time, she's nagging me for lot of things. That's why I think she's gonna be a great mother :D
Trying to improve drawing skills
I've been drawing many doodles lately. I feel like I'm entering another world when I'm drawing. It feel so good to draw. Here's one my sketch:
The result is somehow weird. Look at the crooked smile. Looks creepy to me. Oh well..
The result is somehow weird. Look at the crooked smile. Looks creepy to me. Oh well..
08 April, 2010
What is God?
In this text, I will tell about what is God in my perspective, through what I feel. By God, I mean the one and only, the greater good, the everything that contain everything. And By God, I mean nothing like greek God (zeus and their friend), or norse God, or similar.
What is God?
God cannot be described in words because words is part God, and so does everything, including nothing. God consists of time, world, you, me, love, sad, angel, evil, burger, plant, happines, and so on.
We cannot separate us from God. Speaking logically, through theology study, human believe that God create us. Being created by God, with God's energy, it means that we are part of God's too.
While if I speak for atheis, human born from another human, from a single egg and one surviving sperm, which came from another human that born from another human whose born from another human. Every single process, object, activities, attribute of that is part of God. Like when I say human consists of organ that consists of million of cells that consists of gazillion of atom that consists of gazillion of proton and electron and so on. And Earth consist of human. And Galaxy consists of planet.
Yin and Yang illustration perfectly fit for conception of God :)
Then War is part of God? And so does sadness, anger, greed?
Yes. But think of it, feel inside your heart. is that what you want? Human born in this world for a reason (or a mission). Sadness, anger, greed, is just a basic instinct of human physical body to survive and protect this body, so you could do your mission in this world of human. Every single human have it imprint in their body. What makes them (sadness, anger, greed, etc) look bad are the way human use it. When human became to attach to this tools, and made this tools his mission, then the effect will be like domino.
For example:
Human needs food.
Human search food.
Human collect food to survive longer.
Problem will happen when:
Human don't want to share the food to other human.
Human collect food more than human could chew.
The chain will be:
Other human need survival too, but the stock in the area are depleted.
Human take other human food with force.
Other human whose more inferior, join force with other inferior human to have more power to take back the food.
Thats when war happen.
If you rethink of it, do human will die if they dont collect food with too much greed?
So God is bad?
Yes. And God is also Good. God have love and happiness. There is your family in God. There is fresh air in God. There is beutiful flower in God. There is your lover in God. There is life in God.
What should I do?
If you hurt yourself, it means you hurt the others. If you hurt the others, it means you hurt yourself. If you hurt your environment, it means you hurt yourself.
Stay for a while and listen to your heart. You are part of God afterall. And so do I, and so do everything, including nothing.
What is God?
God cannot be described in words because words is part God, and so does everything, including nothing. God consists of time, world, you, me, love, sad, angel, evil, burger, plant, happines, and so on.
We cannot separate us from God. Speaking logically, through theology study, human believe that God create us. Being created by God, with God's energy, it means that we are part of God's too.
While if I speak for atheis, human born from another human, from a single egg and one surviving sperm, which came from another human that born from another human whose born from another human. Every single process, object, activities, attribute of that is part of God. Like when I say human consists of organ that consists of million of cells that consists of gazillion of atom that consists of gazillion of proton and electron and so on. And Earth consist of human. And Galaxy consists of planet.
Yin and Yang illustration perfectly fit for conception of God :)
Then War is part of God? And so does sadness, anger, greed?
Yes. But think of it, feel inside your heart. is that what you want? Human born in this world for a reason (or a mission). Sadness, anger, greed, is just a basic instinct of human physical body to survive and protect this body, so you could do your mission in this world of human. Every single human have it imprint in their body. What makes them (sadness, anger, greed, etc) look bad are the way human use it. When human became to attach to this tools, and made this tools his mission, then the effect will be like domino.
For example:
Human needs food.
Human search food.
Human collect food to survive longer.
Problem will happen when:
Human don't want to share the food to other human.
Human collect food more than human could chew.
The chain will be:
Other human need survival too, but the stock in the area are depleted.
Human take other human food with force.
Other human whose more inferior, join force with other inferior human to have more power to take back the food.
Thats when war happen.
If you rethink of it, do human will die if they dont collect food with too much greed?
So God is bad?
Yes. And God is also Good. God have love and happiness. There is your family in God. There is fresh air in God. There is beutiful flower in God. There is your lover in God. There is life in God.
What should I do?
If you hurt yourself, it means you hurt the others. If you hurt the others, it means you hurt yourself. If you hurt your environment, it means you hurt yourself.
