Umar Mita

Breathturn

2012-01-06T10:49:00.000+08:00

Bukit Tabur

1.1.2012

Music : Hammock - Breathturn.

Glidecam HD 2000

Canon 550D

Tamron 17-50 f2.8 (non vc)

"Climbing is as close as we can come to flying..."

-- Margaret Young, aviator and alpinist

Puisi Satu Petang.

2011-12-19T19:02:00.000+08:00

Puisi Satu Petang

11.12.11

Taman Tasik Shah Alam.

Anjuran Zine Satu Malam dan Buku Jalanan

Revelation

2011-12-15T20:37:00.000+08:00

Bukit Tabur

10.12.2011

an exquisite hike to the top.

enjoyed every bit of the adventure.

"One does not climb to attain enlightenment, rather one climbs because he is enlightened." -- Zen Master Futomaki

The Appleseed Cast - A Dream For Us

01. Shimmerglimmer

2011-12-01T04:00:00.001+08:00

28.11.2011

Seksyen 13, Shah Alam.

“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world,

too many people grow up. They forget.

They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old.

They patronize, they treat children as inferiors.

Well I won't do that.” - Walt Disney.

Aliya (Convocation)

2011-11-30T19:31:00.001+08:00

26.11.2011

KUIS.

11. Swallowed In The Sea

2011-11-27T06:36:00.001+08:00

25/11/2011,

Pantai Remis.
With Raihan, Hafizi, & Anis.

"Oh what good is it to live with nothing left to give

Forget but not forgive

Not loving all you see

Well that's where I belong

And you belong with me

Not swallowed in the sea"

All At Sea.

2011-11-23T21:52:00.001+08:00

Oct 2011

Kuala Perlis.

" The more tranquil a man becomes,

the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

-James Allen

02. Take Me Somewhere Nice

2011-11-17T12:37:00.001+08:00

28/10/2011

FRIM take two.

With Raihan and Faris.

some of the pictures are snapshots from video footages i shot that day.

thinking of doing something different. something new.

Esah&Peja

2011-11-15T16:28:00.001+08:00

15/10.2011

FRIM.

outing with Esah and Peja of Deepset (http://www.facebook.com/Deepset.Music)

together with Mukram.

I'm a big fan of their music.

Colours of Eid (Day 4 & 5)

2011-11-14T10:52:00.001+08:00

9 & 10/11/2011

spent the last two evenings at kuala perlis hangin out with friends

and helping anis with her assignements.

shot some footages for the next vid.

quite excited to see how the final video is going to look like.

Heads up!

Colours of Eid (Day 3)

2011-11-13T14:57:00.001+08:00

8/11/2011.

Bbq nite.

Thanks to everyone who came out that nite.

See you guys again next time.

Colours of Eid (Day 2)

2011-11-10T07:21:00.000+08:00

7/11/2011

Lot 715,

Kg Stesen,

02600 Arau,

Perlis.

Minn Heima (my home).

Colours of Eid (Day 1)

2011-11-08T04:54:00.000+08:00

6/11/2011

This year's Qurban was at usual place, MATRI.

Had lots of fun catching up with friends and relatives.

Inter-Part Mooting

2011-11-01T00:49:00.000+08:00

Some of the posters i designed for UITM Dean's Cup Challenge:

Inter-Part Mooting Competition 2011.

All At Sea

2011-10-27T05:43:00.001+08:00

Just me and my thoughts sailing far away

You don't need it every day

But sometimes don't you just crave

To disappear within your mind

You never know what you might find..

I'm all at sea

Where no one can bother me..

Jamie Cullum - All At Sea.

Morning, Starshine.

2011-10-24T09:30:00.000+08:00

Every morning is a wonderful blessing from God.

It stands for hope which gives us another start at what we call Life.

Have a good morning and great day!

Ali Husni Shariati,( Convocation)

2011-10-21T21:38:00.000+08:00

Ali Husni Shariati, Bachelor of English, IIUM. ( Convocation)

10.10.11

by Umar Mita

Farhan + Safiqah (Engagement)

2011-10-15T22:25:00.000+08:00

Farhan + Safiqah (Engagement)

Rawang, 9.10.2011

Photographed and edited by Umar Mita.

gday tday

2011-10-10T01:02:00.001+08:00

sometimes when you think you've had enough of the journey, you just need to look up to the sky. :)

Breathturn.

2011-10-08T05:21:00.002+08:00

‎"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

-Khalil Gibran

Hammock. Breathturn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rENnKECnfs

Tree Of Life

2011-10-08T00:04:00.002+08:00

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by people like me,

But only God can make a tree.

