In this Open Column submission, Sheilla Njoto invites us to consider one thing in the pursuit that is modern love: Are we dating, or are we just self-marketing?
Being a music fan and growing up in the 90s, Ken Jenie was exposed to a plethora of great music. Having many favorites from that era, it was difficult for him to choose one, but after much consideration, decided to share his love for Gza's Liquid Swords in this Column piece.
While mainstream media often fixate on how video game allow us to embody virtual avatars and live out fantasies, in reality many games present more guided stories starring characters with their own baggage and complex motivations. As we make our way through a game, overcoming obstacles along the way, we gradually are exposed to, and empathize with, a perspective that may be entirely different from our own.
Rain Chudori's heart-wrenching story of Monsoon the tiger, and the two humans whose lives have been stirred due to his arrival continues. The line between infidelity and an incurable loneliness gets all the more blurred in this chapter. Will Monsoon bring the two lovers closer or will the stray tiger drive them further apart?
In today's world of photography, there seems to be a tendency to immediately associate editing with Photoshop and similar softwares. But as we will find out in this essay, there is more to editing than simply tweaking a photograph on a computer. In his fourth piece, Ridzki Noviansyah shares his thoughts on how the current generation of photographers ought to approach the editing process.
Joseph Brodsky said that poetry is "the most concise, the most condensed way of conveying the human experience." While there is nothing to doubt in his statement, it is equally important to note a poem's immortality. While all works of literature are never truly finished, it is most visible in poetry. In Dwiputri Pertiwi's final part of her series on literary forms, she talks about the nature of a poem.
Abebe Tinari is back to challenge common conceptions about video games, and give readers some food for thought that goes beyond the commonly-heard topics about games. In his previous piece, Abebe examined the role of violence in games, not as a sick indulgence of maladjusted creators, but as a tool for symbolic expedience. This month, he addresses another long-standing fascination of the game industry: realism.
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