[Manic Monday] The Technology Behind Running Competitions

Lately, Indonesia has been hit by running fever. Running, as a sport, could be said to be the ‘new cool thing’ to follow, although quite many already love the sport. Of course, this trend has a much better impact to society compared to, say, trends of eating at fast food restaurants or hanging out at 24-hour convenience stores, as this trend advocates living healthy.

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[Manic Monday] The Importance Of Entertainment Infrastructure

Today, we as entertainment consumers have a multitude of choice. We still can enjoy entertainment channels handed down from the 20th century: TV, radio and print media – the variety of these three types of media is increasing, fulfilling the ever-widening preferences and needs of society for entertainment and information. With the growth of digital media like the internet, the variety of content or entertainment technologies has also increased. In a period of around 10 years, the cellular phone has evolved from a simple communication device into one of the main entertainment devices, to the point that the technology advancement of cellular phones is outpacing the PC industry. Any kind of entertainment is only a few clicks away, through browsers or applications.
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[Manic Monday] Taking Exhibitions Into The 21st Century

In Indonesia, especially Jakarta, as the country’s largest trade center, each week there are exhibitions and trade shows of varying sizes held at places ranging from mall atriums to hotel ballrooms and all the way to proper exhibition buildings hosting thousands of visitors per day. These exhibitions cover a variety of industries, from education, real estate, electronics, to the currently-running car exhibition at JIExpo. These exhibitions basically fulfill a need from those industries to display and sell their products or services; but as with most open for public events, exhibitions have become an entertainment source of its own.

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[Manic Monday] Membawa Pameran Ke Abad 21

Di Indonesia, dan terutama di Jakarta, sebagai pusat perdagangan negara ini, tiap minggu digelar berbagai pameran, dari ukuran kecil dalam atrium mal-mal, sampai pameran-pameran besar yang dikunjungi berpuluh ribu orang. Pameran-pameran ini pun meliputi berbagai industri, dari pendidikan, perumahan, elektronik, hingga pameran mobil yang saat ini sedang digelar di JIExpo. Pameran ini pada intinya memenuhi kebutuhan dari industri masing-masing untuk memamerkan dan menjual dagangan atau layanannya, tapi seperti layaknya acara yang dibuka untuk umum, pameran sudah menjadi acara hiburan tersendiri untuk masyarakat.
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[Manic Monday] What You Can Learn From Krayola

This time I want to tell you a little bit about myself – more specifically my experiences several years ago, as part of a band called Krayola. Krayola is a band that actually has been around for a while in Jakarta’s music scene, and once often played at various high school events. Because all of its members had jobs, the development of the band itself was somewhat slow – a quite standard tale in Indonesia’s music industry.

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[Manic Monday] Apa Yang Kamu Bisa Pelajari Dari Krayola

Kali ini saya mau cerita sedikit soal diri saya sendiri – lebih ke pengalaman saya beberapa tahun lalu, menjadi bagian dari band bernama Krayola. Krayola adalah band yang sebenarnya sudah ada cukup lama di dunia musik Jakarta, dan sempat sering bermain di berbagai acara pensi di jamannya. Berhubung semua anggotanya menyambi pekerjaan lain, jadi pergerakan band ini terbilang cukup lambat. Cerita yang cukup klasik di dalam industri musik di Indonesia.

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[Manic Monday] Menemukan Dan Mengkurasi Musik

Hari Jumat sore kemarin, saya sempat datang (agak telat) ke sebuah forum diskusi dan kumpul-kumpul yang diadakan oleh Seven Music, yang dihadiri oleh orang dari berbagai pihak, antara lain dari manajemen artis, band yang baru mulai berkarya, dan band yang sudah tergabung ke Seven Music. Saya sempat dikenalkan ke beberapa partisipan diskusi, salah satunya adalah band Tokyolite, yang baru selesai melakukan home recording EPnya, dan menawarkan CDnya untuk dijual. Uniknya mereka sudah berkesempatan tampil di sebuah acara TV di Jepang, setelah ditemukan oleh para produser acara tersebut karena video-video mereka di YouTube. Tokyolite tentunya masih berada pada awal karir mereka, dan kalau mereka cerdik, kesempatan-kesempatan yang sudah mereka dapatkan sejauh ini bisa mereka manfaatkan untuk membangun terus karir di seputar musik.

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[Manic Monday] Music Discovery And Curation

Last Friday, I came (a bit late) to a discussion forum and get-together held by Seven Music, attended by people from many walks of life, among them artist management, bands that are just starting out, to bands who have signed on to Seven Music. I was introduced to a few of the attendees, among them a band called Tokyolite, who just finished their home recording EP, and were offering their CD for sale. It turns out that they have already had a chance to play on a TV show in Japan, after being discovered by the TV show’s producers through their YouTube videos. Tokyolite is naturally still at the start of their career, and if they are smart, they can take advantage of these opportunities to further their music careers.
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[Manic Monday] Microsponsorship

Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara yang kemajuan ekonominya sangat dipengaruhi oleh usaha kecil dan menengah. Bayangkan, beribu-ribu usaha dengan perputaran uang yang relatif kecil, yang mendorong perputaran roda ekonomi konsumsi dan produksi. Semua tukang gorengan membutuhkan minyak goreng, gas elpiji, bahan makanan dan sebagainya, untuk membuat gorengan yang memberi makan pada pekerja kantoran maupun buruh pabrik. Pekerja kantoran dan buruh pabrik ini pun bekerja untuk menghasilkan sesuatu dari kantornya, yang kemudian akan ditawarkan pada pelanggan-pelanggannya, dan seterusnya. Saking tingginya perputaran konsumsi dan produksi ini, Indonesia malah sekarang menjadi pengimpor bahan makanan.

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[Manic Monday] Microsponsorship

Indonesia is one of those countries whose economy is very much supported by small to medium businesses. Imagine, thousands of businesses with relatively small revenue turnover, pushing the wheels of consumption and production. All fried foods vendors need cooking oil, LPG, food material and so on, to make their snacks feeding office and factory workers. These office and factory workers in turn work to produce something from their company, which is then offered to their customers, and so on. The sheer magnitude of this consumption and production cycle has made Indonesia an importer of foodstuffs.

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