TREES

By Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

Image excerpt from the video "Perlis. Minn Heima."

http://www.facebook.com/umarmita/videos/minn.heima

shot and edited by umarmita.

Moonlight.

2011-10-05T20:10:00.004+08:00

aku di sini. bawah cahaya bulan.

ditinggal.

seorang.

tertunduk.

luka lama berdarah kembali.

Tucker and His Night Sky.

2011-10-05T03:28:00.011+08:00

"Music is beautiful."

- The Candlepark Stars(click)

We Give and We Get.

2011-09-28T22:02:00.004+08:00

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.

‎"Takk" (Thanks) excerpt.

http://vimeo.com/29356144

I need a hug

BLACK

2011-09-27T04:52:00.003+08:00

"There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it." -- Georgia O'Keeffe

DONT CLICK

"Takk" (Thanks)

2011-09-21T16:25:00.001+08:00

Play in HD .Use headphones and play out loud!

This video is dedicated to everyone who has been with me through thick and thin.

thanks for the support!

music: Sigur Ros - Takk

shot and edited by umarmita.

“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.”

Jesse Jackson

watch it better on vimeo - http://vimeo.com/29356144

visit my facebook page for future updates.

Umar Mita - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Umar-Mita/220496734671271?sk=wall

Takk!

07. us and them

2011-09-20T05:50:00.003+08:00

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

-Mae West

My Superheroes.

2011-09-16T03:44:00.002+08:00

More than a bird... more than a plane

More than some pretty faces beside a train

It’s not easy to be them.

Even heroes have the right to bleed..

IF you think i'm awesome, they're infinity times awesomer.

Electric Litany

2011-09-15T03:27:00.002+08:00

this is what i see every night before i sleep.

Eid Mubarak!

2011-09-03T21:42:00.002+08:00

"...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving."

Lewis B. Smedes - Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve

Eid Mubarak from me and my family!

lets forgive and forget.

This Will Destroy You.

2011-08-30T04:17:00.002+08:00

The world is our____.

This Will Destroy You : The world is our____.

3 Years in 3 Minutes.

2011-08-23T20:26:00.000+08:00

CRANK UP THA VOLUME & WATCH IN HD

Demoreel for The One Academy batch 88's exhibition.

Final year of Digital Animation Course.

Music - Linkin Park Reanimation - Cure For The Itch

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...In Valleys

2011-08-20T09:04:00.003+08:00

Hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik negeri sendiri.

Immanu EL - ...In Valleys

Don't look back in anger.

2011-08-18T10:21:00.003+08:00

Slip inside the eye of your mind

Don't you know you might find

A better place to play

You said that you'd never been

But all the things that you've seen

Will slowly fade away

Take me to the place where you go

Where nobody knows, if it's night or day.

A Farewell To Arms

2011-08-17T07:07:00.003+08:00

"Being strong sometimes means being able to let go."

its early in the morning and i'm feeling so gloomy.

i need my friends.

Ég Er Kominn Aftur (I’m Here Again)

2011-08-15T15:45:00.002+08:00

Ég Er Kominn Aftur

Inn I Þig

Það Er Svo Gott Að Vera Hér

En Stoppa Stutt Við

(I’m Here Again

Inside You

It’s So Nice In Here

But I Can't Stay For Long)

Rovaniemi (A forested ridge).

2011-08-15T00:46:00.002+08:00

No words for this picture. This song describes everything about it.

There is no need for words

2011-08-13T06:39:00.005+08:00

" The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

~Author Unknown

the quote is true indeed. i remembered after SPM me and aqharie always sat on the swing in front of his grandmother's house. we stared long into the sky. to the star. we never really talked much. but man, its just so comforting. honestly i hated so much when its time to go home. oh man i miss the good old days.

As I finally meet my end

2011-08-11T23:48:00.001+08:00

I just want to sleep forever

Never see tomorrow

Or lead or follow

I don't want to work forever

Know what I know

Or beg or borrow

Just like old lovers

Who never leave home

We'll forget the city

And forget the roads

'Cause we are all rebels

Never do what we're told

We may not grow money

But man we grow old

Man we grow old

Portugal Man - Sleep Forever.

Sleep forever.

2011-08-10T06:46:00.001+08:00

" Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover. "

- Mark Twain

Silent Scenery

2011-08-09T09:08:00.003+08:00

" A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. "

Leo Buscaglia

( god i miss perlis so much! feels like its taking me years to finish college when its only 3 weeks more. pffffft )

Minn Heima.

2011-08-05T09:39:00.003+08:00

Watch in HD and CRANK UP THE VOLUME.

Montage of 2 weeks in Perlis with friends and family.

