unique aquarium made from car
Friday, March 12th, 2010 |this aquarium are from thailand south east asia, i think it was a huge creative idea. just take a look on the picture and if you want to see it real you should take a flight and go to thailand 
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batik pattern made by daydaily.com author
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 |i make this batik pattern this morning, beside manage this website, i also make some design and batik are our concern right now. we try to endorse batik that origins came from indonesia in order malaysia didn’t claim it as their cultures. so, we as indonesian youth try to endorse and promote it to whole the world that batik pattern are came from indonesia. this is one of our creation, hope you like it :
if you wanna make this pattern as a product, you shold contact motekar_bandung@yahoo.com to ask permition.
regards
cool samurai wallpaper
Friday, March 5th, 2010 |this is wallpaper on my desktop, very awesome isn’t it? just click to the picture to enlarge this wallpaper and then you can save it on your personal computer and make it as your desktop wallpaper.
living room design ideas
Monday, March 1st, 2010 |There are living room design is a beautiful and clean, if you have a living room designed like this, you will feel comfortable in the room , you will feel how beautiful his home and how proud you will have it .. we chose some living design room for you to make reference, please see some of the following design
The living room represents the owner’s personality. Furniture and decor in this room determine whether guests will be welcomed in a formal or a casual manner. Chairs with straight backs, made of solid materials, will create a stiff feeling, while chairs with a simple, but functional, design will make guests feel at home and encourage friendly gatherings.The living room does not need to be spacious, because guests do not always drop by in large numbers. Nowadays, most families, especially young families, tend to have a small living room but with furniture that reflect their characters, and are simple and dynamic,”” said Lisa Miranti, an interior designer.Contemporary sofas are made of soft fabrics and are quite solid, but still make comfortable seats.To save space and allow for flexibility in arranging the furniture, many like to place small side-tables at corners between chairs and so link them in an arc. Lisa said backless sofas are a new trend and function like a bench or chair, but provides more space. (more…)
unique floor design by motoi yamamoto
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 |
A former dockyard worker, Motoi Yamamoto is now one of Japan’s most talented artists, known all over the world for his intricate artworks, made of salt.
His working with this unusual medium was caused by the death of his younger sister, back in 1994. Mr. Yamamoto says that by working with free-form salt he is able to touch precious memories from the time his sister was alive, something he just can’t do by simply looking at pictures or reading a diary.
Some of his most amazing works are the intricate salt labyrinths. When he’s creating them, Motoi Yamamoto feels like he is following a trace of his memory that he can only reach when the work is completed. He stands in a cross-leg position for hours-on0end carefully laying the lines of salt, until he reaches the essential point in his memories.
Salt plays an important role in many cultures Like Hinduism or Japanese Shinto. Motoi Yamamoto uses salt as a life-giving substance, so after his art installations are no longer exhibited, he insists the salt be thrown back into the ocean so it can continue its path.
Indonesian Batik has a worldwide recognition
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 |The word “batik” is Indonesian in origin, even if the concept was known by Egyptians and Indians. It is known to be more than a millenium old, and there are evidences that cloth decorated through some form of resist technique was in use in the early centuries AD in several West African, Middle-Eastern and Asian communities.
The word Batik is originally an Idonesian-Malay word and means to dot .This art of textile is spread in the hindu and malay world, but Indonesia is certainly the heart of the Batik.This way of painting and coloring textile has reached its higher degree of excellence in the Island of Java , in cities like Solo, Yogyakarta, Pekalongan or Cirebon. From Java this ‘batik’ cloth was exported to other islands of the archipelago and to the Malay peninsula.
On the 17th century, the Javanese sultanate of Mataram accorded important ceremonial functions to the Batik clothes. Sultan Agung of Mataram is known to have dressed in white cotton decorated with Indigo blue, and his court dancers wore kain kembangan colored with a red organic dye.
During the past two or three centuries batik has become one of the principal means of expression of the spiritual and cultural values of Southeast Asia.
batik | indonesian art of pattern textille
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 |Although the process of decorating cloth through the process of batik is found in several regions in Africa or India and even in some South East Asian countries, the batik of Indonesia is unique and unequaled. Indonesian Batik is made in several regions, but the center of the art is Central Java, in cities like Yogyakarta, Solo, Cirebon, Pekalongan and Indramayu.
The pride of Indonesians to wear batik till the present day has preserve this art of textile.
The beauty of Batik is a tribute to the patience, creativity of the woman of Java, the main island of Indonesia. Credit should be also given to men who prepare the cloth and handle the dyeing and finishing process.
