Strange Pair

Postcard 4

2012-02-16T11:03:00.000-08:00

04.01.2012

Hello all!

2012-01-08T07:10:00.000-08:00

Strange Pair have a new project!

It's 366 project!

So we both will post picture(s) everyday until the end of this year.
Every picture maybe will show you our daily life, what we do, what we see, what we feel.
We've been doing it for a week now.
Visit our 366 project here : strangepair.tumblr.com and follow us if you're on tumblr.

Have an awesome day!

A little hello from us

2011-12-27T08:26:00.000-08:00

So here we are, two persons behind Strange Pair,

waving to you all!

Keep reading our blog, we have more stories to come.

And have a nice day!

The spacecraft that didn't want to go home

2011-12-07T13:09:00.001-08:00

Voyager 1 probe has just reached the edge of the solar system and is still flying to some unknown places. This probe was sent to space on septembre 2nd 1977, and it's still cruising out there. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 was made originally to explore and study the farest planets of the solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and their moons. They even discovered some more moons in Saturn's and Neptune's rings. Their primary goal finished, they were sent to discover more and more, farther and farther until they stop working.

Voyager 1 is now the farest human probe ever, and it's going to keep going until about year 2020. This probe doesn't want to go home. It still wants to travel far far away, checking on the amazing wonders of the space. It still want to cruise this new empty space, looking back at us and sending pictures and datas, saying hi from time to time to us.

It must sometimes feels alone in the dark cold space, but we are still and we'll always be amazed by what it can do.

Go on Voyager 1, amaze us more everytime, makes us dream!

Postcard 3

2011-11-30T13:20:00.001-08:00

24.10.2011

The Astronaut

2011-11-07T08:00:00.000-08:00

There was an astronaut,

floating in space with his ship.

He was travelling further and further to do his mission.

And then he went outside his ship, and do free-flying,

floating, only with his spacesuit.

It was just for a moment, a small instant

but he can feel the emptiness around him.

He felt so lonely and tiny tiny in this big empty place.
He felt humble about his place and the place of mankind compared to all the undiscovered places.

But then he remembered,

he has a family on earth,

a warm family, waiting for him.

And suddenly the emptiness has just gone,

and everything felt so warm,

and the stars were smiling to him,

accompany him flying back to his ship.

It's time to go home astronaut.

{Words : from our random talk}

{Image : from here}

:D

2011-10-25T09:07:00.000-07:00

The 3rd postcard is on its way from Jakarta to Paris!
It's travelling through space now!

Postcard 2

2011-09-12T09:27:00.000-07:00

01.09.2011

Postcard 1

2011-07-11T08:14:00.000-07:00

21.06.2011

Gathering at moonlight

2011-07-07T02:01:00.000-07:00

It's time. It's full moon tonight. It's time to go.
Rabbit prepared his tools before going. Nothing must be forgotten for tonight's trip. He has only one night to do it, so he has to make sure of everything. Tonight he's going to collect some ingredients for his mistress's potion, like he does every month at the same time.

This little rabbit is just the rabbit on the moon which you can see when you look at the moon, especially on full moon. He is the companion of Chang'e, moon goddess for whom he prepare some potion from time to time.

And on every full moon, Rabbit goes back to earth to get the ingredients for his potion and also food. Only on full moon he can jump down to earth, do what he has to do and go back to moon before sunrise! Otherwise he'll be stuck on earth for a month, and he don't like it when he leave his mistress all alone that long.

It's time. Package is ready, let's go. Rabbit took his backpack and headed to earth slowly sliding over the first moonbeams. Yes, when the moon is full, beams appears from the moon to earth. That's his way to get to earth.

Arriving on earth, no time to rest! He needs to go fast to get back to the moon just before sunrise. He knows where to find his ingredients, no time to waste. He goes fast from a bush to another, gathering fruits and seeds and leaves, looking from time to time to the moon up there checking how much time he has left.

After a long night of collecting and gathering, and a full bag, rabbit sit down on a stone, for a little rest, watching the moon. He thought about his friends down here that he miss and promised himself to pay them a visit next time he comes to earth, on next full moon. He likes his job, being on the moon. From up there he can see what's happening on eath, and look after his friends.