Shot and edited by UmarMita.

music by Chris Clark - Jet Dry http://www.reverbnation.com/chrisclarkmusic

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All my life

2011-08-04T14:55:00.003+08:00

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:

that I am nobody but myself.

~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

Danger Disko

2011-07-31T04:32:00.002+08:00

“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”

-Bernice Johnson Reagon (American Historian and Musician. b.1942)

03 - Rooftop Dreamers

2011-07-13T17:47:00.004+08:00

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." -- Leonardo da Vinci

(pic taken on flight to sabah, before my camera spoiled. god i feel dead without my camera.)

05 - Light and Solitude

2011-06-27T01:50:00.003+08:00

"Do not try to run away from problems; that will only give them more strength to overcome you"
~ Matha Amritanandamayi Devi (September 27, 1953 - )

Explosions In The Sky.

2011-06-24T06:44:00.006+08:00

" Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. "
-Morihei Ueshiba

07 - A warm room

2011-06-24T04:20:00.013+08:00

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Envy Live in KL 2011
(KLPAC 17.6.2011)

REWIND (encore)

2011-06-08T18:09:00.005+08:00

"REWIND" by Umar Mita, was awarded 1st place in Youthnity Short Film Competition.

http://utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2011&dt=0607&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Kota&pg=wk_05.htm

REWIND is open for voting for "Video Of The Year" Category. Vote if you think i deserve it. :)

Click the link below to vote.

you can vote the same video once a day!

thank you!

http://www.wwwow.my/Detail.aspx?cd=080611170938297

03-Sabbath

2011-06-08T01:08:00.004+08:00

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

-Sophia Loren

images are from Youthnity Festival 2011, 1st-3rd June.

Taman Tasik Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur.

06. The Battle To Heaven

2011-06-02T03:56:00.002+08:00

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

03. Halcyon (Beautiful Days)

2011-06-01T00:09:00.002+08:00

" One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. " — Michael Cibenko

09 - Agætis Byrjun

2011-05-29T00:25:00.004+08:00

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Herman Hesse

Images are excerpt from the upcoming music video - "Waiting for The End" by Umar Mita Featuring Ali Husni Shariati.

Heads Up. Stay tuned !

Don't lose it..

2011-05-22T05:44:00.002+08:00

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

-Norman Cousins

The Hidden Sessions Vol.1

2011-05-20T22:59:00.006+08:00

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." ~Emily Dickinson

The Hidden Sessions,

13 & 14 May 2011 @ 8.30pm

Venue:

The Actors Studio @ Lot 10

Brought by Soundscape Records and The Actors Studio

Featuring Deepset, Akta Angkasa, & The Metaphor

Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/TheUmarmita for live videos.

Add me on facebook : http://www.facebook.com/mitaumaru

Sometimes the stars

2011-05-19T03:08:00.002+08:00

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

-Mother Teresa

IIUM Aikido Broga Hill sunrise trip

Timelapse captured by UmarMita

Magic Lantern v.2011Mar29.550d.fw109

by alex@karmic

http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/550D

Music by The Audreys : Sometimes the stars

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Endure the pain under the Moonlight..

2011-05-14T01:24:00.005+08:00

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

-Jim Morrison.

The Silent Cry. Stolen Scream.

MONO (KL Live at Bentley Music Auditorium, Damansara. 2011)

Moonlight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT8a4VTtqpo

Follow The Map - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvCtXjwRVA

Yearning - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkPePvJkq_c

Filmed by Umar Mita

We wont.

2011-05-09T13:24:00.008+08:00

We will not go down without a fight !

Malam Puisi Gaza 2
6/5/2011, Rumah Pena.
Kuala Lumpur.

Dealer in hope..

2011-05-05T21:02:00.002+08:00

A leader is a dealer in Hope

Lets be an Alim Mujahid.

2011-04-25T22:24:00.001+08:00

A short video presentation for the closing ceremony of Himega 2011.
A brief compilation of speeches from Himega graduates all around the world.
Edited by UmarMita

Credits to :
Ameen Misran
Ikrimah Husni
Nu'man Afifi
Hilal Asyraf
Tengku Fahmi
Syed Ahmad Fathi
Amin Roseli.

Music : Your Hand In Mine - Explosions in the sky

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Himega 2011

2011-04-25T05:37:00.001+08:00

"Nurtutring Alim Mujahid"

A short video presentation for the opening gimmick of HiMega 2011
Shot and Edited by Umar Mita.

Credits to :
Ali Husni Shariati
Umar Ismail
Najmi AR
Adam Kadir

Music : If I Rise by Dido & A.R. Rahman
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If I Rise..

2011-04-22T03:39:00.003+08:00

If I rise, they are on my drive

If I believe, it’s more than it is

More than it is

If I Rise.

Saying..

