Hollywood

A Ranch named “Hollywood”

When Spanish explorers first entered the area now known as Hollywood, Native Americans were living in the canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains. Before long, the Indians had been moved to missions and the land which Hollywood now occupies was divided in two by the Spanish Government. Acreage to the west became part of Rancho La Brea and settlements to the East became Rancho Los Feliz.

By the 1870s an agricultural community flourished in the area and crops ranging from hay and grain to subtropical bananas and pineapples were thriving. During the 1880s, the Ranchos were sub-divided. In 1886, H. H. Wilcox bought an area of Rancho La Brea that his wife then christened “Hollywood.” Within a few years, Wilcox had devised a grid plan for his new community, paved Prospect Avenue (now Hollywood Boulevard) for his main street and was selling large residential lots to wealthy Midwesterners looking to build homes so they could “winter in California.”

Prospect Avenue soon became a prestigious residential street populated with large Queen Anne, Victorian, and Mission Revival houses. Mrs. Daeida Wilcox raised funds to build churches, schools and a libraryand Hollywood quickly became a complete and prosperous community. The community incorporated in 1903, but its independence was short-lived, as the lack of water forced annexation in 1910 to the city of Los Angeles, which had a surplus supply of water.

In 1911, the Nestor Company opened Hollywood’s first film studio in an old tavern on the corner of Sunset and Gower. Not long thereafter Cecil B. DeMille and D. W. Griffith began making movies in the areadrawn to the community for its open space and moderate climate.

New Industry

The needs of this thriving new industry created radical changes in the community causing a clash between older and newer residents. Acres of agricultural land south of what-is-now Hollywood Boulevard were subdivided and developed as housing for the enormous numbers of workers that movie-making required.

High-rise commercial buildings began to spring up along Hollywood Boulevard three competing real-estate interests caused concentrations of development at Highland, Cahuenga, and at Vine. It wasn’t long before nearly all the homes along the Boulevard were replaced by commercial buildings linking the three corners.

Banks, restaurants, clubs and movie palaces sprang up, catering to the demands of the burgeoning film industry during the 1920s and 1930s. The architectural styles of the buildings were representative of those most popular between the World Wars. Banks were typically designed in the more formal Beaux Arts styles, but other buildings in the community took on more playful personalities.

The ornamental Spanish Colonial Revival style reflected Hollywood’s self-conscious extravagance while the new Art Deco and Moderne styles fit the community’s aspirations for glamour and sophistication.

Commercial and Entertainment Area

Hollywood has been anything but static, however, and after a few decades as the capital of film glamour, the neighborhood changed again. Although much of the studio work remained in Hollywood, many stars moved to Beverly Hills, and the elegant shops and restaurants left with them.

In the 1960s, music recording studios and offices began moving to Hollywood and offshoot of the nightclubs further west on Sunset Boulevard. Other businesses, however, continued to migrate to different parts of the city. Hollywood today is a diverse, vital, and active community striving to preserve the elegant buildings from its past. Much of the movie industry remains in the area, although the neighborhood’s outward appearance has changed.

In 1985, the Hollywood Boulevard commercial and entertainment district was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places protecting the neighborhood’s important buildings and seeing to it that the significance of Hollywood’s past would always be a part of its future.

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Source: Historicla, Wiki

The A-Team

• Premiere : June 11, 2010
• Director: Joe Carnahan
• Casts : Liam Neeson (Col.John Hannibal Smith), Bradley Cooper (Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck), Jessica Biel (Capt. Charisa Sosa), Patrick Wilson, Sharlto Copley (Capt. Murdock), Quinton Jackson (Sgt. BA Baracus), Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Gerald McRaney, Brian Bloom
• Tagline: There Is No Plan B
• Plot: A group of Iraq War veterans looks to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

Karate Kid

• Premiere : June 11,  2010
• Director : Harald Zwart
• Cast : Jaden Smith (Dre Parker), Jackie Chan (Mr. Han), Taraji P. Henson(Sherry Parker), Tess Liu (History Teacher)
• Plot: 12-year-old Dre Parker could’ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying – and the feeling is mutual – but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre’s feelings make an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts “the karate kid” on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

Toy Story 3

• Premiere : June 18, 2010
• Director: Lee Unkrich
• Cast (Voice): Tom Hanks (Woody), Michael Keaton (Ken), Whoopi Goldberg (Stretch the Octopus), Joan Cusack (Jessie the Yodelling Cowgirl), Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear), Wallace Shawn (Rex the Green Dinosaurs), Bonnie Hunt (Dolly), John Ratzenberger (Ham the Piggy Bank), R. Lee Ermey (Sergeant), Timothy Dalton (Mr. Pricklepants)
• Plot: Woody, Buzz and the whole gang are back. As their owner Andy prepares to depart for college, his loyal toys find themselves in daycare where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it’s all for one and one for all as they join Barbie’s counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear to plan their great escape.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