Sunrise is approching. Rabbit get his bag, looked at the east where the first lights of the sun were coming, and then he jumped on the last moonbeam, back home to his mistress. On his way to the moon, he looked back to earth saying "see you later beautiful".

NEW PROJECT!

2011-06-28T09:29:00.000-07:00

Strangepair has a new project!
It's a postcard project!

It began when we were talking about how people often use postcards nowadays, and then Mehdi had a cool idea, we should send a postcard to each other. But not regular postcards!
We are going to make them and draw something on them! Homemade postcards! And the drawings we will make will be connected so we can put the postcards beside each other and make a long postcard line!

So keep visiting our blog, we will post the photos of our postcard here! :)

About Justin Pierre and Capybara

2011-04-25T08:25:00.000-07:00

Justin Pierre and Capybara are two of our favorite things.

As we said before, Justin Pierre and his band, The Farewell Continental, have a cool song called "Capybara", so we decided to make a tribute for them, a collage of Justin Pierre and Capybara!

So here it is, our silly collage.

Hope you like it Justin!

The Farewell Continental

2011-04-22T06:13:00.000-07:00

The Farewell Continental Group of North America is a new band with Justin Pierre from Motion City Soundtrack! For what we've hear it's really good. But the best part, is that they made a song called "Capybara"!

Can you believe that! And it was featured on Alt Press website on a friday, which is a particular day for us as we celebrate Harold, our capybara here! double awesomeness!

Thank you Justin and all of The Farewell Continental for this awesome song!

Go listen to Capybara here!
Go check farewellcontinental.com

The Tales of a Mountain And a Cloud

2011-03-09T01:13:00.000-08:00

Have you ever felt that you're stuck at the same place for a long time?
Haven't able to move your body, your mind, your perspective, and just stay on the same place even when your imagination is somewhere out there?

That's what the Mr. Mountain think about right now.
Mr. Mountain is a big mountain, he has a beautiful landscape, amazing scenery, a lot of secret places that people must visit before they die, and another interesting things.

But he has one thing in his mind.
He wants to see the world.
He knows that he's big and tall and he can see everything from his place, but he has a limited eyesight, and he feels bored for staying there for a hundred or maybe a thousand years.
So he wants to move, go to another place, to feel his skin touching another land, enjoy another scenery, and meet a lot of new friends, new mountains, and everything.

He always waiting for that time to come.

Until one day..

The sky was blue that day, it was a perfect day to spend the day looking at the sky, wondering.
But suddenly Mr. Mountain heard someone's voice..
"Such a beautiful day to travel, isn't it Sir?"

And then Mr. Mountain was looking up, and there's Cloud there, floating above him.
Cloud was a very white creature, with some curls and a fading tail. He was looking down to the land where Mr. Mountain stands still, with a big smile of fullness.

"Don't talk to me about travel, kid!", said Mr. Mountain.
"Oh why so? Travelling is good, I love to travel" , says Cloud.
"Well.. not for me. I don't know how to travel, I don't even know how to move from this place!" , Mr. Mountain answers.

And then Mr. Mountain tells Cloud his story how he wanted to travel so much. It started years ago when he was a young mountain. He was looking at the sky, and all he wants to do is to travel, and to look at the sky from a lot of different places.
But then he grew older, and he realized that his dream would be just a dream, cause he can't move anywhere, he's just a mountain, who will stay at the same place for another thousand of years.

And it makes him very sad..

[To be continue]

Build me a treehouse

2011-03-09T01:03:00.000-08:00

First, let me tell you what is a treehouse. It's not the little house on the tree where your kids can go and play, it's a real house that stands entirely on a tree. A real house with all the rooms and everything is hanging in the air. Isn't it beautiful?

Cool houses with cool architecture are so amazing! Especially when there is different floors and stages in the house! Well, actually not all of these house are treehouses. They're more like houses standing on poles, with unsual architecture on an unusual ground. These uncommon houses must be really fun to live in. They seem interesting architecturally and interior design speaking. Why would anyone leave from there?

