Antoni Gaudi's 161st birthday

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish architect born in Reus, in the Catalonia region of Spain and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.

Much of Gaudí's work was marked by his big passions in life: architecture, nature, religion. Gaudí studied every detail of his creations, integrating into his architecture a series of crafts in which he was skilled: ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forgingand carpentry. He introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces.

After a few years under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques, Gaudí became part of the Catalan Modernistamovement which was reaching its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work transcended mainstream Modernisme, culminating in an organic style inspired by nature. Gaudí rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them asthree-dimensional scale models and molding the details as he was conceiving them.

Gaudí’s work enjoys widespread international appeal and many studies are devoted to understanding his architecture. Today, his work finds admirers among architects and the general public alike. His masterpiece, the still-uncompleted Sagrada Família, is one of the most visited monuments in Spain. Between 1984 and 2005, seven of his works were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Gaudí’s Roman Catholic faith intensified during his life and religious images permeate his work. This earned him the nickname "God's Architect" and led to calls for his beatification.

Lonely..

Something Beautiful in Qatar ^_^

Villagio Tower

Tornado Building

Ras Gas Building

Qatar Gas Building

Statistic Authority Building

Twin Alfardan Tower

Yang ini ga tau nama pantainya, tapi gw tetep suka..:)

Julius Richard Petri's 160 th birthday

Julius Richard Petri (May 31, 1852 – December 20, 1921) was a German bacteriologist who is generally credited with inventing thePetri dish while working as assistant to Robert Koch.

Petri first studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Academy for Military Physicians (1871–1875) and received his medical degree in 1876. He continued his studies at the Charité Hospital in Berlin and was on active duty as a military physician until 1882, continuing as a reservist.

From 1877 to 1879 he was assigned to the Imperial Health Office (German: Kaiserliches Gesundheitsamt) in Berlin, where he became an assistant to Robert Koch. On the advice of Angelina Hesse, the New York-born wife of another assistant, Walther Hesse, the Koch laboratory began to culture bacteria on agar plates. Petri then invented the standard culture dish, or Petri plate, and further developed the technique of agar culture to purify or clone bacterial colonies derived from single cells. This advance made it possible to rigorously identify the bacteria responsible for diseases.

Memorial Day 2013

Saul Bass' 93rd birthday

Saul Bass (8 Mei 1920 - April 25, 1996) adalah seorang Amerika desainer grafis dan pembuat film, paling dikenal untuk desain dari film urutan judul , film poster , dan logo perusahaan .

Selama Bass karir 40 tahunnya bekerja untuk beberapa pembuat film yang paling menonjol Hollywood, termasuk Alfred Hitchcock , Otto Preminger , Billy Wilder , Stanley Kubrick dan Martin Scorsese . Di antara yang paling terkenal urutan judul adalah kertas animasi cut-out dari lengan seorang pecandu heroin untuk Preminger ini The Man dengan Golden Arm , kredit balap naik dan turun apa yang akhirnya menjadi tembakan tinggi-sudut gedung pencakar langit di Hitchcock North by Northwest , dan teks yang terputus-putus ras bersama-sama dan terpisah dalam Psycho .

Bass dirancang beberapa logo perusahaan yang paling ikonik di Amerika Utara, termasuk AT & T "bel" logo pada tahun 1969, serta AT & T 's "dunia" logo pada tahun 1983 setelah pecahnya Bell System . Ia juga dirancang Continental Airlines'1968 "jetstream" logo dan United Airlines '1974 "tulip" logo yang menjadi beberapa logo industri penerbangan yang paling dikenal pada zaman tersebut. Google terhormat Saul Bass dengan menampilkan dia dalam Google Doodle pada 8 Mei 2013 . 

Hari Buruh 2013

Hari Buruh pada umumnya dirayakan pada tanggal 1 Mei, dan dikenal dengan sebutan May Day. Hari buruh ini adalah sebuah hari libur (di beberapa negara) tahunan yang berawal dari usaha gerakan serikat buruh untuk merayakan keberhasilan ekonomi dan sosial para buruh.