Saturday, April 26, 2014

Definisi Ganteng (Definition of Handsomeness)


Blog ini bermula dari konser amal Gunung Kelud. Tiket kelas menengah menempatkan saya di deretan agak jauh dari panggung. Kecuali saya membawa teropong segede trompet, ditambah penerangan yang sengaja dibikin redup supaya efeknya makin dramatis, tidak mungkin melihat wajah kedua pemain biola yang sedang menggesekkan medley Yoshi's Island Hop Hop Donut Lifts.

Tapi entah kenapa... Mereka terlihat ganteng.

Siluet mereka yang tegap dalam redupnya cahaya, dedikasi yang begitu terasa sampai seperti menyapa saya. Mereka mampu memberikan seluruh.

Ganteng! <3

Jadi apa 'ganteng' itu? Butuh lebih dari sekadar wajah yang memenuhi standar internasional. Ganteng adalah... Kamu, tidak bisa kurang.

Walaupun begitu, blog ini masih membahas karakteristik fisik, karena tidak peduli lukisan Monalisa tanpa cacat, Monalisa asli tetap yang sempurna. (Baca: semua orang cantik/ganteng, dan saya akan mencoba memparafrasakan yang terbaik).

P.S. Blog ini juga (berusaha) mendefinisikan 'cantik'.





This blog began from a benefit concert carried out for the casualties of Mount Kelud's eruption. A middle-class ticket I bought brought me to a seat quite distanced from the stage. Unless you had binoculars as big as a tuba, plus the lighting was purposely made dim to add dramatic effects, it was impossible to see the faces of the fiddlers who were playing Yoshi's Island Hop Hop Donut Lifts.

But somehow... They looked handsome.


Their firm silhouettes in the dim light, their dedication I could feel addressing me, the audience. They could give their all.


So handsome! <3


So what's 'handsome' actually? It needs more than an international-standardized face. Handsome is... You, it can't be less than you.


But this blog will still talk about physical characteristics, because, no matter how flawless Monalisa painting is, it has always been the human Monalisa who is perfect. (Read: everybody is born a beauty, and I'll try to paraphrase the best of them).


P.S. This blog'll (try to) define 'pretty' too.



Gambar (picture source): veldtmanphotography.co.za

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