The Whole Family is on TEDx Jakarta Stage!

(photo by Dessey)

Today, we had the honour to be on TEDx Jakarta stage. Our subject is about how the family deal with the limitation around us. For us, limitation is not a wall, but a magical door to the new opportunity, the infinite opportunity. We have to face it, try to open it with our magical thoughts & spirits.

On stage, kids were making a Vine with playdoh & papers. Thankfully, kids were not nervous doing it in front of hundred audiences. "It's like doing a music concert," said Arwen. Of course, they already did their exercise for making the same Vine days before.

This Vine was done on the stage by Arwen, Leia & Neo

Right after Papin finished the speech, the Vine was done & ready to upload. The speech was closed with kids' instant Vine played on the screen.

Then we did The Beatles' bow down stage. Magical experience!

See also:

- When the kids were practicing for making the Vine.

Exercise: Doing Vine Live for TEDx Jakarta

Kids are exercising their Vine production on stage for TEDx Jakarta at Saturday.

I Won The Vineographer Award in Shorty Awards!

Congrats to @pinot for winning for @Univision's #Vineographer Shorty Award! #ShortyAwards http://t.co/mYseebEiKa
— Shorty Awards (@shortyawards) April 8, 2014

Woohoo! It was a great honor to be chosen by Shorty Awards as 2014 Vineographer. Among other finalists are the talented Viners are @CodybJohns @marcusjohns @loganpaul @jakepaul19 @thedudebakes.

Here's my acceptance speech when Matt Walsh presents the award in the ceremony:

Vine Playground for Brands

People keep asking me, are you now a professional Viner? To be honest, I don't know how to answer that. Somehow, I want to stay 'amateur', with freedom doing experiments & error, adding another level of experiences.



Vine is always be my endless creative process, nurture my passion stamina. When brands contact me, fortunately they understand this. They even come, join & having fun together in the playground. Suddenly, we're all becoming children, doing something awesomely fun.






All I know is, being professional requires the joyful of childhood. And passion.

More:
- Virgin Mobile
- Morris the Cat
- BBC Children in Need

Our Children Create Their First Animation Project On Vine

They have been watching their dad doing some animation & stop-motion on Vine & examining on how doing a frame-by-frame animation. Suddenly they realized that they can create their own cartoon movie. So my older daughter drew 6 frames of animation & recorded it on Vine.



We created a private Vine account for her & get some selected/filtered followers to avoid online trolls or rude negative comments. Her Vine account is 'Arwen Shaula'. Let me know if you want to follow her Vine :)

Vine: Capturing Moments of London with Sketches

If you have days for London trip, what will you do?
Taking picture with your digital camera? Snap shot & go?

Try sketching the city with paper & pencil (or digital tablet). Take a sit, relax & enjoy the view for a moment. That's what I did for capturing the moment of London.

Here are some of the Vine videos.


Regent's canal


Great Portland Street


Regent's Park Cafe


Regent's Park Orchestra


London Tower Bridge


Windsor Castle


This day I forgot to bring my sketchbook. So a digital tablet would do :)

Our Vine Video On Twitter's Mother's Day Site

A week ago, Twitter team contacted me & asked me to join this special Vine project. I was like "Whoa! Wow!" & replied him instantly "YES I'M IN!" :D And there it is, our Vine video sitting there with other famous & brilliant Viners Meagan Cignoli, Khoa Phan, Jethro Ames, Frank Danna. Check the site: http://vine.twitter.com/mom.

Here's the video.



And this is behind-the-scene video. All the family member are joining the project, because.. well.. it's a family project!

Outside The Competition

Being removed from the Vine competition of Tribeca Film Festival (it's a US citizen only competition), one of my video got featured on The Verge & Wall Street Journal blog! Yay!


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Blurry Edge Between Paper+Pencil & Reality

What Our Kids Can Learn With Vine app

Vine app is not just a social video app. Somehow, its 6 seconds duration limitation (or feature?) is perfect for our kids doing a short movie experiment.


Short Movie

What can they do in a very short 6 seconds video? Here are some examples on how our kids telling the story with 6 seconds video. They learn about mini storyboard & basic concept on visual storytelling.


"Where is Leia drawing? At the beach!"


"So many cars! Traffic jam!"


Stop motion & Animation

We all know Vine app is not a stop motion capturing app. But with its record-and-pause ability, our kids can learn how to make stop motion in easy & fun way. And with its short duration, they don't have to wait too long to see the stop-motion result.


"Danny the warrior duck."


"Driving a car. Oh no traffic jam!"


"The boat & the pirate."


Short movie with stop-motion


"Look! USS Enterprise from Star Trek!"


Problem is, Vine's age rating is 17+. Meands that I cannot install it in their restricted iDevices like iPod & iPad. And they cannot freely browsing other videos without their parents around.

Having Fun with Twitter's Vine

Been playing with Vine for week. Vine is Twitter's official social video, so we can make a short (6 seconds) video documentation, posted on Twitter.

From sleep to school in 6 seconds vine.co/v/bJev600H2hK

— Pinot (@pinot) January 28, 2013

The freshness of morning rain in Kuwait #weather #rain vine.co/v/bJH1hrDXhuB

— Pinot (@pinot) January 29, 2013

Retro cameras in 6 seconds. #retro #camera #vintage vine.co/v/bJPY56KPuXz

— Pinot (@pinot) January 30, 2013

But Vine is not only just for documentation, it's also handy for making experiment with animation/stop motion.

Flying bird: experiment with animation in Vine #art #drawing vine.co/v/bJpZZPglT0F
— Pinot (@pinot) January 29, 2013

Playing tetris with paper (part 1) #art #drawing #animation vine.co/v/bJ2rA67rtOE
— Pinot (@pinot) January 30, 2013

Playing tetris with paper (part 2) #art #drawing #animation vine.co/v/bJ2Xie7bQF0
— Pinot (@pinot) January 30, 2013

A box is crossing the universes #art #drawing #animation #magic vine.co/v/bJ9nbtIlYvv
— Pinot (@pinot) January 30, 2013

Electrocuted! Becareful when you draw Pikachu. #art #drawing #magic #animation vine.co/v/b1rdtPQF67F
— Pinot (@pinot) February 2, 2013  

Daughter's stop motion project: Danny the duck. #art #family #stopmotion #animation vine.co/v/b16OqdqQPnM
— Pinot (@pinot) February 2, 2013

Or making a step-by-step or tutorial

Drawing Batman. Another chubby superhero. vine.co/v/b5VnEwvO9iT
— Pinot (@pinot) January 26, 2013

Part 1: Drawing a sketch started with circle. #art #manga vine.co/v/bJQmTL029pd
— Pinot (@pinot) January 30, 2013

Part 2: Adding line (inking) with marker. #art #manga vine.co/v/bJQeMQxv572
— Pinot (@pinot) January 30, 2013

Part 3: Finishing - by erasing the pencil line & adding some hatches & shades. vine.co/v/bJQJjtqJJ7Z
— Pinot (@pinot) January 30, 2013

Decorating a cake by @ditut #art #cake #howto #stepbystep vine.co/v/b1OghdV31uZ
— Pinot (@pinot) February 1, 2013