• Premiere : June 30, 2010
• Director: David Slade
• Cast : Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen), Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black), Billy Burke (Charlie Swan), Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen), Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale), Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale), Kellan Lutz (Emmet Cullen), Elizabeth Reaser (Esme Cullen), Peter Facinelli (Dr. Carlisle Cullen).
• Tagline: It all begins … With a choice
• Plot : As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob. Bella Swan is reunited with the love of her life (and vampire), Edward Cullen. Her life is back to the way it was before the Cullens left, except for one major thing. Before Edward left, Bella had not considered Jacob Black (werewolf) her best friend, and she is in vain trying to make Edward and Jacob make peace and be friends. She is torn between the love she feels for Edward and the strong friendship between her and Jacob. Can she make them see reason, and can they be good to each other to keep from hurting Bella? And there are new dangers lurking around the corners; Seattle is stalked by mass murderers beyond humanity. Who’s behind this, and what connection does it have with Bella?

Edwin Raharjo, who is also the owner of Edwins Gallery added that he was disagreed with the vote rejecting the entry of foreign investment in the business of art gallery services. The government plans to extend the limit on foreign ownership in several businesses, one art gallery business through Presidential Regulation No. 111/2007 which includes a negative list of investment (DNI). 

Presidential Regulation No. 111/2007 states limit foreign ownership in the business of art gallery maximum of 50%, while it mentions pemilikanasing perpres revision can be increased up to 67%. He said the art gallery business services sector in the country although not yet well-ordered seen progress in several major cities, namely Jakarta, Bandung, and Denpasar. 

He demonstrated the art gallery business services in some countries, like Singapore, China and European countries and America forward precisely because it is open to the participation of foreign art galleries. That, he continued, encouraged stakeholders to structuring and restructuring to improve the quality of business services sector in the country’s art gallery. 

In America, he said, there are more than 1,000 art galleries, and many of them exhibiting works of art galleries in other countries such as special Japanese wood sculpture, African art gallery, and others. Only, he continued, the government needs to do restriction by limiting the building and land ownership for foreigners lnvestor. ”Better management of the gallery only [to foreigners]. The building and land should not be sold to foreign investors come,” he said.

Walt was also attracted to the beauty of nature as he grew up and he began to love and appreciate it. Though his father was particularly opposed to his plans her mother and elder brother Roy encouraged him to pursue his dreams. Disney even tried to get into military service but was rejected because he was only 16 years of age and thus was underage to join military. But he joined Red Cross where he was sent to France and he spent a year there driving ambulance.

After returning from France he pursued a career in commercial art and even started a small company called Laugh-O-Grams which went bankrupt soon. This prompted him to go to Hollywood. It is said he had only one suitcase and $20 with him when he went to Hollywood. His elder brother Roy was living in California, he pooled in $250 and they borrowed another $500 and constructed a camera stand. It didn’t take a long wait before they received an order from New York to make the first Alice Comedy and they started producing cartoons in the rear of a real estate office in Hollywood.  After successfully making Alice Comedies Walt became a famous figure in Hollywood.

Walt married one of his employees Lillian Bounds and they had two daughters. The cartoon film Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 and his talents were exposed to the world in a silent cartoon called Plane Crazy. The year coincided with the introduction of sound in movies just before the release of the cartoon. The cartoon character Mickey made its screen debut in Steamboat Willie which was the world’s first fully synchronized sound cartoon. The cartoon premiered at the Colony Theater in New York on Nov. 18, 1928.

Walt was never content with his work and his quest for excellence made him introduce Technicolor in cartoons in 1932. He used multiplane camera technique in 1937. On December 21, 1937 Walt released the first full length animated musical film called “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” made at a whopping cost of $1.5 million. The animated film is still regarded as one of the rare feats of the motion picture industry.

Walt had a studio in Burbank constructed which was ready in 1940 and the employee count went up to 1,000 which comprised of artists, animators, story men and technicians. Disney used combine live action with the cartoon medium in 1945 in the musical “The Three Caballeros”. Walt went to make many award winning cartoon films such as “True Life Adventure” series, “The Living Desert” and many more. Disneyland was launched in 1955 with a capital of $17 million and the investment increased by 10 fold within a few years. Walt turned to social causes in 1965 and directed a film on Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow to improve the quality of urban life in America. But Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966 leaving many achievements and unfulfilled dreams behind him.

