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Edited by Elizabeth Coville (ecoville@gmail.com)
What's Up on the Web:
A fortnightly update on items of special interest to researchers on Indonesia
and East Timor
and accessible through links on this page.
#19 - Virtual visuals
I wanted to find some visuals for my
class. First I tried
Google Image Search using the search terms 'rice indonesia' so I could
show rice at different stages of growth. I got 5000+ images. Then I tried
'durian Indonesia' and got 100+. Needless to say, I didn't look at more than
a small fraction.
Then I found a couple of sites that included a lot of images. The first is a
site put together by a couple of cyclists, called Bicycle Travels. They have
posted some nice photos of a
Indonesia from a trip along the trans-Sumatra highway from Lake Toba to
the Minangkabau area. Not a lot of images, but clustered in interesting ways
on subjects related to everyday life (like markets, bus stations, chess games,
schoolkids). I had never thought of it before, but a bicyclist's eye's view
on rural Indonesia is refreshing. Check out the slide show they entitled
Green.
And then there is the large and growing site
Toraja Photo Gallery. It has many photos (presented as a slide show
accompanied by nostalgia-provoking pop music), maps (ordinary, aerial, and
from outer space), and a variety of videos. My students particularly liked
the one on buffalo fighting. My favorite was one on religious themes that
displayed images and sound from two churches and a mosque in the main town of
Rantepao. There's a lot of variety of materials here, and this brief
paragraph doesn't do justice to it.
Posted on Jan 26, 2007
@ 2000 Antara Kita. Southeast Asian Studies
Program, Yamada House, Ohio University, Athens, OH
45701-2979, USA.
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