Month: March 2020

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I’m back home.

It feels really weird. I talked with my parents on Saturday night that their flight is cancelled and the situation started to get worse (both in London and Jakarta) and now on Tuesday, I’m back in my room in Jakarta. Everything was rushed and felt surreal. I gave all of my fresh food supplies to my cousin, left most of my stuff in London (but still had to send back some as the books were too heavy for my baggage), passed on the shoot prep Siddhi gave me to Yve and went to the airport. Layed over in Amsterdam and it was really weird. The airport was really empty and the restaurants were closed–all of them even sold the same damn thing: sandwich. From the same source.

I equipped myself with lots of masks (Yve gave me a N95 mask too), gloves and hand sanitizer. I washed my hands as many times as I could (though I held myself back a bit since my hand got irritation from the alcohol) and thankfully even with two connecting flights, I sat literally alone with no one beside me. I tried to calm myself down a lot in the plane. Malaysia was quite a mess. And I brought my scanner, laptop, polaroid camera, so I had to put all of them out for the x-ray machine and it took a long time. I tried not to touch anything at the airport. I went asleep instantly once I got in the car on the way home.

Today is my third day in Jakarta and it still feels like a dream. I sleep at 6am in the morning due to the jetlag. It feels like I live in a hotel as I have to isolate myself so I can’t go out of my room (as my parents are over 65 and I got two nieces and one nephew hanging around the house) so they basically send anything to my room. I don’t really feel lonely or anything as I used to be in my room a lot without talking with people but it frustrates me that I can’t touch stuff and I can’t see people whom I really miss the most.

At this point, I try to just draw in order to get back to it and continue it in 3D as I’ve been postponing it for a while. Right now I’m trying to organize my thoughts, fix my sleeping schedule and motivate myself to be productive as I have all the time I need now. Fingers crossed.

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Niomi Music Video Shoot Preparation & Behind the scenes

For Niomi’s project, the brief is two all-white garments: one suit, and one dress. I searched for it within LCF and CSM designers and found some choices for Niomi to decide. I sourced some jewellery designers from LCF and RCA as well, to complete the look and finally gathered up the complete look:

Dress: CSM designer @lulong2000 | Jewellery (earring and top glasses: RCA graduate @jnfr.w | Bottom glasses: LCF graduate @puyu_liang
Dress: LCF MA designer @xuejiao_qin | Headwear: LCF graduate @puyu_liang | Ring: RCA graduate @jnfr.w

I couldn’t find the right shoes however so I got them from Topshop. I went to CSM and all the designer’s places to collect the pieces.

I’m so happy that the garments and jewellery I sourced turned out really well! We went and try different jewellery on different scenes to make them look a bit different and for me to get as many footages. I showed the result to the designers as well and they’re very happy about it.

For the second day, because it’s been raining nonstop and Niomi placed her hands on the floor and held slime as well I decided not to wear any of the jewellery and we didn’t use the skirt part of the garments as well. Fortunately, Niomi brought white pants that we could use.

The one thing that I regret is both the jewellery designers and the second day’s garments had no problem if their pieces got wet/dirty. I didn’t ask them thoroughly (and not asking again on the shoot day) and I think it was a loss for them as I couldn’t show more of their pieces on the footages. I immediately took note of this–the next time I’m borrowing pieces I’ll ask and keep contact with the designers on the day as well.

All in all, it’s a really fun project. I feel very honoured to be chosen as the stylist and gained valuable experiences. The team is very professional and creative as well! This is the first time I’m doing official work in the UK so I’ll remember this for a long time!