PictFest is all about photography and also social media…to find out more about the event (and also the schedule) you can go to their official website at www.pictfest.com.
Last month, idVR360 got a great opportunity to travel to Lombok Island for 12 days. Collaborating with www.indonesiavirtual.com, we are assigned to capture some VR360° at many possible tourism spots.
Once we’re back in Jakarta, we started processing the frames and end up with 89 VR360°. We will share some of them here, but the rest of the VR360°s are available at our other online portfolio page at 360cities.
Click on the image to view the interactive VR360° in a new window/tab.
This one is a panorama of a traditional Sasak tribe village in Senaru area. Sasak is the original inhabitant of Lombok Island.
At another village, I was allowed to shoot inside their house. I convert the final result to black & white version.
One amongst many other highlights at Lombok is Mount Rinjani with 3726 meter above sea level at its summit. Rinjani is an active volcano, and at the altitude of approximately 2000 meter above sea level, there is a vast Segara Anak Lake as its caldera. We took a panorama from Senaru Rim at 2650 meter above sea level, but unfortunately a thick cloud is blocking the view of the summit which located just below the sun.
Lombok also known for its small islands with crystal clear sea water and white sandy beach, located around the main island. These two below are panorama from Gili Sudak and Gili Nanggu.
The more popular gilis are Gili Trawangan, Gili Air, and Gili Meno. Not like the above gilis, these gilis has more lodging & cafes with various entertainment. These are panoramas from those three gilis.
Using Google Earth application? You may want to try activating 360Cities photo layer and start looking for the red dots on Lombok Island….well some of the red dots belong to somebody else, but I can assure you that more than 70 red dots are ours.
As part of Canon Photo Marathon Asia 2011, this event is one of the biggest photo competition event in Indonesia. Other participating countries are Singapore, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
Canon Photo Marathon Indonesia 2011 took place in Yogyakarta (September 24th) and Jakarta (October 1st), and we are attending the Jakarta event. Managed by PT Datascrip as an exclusive distributor of Canon camera products, claimed that more than 3000 photographer, both from Yogyakarta and Jakarta, participated in this event . Besides photo competition, there are also some photography workshops conducted by professional photographers in Indonesia. Winners of the photo competition will receive, of course, Canon cameras, and tickets to Photo Clinic to Tasmania, Australia.
During the event, we managed to shots some pole panoramas at the location, which is Ancol Eco Park. This place is amazingly huge, even with 2500+ participants wandering around to get their best shots for the competition, there are still many areas un-explored by them. Below is 10 panoramas (out of 18) that we took using a 9 feet pole to get a ‘different perspective’ of the event.
The rest of the panoramas are also available at our other online portfolio at 360cities.
On Saturday, August 13th 2011, there was a great event held at Fine Arts Theater building at Jakarta International School complex. This year is JIS 60th anniversary year, and quoting from Ariz Azis closing speech, this is the first time JIS open up its door for such public event!
Cycling community is booming in Indonesia. At first, Pasar Sepeda was an offline event, held for the first time at JPG Mountain Bike Park, the largest mountain bike track in Indonesia, on January 3rd 2010.
After several offline events, the domain PasarSepeda.net was first introduced on February 6th 2011.
Now, during the final phase of the portal development, we are commissioned to take some 360° photos of a bike shop, plus and a bike track (part of JPG Mountain Bike Park) known as “Roller Coaster” to be showcased at Pasar Sepeda portal.
So, if you are somehow interested to acquire a bike for your self, you might want to drop by at www.PasarSepeda.net.
@america is a cultural center, own and managed by US Embassy Jakarta, and they claimed to be the first and most high-tech U.S. cultural center in the world!
Located at One Pacific Place, 3rd floor, the center open for public from 10am – 9pm, 7 days a week, and they have lots of event/seminars/discussion/workshops covering a wide range of topics. For those whom plans to continue their study in United States of America, can also meet & have discussions with advisers from EducationUSA and get more detailed information.
During your visit to the center, you can borrow an iPad at their iPad counter, and yes, they have lots of iPad for the visitors! Just become a member (for free), leave your ID card, and start exploring using iPad.
There are many interesting features at the center, to make you more curious, take a look at these virtual tour of the center.
UPDATE (Jan 29th, 2012): We’ve updated the virtual tour for better viewing experience on iPhone / iPad. Click on @america logo below to view it.
For more details about the center, you can go to their official website and/or Facebook Page for event calendars, and for the latest updates, follow their official Twitter account.
Java Rockin’land is one amongst several music festival in Indonesia, organized by PT. Java Festival Production (founded by Peter Gontha). Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival and Jakarta International Java Soulnation are the other two renowned festivals held by the company.
For rock music enthusiast, JRL Festival is one event that you surely don’t want to skip! Held in the course of 3 days, the event was reportedly packed with so many people. Day 1 was accounted by over 10.000 visitors! Don’t have an actual number over Day 2 & 3, but Dewi Gontha, as the Producer of the event, targeted 60.000 visitors for the whole event.
Local & Internatinal rock band were listed, such as PAS band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Edane, God Bless, Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE, The Cranberries, Edane, Good Charlotte, Helloween, and a lot more of it!
