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Graffitti and Street Art Singapore

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: Singapore Singapore. Tagged: #culture, #exterior, #heritage, #illustration, #landmark, #old, #outdoor, #red, #street, #symbol, #tourism, #traditional, #travel, #vector, #view, antique, asian, beauty, business, china, chinese, classic, colorful, decoration, design, draw, facade, home, house, lantern, light, Malaysia, paint, peranakan, shop, singapore, style, Thailand, tour, town, urban, vintage, wall, window. Leave a comment

In 2013 I was in the amazing city of Singapore where I sought and found some of the wonderful street art you will see here in this slide show.

Theyyam Muthappan

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: Indian Subcontinent. Tagged: #colour, #costume, #cultural, #culture, #dance, #detail, #drama, #exotic, #expression, #face, #festival, #fire, #flame, #folk, #folk art, #folk art pattern, #god, #hindu, #hinduism, #illustration, #india, #indian, #kannur, #kerala, #makeup, #malabar, #mask, #ornamental, #people, #performance, #performer, #red, #ritual, #temple, #teyyam, #theatre, #theyyam, #tourism, #tradition, #traditional, #travel, #unique, #vector. Leave a comment

In 2015 I was fortunate to be travelling round the Southern part of India on a 6mth Journey of Indian Culture and discovery. In the place of Malabar in the state of Kerela I was deeply honoured to meet Kierian from “Costa Malabar” who arranged for me to not only visit but film and photograph openly some 3 Theyyam ceremonies. Lasting from a couple of hours to all day and all night and most of the next day. A tiring experience for the onlooker but a marathon for the participating Gods.

The people of Malabar and the Gods made me feel most welcome and it was a deeply touching cultural experience I will never forget. I can only hope that these images and videos give you a taste of what I witnessed.

The worshipping place of Muthappan is called Madappura.Many Madappuras are there in North Malabar .Of all such Madappuras; Parassani Madappura is the most prominent. Here Muthappan devotees of Muthappan who throng here being supplied with Tea, steamed pear and a small piece of coconut. Relief and consaltion is accorded to all devotees of Muthappan who come here and conolation is accorded to all devotees of Muthappan who come here and after the lighting of the lamp called Deeparadhana.Devotees are blessed with the ‘Holy Darsan’ by both Cheriya Muthappan and Valiya Muthappan when they conduct Thirivappana Vellattom

Hotan Bazaar

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: People's Republic of China. Tagged: #craft, #culture, #handicraft, #illustration, #old, #people, #red, #tourism, #tourist, #traditional, #travel, #white, arabic, asian, bazaar, bright, colorful, decoration, decorative, design, east, egyptian, glass, grand, grand bazaar, illuminated, istanbul, lamp, lantern, light, market, middle, oriental, ramadan, sale, shop, souvenir, stall, store, style, trade, turkey, turkish, vintage. Leave a comment

Hotan Sunday Market Hotan’ s bazaar is also called The Sunday market. Local people call it Chukubaza (meaning is low location market) located in the north-eastern corner of Hotan city. It is one of the biggest markets in southern Xinjiang. It has many special sections for the market. The Bazaar in Hotan is active every day, but the Sunday is special day, when it gets flooded by hundreds and thousands of people on Sunday. The kind of people who come to the market are people from seven counties of Hotan and some other prefecture of Xinjiang. They sell all kinds of special local Hotan such as beautiful styled dresses can be seen or bought and many sweet fruits and delicious dishes as well as snacks can be tasted. Minority Products and Souvenirs local made carpets and roll jade. local people say that it is possible to find everything accept Chicken milk, cows egg in Europeans style. While you are in the market, please remember the word “posh” that means get out of the way in Uyghur language, as soon as you hear this word, please watch yourself. The best time to go to the market is after 8:30 AM Xinjian time.

Sanjao Posuea

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: Thailand. Tagged: #culture, #destination, #illustration, #landmark, #old, #ornament, #palace, #red, #religion, #symbol, #temple, #tourism, #tower, #traditional, #travel, #vector, abstract, asian, buddhism, buddhist, china, chinese, decoration, decorative, design, door, drawing, dynasty, east, element, gate, house, isolated, japan, japanese, landscape, museum, oriental, pagoda, pavilion, roof, structure, style, Thailand. Leave a comment

Sanjao Posuea ( ศาลเจ้าพ่อเสือ ) 171, Soi 5, Thaosura Rd ; Tel 044 259246

This is clearly the biggest and most richly decorated Sanjao you can visit in Korat. It is made up of a main building, quite spacious and with several internal shrines, plus five or six more external shrines (one of them placed on a second floor), a votive pole, an incineretor, and other votive objects and accessories. It is found outside the eastern city gate, on a lane extending to the east into the homonymous community.

Internal decorations, ornaments and objects in the main building are gorgeous and they, alone, deserve a visit. If you are lucky you can assist a particualr religious ceremony taking place inside. The full name includes also the words Tung Swaang ( ทุ่งสว่าง ).

