Junction of an attractive side of the East and calm of the West, result a strong feeling influence of a mystic village. Tracing cultural generation in a lull sky of Ubud area (part of Gianyar, Bali regency), could be started by knowing how to step in this place called Ubud Foyer. Home of thousands artist whom give their guidance and support of cultural learning and art work are united by this foyer. When you open the gate of heavenly Ubud village from the calm West, you will drive by Campuhan River between hills. Rest peacefully in the arm of Antonio’s masterpiece, feel his mind when he wipe his brush through the green canvas of Campuhan Hill. Knowing this maestro painting will heal you from dream yearning of Antonio Blanco. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Hu’u Bar and Restaurant, Kuta, Bali
Along way on the street of Petitenget, Kuta, trying to find a place to chill out in the storm or just to hang out with some colleagues, don’t sleep your eyes and find this corner of place. Have you visit Hu’u Bar and Restaurant at Petitenget, Kuta?, if you don’t, please do so. Hu’u Bar gate whisper a mystic word for you to look and join its ambience. An whispering classy bar, restaurant, and swimming pool at one stop hang out is leisure sound for your earring catalogue. Step inside this getaway of pleasure dream and you will offer to some enjoyable atmosphere of eats and music. Atmosphere of fresh water could also better choice to chill out your evening with a reflection of thousands candles and lights. Whisper wind is blows to continuing announce of Al-fresco dining theme at Hu’u Bar and Restaurant, just grab this menus while thousands music accompanying your appetite trip far away abroad. East or West or mixed style of your night party at Hu’u Bar and Restaurant will always be memorable to take away to your sweet home lullaby. Visit this corner and feel pretty chain of Bar and Restaurant for one stop party all nights long.
“After Storm” Sky Panorama, Seminyak, Kuta, Bali
What could be imagining to the rain drops all day long, the scariest time to stay safely at home. A day could be passing away on the feet of Stormy King. Hardly blowing winds just like to over heavy smoked lung of the earth, black face of the sky will enjoy accompanying this heavy breath. Pain that resulted by waiting over six months is already has their way to come. Flash of light in the sky is their torch alarm of welcoming storm party and sounds of tympani thunder will follow their march to a battle of rain drops.
Soldier of the stormy sky already settle to a position of attacking mother of earth, what will green calm under will do about this attack except of waiting these soldier to flash their kingdom weapon. Creatures under are rush in their busy way to safe their self for not getting wet. Prepared a shield or just to postpone a trip for a better solution.
Here in Bali, attacking rain drops usually come in the beginning of December or could be earlier. It is depending to process of oceans evaporate and atmospheric condensation. But sometimes these “teardrop-shaped” are canceling their trip to fall at Kuta or Seminyak area in Bali just for a special mystical reason. But today, the storm panoramas that hang on the sky in Seminyak could not lying about stormy kingdom attack that just left their footprint in the black cloud. After a storm, it’s come a light of a shy sunset to offering a beauty in the sky of Seminyak. Colour wiping of sunset is forcing balaclava of pearl to drive away black cloud, these beauty behind the storm in Seminyak also forcing you to look up above and heal your fear from the storm.
Semar Pergulingan – Gamelan of the Love God
Of the many kinds of gamelan to be found on the tiny island of Bali, none evokes a more ethereal and enchanted sound world than the rare gamelan of the love god, Gamelan Semar Pegulingan. This is the first commercial recording of the Semar Pegulingan type of gamelan (except for three 78-rpm discs, now rare collectors’ items). By the 1930s, Semar Pegulingan, which was originally a palace gamelan, was preserved in only a few villages. Now, however, the gamelan has been restored to life with a repertory that derives from the old traditions, but is strongly influenced by the innovations of 20th-century Balinese music.
This CD which is consist 6 track, offer to you The Love God Gamelan, the very old remastered sound of Gamelan that recorded in Teges Kanyinan, Pliatan, Bali, by Robert E. Brown. Originally released in 1972.
If you interested to find more, you can buy the Bali: Gamelan Semar Pergulingan:Gamelan of the Love God CD here.
Garuda Wisnu Kencana sculpture
An innovation of civilization could be older than its product, form of carving a stone into sculpture that has an artistic value could be catch at one of sculptures in Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s wall gallery. Just like other artistic wall pepper stone, shape of an angel was caught by a sculptor daydream to be arrested in the stone there in Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s park. One of the angels already free from a flowering dream of an artist at last then became free and showing herself to public eyes.
Sculptor stone choice was first query to give this angel place to rest, grabbing and knocking off wide area to give the edge of her wings to fly in the stone was then taken on. Transferring all sculptor energy to powering an artist tools was a guiding road for this angel to bounce to her new place. 45 degree of sculptor tool process was the act for refining a reality of catching angel. Touch of nature process will be a final beauty polishing, so she always could spread her wings to fly over a thousand hills there in Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s park.
Voila……would you visit this beauty angel and her de ja vu of sculptor’s whom made her dream come true “freedom form fall from heaven”
Caught her at Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s courtesy, located at Jimbaran Bali.
