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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, nama asli si seksi ini. Suara, hentakan nada dan goyangannya mampu mengimbangi hiruk pikuk dan gemerlapnya Piala Dunia 2010 di Afrika Selatan. Shakira yang lahir di Kolombia, 2 Februari 1977 ini telah meraqup 1 Trilyun Rupiah keuntungan dari lagu yang diciptakan, Waka waka, dan sekaligus dibawakannya dipembukaan perhelatan akbar itu pada tanggal 11 Juni lalu.. Dan kabarnya para produser pelem di India sangat kesemsem dengan goyangannya dan bakal melamarnya untuk ikut main di panggung Bollywood. Salutku buatmu Shakira..ehh ehh… This time for Shakira
*Gom Tobing

* all process can only used mos abalabal (ordinary mouse on Photoshop CS2)

Rachel Corrie (10 April 1979 – 16 Maret 2003) adalah seorang wanita Amerika keturunan Yahudi yang berani meneriakkan kemanusiaan ditengah gempuran senjata, dan alat berat Israel. Ia tewas digilas traktor Israel saat traktor tersebut akan menggusur rumah warga Palestina di jalur Gaza. Ia menghalangi penggusuran rumah warga Palestina dengan nyawanya, ia dilindas traktor Israel yang tidak mau memberhentikan geraknya saat Rachel telentang di depan kendaraan berat itu. Dengan penderitaan luar biasa akhirnya Rachel tewas pada 16 Maret 2003.

Today, pemerintahan Irlandia dengan berdiri tegak menolak isolasi Gaza oleh Israel. Pemerintah Irlandia mengirimkan kapal bantuan kemanusiaan untuk membongkar blokade Israel, PM Irlandia sampai puluhan kali mencoba menelpon Israel agar memberi ijin kapal bantuan kemanusiaan untuk masuk, tapi telpon tidak diangkat akhirnya sang PM berkata pada para staf-nya, "Ijin atau tidak pakai ijin, kapal kita harus masuk. Kemerdekaan adalah sangat penting bagi kemanusiaan" lalu kapal bantuan kemanusiaan itu akan menembus blokade Israel, kapal dengan sebuah nama yang menggetarkan rasa kemanusiaan…"Rachel Corrie"
(*special thank's to Mas Anton D. Hanung Nugroho) Tetap semangat dan menyemangati buat semua..

– Gom Tobing

Jenson Button: Caricature by Gom Tobing

Caricature By Mamun Hossain.

Kazi Nazrul Islam (25 May 1899–29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet,musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet). Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is officially recognised as the national poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India.

Born into a poor Muslim family, Nazrul received religious education and worked as a muezzin at a local mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature while working with theatrical groups. After serving in the British Indian Army, Nazrul established himself as a journalist in Kolkata (then Calcutta). He assailed the British Raj in India and preached revolution through his poetic works, such as “Bidrohi” (“The Rebel” and “Bhangar Gaan” (“The Song of Destruction”, as well as his publication “Dhumketu” (“The Comet”. His impassioned activism in the Indian independence movement often led to his imprisonment by British authorities. While in prison, Nazrul wrote the “Rajbandir Jabanbandi” (“Deposition of a Political Prisoner”. Exploring the life and conditions of the downtrodden masses of India, Nazrul worked for their emancipation.

Nazrul’s writings explore themes such as love, freedom, and revolution; he opposed all bigotry, including religious and gender. Throughout his career, Nazrul wrote short stories, novels, and essays but is best-known for his poems, in which he pioneered new forms such as Bengali ghazals. Nazrul wrote and composed music for his nearly 4,000 songs (including gramophone records) ^[1], collectively known as Nazrul geeti (Nazrul songs), which are widely popular today. At the age of 43 (in 1942) he began suffering from an unknown disease, losing his voice and memory. Eventually diagnosed as Pick’s disease, it caused Nazrul’s health to decline steadily and forced him to live in isolation for many years. Invited by the Government of Bangladesh, Nazrul and his family moved to Dhaka in 1972, where he died four years later.

