cooking

Paket Pertama Kukila

11:40:00

Dua hari lalu jadi hari yang cukup bersejarah di bulan Ramadhan ini. Saya akhirnya mengirimkan 1 paket pesanan kue kering Kukila untuk pertama kalinya. Yeayy!

Mengerjakan paket untuk sahabat saya, Poet ini bikin sport jantung. Karena untuk 1 varian di dalamnya, Greentea Cookies, saya sempat gagal di waktu yang ditargetkan. Memasak memang sedikit banyak seperti orang berkenalan. Saya harus tahu sifatnya, kesukaan, yang tidak disukai, dan seterusnya. Nah, si Greentea Cookies ini ternyata minta perhatian lebih dibanding kawan-kawannya. Nggak mau didiamkan atau ditinggal sebentar. Untuk membentuknya butuh kehati-hatian. Ia tidak rapuh, tapi tidak suka terburu-buru. Greentea Cookies juga punya kelebihan dibanding yang lain: ia luar biasa menarik, bahkan sebelum ditemui. Artinya, meskipun banyak yang belum dapat tester kue kering yang satu ini, tapi yang pesan sudah banyak. Hihi. 

Lebaran sudah dekat, begitu pula tenggat waktu untuk bersenang-senang dengan kue-kue imut nan enak ini. Jadi... let's have fun!

dodolan

Are You Animator? Do You Have An Animation Movie?

16:56:00

Send it to us! 
As Hero Day's celebration, Gathotkaca Studio opened a chance for the animators to send their best movie. No particular theme, so you don't have worry.
The movie will be showed in Grand City XXI Cinema, one of the biggest studio in Surabaya. Click the image below for the detail. Ayo Rek, join Surabaya AnimNATION!

dodolan

The Garage Sale

10:26:00

Saturday morning, I was very exciting to start the day. It'll be my first garage sale. Then I came to the venue at 8am and my mood was dropped looking the venue still unprepared and no committee there. 
No one. =(
   
Okay, I came back to my boarding house and discussed with my friends about our theme. FYI, for the best decoration in this event will be awarded. So we've agreed to make our stand to be in "Eco-friendly Laundry" theme. 
Kanti and our jemuran
Hanger from scout's stick
It's garage sale, so we sell second-hand book too
The event goes so-so, doesn't crowd too much. If it looks crowd, it is caused by the ratio of visitor and venue space were too tight. It is actually inspacious. And I, honestly, disappointing by committee's rule. They explained to me that, it is garage sale, so your main things to sell was second hand or already owned by another people. You could bring a new thing, but it's a side sales. In fact, another stand were a boutique, or online shop which had 2 rows of hanger in their stand, full stocked by BRAND NEW clothes. And how about their "secondhand things"? It's just one box, or 1 suitcase maximum. 

The worst thing for me, the media publication of this event were too exaggerated. At this article, the committee said the 18th stand sell recycle things made from unused goods. Err... even I didn't sell recycle things, I sell unused clothes and another matter. 

But anyway, there's always a lesson for every fall. Another time, I should take an offer carefully, and do a thorough, precise check & re-check for my business thingies. Big thanks for my friends, which already support me, Kanti, Rida, Tiwi (gembul, gembuk, syium). I believe we could do better than this. Rikza Cmanka, for supplying us the snacks. Nadzor, Poet, She, Khoti for the stuffs. And off course my lovely boyfie, for the energy & your caring presence. Love you all!
=*
Kanti, Tiwi, me. Captured by Rida

dodolan

Let's Work It Out!

00:54:00

*it should be posted an hour ago, haha*

Pfiuuuuuuh! Finally I touch my blog again. Yeaaayyy!
These 2 weeks were very busy for me. Big business review by my main investor: Mom, then my sister's pre-wedding photo session. She asked me to be her stylist and art crew either. Then a site visit from IIE & delegation from Miami Dade College to my university took my day. Finally today I could write a little bit and preparing for my 1st garage sale tomorrow! I'm so exciting yet scared. It's my first experience selling my own things and thinking how about people's taste. My friends usually said my taste was unique, sometimes weird and many times geeky. I hope I could sell all of them. 
Amen! =D

The Poster of Garage Sale event.
 Let's grab the sale!

dodolan

Yes! Kaos Gathotkaca Studio Ada di Roodebrug!

23:53:00


Bener Jeh. Gathotkaca Studio telah bekerjasama dengan Roodebrug Soerabaia yang berlokasi di Jalan Pucang Anom Timur no 70 Surabaya. Kaos-kaos kami bisa kamu temukan dan beli langsung di sini. Tentu merchandise lainnya seperti gantungan kunci dan Rubik a.k.a Surobic Dulinan Mbois juga ada. Tempatnya gampang dicari, nyaman dan mantab jaya. Sabtu besok, 19 Maret 2011, ba'da maghrib adalah launching resmi dari Roodebrug Soerabaia. Monggo langsung datang, karena ada remo, cak & ning, serta segala yang khas Surabaya. Kalau mau beli merchandise Gathotkaca juga bisa. Hehe. Ayo Jeh, mampir mrene kabeh! Oke Jeh? 
=)

Cacak Ikin dengan corner kami
Nyiapin jualan sama cacak. photo by Ady Setyawan

dodolan

Sell-a-free

08:48:00


 It's my second day sales at Cergamboree 2011, Indonesia-French Comic Festival. This year was a 3rd. Yesterday I got a session to do animation screening, titled: Surabaya animNation. Our 4th AnimNation. 

