Situasi di Makkah abad ke-19 lewat Foto Snouck Hurgronje

Foto-foto dari Mekkah, yang belum pernah dipublikasi, kini dikumpulkan di buku Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Foto dibuat di abad ke-19 oleh ilmuwan Belanda Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje.Hurgronje salah satu orang Barat pertama masuk kota Mekkah. Di zaman itu orang Barat dilarang ke Mekkah. Ia satu-satunya orang Barat yang pernah mengunjungi kota suci dengan menyamar. Snouck Hurgronje diperbolehkan mengunjungi Mekkah, karena telah masuk Islam. Nama Islamnya Abdul Ghaffar.

Hingga sekarang tidak jelas apakah Snouck Hurgronje benar-benar seorang muslim saleh. Yang pasti, ia salah satu orang Belanda pertama yang menyadari betapa pentingnya mengerti lebih banyak tentang Islam, karena di zaman itu Hindia Belanda yang Islam – Indonesia sekarang – adalah jajahan penting Belanda.
Di antara foto-foto yang dikumpulkan dalam buku itu, ada enam foto yang menarik perhatian. Foto itu dibuat Snouck Hurgronje secara diam-diam dengan kamera kecil. Foto itu dipublikasikan dalam buku Durkje van der Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, The First Western Photographer in Mecca, 1884-1885. Buku foto ini merupakan bagian dari serial ‘Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography’ (republika.co.id)

Sumber foto : republika.co.id

SENI GAMBAR 3 DIMENSI jalanan yang membuat TAKJUB !!

We had some of these chalk drawings in Daily Picdump. Now it’s time to see the whole process of this awesome 3D LEGO masterpiece’s creation. This piece of street art was drawn at the Sarasota Chalk Festival in Florida.

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di kutip dari : http://www.klikunic.com/2011/11/seni-gamabr-3dimensi-jalanan-yang.html#ixzz1dGgN5fN6

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FOTO PROSESPEMBUATAN MENARA EIFEL - PARIS

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Parisian landmark is the tallest structure in Paris and one of the most recognized structures in the world and is named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel.



The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World's Fair marking the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. The structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tons. Depending on the ambient temperature the top of the tower may shift away from the sun by up to 18 cm (7 in) due to thermal expansion of the metal on the side facing the sun. The tower also sways 6-7 cm (2-3 in) in the wind.





The tower was inaugurated on 31 March 1889, and opened on 6 May. Three hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of puddled iron (a very pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million rivets, in a structural design by Maurice Koechlin. The risk of accident was great, for unlike modern skyscrapers the tower is an open frame without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. Yet because Eiffel took safety precautions including use of movable stagings, guard-rails and screens, only one man died.





At the time the tower was built many people were shocked by its daring shape. Gustave Eiffel was criticised for the design and accused of trying to create something artistic, or inartistic according to the viewer, without regard to engineering. Eiffel and his engineers, as renowned bridge builders however, understood the importance of wind forces and knew that if they were going to build the tallest structure in the world they had to be certain it would withstand the wind.



Since the beginning of the 20th century, the tower has been used for radio transmission. Until the 1950s, an occasionally modified set of antenna wires ran from the summit to anchors on the Avenue de Suffren and Champ de Mars. They were connected to long-wave transmitters in small bunkers; in 1909, a permanent underground radio centre was built near the south pillar and still exists today. On 20 November 1913 the Paris Observatory, using the Eiffel Tower as an antenna, exchanged sustained wireless signals with the United States Naval Observatory which used an antenna in Arlington, Virginia.

Seni Lukis di Bulu Angsa

LUKISAN 3 DIMENSI ini hanya terbuat dari KERTAS dan SENTUHAN pensil

How it all began: Fredo's first picture of a butterfly, which led him to develop his technique

Busting through: An elephant seemingly charges its way through the paper

Scary: Spread across two pages, this series looks like a man is jumping off the paper

Out of the box: This picture looks like a puppet is being pulled out of the box

Down time: This man is waiting with an empty glass of wine

After adding in the shade with a set of charcoals, he took a photograph - and has never looked back.
With his own blog, thousands of fans on his Facebook page, and countless pages dedicated to his work, Fredo is now keen to expand on his talents and take his art to the streets of Santiago and beyond.

Picture frame: The photograph is handing Fredo a pencil in this image

Helping hand: Bionic and human joints combine in this picture

Pathway: This sketch looks like an intricate wood carving

Hard at work: A make believe image of Fredo pondering on his next project