FREE PHOTO GALLERY: March 2009

3/29/2009

10 wonders of the world left behind

1. The Wave. Between Arizona and Utah - USA

located in Arizona and Utah border. made of sand that are 190 million years which turned into stone.

2. Antelope Canyon. Arizona - USA

in Navajo Land, near Page, Arizona in South America.

3. Great Blue Hole (Belize)

are in the 60 mile distance from the city of Belize. circle with a diameter of 0.4 kilometers. a nice place for diving. in about 480 feet or 145 meters. because in that its color so dark blue

4. Crystal Cave of the Giants (Mexico)

located in the mining in Chihuahua Mexico. colors and a variety of shapes. color is gold and silver.

5. Eye of the Sahara (Mauritania)

are in the sahara desert southwest. diameter of 30 miles, so clearly visible from space. a rounded shape that is still a mystery.

6. Blue Lake Cave (Brazil)

7. Giants Causeway (Ireland)

This is caused by a reaction at the time vulkanik mountain erupt. most of the hexagonal shapes. the highest is 12 meters.

8. Hell Gate (Uzbekistan)

usually referred to "the door to hell." is located near the small town, Darvaz. 35 years ago, the team are geological dig to find the source of gas. but that they find is a large cave that fiery.

9. Wave Rock (Australia)

made naturally by itself. given the nickname "Wave Rock" because of wave-like shapes. height can reach 15 meters in length and up to 110 meters.

10. Chocolate Hills (Philippines)

width reaches 50 square kilometers. located in Bohol, Philippines.

3/24/2009

Unique Building Picture

3/23/2009

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008/2009 Part 1 - 6 --->>> VIDEO

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FedEx Cargo Plane CRASH at NARITA International Airport ,JAPAN --->>> NEWS and VIDEO

An inbound cargo plane operated by United States parcel delivery firm FedEx Corp. burst into flames at Narita International Airport Monday morning, killing 2 crew members, Japan's Jiji Press, reported.

This was the first-ever fatal accident at Narita, the largest gateway to Japan east of Tokyo, and the first in Japan since June 1996, when three died in a Garuda Indonesia jet's accident at Fukuoka Airport, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism said.

The plane, which was flying from China's Guangzhou, went out of a runway and flipped over after touchdown due to a gusty wind, officials of Narita International Airport Corp. said.

The cargo jet was manned by a 54-year-old captain and a 44-year-old co-pilot, and they were both confirmed dead, local police said.

It was carrying tonnes of flammable liquid, people familiar with the matter said.

According to the Meteorological Agency, winds of up to 20.1 meters per second were hitting the airport and surrounding areas around 6:50 a.m., when the accident took place.

News Source : http://www.bernama.com

3/17/2009

Free Photo Gallery - Nature Photo

Photo Gallery --> Pleasing the Mountain Spirits 2009 in Yogyakarta

The Bekakak bride was shown to the public before being sacrificed.

A man created a model that looked as if he was riding on turtle

Locals made dolls depicting the spirits and some dressed up as spirits themselves.

The slaughter of the Bekakak groom at Gamping Mountain. The sacrifice was believed to tame the spirits. The event became a place to show off local creativity.

Two men acted as if they were carried by dolls. The cultural parade enlivened the Saparan Bekakak ritual with a touch of fun.

Visitors grabbed fruit from the alms carriers. The alms are believed to bring good luck.

In 1755, when Prince Mangkubumi became king and assumed the title of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I, he occupied a temporary palace (keraton) in the Gamping mountain range, Sleman, Yogyakarta.

One unfortunate day, a royal servant Wirosuto and his wife disappeared. The palace believed they were captured by mountain spirits and the king ordered the people to hold a ritual to please the spirits and prevent it from happening again.

The ritual, called Saparan Bekakak, is done every Sapar month in the Javanese calendar, hence the name Saparan.

Bekakak means the sacrifice of animals or humans, but this ceremony uses dolls. A male and female doll sitting in crossed-legged positions were made of glutinous rice filled with palm sugar paste by a local shaman. They were dressed in Javanese wedding attire and brought along in a 5-kilometer procession from a nearby village to the mountain.

The procession held on Feb.13 this year, involved hundreds of people including students and people from the village acting as entertainers. The main ritual itself involved four soldiers on elephant back, 20 soldiers on horseback, a pair of Bekakak dolls, Delingsari soldiers and dolls depicting the evils spirits. There were also fruit offerings beautifully arranged and carried along in the procession.

Original Post By: www.thejakartapost.com

3/13/2009

Paris Fashion Week - Photo Gallery++++

3/07/2009

Building Unique Architecture

1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish drawer and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.

2. Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)

The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral”) was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.
The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.

3. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)

The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square- foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade
Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.

4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)

5. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)

6. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

7. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond.
The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.

8. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)