Stay for a while and listen to your heart. You are part of God afterall. And so do I, and so do everything, including nothing.
31 March, 2010
Reading tao te ching
Reading is not as simple as interpreting per word to object. It's more of arranging word in the world of imagination. Like self hypnotizing to enter another dimension of the world. Like seeing the world with others eyes.
Words are magically seal our image, sound, feeling, thinking, time, through simple combination of symbol.
I wonder whose the first creator of word.
Lately I've been doing some reading. Tao Te Ching is the book I've been reading lately. The Tao Te Ching was written in China roughly 2,500 years ago at about the same time when Buddha expounded the Dharma in India and Pythagoras taught in Greece. The Tao Te Ching is probably the most influential Chinese book of all times. Its 81 chapters have been translated into English more times than any other Chinese document. Tao literally means "the way".
I haven't finished it yet, and i found something from reading. Not because it teach me a "How to", but because one sentence consists lot of meaning. Many book nowadays are mostly straight forward, easy to understand book. I don't think it's wrong to be straight forward, but it made me realize that there's a lot of different approach to do one thing.
Qur'an, Bible, Bhagavad Gita, and other sacred script are books that use the concept of "one words with thousand meaning". It made me sad that a lot of people or group interpret the script literally. There is more than words in that text. There is world sealed by the bar of code in there. I would dare to say that it has different purpose for different people.
Back to Tao Te Ching, there's some sentence that made me relaxed and smile.
Part of chapter 2:
"Under heaven all can see beauty as
beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only
because there is evil."
Chaper 7:
"Heaven and Earth last forever.
Why do heaven and Earth last forever?
They are unborn,
So ever living.
The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead.
He is detached, thus at one with all.
Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment."
Save the text for later, night is coming. Good night :)
Words are magically seal our image, sound, feeling, thinking, time, through simple combination of symbol.
I wonder whose the first creator of word.
Lately I've been doing some reading. Tao Te Ching is the book I've been reading lately. The Tao Te Ching was written in China roughly 2,500 years ago at about the same time when Buddha expounded the Dharma in India and Pythagoras taught in Greece. The Tao Te Ching is probably the most influential Chinese book of all times. Its 81 chapters have been translated into English more times than any other Chinese document. Tao literally means "the way".
I haven't finished it yet, and i found something from reading. Not because it teach me a "How to", but because one sentence consists lot of meaning. Many book nowadays are mostly straight forward, easy to understand book. I don't think it's wrong to be straight forward, but it made me realize that there's a lot of different approach to do one thing.
Qur'an, Bible, Bhagavad Gita, and other sacred script are books that use the concept of "one words with thousand meaning". It made me sad that a lot of people or group interpret the script literally. There is more than words in that text. There is world sealed by the bar of code in there. I would dare to say that it has different purpose for different people.
Back to Tao Te Ching, there's some sentence that made me relaxed and smile.
Part of chapter 2:
"Under heaven all can see beauty as
beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only
because there is evil."
Chaper 7:
"Heaven and Earth last forever.
Why do heaven and Earth last forever?
They are unborn,
So ever living.
The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead.
He is detached, thus at one with all.
Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment."
Save the text for later, night is coming. Good night :)
29 March, 2010
one life, one's life
what is life? why is life? that's one of the biggest unanswered question in my life. Why there is life, where does life come from. When does the beginning of life? Everything in this world is living, right? Life consist of either physic material, and/or undiscovered material (something like soul, light, aura, time, wave, etc).
God is never a question in my life. God is always my answer :). But my brain kept hunger for partial answer. Something like, why bicycle move like that, and brain want the answer per part, like: the pedal being pushed, then the chain move the gears, and the gears rotate the wheel. Everytime I ask where does life came from, where does it start, I kept telling myself that beginning and end is a law that God apply to God's creation. But now it's not satisfying anymore.
I know that everything is a circle. Circle of life. Everything goes in a cyclic motion. Earth rotate the sun, electron rotating the proton and neutron, human life keep rotating, life death, and live again. Reincarnation is a cycle.
I don't even know why do I life, so right now, I have no strong desire or will to live. What do I live for? Do you know what do you live for?
My friend, crot, once tell me this: "basically, human only wants happiness". It's true. But there will be no happiness without sad and sorrow.
Formal education for 16 years or more is never teach me life. They only teach me survival. It's more like 16 years training for survival. And money has became survival kit. But they never tell me why do we need to survive?
