Ludruk artistry in Surabaya, East Java. At this time, as a result of cultural decline ludruk outside. Ludruk still can we encounter in the area of Surabaya, Mojokerto and Jombang. Ludruk is dramatics traditionally accompanied by gamelan instrument. Ludruk take setting the story of everyday life and legends of the people. Ludruk acceptable to all parties either never attended school or never attended school because it has the language straightforward. The main character from East Java who became ludruk legend is Cak Durasim.

In the past the majority of Ludruk played by male players that can become two sides. Male players can also play into women's player. Now this existence in Surabaya ludruk consists of two communities namely ludruk at RRI (Radio Republik Indonesia) and Karya Budaya in THR (Taman Hiburan Rakyat) Surabaya. Regeneration was done a long time ago, that sublime culture cultural heritage still preserved. One way to regenerate is cross-generational and festival Ludruk for students. Ludruk have a function as education and the formation of character for a player or an audience.

Cross Generation of Ludruk 

The conditions for the less favored ludruk now by the community of East Java. Ludruk born first was born in the coastal region (Surabaya, Jombang, Mojokerto) in the community under which many displays of humor. Ludruk more like comedy shown in certain times for the lower classes. That's what led to the story in a more general story ludruk.

Initiation ceremony is a tradition in my University, Airlangga University, Surabaya (East Java). Every year we held an initiation to welcome new students and new families. Since 2003 I have always helped the process of initiation and often becomes a painter for the shaman who will lead the initiation.

Wild Motif

Detail painting process

Hindu rituals in the temples of jolotundo, usually done on the day or evening. At a certain moment, done at night. Jolotundo Temple is a temple of the hindu period when jaya Jaya. This temple is associated with King Airlangga.The Jolotundo Temple in the old reports are sometimes called Jeluktondo is a sacred bathing place or baths. Bangunanini made entirely from stones, measuring 16,85 m X 13,52 m. aft the swimming attached on the Ridge with the way, such that it is taller than the building. From here it gets water shower-shower flows back into the pool.In the middle of the wall there are two-storey terrace overhanging into the middle of the pond on the left and right were also attached to the rear wall of the pool room. Booths this pool is surrounded by a wall, now lives in part and the packing is not regular anymore. On the terrace there is the central part of the climax of the first stone that serves as the fountain, stone supported by 16 conditioned relief. Already since the old stones sculptures reside partially, partly in the Museum Center.

Fresh water is always flowing

Pray after bath

With a mobile phone that has a camera, I tried photographing something that struck me as interesting. Including bad weather that hit the region twice this month Indonesia. The rain that accompanied the wind caused a lot of damage.

Weather comprising phenomenon that occurs in the Earth's atmosphere or a planet. The weather usually is an activity of this phenomenon within the next few days. Average weather with a longer period of time known as the climate. This aspect of the weather further researched by expert climatology for signs of climate change. Weather occurs due to different temperature and humidity from one place to another place. This difference can occur due to the angle of the Sun's warming differs from one place to another because of different latitudes of the Earth. The difference between the temperature of the air is high in the tropics and the polar regions can cause jet streams. The Earth's axis than Earth's orbit are tilted towards the Sun all year round weather makes a difference to sub tropical to polar regions. At the Earth's surface temperature normally ranges from 40 c.

Black Cloud

Black Cloud in front of my home stay

Uprooted Trees on The Road (Jrengik Road-Madura Island) 

Aming and Julia Peres

On 19 January 2012 a musician who was well liked by teens and music lovers: Kety Perry. Ketty Perry held a concert at the SICC Bogor West Java. Various backgrounds come to see the appearance of the Ketty Perry although must pay dearly. Celebrities are a pretty figure gets spotlight in concert. Two celebrity person who saw the appearance of Indonesia costumes are unique and kontrversial. Aming a comedy with costumes from a straw to drink water and Julia peres with a unique dispenser-style costumes.

Celebrity is a person who likes to find and create a sensation. Behavior and lifestyle celebrity somewhat different from other community members. Celebrities have much access to buy something he wants.