Turkmenbashi Gypjak Mosque

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: Turkmenistan. Tagged: #detail, #mosque, #old, #red, #religion, #turkmenbashy, #turkmenistan, #white, alert, antique, believe, believe faith believer, believer, bell, decoration, door, door bell, doorbell, electric, entrance, faith, green, gypjak, handrail, home, horror, horror vacui, islam, islamic, knocker, mosquee, plastic, press, ring, ring bell, round, shia, shiite, stairs, sunni, sunnite, urban, vintage, wall. Leave a comment

The mosque was built in 2002-2004 on the initiative of Turkmenbashi and named after him. Its word-for-word translation means “the mosque of Turkmenbashi spirituality” or “the mosque of spirit of Turkmenbashi”. By the way the mosque is located in Gypjak – the Turkmenbashi native village which i visited in 2012.

Erawan Museum

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: Thailand. Tagged: #culture, #holy, #landmark, #monument, #ornament, #palace, #red, #religion, #sculpture, #sky, #statue, #stone, #temple, #tourism, #traditional, #travel, #white, animal, antique, asian, bangkok, black, buddhism, ceiling, classic, decoration, design, elephant, entrance, erawan, glass, head, history, interior, museum, pattern, prakan, religious, sacred, samut, style, thai, Thailand, three. Leave a comment

During my stay in Bangkok during the funeral of King Rama 9 I visited the Erawan Museum on the edge of the city.

A fantastic place with an enormous three headed elephant on an equally gargantuan pedestal. Beautifully ornate and stunningly detailed inside you find two dragons curling their way round the interior of the building creating the spectacular stair case.

As you ascend through the three floors you are taken higher and closer to heaven where you can see a most amazing coloured stain glass ceiling. Above that yo reach the nirvana, or temple of Buddha with again such wonderful blue painted sky and gold adornments. Half way down yo can look out through a window (the elephants stomach) and see across Bangkok.

The Gardens are full of not only beautiful plants and flowers but also detailed Thai sculptures and water features. The Elephant itself weighs a hefty 250 tonnes and stands at 29 meters high and 39 meters long and made from Bronze.

Wat Pa Lak Roi

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: Thailand. Tagged: #culture, #destination, #outdoor, #park, #red, #spring, #travel, #view, #white, beppu, boiling, famous, flower, garden, geological, geothermal, gray, green, heat, hell, hot, japan, japanese, jigoku, kyushu, landscape, mineral, national, natural, nature, oita, onsen, place, pond, pool, rock, scene, sea, skin, smoke, spa, steam, Thailand, thermal, tree, trip, water. Leave a comment

My most recent photography project from my visit to Wat Pa Lak Roi a Buddhist hell garden. Approx 17km from Nakhon Ratchasima this Garden aims to instruct the Buddhist believer in the ways of Karma and it’s consequences for the lack of. I hope you find this as interesting as I did!

Phu Phra Bat Historical Park

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: Thailand. Tagged: #colour, #heritage, #holy, #old, #outdoor, #red, #site, #stone, #temple, #tourism, adventure, aged, antique, archaeological, ban phue, big, boulder, buddhism, civilisation, dvaravati, formation, geological, highland, historic, historical, history, huge, landscape, man made, massive, natural, nature, painting, phu phra bat, place, prehistoric, religious, remains, rock, ruin, sacred, shrine, spire, strange, talus, Thailand, udon thani, unusual. Leave a comment

In 2016 I landed in Thailand after 5mths in India, for a rest, well I was far to intrigued with the natural beauty of Thailand to stand still and Phu Phra Bat Park was one of my favourite first visits to the North East of Thailand.

I hope you enjoy it too and venture far enough up North to visit! Phu Phra Bat historical park in Udon Thani province in the North East of Thailand is a forested hill with natural rock formations shaped as caves with large rocky overhangs. The caves were used by ancient man as shelter and as temples where Buddha images were enshrined. What makes this site unique, is that it contains traces of several different civilizations and cultures spanning thousands of years. The hill contains traces of prehistoric man, the Dvaravati period and Khmer presence. The sandstone rock on top of the hill has been cut out during many centuries by glacier movement, wind and rain.

Some of the rock formations provide natural shelter, others were carved into by man thousands of years ago creating cave like structures. Many of the rock formations harbour ancient Buddha images and served as ancient wats (Buddhist temples). A number of walking trails have been been made through the park and there are a number of view points, from where visitors will have great scenic views of the surrounding area. Phu Phra Bat is set in a beautiful, natural and relaxing environment.

Brick Lane Amazing Street Art In London

Posted by Annette Johnson on April 10, 2018

Posted in: United Kingdom. Tagged: #expression, #old, #red, #street, #symbol, #white, abandoned, abstract, aged, alley, artistic, back, backdrop, brick, colorful, concrete, cracked, dark, decay, decoration, design, dirty, distressed, door, frame, ghetto, graffiti, grunge, grungy, lane, light, london, material, mural, paint, pattern, rough, spray, stained, texture, town, urban, wall. Leave a comment

Brick Lane is world famous for its street art, which features artists such as Banksy, D*Face and Ben Eine. Brick Lane has been used in many music videos such as “Glory Days” by Just Jack and “All These Things That I’ve Done” by The Killers.

Artists from all over the world and the UK come here to paint, safe in the knowledge that they will get an appreciative audience.

The street art is constantly changing, new work is created, new artists come to the area. From one day to the next exciting finds will always be made.

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Graffitti and Street Art Singapore

Theyyam Muthappan

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Turkmenbashi Gypjak Mosque

Erawan Museum

Wat Pa Lak Roi

Phu Phra Bat Historical Park

Brick Lane Amazing Street Art In London

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