Yo, What’s Up みんあさん！

Before I want update something.. Let’s listen to this cute song first

No Sleeves – Relax.

2 Days ago went to Orange Channel to do test printing my Photozine. And the result is… not-so-ok.  Maybe because there’s no variety choice of Paper that specialize in Photobook. But that kinda reason won’t let me stop printing in bulk. I send my photozine to another printing company via a friend of mine with proper draft. Can’t wait to receive the book next week! Hopefully it’s good! Cos i’m gonna send it to some potential art galleries and also ‘client’.

First Design for Front Cover.

Result from Test Print.

If you realize the B/W cover photo got a lil bit greenish on the mid-tone and also highlights. It’s hard to avoid the greenish or some personal printer magentaish color. The only way to get perfect B&W like the real Photobook behind my Photozine is to print your photos with a photo printer that specialize in Black and White or create BW profile on it.

Even the color got a lil bit over saturated :

A lil bit Oversaturated

Since I don’t have my own color printing profile and most printing company in KK using CMYK instead of ARGB. It takes about an hour or 2 for me to D.I.Y my own profile to get at least 90% accurate.

Anyway, I opened a tumblr account. Gonna share something related with Music, Cinematography, Photography and art related stuff there. Instead of using ‘flanegan’, I decide to use my alter ego name for my tumblr site., ‘Yabuki Taro’.

Simple and Addictive.

I like how they design the dashboard. Very systematic and fun. You don’t need to do much stuff on it and 1 good think about tumblr is you can use your own domain or sub-domain as your domain name.
Instead of using yabukitaro.tumblr.com. I just add the IP Address to my Website Server Setup and  kaotim!

My tumblr link is yabuki.flaneganb.net.
If you have one, please follow me and also please do visit. Won’t regret 100% guarantee satisfaction! haha

Bah.. That’s all from me.

-peace bebeh and one love-

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Life, Sabah 2 Comments July 16th, 2010

Greetings everyone, job suddenly stop half way at the end of the climax and seems like my first salary will be on-hold until I don’t know when. Dang, I’m thinking of using half of my cash to print a few copies of my own photography book and also purchase a printer but gaji pun belum masuk. =_=”

As a visual language and also artist ain’t got easy life after all huh?
The world is overpopulated after all. Ain’t like the 70′s, 80′s or 90′s where you heard from the elder cousin, uncle can get job easily no matter how carefree or lazy are they. I’m so envy too the max!

Went to Australian Place area 2 days ago asking quote for making a size of a5 book. At first, My mind went wild thinking of print 100 copies then I my inner sense tells me “Ko gila ka? 20-30 keping cukup suda bah itu!”.
Tian Sing give me RM20 perbook if I request 100 copies. Which mean RM2k! Out of my budget, I might meet them again for another good deal If I want to print 20-30 copies of my own photobook in about 35-38 pages.
Orange Channel gives me 50cent perpage + RM3.50 for ring binder. But I wonder what kind of ring binder do they use?
Now I’m waiting for another friend of mine who’s been working with a few printing companies in KK. Hopefully I can get better deal lah.

Anyhoo, I found a website that you can purchase a non-commercial music for independent internet film maker who loves to post their personal video or creation on youtube and etc. 1 song only cost about USD1.99. It’s cheap and you don’t need to worry about the copyright issue + your video got remove from youtube management. The website is http://www.friendlymusic.com/. Hop in there and have a look!

I might get a few fresh and funky music there for my video too!
I’ve been doing lots of reading related with all the current issues of Photojournalism and found this awesome image below :

Image doesn’t own by me. This photo own via here

Seriously, with this shirt I have.. When someone talk aimlessly about their camera and how to be awesome rated photographer to me. I just turn 180 degree and ask them to read while I’m popping out my earphone and start pressing play button and listening to my fav song of all time.

Wah…. Kimochi desu bah! haha

Lastly, I got myself a Photoshelter Basic Account. Looks like a promising photo archive site to me and have been upload a few photos there for you guys to see. Hop into my photoshelter website, http://flaneganb.photoshelter.com. So far, I only upload a few of em cos I’m too lazy to check all my photo archive in my external harddisk.

2008 – Images by Flanegan Bainon

Wah, been update my blog actively for quite a while eh? Bah, 女と男! Have a great day ahead..

-peace bebeh and one love-

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Life, Sabah 3 Comments July 8th, 2010

Hello… Im back from Tongod, instead of staying there for 3 nights. My trip to Central Sabah only ended up for 24 hours. Because one of my boss need to head back to KK for some personal reason. He chose me to follow him, and the others will remain there continue to document the life of Herbalist for a day.

