Di edisi terbaru “Things We Like”, kami mengumpulkan hal-hal yang sedang disukai oleh tim Whiteboard Journal berikut alasannya. Dari film rom-com bertema cross-cultural love, film cult-classic bergenre horror, Instagram meme page dengan pesan-pesan penuh referensi teori akademis, seri Youtube yang dipenuhi dengan dad jokes hingga suplemen kekebalan tubuh, berikut adalah “Things We Like” dari minggu ketiga Juli.

KEN JENIE
Editor

What:
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse! 1963)

Description:
Charles Mingus is one of the 20th century’s greatest composer, and you can hear why on this Impulse! Records 1963 release. A brilliant 6 movement composition feels like a story that takes you through a variety of emotions. Listening to it from beginning to end with a nice set of speakers or headphones is a beautiful experience I highly recommend you doing at least once in your life.

MUHAMMAD HILMI
Managing Editor

What:
The Big Sick

Description:
Sudah baca tentang film ini dari tahun lalu, tapi baru nonton kemarin-kemarin ini. Digadang-gadang sebagai film yang mengembalikan kualitas pada genre rom-com, sempat ragu karena kurang sreg dengan Kumail Nanjani yang jadi pemeran utama. Tapi seratus tujuh belas menit kemudian ragu lenyap karena film ini menyentuh dalam berbagai level. Relatable dan terasa sangat personal. Rasanya kita tak perlu sedih kehilangan Aziz Ansari karena Kumail bisa melampauinya dengan mudah di sini.

FEBRINA ANINDITA
Editorial Staff

What:
Holger Czukay – On the Way to the Peak of Normal

Description:
On loop almost whenever I commute and before sleep. Favorite track is “Ode to Perfume” for it exudes sensuality and suspense at the same time.

GHINA HANA SABRINA
Editorial Staff

What:
@ripannanicolesmith

Description:
Memes are definitely funny, but where else could I find hilarious niche memes with academic references to theories by Lacan, Zizek, or Foucault? Where one with Paris Hilton on it would talk about reclaiming identity through strategic essentialism, while also breaking the notion of high and low culture? There are layers on these memes yo.

EMMANUELLA PRIMASTIWI
Editorial Staff

What:
Imboost Force

Description:
Minggu ini minggu yang cukup berat bagi saya karena saya sedang dilanda flu dan batuk berat. Tetapi, thanks to Imboost Force, badan rasanya nggak terlalu lemas, bisa konsentrasi and go about my day like usual. Thanks Imboost Force!

AMELIA VINDY
Editorial Staff

What:
Akun Instagram Jay Versace

Description:
Yang membuat Jay Versace spesial adalah bagaimana ia mampu mengekspresikan dirinya dengan sangat bebas, yang dikemas dengan komedi. Dan terkadang, konten yang diunggah melalui akun instagramnya sangat relevan dan tidak jarang mamberikan motivasi untuk saya (tertawa). Terdengar cukup aneh bukan, but what is normal anyway?

JANUAR KRISTIANTO
Heart Attack

What:
ALL DEF – Dad Jokes

Description:
Ok terus terang, ini super nagih banget. Receh versi Amerika, shit doesn’t get better. Gotta love ‘em Dad Jokes.

CLARISSA AMABEL
Art Director

What:
Dissect, a serialized music podcast

Description:
Imagine rap Genius, but nerdier. Host/rap scholar Cole Cuchna diligently delves into modern hip-hop classics and investigates the influences, references and conceptual relationships in the albums, one song at a time.

The first season starts with Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly”, an intricate web of analogies and samples which Cuchna untangles soberly and rigorously. I’m only halfway through the first season (The second and third season dives into Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark and Twisted Fantasy” and Frank Ocean’s “Blonde”) because there’s so much info loaded in each episode, but just listen to the first episode where Cuchna breaks down the framework of Kendrick’s previous album “good kid, m.A.A.d City” and join me in raising both hands in mad respect for K.Dot and for this podcast.

ENRICO EMMANUEL
Graphic Designer

What:
The Real GeBiz

Description:
An anonymous graphic designer group in Singapore is currently busy doing a logo-makeover project for the government logo. It is interesting and funny at the same time to see how they create a new form of ‘better’ logo just by redecorating and readjusting the official logo composition without changing the whole concept. Don’t you think we need this kind of instagram account in Indonesia?

VINCENT WIDJAJA
Graphic Designer

What:
@darkstockphotos

Description:
If you have a twisted or fucked-up sense of humor and also happened to be a graphic designer, chances are, you’ll find this account amusing. Or if you are the goody-two-shoes type, you’ll get repulsed. Maybe.

We, morbid graphic designers, have @darkstockphotos to thank nevertheless for revealing these cheeky, satire gems amidst myriad of cheesy-ass, cookie-cutter stock images we are too familiar with during research. What a nice twist to see it’s all deliberately curated to entertain or offend us — I’d say let’s embrace both. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

DILA F. HASAN
Graphic Designer

What:
The life-changing magic of not giving a f*ck by Sarah Knight

Description:
Buku ini sebenarnya adalah salah satu parody dari best-selling book Sarah Knight yaitu “The life-changing magic of tidying up” yang dimana sangat berbanding terbalik dengan buku ini. Buku ini menunjukan bahwa tidak semua hal bisa kamu pegang di dalam hidup, tidak semuanya penting dan tentunya tidak semuanya harus diikuti. Bottom line, buku ini mengajarkan bagaimana kita sebagai manusia bisa lebih menikmati hidup tanpa harus memikirkan hal-hal kecil yang bahkan bukan urusan kita tanpa harus menjadi orang yang menjengkelkan. DAN, buku ini juga memberikan kita halaman untuk mengisi hal-hal yang harus kita pedulikan dan tidak, which it really helped a lot!

SABRINA FARIZKY
Marketing & Sales

What:
Pusha T’s Wedding

Description:
Last Saturday, Pusha T married his longtime girlfriend, Virginia Williams in a stunning and intimate ceremony in his hometown Virginia Beach. King Pusha himself looked incredibly dreamy in a Dior custom-made cream jacket and black tuxedo pants designed by Kim Jones. And last but not least, the happy couple walked into their wedding reception to Kid See Ghosts’ “Feel the Love” <3

ADYTHIA UTAMA
Videografer

What:
Family Feud: Blind Date Episode

Description:
Ekspresi Steve Harvey di episode ini bisa menjadi obat saat banyak kerjaan menumpuk.

MAR GALO
BAMBOO TWIST

What:
Rosemary’s Baby

Description:
Hailed as the biggest influence, or some would say, rip-off for recent horror hits, Hereditary, Rosemary’s Baby is one of Roman Polanski’s masterpieces. A true psychological horror that has zero ghost/creature/jump scare. This cult (pun intended) classic also inspired Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Creepy neighbours, gothic NYC building, weird coincidences, narcissistic husband, things are not going well in the new hood for Rosemary. Oh, and that nightmare nursery tunes is also quite unforgettable. Watch it on Netflix.