Walt Disney envisioned and had directed to purchase about forty three square miles of land, double the size of Manhattan Island in central Florida. It took about fifty months to complete the planning and construction of the Walt Disney World which was eventually opened to public on October 1, 1971. Walk Disney was truly a pioneer and visionary of many modern days’ technologies. No wonder why he has received more than 950 honors and 48 Oscar awards and 7 Emmy awards. Truly this man stands out for his outstanding contribution to the improvement of art of cartoon making.

Batik, according to Wikipedia comes from the Javanese word Amba (writing) and titik (also means “dot” in the Indonesian language). In addition there is also interpreted as writing or dotting. Indeed, dot is the dominant design in batik. At the National Museum we can see detail on drawing batik fabric on stone sculptures from the eighth century (eg sculpture sculptures from the temples of Prambanan) as well as in the sculptures from the 13th century (Singosari) and century 14 (Majapahit). Despite this first writing about batik in Java comes from recording the palace in central Java in the 16th century (Aspects of Indonesian Culture).

Basic techniques of batik (dye resistance pattern) according to the info comes from Egypt around 1500 years ago. At the National Museum of China there are also jars are made by trying to practice this batik techniques on ceramics. But the experiment seems to be more successful on the fabric in Java. From the name alone is unclear who raised the name of the place of origin of batik itself.

With the development of the cloth trade in Java, then go fabric from India in the years around 1800 and from Europe in the years around 1815. Because using higher quality fabrics, the increasingly rapid development of Java, batik and more famous.

Gittinger Mattiebelle researching the textile industry in Indonesia in his writings on the Arts of Asia (September-October 1980) states that use the basic technique that uses wax batik may have originated from China and India, but all the tools and the process of making batik is specific pembatikannya Java. Batik Canting is a tool of writing invented by the Javanese and shows a high versatility of our ancestors.

In fact, according Gittinger Dutch in the 17th century began to trade in batik and in the 19th century began producing batik textile factory which later to be trade to West Africa.

Unfortunately the results of high artistic value, according to experts, lack of government attention. Even a flatter Malaysian government on the development of awareness of batik Malaysia, citing the daily Jakarta Post that discussed the development of Indonesian batik comparison with the actual use of Malaysian workers from Indonesia. Lack of government attention on the development of batik was highlighted in 2005 due to patent it first Malaysian batik as it is written in the Republika daily . Indeed this patent matters according to the daily Kompas many do not know, and quite difficult to fight for the recognition of the cultural tradition of property rights. Malaysia attention on patents is higher, and their promotion of Malaysian batik is quite large, as seen on stamps of Malaysia.

Whereas batik actually contains a very high historical value. Parang Rusak batik for example, actually includes batik motifs used in sacred that only the court environment. Similarly, the color motif batik parang at home court can determine the users, whether from the Kraton of Solo or Jogja Kraton.

Besides bringing a symbolic meaning, observing the cultural richness of batik also showed uptake of Indonesia. National Museum we can see the difference between coastal batik influenced by Chinese culture, Islamic culture, as well as the influence of the Dutch occupation that was at that time also resulted in the Dutch batik (derived from the plant owned by the Dutch in Indonesia).

Wayang is the Indonesian traditional arts are mainly developed in Java and Bali. Puppet show has been recognized by UNESCO on November 7, 2003, as an admirable work in the field of culture and heritage narrative story is beautiful and very valuable (Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity).

There puppet version played by the people by wearing unique costumes, known as ‘dalang‘, and there is also a form of collection of teddy puppet played by him. This dalang played such a puppet show or wayang kulit. The story is told in the leather puppet show usually originates from the Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Puppet show in every country has its own techniques and style, thereby Indonesian shadow puppets are made by indigenous Indonesian people who have a story, style and extraordinary puppeteer. Sometimes repertoire Panji stories and Menak stories (Islamic stories) also staged.

Puppet, by the predecessors of this country really contains a very deep meaning. Sunan Kalijaga and Raden Patah was instrumental in developing puppetry. The Guardian in Java has been arranged into three parts. First in East Java, Wayang Kulit or leather puppet, second is Wayang Wong or Human Puppet in Central Java, and third Marionette Puppet in West Java. Each very bekaitan one another. In philosophical word says: “Where the contents (Wayang Wong) and Where the Skin (shadow play) should be sought (Puppet Marionette)”.