The only way you can visit or get into Tongod is via Road Access, it takes about 5 hours using a small car such as Kembara to reach Tongod Town. And another 2 hours to get into central Sabah Kg Karamuak or Kuala Karamuak (the local here pronounce Karamuak as Keramok).

Telupid – Tongod New Road.

From Kota Kinabalu to Ranau takes around 2 hours, then we had a small break for 30mins+ then continue our destination to Telupid for another 2 hours. Make sure to fill in your petrol/diesel in Ranau because Telupid don’t have any Gas Station. If your car use lots of Petrol, bring extra or 2 huge bottle to fill in the gas. Just incase you drive halfway your car suddenly out of Gas. Fun become Not Funny anymore.

Pekan Tongod

Once reach Pekan Tongod, we decide to have another cup of coffee at one of the restaurant. Everyone thought that Kg Keramauk is only a short distant away from here.

But we’re damn wrong…. We have to drive offroad, pass by lots of Palm Oil Estate and also Jungle with no communication signal and only hope someone pass-by to tell us where is “Keramauk”.

Never ending road to Karamuak.

Driving offroad on Kembara gives you free butt massage or whole body because the car keep on moving up and down nonstop for 2 hours. The road is gribble, lots of sharp rock and makes us so worried that the car’s tyre suddenly puncture in the middle of nowhere with no phone signal. Is not funny! But 1 hour 15mins later, we saw a small signboard says “Simpang ke Karamauk”. Everyone in the car feel so relieve, but the road get into Keramauk haven’t end yet.. It takes 45mins from the junction into Keramauk until we saw houses and villagers wandering around. Relieve too the max!

Keramauk, where Hutan and Orang Sungai lives only a few distant from the nearest wide River.

If you’re interested to visit here. Yayasan Sabah do provide a place to stay for those who are interested to have a lil bit of adventure get into Central of Sabah.

I realize most of the villagers are locals. Orang Sungai (Dusun and etc), some of them used to have a awesome life in KK City or Sandakan before but they decide to go back to their own land and have a simple life where they originated from. I’m very touch with their stories.

Settlement House in Keramauk.

Most of the Settlement house are belongs to Yayasan Sabah, most of the workers are local from Sandakan, Tuaran or even KK work for Yayasan Sabah. Yayasan Sabah are the one who redesign the whole kampung area in Central Sabah. 40 years ago, there’s no road access into this village. The only way you can get into Karamuak is via Kinabatangan River. Back those days, By Boat it takes about 3 months to Reach Sandakan. Imagine that! Even 7 hours drive from KK to Keramauk suda start whining like a baby in the car. HAHA GILA!

No Phone Signal!

If the villagers here wants to contact their relatives in KK or Sandakan. They have to drive all the way to Tongod town to get a proper Coverage. In Karamuak, you can throw your mobile phone into the Kinabatangan River and feed the crocodile or some say feed the dragon. Tidak sampai hati saya mau umban my phone ohh. Thank god I have lotsa reason why I still can use it. I call it my mini-laptop.

The main attraction in Karamuak is the Pyramid look-a-like Mountain (Gunung Tingkar) where the late 1963 Wessex Helicopter wrecked there. And also the wide mini river of Kuala Karamuak where it’s connecting the Kinabatangan River. Experience Sunset in the central of Sabah is one of a kind too. You can know where is Sandakan and Where is Kota Kinabalu by looking at the sun. Interesting rite! Aisehmen~~

You are now somewhere around this area.

Once we reach to the Yayasan Sabah’s Forestry Centre. The Officer shows us the map and point where are we now.

I’m so proud for a moment because I’m now exactly in the middle of Sabah. Out of nowhere, because 2 years ago Im thinking of explore Sabah for my future Photography Project that related with Sabah Map itself.

Kuala Karamuak River, at the end of the junction is Kinabatangan River.

Haish.. Too bad I can’t join the other crew for a boat ride. Because there’s no extra space for me and the Cameraman Assistant. We’re ended up hang out at one of the hut and talk about how hard to make a living as a Cinematographer and also Documentary Photographer.

After the production crew done their work, we take a rest for a few mins and have dindins. After dindins, going up to the hill and the production crew continue their work and me continue as a the behind the scene photographer.

One of the herbalist try to show off their skills in Kulintangan. Until I myself, mezmerize how the nenek play Kulintangan. I give it a try! I started to like it..