Aming with plastic cloth

Humans have a need for self-actualization. The need to express themselves and connect with your lifestyle. Lifestyle is about creativity and how does a person to be seen more striking and different. Aming is a celebrity as well as students in one school of art. He developed the installation art, an art that could put a lot of media. Even his own body for the sake of personal exhibition of the exploited.

1. Once We Were Warriors (1995)

This film, produced and set in modern New Zealand, follows the story of an urban Maori (native New Zealander) family struggling to overcome addictions and poverty, problems common to native people worldwide who have been moved from their ancestral lands to city environments. In the film, as in real life, one solution to these problems is a reconnection with traditional values and culture. The film’s scenes of grinding poverty and violence can be hard to watch, but they’re a reality. Directed by Lee Tamahori.

2. Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)

This Hollywood film depicts part of the career of Dian Fossey, one of the three main women in living-ape studies. Fossey, played by Sigourney Weaver, diligently (or obsessively, depending on your perspective) studies gorillas in central Africa, eventually spending as much time trying to protect them from poachers as study them. Fossey was murdered in 1985, and the scene depicting this event in the film leaves the mystery open; to date, nobody has been charged with her death. Directed by Michael Apted.

3. Neanderthal (2005)

This BBC production for the television series Horizon presents some of the most interesting recent work on just what the Neanderthals were and how they may have become extinct. Of course, the documentary contains lots of theories, and each one will have some palaeoanthropologist or another shaking her head; however, this movie demonstrates how ingenious anthropologists are with the bits of archaeology used to reconstruct the past and both how much and how little they really know. Some of the most prominent Neanderthal researchers appear in the video, which includes many realistic reconstructions of Neanderthal life. Directed by Cameron Balbirnie.

As a study of folk literature of different races offers one way of understanding their mental attitude toward life and its problems, the folk literature of the Negro will reveal to us his inherent moral and intellectual bias and the natural trend of his philosophy. Let us therefore examine some phases of this subject, paying particular attention to that part which relates especially to the proverbs. The sources of such literature are abundant. A little research in a well-equipped library brings one into a curious and informing mass of knowledge, ever increasing in bulk, in the French, German and English languages, as well as in many strange and highly inflected African tongues.

A cursory reading of this literature discloses at once that our general knowledge of Africa has been based in the past mainly on those external facts that strike the sense of sight, such as the physical appearance of the population, native dress and handiwork, musical instruments, implements of warfare, and customs peculiar to the social and religious life of the people. Only through the folk literature, however, can we get a glimpse of the working of the mind of the African Negro. Professor Henry Drummond, although he had traveled in Africa and had written at length about it, still exhibited a longing for this insight when he observed: "I have often wished that I could get inside of an African for an afternoon and just see how he looked at things." At that time much of the folk literature of that continent was not as now available. A deeper and more extensive reading of it at present strengthens our belief in the ancient saying "Out of Africa there is always something new," a rather disquieting thought, if we have reached the conclusion that native culture on that continent has never risen above the zero point.

 

A critical examination of the content of this folk literature will result in a division somewhat similar to that found in the same type of literature of other races. Such a division discloses stories, poetry, riddles and proverbs. The African folk literature is especially rich in proverbs. So numerous are these proverbs that it has been said that there is scarcely an object presented to the eye, scarcely an idea excited in the mind, but it is accompanied by some sententious aphorism, founded on close observation of man and animals and in many cases of a decidedly moral tendency. Lord Bacon remarked many years ago that "the genius, wit and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs." Cervantes in Don Quixote says "Methinks, Sancho, that there is no proverb that is not true, because they are all judgments drawn from the same experience which is the mother of all knowledge." If these sayings be true, then the proverbs of the African Negro should be examined in order to see if they approach these observations.

For convenience of the reader an effort has been made to arrange these sententious sayings under general subjects. These selected by no means exhaust the mine of African proverbial lore but are only a few nuggets that suggest the Negro's power to infer and generalize and to express himself in a graphic and concise way relative to life as he observed and experienced it.