MOMENTS AT THE MOMENT
C L A R IS S A B U DI M A N
Published by the Penguin Group All rights reserved ISBN 978-0-213-23876-2 Printed in Singapore
MOMENTS AT THE MOMENT
C L A R IS S A B U DI M A N
Looking at the moments of our lives from the obsessively taking-pictures-behaviour. The unfulfilled desires to preserve the moments. The notion of moments have been distorted. We preserve moments for our future.
We disappear from the present. From the moment.
MOMENTS AT THE MOMENT
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STAGE 1
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What was I looking at?
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STAGE 2 What did I capture?
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STAGE 3 What am I missing?
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TAKING PICTURES AT AN EVENT HAS BECOME THE EVENT
You are probably worrying about what you are missing, and missing what you’re supposed to be watching. -Erin Anderson-
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It was a beautiful, cloudy Saturday.
My third birthday.
Or maybe forth.
Daddy brought a new toy for me.
I could not remember
It was a bicycle.
what happened
It had training wheels... And it was in the blue. past.
Ocean blue, my favourite colour.
A vague vision of playing in the terrace.
Sunny day upon sunny day.
Full of laughter.
What My brother and I had fun...was it? We would ride our bicycles everywhere.
I would wear my helmet all day.
And, oh!
I always rang the bell all the way.
Or maybe forth.
It was a beautiful, cloudy Saturday. It was a beautiful, cloudy Saturday. My third birthday. My third birthday.
Daddy brought a new toy for me.
maybe It was Or a bicycle. Or maybe forth.
forth.
Daddy brought a new toy for me. Daddy brought a new toy for me. It was a bicycle. It was a bicycle.
It had training wheels...
It had training wheels... it was blue. And It had training wheels...
And it was blue. And it was blue. Ocean blue, my favourite colour. Ocean blue, my favourite colour.
Ocean blue, my favourite colour.
A vague vision of playing in the terrace. A vague vision of playing in the terrace. Sunny day upon sunny day. Sunny day upon sunny day.
A vague vision of playing in the terrace.
Full of laughter. Sunny day upon sunny day. Full of laughter. My brother and I had fun... My brother and I had fun...
Full of laughter.
I always rang the bell all the way. I always rang the bell all the way.
We would ride our bicycles everywhere.
I would wear my helmet all day.
And, oh!
I always rang the bell all the way.
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And, My brother and Ioh!had oh! fun... And,
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We would ride our bicycles every where. We would ride our bicycles every where. I would wear my helmet all day. I would wear my helmet all day.
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I began to look at everything.
And I could not stop capture it.
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And I could not stop adore it.
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Things that are worth captured.
Things that are so meaningful.
Things that are beautiful.
So many things around me.
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Or
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I wanted to perpetuate all the moments. Mem ories are fallible. And I cannot deny
Preserve the beauty of everything I saw.
that
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handphone, my iPad, or digital camera,
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with others who were not there.
and SNAP!
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Technology has made thousands pictures require only a little storage space. Thus I
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pressing time.
the
shutter
Eventually,
what
I did is just weaken the value of the Sounds harmless.
photograph it-self.
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An hour ago
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Uncle likes your photo.
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A friend of friend of friend likes your photo.
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Just now
Your ex likes your photo.
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An hour ago
Your classmate likes your photo.
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2 hours ago
Neighbor likes your photo.
20 minutes ago
Childhood friend likes your photo.
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2 hours ago
Unknown stalker likes your photo.
9 hours ago
Your second ex likes your photo.
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Nephew likes your photo.
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a picture worth a thousand likes
4 hours ago
Your brother likes your photo.
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3 hours ago
Your crush likes your photo.
7 hours ago
Online shop likes your photo.
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#round
#eventually # dru mroll # doughnut
#instadaily # beautiful
# picoftheday #iphonesia
#instagood #love # photooftheday
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#oreolog y #avocadodicaprio
#oreo #strawberry #heavenberry
#aweso m e #amazing # yu m my
#lol #instagram ers # food # photo
#bestoftheday # follow m e #happy
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#instalove #instago # followback
#super #delicious # nonsense
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# noonedidthibefore
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#before # twitter #and #instagram # no #one #ever # press #hashtag
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a picture worth a thousand hashtags
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#artdirection #sowhat
# thousand #1000 #creative
He went to his backyard with a shovel.
And he dug a deep hole beneath big oak tree.
He was sure that there is a treasure.
It was one morning.
An adventure in the past. He had buried something precious there.
Really precious.
A m emory of his childhood.
Now, he was looking back for it.
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Looking for his treasure.
The treasure that buried to be treasured in the future.
There was a man.
He filled his house with memories, with his life.
He would retake, find other angles, and pick the only best one to be hanged.
Every wall and every corner.
He looked at his pictures everyday,
and he was happy.
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you could find a piece of puzzle of his life.
And one day, his house was burned.
He was safe but everything was gone.
Not any single piece left.
Did he lose his memories?
Did he lose his life?
Put it inside. Put it inside.
Protect it safely.
Keep it securely.
He put all his moments here.
His memories will be safe. No one could ever touch it.
No one could ever steal it.
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Im m ortalized the moments.
The moments will not be forgotten.
Because they are never be remembered.
What
might see if
we sat still, empty handed, and just watched the world happen?
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But, where am I at the moment? I snapped the past for the future.
I will celebrate the moment in the future.
I disappeared from the present,
From the moment.
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Present
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Past
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MEMORY
MEMORY PIC T U R E [
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Having a photo does not guarantee
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you are going to remember the experience.
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I may lose the memories, but, I have had the moments.
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instead, I have the memories, but, I lose the moments.
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An image is just a visual reproduction of sight that is disconnected from place and time.
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A piece of paper. A picture in my hand. A story, a replica of experience. What did I capture? What did I preserve? What did I do?
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A MOMENT SEIZED IS A MOMENT TREASURED [
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A MOMENT TREASURED IS A MOMENT THAT LASTS FOREVER
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than they are a record of life a decade past.
w m ore about what happened two seconds ago
And there’s no need to wait:
d to economize when your m em ory card can handle 2,000 shots in one go.
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a hundre d thousand pic t ur e s
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It seems like a calculus of diminishing returns.
Be in the moment.
Clarissa Budiman born and raised in Indonesia. At 2010 she was crossing the ocean, attended the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied Graphic Design. At the moment, she is busy between doing
homework
from
Nanyang
Academy
of
Fine
Arts, playing with her analogue cameras, doodling nonsense, and daydreaming about her future.
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