My physical body may move with desire as a fuel, but my soul is empty, hunger for something I dont even know. What is my soul apetite?
God is never a question in my life. God is always my answer :). But my brain kept hunger for partial answer. Something like, why bicycle move like that, and brain want the answer per part, like: the pedal being pushed, then the chain move the gears, and the gears rotate the wheel. Everytime I ask where does life came from, where does it start, I kept telling myself that beginning and end is a law that God apply to God's creation. But now it's not satisfying anymore.
I know that everything is a circle. Circle of life. Everything goes in a cyclic motion. Earth rotate the sun, electron rotating the proton and neutron, human life keep rotating, life death, and live again. Reincarnation is a cycle.
I don't even know why do I life, so right now, I have no strong desire or will to live. What do I live for? Do you know what do you live for?
My friend, crot, once tell me this: "basically, human only wants happiness". It's true. But there will be no happiness without sad and sorrow.
Formal education for 16 years or more is never teach me life. They only teach me survival. It's more like 16 years training for survival. And money has became survival kit. But they never tell me why do we need to survive?
My physical body may move with desire as a fuel, but my soul is empty, hunger for something I dont even know. What is my soul apetite?
28 March, 2010
7 arts for 7 days: friday, saturday, sunday
I haven't had a single free time to makes art lately. The project became half abandoned. It's a sad day T.T. A lot things happen, and unexpected.
For me, to make art is something hard to start, and hard to finish. I'm a moody person, with lack of initiative, and lack of desire for finish thing. It's always like that since I graduate from high school.
Now that I remember, I began to use my brain for thinking about good and bad, or do or not to do, when I started college life. I don't know whether I'm happy or sad, but at least I feel I'm alive now.
But after I know that I'm alive, I started to think of what is life, why is life. What is life, and why do I live?
26 March, 2010
7 arts for 7 days: thursday
Drawing pen is one of my favorite tools for drawing. Here's my thursday art:
Here's the coloured version:
You do the best, and let the software do the rest :)
Here's the coloured version:
You do the best, and let the software do the rest :)
25 March, 2010
24 March, 2010 7 arts for 7 days: wednesday
Up there is unfinished illidan fanart I made last night. It's still far from finish due to personal activity. I first draw a sketch on paper, then i shot it with my digicam, and I trace it with gimp. I use mouse (again) because I dont have a wacom.
Well, I have 2 graphic tablet, and both is useless for digital painting. The 1st is my old UC-Logic super pen tablet, which I got from my brother. It was a good graphic tablet until the pen broke. The second is the ultimate ugly lack of sensitivity Genius G-Pen 340. God, that was a good for signing only.
I hope I could finish it at the end of the week. Btw, I still havent make art for thursday. So little time so much to do..
24 March, 2010
7 arts for 7 days: tuesday
Accidentally, I opened the GIMP on my computer, and start drawing with my mouse. Yes, it was without concept. Yes, it was without graphic tablet. Yes, it was at night. And no, i'm not drunk. Gimp is a great tools, I just realized.. Especially the smudge tool, its similar to smudge in MyPaint. Anyway, heres the big picture:
I mention before that the smudge tool in Gimp is superb. Photoshop's smudge tool is nowhere near the Gimp. You know, i began digital painting since high school. It's fun, but I only do digital painting a couple of time. Weird.. I don't really know why I manage to graduate from college. My early works were horrible. I would bury my head to mother earth if I see it. Anyway, I use the paintbrush and eraser as my main tool for sketching and colouring, and i use smudge tool for making the depth of the picture. Hey, I just realize that I only use 3 tools for this work ^^, oh, and zoom in and zoom out tools, and colour tools, etc etc -.-".. oh well :)
I mention before that the smudge tool in Gimp is superb. Photoshop's smudge tool is nowhere near the Gimp. You know, i began digital painting since high school. It's fun, but I only do digital painting a couple of time. Weird.. I don't really know why I manage to graduate from college. My early works were horrible. I would bury my head to mother earth if I see it. Anyway, I use the paintbrush and eraser as my main tool for sketching and colouring, and i use smudge tool for making the depth of the picture. Hey, I just realize that I only use 3 tools for this work ^^, oh, and zoom in and zoom out tools, and colour tools, etc etc -.-".. oh well :)
7 arts for 7 days
I'm trying to improve my skills on graphic design, so I decide to produce 1 illustration a day for 7 day starting 2 days ago. Here's my works on monday:
It's the 1st time I draw realistic style with colour pencils, even though I'm a graphic design graduated -.-". Based on Aya Ueto's face, i began drawing at night, using faber-castell water colour pencils on my sketch book. I feel i slightly grasp this technique. Practice makes perfect no?
