Famous Places Around the World Turned Into Miniature Scenes

Article by Michael Zhang · May 04, 2013

 

New York-based photographer Richard Silver is a passionate traveler, and his primary goal as an artist is to share his life experiences by creating beautiful photographs during his travels. Rather than shoot traditional photos, he uses techniques such as tilt shift, HDR, panorama, and time-slice in order to capture the world in eye-catching ways. Last year we shared his time-slice photos of NYC, which showed day turning into night in single photos.
Another major project he has been working on is called “Tilt Shift.” He has been photographing some of the world’s most famous locations and turning them into miniature scenes.

The project contains photos snapped in locations ranging from the famous structures of Machu Picchu (as seen above) to runners streaming down a road during the New York Marathon.
Silver says, “People always ask me, How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small? Simple, we are!” Thus, his goal with the project is to “give the viewer a new way of seeing themselves and their place in the world.”
The photographer tells us he was inspired by the tilt-shift work of Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri. However, instead of using an actual tilt-shift lens, Silver shot “normal” photographs and then applied an artificial shallow depth of field to the images using Photoshop during post-processing.
“I appreciate the freedom that digital gives me especially with this ongoing project,” he says.
So far, Silver has already visited all 7 New Wonders of the World (one of the lists, at least), and has applied this tilt-shift style to all of them.

The US Open in New York City

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Acropolis

Ahu Tangariki

Palm Islands in Dubai

The White House in Washington, DC

The World Trade Center Memorial

The Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem

Colesium

The Great Wall of China

Teotihuacan, Mexico

Brooklyn Bridge

Roman ruins

The New York Marathon in 2011

Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Zocalo, Mexico

Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey

Snow walkers in Iceland

Silver’s photographs are now being exhibited in galleries located in many of the countries he has visited (over 50 of them around the world).

Read more at http://petapixel.com/2013/05/04/photographer-turns-famous-locations-around-the-world-into-miniature-scenes/#lbHtQB6h1MOOsFvr.99

The History of Jewellery

 

 

The word ‘jewelry’ traces its origin to the Latin word ‘jocale’, which literally meant ’plaything’. The word ‘jewel’ was has been derived from the old French word ‘jouel’, anglicized in the 13^th century. Jewelry has been used for ages, though not necessarily for the purpose of ornamentation. In the most basic form, jewels have been used, since the times when early humans began to use tools and wear clothing. As humans became proficient in the use of tools and metals, the crude jewelry progressed to assume beautiful shapes and designs. The article dwells on the history of jewelry at length. Read on to know some interesting information and amazing facts about how it came into existence.

Interesting & Amazing Information On Origin & Background Of Jewellery

It is interesting to note that that jewelry which is today available in such exquisite designs, glossy stones and material was first made of readily available natural materials, such as animal teeth, bone, different types of shells, carved stones and wood. Initially, jewelry was more of a functional item, used to fasten articles of clothing together, and it was not associated with decorative purposes. However, with the passage of time, it was adapted for being purely used as an object of aesthetic ornamentation. It also came to be used as a spiritual and religious symbol.

 

The first gemstones are considered to be gathered in as much the same way as food. It is highly likely that the gems came to an accidental notice, while the primitive humans were searching for food, picking through alluvial gravels in a dry river bed that contained gems. Prima facie, these dazzling, rather useless pieces of stones were harder than any naturally occurring substance and their transparency could be used for capturing the warmth of fire, brightness of sun and blue depth of sea and sky. However, even the primitives soon learnt the right use of these precious stones and as mankind progressed, jewelry very well became a symbol of wealth and status.

 

It was the ancestors of Homo Sapeins, which actually began the tradition of making jewelry for the purpose of ornamentation. Early humans traveled from Central Africa to the Middle East, the Indus Valley, and to the continent of Europe, collecting objects that interested them and fashioning them into pieces of jewelry, notably to narrate the story of their journey. Mas d’Azil is a paleolithic cave site in the mountains of France, where a French archaeologist found necklaces and bracelets made of bone, teeth, mother-of-pearl, shells and stone, strung together with a single piece of twine. This jewelry roughly belonged to the period between 17,800 and 6,500 BC.

 

The earliest used metal for making jewelry was ‘’free gold’’, which was found in Spanish caves and was native to the region. The initials signs of crude metallurgy were witnessed over 10,000 years ago, when native copper, meteoric iron, silver and tin were first used by humans to create tools and possibly, jewelry. While the history of jewelry suffers from the lack of credible documentation, perhaps due to its archaic roots, there is no denying the fact that the contemporary pieces of jewelry worn by women today, has evolved through a series of phases, to enjoy the popularity it holds today.

 

Source was  taken from:  The Den Toronto (http://thedentoronto.tumblr.com/)

Damn cold night!

I am lonely.
I am longing.
I am aching.
I feel cold inside.
I want the warmth of a good night’s kiss.
or even just a call or a text to wish me a good night’s rest.
or lovely dreams.
I want to be wrapped in someone’s arms.
I want to feel warmth and strength.
I want the heady feel of tangled legs and sheets,
of soft breaths and rough skin.
I am lonely.
and on cold nights like this,
I wish I wasn’t alone.

Written by Oldry Ronald

An Epic Event

Yogyakarta March 5, 2013

There was an epic event in Literature Faculty of Technology University of Yogyakarta or generally known as FIB UTY. The event was created by KOMPAK community of UTY literature students which is stand for (Komedi Puisi Akustik) and it was a debut event of KOMPAK community itself.
Frankly, it was not only one of many event that presented but there were many cases that made it tremendously remarkable.
Literature students of UTY were so creative and emotive, their work was so fantastic, they were presenting stand up comedy, acoustic singing competition, battle poetry and in the end they presented traditional dance from Papua which was the most unique that ever presented.
The event was not only participated by literature students but also was taken a part by many literature lecturers and it was proved that the event was so fabulous.
Students were watching it enthusiastically and best response was also enunciated from that event.
The comedian were cranking the audiences up by their performance and it was making the atmosphere became much noisy and excited.
Right after the comedians were ended it was changed by battle poetry competition and it was so great because the audiences was freshened by soulful words and meaningful poetry from the poetry readers.
And afterward, the acoustic bands were presenting their song and it made the situation became blue, the audiences were blown away by their performance.
One thing that made it so special because KOMPAK community tried to bring something new by presenting traditional dance from Papua, it named Sajojo Dance. Sajojo dance itself was a popular dance in Papua and it was believed as a special dance from people who are living in the east of Indonesia or commonly known as Papua island.
The dance was originally from the culture of Papua and it was so meaningful in particularly for traditional ceremony in the night when the full moon.
The dance not only presented by the native which is study in UTY but also from outsider, it was performed by 6 students divided by 3 male and 3 female students.
The aiming of that event was for trying to keep the culture and unify the diversity for not only student but for all people in Indonesia, and reviving the spirit of tolerance as human being in life among the religion differences, culture differences, social differences and many more.
This was hopefully for students to show their ability in the right path.



 Written by Oldry Ronald