We attend the event only at Day 2, and made some 360° panoramic shots of the concert. Power Slaves, Konspirasi, Kunci, God Bless, G-Pluck Beatles are some of the bands that we’ve had capture quite successfully. Unfortunately its not our luck to get a good capture during Ed Kowalczyk and The Cranberris performance.
One thing that we love about this event: visitors are allowed to bring DSLR’s! Even our 3m telescopic pole for creating 360° panorama was cleared!
Well, enjoy the VR 360° of one of the biggest rock music festival in Southeast Asia!
Technical information about 360° photos:
We use Nodal Ninja Fanotec Pole Series 1 to elevate the camera up to 9 feet (approx. 3 meters) high, combined with Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1 panoramic head to hold a circular fisheye lens attached to a full frame camera system.
The real challenge was when the night falls, it was pitch dark! Very high ISO settings was used, so even after noise reduction during post-processing, image noise still visible at some of the 360° photos, particularly ones that taken during night performances. We’ll do better next time!
A panorama taken at this height brings a lot of new challenges within the process, especially during capturing each frame. We need to familiarize with the pole which was constantly swinging.
The pole was extended to its maximum length at 9′ (approx. 2,75 meters). At the top of the pole is the R1 head (tilted at +5° to get a good zenith coverage) holding Sigma 8mm f3.5 Circular Fish Eye attached to Canon 5D Mark II.
We will surely make many of pole panorama just like this one!
This morning, we have the opportunity to take a group picture of Abang None Jakarta Barat 2011 at Kota Tua. The session was fun and challenging at the same time. Thanks to friends id-photographer community who has arrange the session and made this shot possible.
The building in front of the group is Museum Fatahillah, also known as Museum Sejarah Jakarta or Museum Batavia, which was built on 1707 -1710 and used as a Town Hall (Stadhuis in Dutch). This building is almost similar with Istana op de Dam in Amsterdam, but in a significantly smaller scale.
Museum Fatahillah was officially inaugurated on March 30, 1994 by Governor of Jakarta, Mr. Ali Sadikin.
Inspired by Hong Kong lifestyle, with its East & West culture combinations, consistent business dynamics rolling 24 hours everyday, and fast evolving food & beverage industry, Hong Kong Cafe (HKC) established it self in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 9th, 2007, followed by the second outlet at Central Park Mall on 2010
Carrying the concept from its original country, HKC offers simple food (comfort food, everyday food), with variety of taste (ranging from western to oriental typical Hong Kong), many types of food (rice, noodle, hawker food, dim-sum, small bites, desserts, etc.), as well as a suitable dining area at any time with a casual environment
For HKC Jakarta, all HKC menus are adapted to local Indonesian taste without comprimising its original delicious taste. Further more, HKC also has Halal Certification, so everybody – especially Muslims – can enjoy the delicacy of HKC menus.
HKC offered a variety of menus, with approximately 100 items to choose from! All that items are available in several category such as baked rice, baked spaghetti, rice bowl, street hawker, etc.. Street hawker is a category which have all the unique food usually available at Hong Kong cafes with relatively big portion and unique taste.
HKC menus price ranging from Rp. 11.000,- to Rp. 40.000,- per item, and aso available some set menu packages for 5 persons at a very affordable price.
As requested by many of their customers, HKC stays open until 23.00 on Saturday, plus if there are special events held at our cafe, it can be easily extended to accomodate customers request. HKC busy hour will be during lunch hour (12.00 – 14.40) on weekdays, and almost all day during weekends! So, it is recommended to make a reservation if you plan to visit HKC on weekends.
Here is a virtual tour of HKC outlet at Jl. Sunda:
Click on the thumbnail located at lower left corner to view other panorama scenes of Hongkong Cafe. Fullscreen mode is recommended for better viewing experience. Click the Fullscreen navigation button or right click at the panorama and select Fullscreen.
Now, with the presence of Hong Kong Cafe Jakarta, without having to buy a ticket to Hong Kong, you can enjoy the high taste of the city known as the “Food Paradise in Asia”!
For reservation and other inquiries: Hong Kong Cafe
Jl. Sunda No. 5, Thamrin, Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia
Phone: +62-21-3107868
Fax: +62-21-3107883
Also available at:
Central Park Mall
1st Floor, Unit L1 – 112b
Jl. Let. Jend. S. Parman Kav. 28, Jakarta Barat, Indonesia
Phone: +62-21-56985378
Fax: +62-21-56985378
Operational hours: 10.00 – 22.00 every day
Hong Kong Cafe (Jl. Sunda) capacity:
1st Floor: Main Dining Room | Smoking Area approx. 64 pax & Non Smoking Area approx. 68 pax
2nd Floor: Delika approx. 18 pax & Function Room approx. 60 – 80 pax
Total capacity: approximately 250 pax
Other facilities: Free Internet WiFi Connection at all HKC area
Inspired by Hong Kong lifestyle, with its East & West culture combinations, consistent business dynamics rolling 24 hours everyday, and fast evolving food & beverage industry, Hong Kong Cafe (HKC) established it self in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 9th, 2007, followed by the second outlet at Central Park Mall on 2010