Jessie walked home from the bus stop. It's been a long time since she didn't get on this road. So many memories coming back makes her feel a little nostalgic. not so much changes around this road, maybe some more houses, but the old ones are still here, same as before. At the end of the road, her house will stand up as always, on that ancient tree, where she left it.

Funny feeling, she hitted the road for so many years, and coming back home is the best feeling she's having right now. She missed the treehouse so much.. She never felt home in all the places she visited. She visited amazing places, but the return to her home makes her feel warm and relieved and her heart began to beat faster.

Soon she'll be home...

Happy harold's day!

2010-08-20T02:30:00.000-07:00

Because it's Friday :)

Tom,

2010-08-11T09:54:00.000-07:00

when his life is changing.

Life changes...

2010-05-21T04:56:00.000-07:00

"that hurts!". That's what thought Tom after getting beaten by his opponent. But he has to get up again and fight. No time to rest. Get back on your feet and fight! Even if it's just training! The guy in front is really strong and muscular. Tom looks like a tiny shrimp in front of him, skinny and with no shape at all. It's like he is not supposed to be here. Everyone in here looks like a big amount of shiny muscles except him. Even the sword he hardly can manage it or raise it correctly. Usually there's a shield, but he can't use it because his two hands are busy with the heavy sword.

- "What are you doing here? Seriously, what made you think you'll fit in here?

- You don't belong here! You're too weak for this job!

- Go home! you're just wasting your time and ours!"

All the kind words his partners tell him everyday in this training camp. But he's going to stay there and stick to his goal. He's still not really sure about it though, but he's going to continue in this path. Even if it's really hard for him.

Being in the army wasn't always his dream. It never was in fact. That idea looked so silly for him. He wasn't made for that. But he has been a little forced to go there. His village perished with fire after being attacked by warriors. All the people he knew were killed during the attack. He was lucky that day. He was supposed to be in the fields of apple trees but he went through the forest near by. When he came back, it was all burn down.

He was so scared he began to run and run, as fast as he can and as much his legs can do. He didn't know where to go so he kept running, expecting to find something on the way. His final destination was this military camp, where he decided to involve himself to, maybe that will help him to find a way to escape this nightmare.

He has been here since the attack. He never told about it to the others. Well even if they listen. Sometimes he thought of leaving this place, but where will he go? he's got nowhere else to go! Even here he's not very welcome, but he'll stick with this. Maybe with time he will improve his fighting skills and be useful. Let's hope this is soon, because he heard the deployment is imminent, and he will soon face the people whom destroyed his life.

Harold

2010-05-19T02:02:00.000-07:00

Harold

2010-05-15T02:40:00.000-07:00

Have you ever thought that you're not in the right place? Like you were supposed to be somewhere else? Like you are sure that life has made other plans for you? Harold always thought that. Sometimes this make him wake up at nights.

Tonight was the same. He woke up again. He looked at the sky. It was full of stars. Usually there was a lot of clouds and lights everywhere, but not this night. Well, maybe he was still dreaming. He has a lot of dreams. Dreams of adventures and epic tales. Slaying enemies, saving princesses, discovering beautiful places around the world. He loves his dreams but it's just a dream, he'll wake up sooner or later.

Harold loved when he saw the stars tonight. Or it was just his mood of tonight. He knows by the others that he will be moving tomorrow. He's so excited to see new places and new people! He likes meeting new faces and new people. Tomorrow will be the beginning of a big journey!

What you don't know is that Harold lives in a zoo. Harold is a capybara, that giant rodent with the dandy look. But Harold is a little different. Sometimes his keepers thinks he understand them when they talk. Yes he do, but he don't show it. He likes when they play with him and he just show them his affection when they talk to him or scratch him under his belly or his chin. He likes human contacts.

He will miss those people. They are like family for him. He knows them since he was born in fact. they looked after him all the time, when he was sick, and always when he was going well. But tomorrow he will go somewhere else. That's why today he showed them a lot of affection and love, to show them how much he is grateful to all the things they made for him. He's so glad to travel but in the same time he is sad to quit these people and this place.

Maybe that's why he is wake up tonight. He's so excited for all this. Like in his dreams. Tomorrow, a new adventure begins!