2011-04-17T12:05:00.005+08:00

where am I.. I don’t know.. I think I’m lost cause this all just looks the same who are you an unfamiliar face but my head told me to go this way.. It’s saying to me .. the voices in my head just keep on saying

-Vital: Saying

Pics shot on top of engineering faculty in UITM.

Bird's eye view of shah alam.

Lovely.

2011-04-14T03:43:00.003+08:00

Snapshots of my final website interface.

The presentation went well and the lecturers liked it. well what more could you ask for.

good day today.

Thanks Mudzaffar mansor for helping me to establish this website.

i hope to bring it online real soon.

so heads up. stay frosty !

Peace !

Challenge means Nuang.

2011-04-12T03:01:00.003+08:00

Mount Nuang. 4898 feet.

True definition of challenge. 7 hours of hiking non stop.

Subhanallah.

Alhamdulillah.

Allahuakbar.

are all i can say.

Such an awesome feeling to conquer the beast.

Thank you Allah for everything.

i wish i could be in the greens longer.

Next? Kinabalu !

Take care, Take care, Take care.

2011-04-05T03:37:00.003+08:00

The final messenger of God, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) mounted the pulpit, then wept and said, "Ask Allah (swt) for forgiveness and health, for after being granted certainty, one is given nothing better than health."
Related in Tirmidhi

Selamat Hari Jadi Mud..

2011-04-03T16:59:00.004+08:00

Selamat Hari Jadi Mudzaffar Mansor.
Ketua Rumah Al-Kahfi Shah Alam.
Semoga dipanjangkan umur dan peroleh redha ilahi.
InsyaAllah.

Final project..

2011-04-02T20:24:00.004+08:00

Just a sneak peak of what i've been doing for the past few months.
We're currently in pre-production of Final Year Final Project Development.
Every team were required to produce a short animation approximately not more than 3 minutes.
It was hectic. But its a challenge. Just another mountain for me to climb.
Hopefully we'll be able to finish it on time.
InsyaAllah.

Maya 2010
Model by Umar Mita
Concept by Olaf Yen.
by courtesy of Bulb S.

Like a dice..

2011-03-30T06:53:00.002+08:00

Life is big. Life is great.

Like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects..

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

quotes by; Alexis, Louisa May Alcott & Barbara de Angelis

Von..

2011-03-27T23:53:00.003+08:00

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.

images are excerpts from the video, Pewaris 2011

If we will only tune in..

2011-03-24T05:56:00.002+08:00

images are excerpts from the video Out Seeing The Fields

REWIND

2011-03-23T05:28:00.001+08:00

" It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth."

- Francois Rabelais

REWIND

Shot and edited by UmarMita

credits to Muttaqee Misran, for the extra footages of me.

People in this video : Muttaqee, Hairi, Fairuz, Najmi, UmarMita, Tengku Muhammad Fahmi

Music : Linkin Park - Crawling reanimation (Remix)

vid done as a practice for tracking, editing and compositing.

In the eye of the beholder..

2011-03-19T02:43:00.003+08:00

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

-Ivan Panin

Maybe..

2011-03-18T03:50:00.002+08:00

Maybe our perception of beauty is all distorted. stereotyped.

Maybe deep within we all are deceived by them.

Maybe we are more than the skin we are in.

Maybe we should start learning how to love what's within.

And maybe, just maybe.

We are all beautiful.

Just the way we are.

Senyumlah.

2011-03-16T06:19:00.002+08:00

Dari Abu Dzar ra., Rasulullah SAW bersabda : "Engkau tersenyum di depan saudaramu adalah sedekah" (Riwayat Bukhari dari Kitabul Adab)

I love seeing pictures with smiles in it.

It's just pure beauty. Something that cures even the slightest gloom in our heart.

so smile ! lets have a bright start for our day !

Irreplaceable..

2011-03-15T02:27:00.009+08:00

Kursus Jati Diri Kesukarelawan, Batu Ampar.

Gambar-gambar kenangan utk para peserta.

maaf andai ada senyuman yg tak ditangkap.

moga memori yg tersimpan dan input yg diberikan menjadi bekalan di dada.

Islam perlukan pemuda2 seperti antum untuk menjaga penjuru2nya

All the best for you guys in the future.

may Allah bless y'all.

missing hometown.

2011-03-13T23:46:00.006+08:00

I found lots of unused pictures in my hard disk.

i guess its better for me to put it here. cause its kind of a waste for me to take pictures but do nothing with it. well, at least its not buried forever there.

pictures were taken during Chinese new Year holiday. i went back to Perlis. just for a short refreshment and to be with my parents. now i've been away for quite some time and i'm missing them.

" No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. " ~Lin Yutang