Batik is generally thought of as the most quintessentially Indonesian textile. Motifs of flowers, twinning plants, leaves buds, flowers, birds, butterflies, fish, insects and geometric forms are rich in symbolic association and variety; there are about three thousand recorded batik patterns.
sources : www.discover-indo.tierranet.com
Mercedes C250 CGI with batik pattern
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 |No less than 200 invitations from ambassadors from various countries in Jakarta, businessmen, bankers, celebrities, and other community leaders who meet the porch of City Hall Special Capital Region (DKI) Jakarta was filled with wonder when the veil covering the Mercedes-Benz C250 CGI still not opened.
Looking over his eyes corners of the veil of cloth, looking for cracks as what was the car that was mentioned was typically had a pattern as any other Mercedes Benz models. Understandably, the host of the celebration, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo when giving a speech called another car from another.
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fractal batik | when the science, art and culture meet
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 |Fractal is a mathematical way to generate amazing pictures from simple rules, beating more than averages human artists. When fractal is used as motif in Batik (Indonesian traditional garment) the result is just astounding (and expensive too of course).
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The idea was brought by the Pixel People Project. They designed the motif by using a fractal software, then sent it to the batik craftsman, known as Komar, who produced the batik using the traditional tools (canting, malam, dye, etc.). Their innovation got instant recognitions, i.e. the ministry of Research & Technology kindly sponsored the innovation. However, they also received some critiques that the motif is out of pakem (the proper way). In my opinion though, this is the modern way of Batik. It just great. I saw the Batiks at their exhibition, all were the high class batik I cannot afford (Lucky me, Komar said he will send a gift for me).
So where is my lines in this story ? Well, I’m the one that developed the Batik Fractal Software, known as iBatik. You may try the light weight Applet from the People Pixel Project web site. The complete program is still in alpha stage, so it is not released yet. Stay tuned.
source : http://dosen.tf.itb.ac.id/mursito/2008/05/31/fractal/
Basics of Landscape design
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 |Everyone who has ever built a home for himself or herself thinks that he or she is an expert landscape designer. But not so fast! There is more to landscape design than a bedroom with a bed and some pictures. The crux of landscape design is creating an outdoor space that is aesthetically pleasing and enjoyable to all. Whether you have a small patch behind your home or several acres of magnificent gardens, the principles of landscape design are mostly similar.
Landscaping blends the natural surroundings of a home with its architectural design and creates beautiful gardens. The main considerations while landscaping is the scale or size of the property, along with its style. Other considerations include type of soil, amount of sunlight, existing drainage system and the type of garden design of your choice, like a Japanese garden.
There are certain key elements that aid the process of landscape designing and help convert the outdoors into a beautiful garden. Landscape designing is both an art as well as a science.
There are basic principles of landscape design that help transform your garden:
• Color: The color combination of plants and flowers lends a unique quality to the garden. Choice of color depends on other considerations of landscaping principles.
• Line: A linear pattern attracts attention to areas in the garden and directs the physical movement into the garden. The viewer’s eye movement can b governed by the arrangements of plants and their borders. Eye movement is unconsciously influenced by the way plants flow together.
• Form: The form of plants and trees lends unique character to the garden with different shapes and sizes creating a natural pattern. Tree forms come in various patterns like stiff upright branches of Lombardy poplar trees and the droopy quality of a weeping willow.
• Texture: Plants with various textures can add different looks to your garden.Texture can introduce variety into the garden without threatening its unity.
• Scale: Your garden design must balance the size of the home as well as allow adequate space to move about.
There are seven principles that define the science of landscape design.
They are:
• Unity: A central theme or a unified design helps create a beautiful garden.
• Balance: The plants, the walkways etc. should be laid out in a symmetrical or asymmetrical plan to achieve a sense of balance.
• Transition: Various elements, shrubs, trees and plants must blend naturally into each other to create a look of smooth transition.
• Proportion: Plants and trees must be planted with a sense of proportion so that components in the landscape are proportional to the landscape as a whole.
• Rhythm: The patterns created by forms, lines and colors must work together naturally to create a rhythm that can be enjoyed by all.
• Focal point: By using form, balance and line, you can develop a focal point around which your garden is based.
• Repetition: repetition of patterns and forms leads to a good overall look for the garden, creating a sense of unity and rhythm as well.
After implementing these design principles, it is time to choose the plants. Consider the plants as decorative aids like things inside your home. To choose the plants, a study of soil conditions as well as the sunlight must be done by a landscape designer. Judge the sunlight exposure throughout the garden. This will help you buy plants that are sensitive to the amount of sunlight, and prevent them from dying or rotting. Plants should not overwhelm the lovely features of your home’s exterior.