23 March, 2010
Gag Goes Open Source
Its been a loooong time since I update my blog. I've been busy studying last year, and working after that. Now that I'm free, I have more time to continue what i have started long ago.
First, i wanna talk about what happen to me. I'm a WindowsⓇ for almost, in entire time of my life. I find Windows is great, and its free (for me who has always been loyally used pirated copy of Windows since.. emm.. Windows 98..). Yeah its been a disease that spread in my country (Indonesia) rapidly, and its commonly used from home to office, from little kid to government. So the one who dont use windows become minority and treated like total geek (or an alien), except for mac users. Windows has support for lot of superb softwares like adobe family, 3ds Max, lots and lots of games with state of art graphic and gameplay. I use adobe family, Max, games like warcraft 3, mass effect, assassins creed etc, (cracked version) and its been great :D.. Until I got enlightened (and got bored), that pirating software is a bad things.
I've been observing linux developement since RedHat still free of charge. I'm introduced to linux since i'm 15 by my brother whose an IT guy. I think linux is nice that time but doesnt provide enough support for graphic design (since im a graphic artist). So, I dont use it that time. I remember i use mandriva 2007 as my side OS for playing. But the things that draw me back from migrating to linux is the dependencies hell. At that time, there already a lot of graphic tools for me that is production ready, such as Blender, Gimp, and Inkscape. Until I meet ubuntu :). First taste of ubuntu i try was the Ubuntu Breezy Badger, which i got the CD from free shipping program, and its free :). But, it doesnt support lot of hardware (no sound for my PC). Then i've been jumping from one linux distro to another.
I'm a full time linux user and part time Windows user right now, and I'm proud about it. Why switching to linux now? because now i have my own internet connection to solve the dependencies hell that inherited by linux. The great things about linux (I'm using Ubuntu by the way) is how easy to add and remove programs with internet connection :). Here, check out my desktop:
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. And here is my tools:
- Compiz for windows manager (Comparable to Aero, but more advance)
- Avant windows navigator (dock tools, like on mac, or objectdock, or rocketdock)
- Blender for 3D
- Inkscape for vector editor
- The GIMP for Image / Raster editor
- Ardour for sound editing
- Audacity for sound editing
First, i wanna talk about what happen to me. I'm a WindowsⓇ for almost, in entire time of my life. I find Windows is great, and its free (for me who has always been loyally used pirated copy of Windows since.. emm.. Windows 98..). Yeah its been a disease that spread in my country (Indonesia) rapidly, and its commonly used from home to office, from little kid to government. So the one who dont use windows become minority and treated like total geek (or an alien), except for mac users. Windows has support for lot of superb softwares like adobe family, 3ds Max, lots and lots of games with state of art graphic and gameplay. I use adobe family, Max, games like warcraft 3, mass effect, assassins creed etc, (cracked version) and its been great :D.. Until I got enlightened (and got bored), that pirating software is a bad things.
I've been observing linux developement since RedHat still free of charge. I'm introduced to linux since i'm 15 by my brother whose an IT guy. I think linux is nice that time but doesnt provide enough support for graphic design (since im a graphic artist). So, I dont use it that time. I remember i use mandriva 2007 as my side OS for playing. But the things that draw me back from migrating to linux is the dependencies hell. At that time, there already a lot of graphic tools for me that is production ready, such as Blender, Gimp, and Inkscape. Until I meet ubuntu :). First taste of ubuntu i try was the Ubuntu Breezy Badger, which i got the CD from free shipping program, and its free :). But, it doesnt support lot of hardware (no sound for my PC). Then i've been jumping from one linux distro to another.
I'm a full time linux user and part time Windows user right now, and I'm proud about it. Why switching to linux now? because now i have my own internet connection to solve the dependencies hell that inherited by linux. The great things about linux (I'm using Ubuntu by the way) is how easy to add and remove programs with internet connection :). Here, check out my desktop:
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. And here is my tools:
- Compiz for windows manager (Comparable to Aero, but more advance)
- Avant windows navigator (dock tools, like on mac, or objectdock, or rocketdock)
- Blender for 3D
- Inkscape for vector editor
- The GIMP for Image / Raster editor
- Ardour for sound editing
- Audacity for sound editing
29 January, 2010
Happy New Year!
At last, i got net connection at home. Now i can update this blog. Happy new year everyone, 1 month late though..