Me and Nenek while she playing Kulintangan.

Anyone knows where can I play Kulintangan or join Sabah’s Traditional Music Orchestra in KK? I want to be the Kulintangan Boy!

That’s all about Karamuak, Tongod. I wish to visit there again for personal project. Document the villagers there and take some traditional portraits.

Can any NGOs or Sabah Tourism or Ministry of Art and Culture willing to give me a grant to do this stuff? I do this not for myself, for the future and also for the people..

Extra Stuff by Me (Video Footage I took in Keramauk, Tongod), Enjoy! :

Documentary Video of Karamuak, Tongod, Central Sabah.

One more destination to go..

Hint : I’m one of the tribe, My ancestor comes from there before they migrate to Keningau then My dad move to KK City for modern living.

-peace bebeh and one love-

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Canon 5D Mark II, Documentary, Life, Sabah 1 Comment July 3rd, 2010

Greetings, I’m at home now for only a day. Just got back from my 4 days job at Ranau and Kota Belud. Tomorrow morning, I’ll be heading to another destination for 3-4 nights again somewhere in Tongod.



Google Map

Here’s some random image below, taken from my Handphone (HTC HD2) and also tested my dad’s new camera Lumix DMC-F2 :

Mount Kinabalu Background

Dusun’s Accessories.. Bubu’ and Berait.

The backpack @ Berait is darn comfy.. I wish I have a modified one for my camera. haha

Your New Monsopiad or Pendekar terakhir Dusun.

Oh wait.. I’m Murut! hahaha inda apa.. Kita orang KDM juga.

After job done in Ranau, an hour drive to Kota Belud where it is famous for mysterious ghost called “Balan Balan”.
If you wonder why all shop closed in Kota Belud’s Town around 8pm, because most of the locals still believe “Balan Balan” still exist and afraid bump into it because if you saw it people’s says you’ll be in deep trouble.

Kota Belud

Manja Kucing

The place I stayed in KB, Taginambur (15km from KB’s Town) has a very manja cat.

Small Butterfly

While the production team shooting how the Bobolian doin his ritual. The Small Butterfly stays with me for about 10mins, manage to capture very close macro shot of it.
Creepy somehow..

River side

View of Mount Kinabalu somewhere in Taginambur.

Kota Belud

Extra stuff, footage from Ranau. Kota Belud, camera abis battery suda :

Ranau

gonna take a nap for a bit.
panat!!

-peace bebeh and one love-

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Documentary, Life, Sabah 1 Comment June 30th, 2010

Due to work involve lotsa outdoor.. I got tanned like heck. Got darker like orang kampung. Easily get tired every time and now I’m at home chillax for a couple of hours before continue the journey with the crew again. Seems like My contract job won’t last for 2 months. 3 more locations to go then doing some post production and done. Which is a good thing because somehow, I got tired doing the same thing over and over again. The only interesting thing about it is discover other place of Sabah that I never been to especially Village side and other region. Hey, I’m born and raise in KK and I only been to a very kampung place once in my life when I was 14 in Tenom. Even my dad’s hometown is not really kampung because it has all kind of access like what City people have. Seems that my Taiwan and Japan Trip is still plan on!

Here are the image below from 17th until 20th June. Kiulu (not in pics)-Matunggong – Kota Marudu – Ranau.

Villagers in and Out to Matunggong’s Tamu.

Gong Collection.. Somewhere in Matunggong’s Village.. 20+mins drive from Pekan.

Rungus Kid. Kampung Gombizau, Matunggong.

Fed Up Dog Who I kept on follow him.. haha. Somewhere in Kota Marudu’s Village. Kampung Langkon

Kampung’s Hut or Store in Kampung Langkon.

Video Shooting in Progress

Dusun Tobilung Elder showcase one of the last remaining culture for the production crew to record.

Dusun Poem replying back each other.. Very beautiful.. But I don’t understand 80% what are they saying..

View of Sabah’s Majestic Mount Kinabalu. 20mins+ drive from Ranau’s Pekan to the kampung..

Kampung Dog in Ranau

One of Dusun’s Martial Art masters in Ranau. Kun Tao Silat Dusun… Something like Wing Chun ni China.

I’ve also upload a few images via Twitter’s Twit pic. Just hop into my Twitter or right column of this blog.
That’s all from me lar…  Im still not get used to it How ‘dark skin’ am I now.. =_=”

-peace bebeh and one love-

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Canon 5D Mark II, Documentary, Sabah No Comments June 22nd, 2010