What's the benefit from doing this screening, selling merchandise, little stuff which means merely nothing for some people. 

It is small. It is little thing. But time already proved, we could stand strong till now. 

My animation studio was not selling our animation. We sell our merchandise. In other word. our (film) content was download-able and absolutely FREE.

This kind business, had already usual to called as Freemium Content and/or Free Lunch Marketing. I haven't know so much about it. It looks funny or something silly when our business method (which I work it naturally, without any guidance) had already got a name/formula. =D

If you are Indonesian, you would better take a look first to Pandji Pragiwaksono's article on his blog about Free Lunch Method. He'd already compiled what's the essential thing related to Free Lunch Method. In other hand, I want you know that this method inviting a wide discussion and polarization on its pro-cons. Berin Szoka on his article for example, shows how impossible to give a premium content/products with no advertiser, or completely free. 

One thing I believed and already learned was there will be different solution(s) for different problem(s), or in my sentence: different consequence(s) in different challenge(s). It doesn't matter who the inventor, when it invented, but every formula or abbreviation could be re-arrange, re-adapt and almost re-invent. And selling things, it would never as same as 1+1= 2. 

This post is just a 'preambule' of a long thought of mine about Free Lunch Method. I want to introduce you and make you familiar about it. I, as a student and seller at the same time, stand in a both theoretical & practical frame. So I think I could describe and build some a crisp and delicious discussion between us. 
Long live the thirst learner! 

*written on February 26th, publish as date stated

dodolan

Uniquely Designed: SuroBoyo!

11:15:00

Have you heard about my merchandise line before? If you haven't, it's okay, I'll tell you in short. I have worked with my animator partner, Mohammad Sholikin a.k.a Si Ikin in Gathotkaca Studio. We made a short animation movie, which had the local character as the main character: Suro Sudiro & Boyo Digdoyo 
(FYI, Surabaya came from Javanese word Suro & Boyo, in English: Shark & Crocodile).
Thanks to Internet, YouTube and 3gp technology, the video became a local hit and after won several festival, it became a national hit. =)

This is our first episode from the series

Now, we already have the merchandise line to fulfill the requests from our fans. This month, we are preparing for the next episode, titled: Kere T4pi Mbois. The official poster? Check this out.


While we are finishing the movie, we launched the newest design of Suro & Boyo's T-shirt. It is totally cool! Or "Mbois" in our word. =D

Code to request: MG. Left: front side, right: back side.
Code to request: LM. Left: front side, right: back side.
And one of our bestseller is ready on the stock now! Gathotkaca logogram! Hiyei!

Code to request: GK
So, don't bother to send your request to 08563163696. 
I'll help you to choose which suits you best.
Support your local movie movement. Oke Jeh?
;)

dodolan

It's More Than Just A Shirt, It's Everything. =)

22:31:00

This was my 2nd year selling the merchandise of Gathotkaca Studio, local animation studio. It's a supa-dupa-long story if I telling you the history, so it'll be better you read it here.

It has been several times we were opening "pre-order" system. People have to pay before we produce the shirts. They pre-ordering by text me. I'm the one who answers all of those messages. We opened 5-6 pre-order, so it might be thousands message had been sent from my little-tiny cellphone. Hehe. =P

Some peoples ordered for several times, so I had memorized them by rote. I remember their address, their size and even their cell number. Hehehe. These people are our savior, our heroes. They keep our animation breath. Yea, we still fighting for take a breath. But then we met other brothers & sisters (we called each other as "Jeh", no gender discrimination. =D ) at the screening places and they metamorphose our breath into a full gallon of spirit. These are the real Gathotkaca Studio's heroes, brothers & sisters:

Grammar SuroBoyo 3 Premiere Screening @ Royal Plaza, Surabaya
SuroBoyo Peduli Sumatera ft Grammar SuroBoyo 3.5 @ Matchbox Cafe, Surabaya
Surabaya AnimNation (Premiere of CuloBoyo Juniol) @ CCCL Surabaya
CuloBoyo screening ft Kumpul Animasi 2010 @ GoetheHaus, Jakarta
Surabaya AnimNation part II @ MagnetZone, Surabaya
In our last production batch, we choose to appreciate our heroes more. And these 2 people are the both lucky. It doesn't mean that we don't appreciate another, but its our incapability for provide many gifts. Dante & Ryo, thanks for your loyalty. It means a lot, really, I mean it. 

Ryo wearing our Racing Lontong's shirt! =)

Dante Nararya =)








Another chance comes over, from our independent musician friends. They ask us to support their project to celebrate our independence day, in Surabaya way. Absolutely, with our limitation, we tried the best. Look at this, this is the rehearsal & the recording.
 
Now, I'm proudly present the result, Bestfriend Project in "Rek Ayo Rek" jazzy version! =D














Yes! They wearing our shirts! Looks very good on them. Our talented director Jaka Triadi (Monkey Make Movies) captured it beautifully. I'm very lucky had already know them. 

As my titles on this post, it's more than just a shirt, it's everything. It brings me to know talented peoples. It gives me chances to meet new and unexpected friends. Thanks for being there Jeh. =*

PS: This is one of our newest design. This one my favorite. I say it is CIAMSO. CIAMIK SORO! 
(It means guhhhhhhhhreeeeaaaaaat! =D).
Just click www.gathotkacastudio.com to buy!
Click to enlarge