Early life

Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in the village of Churulia in the Burdwan District of Bengal (now located in the Indian state of West Bengal). He was born in a Muslim family who is second of three sons and a daughter, Nazrul’s father Kazi Fakeer Ahmed was theimam and caretaker of the local mosque and mausoleum. Nazrul’s mother was Zaheda Khatun. Nazrul had two brothers, Kazi Shahebjan and Kazi Ali Hussain, and a sister, Umme Kulsum. Nicknamed Dukhu Mia (Sad Man), Nazrul began attending the maktab — the local religious school run by the mosque — where he studied the Qur’an and other scriptures, Islamic philosophy and theology. His family was devastated with the death of his father in 1908. At the young age of ten, Nazrul began working in his father’s place as a caretaker to support his family, as well as assisting teachers in school. He later became the muezzin at the mosque, delivering the Athan and calling the people for prayer.

Attracted to folk theatre, Nazrul joined a leto (travelling theatrical group) run by his uncle Bazle Karim. Working and travelling with them, learning acting, as well as writing songs and poems for the plays and musicals. Through his work and experiences, Nazrul began learning Bengali and Sanskrit literature, as well as Hindu scriptures such as the Puranas. The young poet composed a number of folk plays for his group, which included “Chasar San” (“The story of a Farmer”, “Shakunibadh” (“The Killing of a Vulture”, “Raja Yudhisthirer San” (“The story of King Yudhisthir“, “Data Karna” (“Philanthropic Karna“, “Akbar Badshah” (“Emperor Akbar“, “Kavi Kalidas” (“Poet Kalidas“, “Vidyabhutum” (“The Learned Owl”, and “Rajputrer San” (“The story of a Prince”,

In 1910, Nazrul left the troupe and enrolled at the Raniganj Searsole Raj School, and later transferred to the Mathrun High English School, studying under the headmaster and poet Kumudranjan Mallik. Unable to continue paying his school fees, Nazrul left the school and joined a group of kaviyals. Later he took jobs as a cook at the house of a Christian railway guard and at a bakery and tea stall in the town of Asansol. In 1914, Nazrul studied in the Darirampur School (now Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University) in Trishal, Mymensingh District. Amongst other subjects, Nazrul studied Bengali, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian literatureand classical music under teachers who were impressed by his dedication and skill.

Studying up to Class X, Nazrul did not appear for the matriculation pre-test examination, enlisting instead in the Indian Army in 1917 at the age of eighteen. He joined the British army mainly for two reasons: first, his youthful romantic inclination to respond to the unknown and, secondly, the call of politics . Attached to the 49th Bengal Regiment, he was posted to the cantonment in Karachi, where he wrote his first prose and poetry. Although he never saw active fighting, he rose in rank from corporal to havildar, and served as quartermaster for his battalion. During this period, Nazrul read extensively, and was deeply influenced by Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, as well as the Persian poets Hafez,Rumi and Omar Khayyam. He learnt Persian poetry from the regiment’s Punjabi moulvi, practiced music and pursued his literary interests. His first prose work, “Baunduler Atmakahini” (“Life of a Vagabond” was published in May, 1919. His poem “Mukti” (“Freedom” was published by the “Bangla Mussalman Sahitya Patrika” (“Bengali Muslim Literary Journal” in July 1919.

A caricature can refer to a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness.^{[citation needed]} In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.

Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose or be drawn solely for entertainment. Caricatures of politicians are commonly used in editorial cartoons, while caricatures of movie stars are often found in entertainment magazines.

The term is derived from the Italian caricare- to charge or load. An early definition occurs in the English doctor Thomas Browne’s Christian Morals, published posthumously in 1716.

Expose not thy self by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and Caricatura representations.

with the footnote —

When Men’s faces are drawn with resemblance to some other Animals, the Italians call it, to be drawn in Caricatura

Thus, the word “caricature” essentially means a “loaded portrait”. According to caricature teacher Sam Viviano, the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of fictional characters, which do not possess objective sets ofphysiognomic features to draw upon for reference, or to anthropomorphic depictions of inanimate objects such as automobiles or coffee mugs. Legendary animator Walt Disney on the other hand, equated his animation to caricature, saying the hardest thing to do was find the caricature of an animal that worked best as a human-like character.

History

Some of the earliest caricatures are found in the works of Leonardo da Vinci, who actively sought people with deformities to use as models.^{[citation needed]}

The point was to offer an impression of the original which was more striking than a portrait. Diodemmar Casem one of the great early practitioners, was favored by the members of the papal court for his ability to depict the essence of a person in ‘three or four strokes.’^{[citation needed]} In fact, the word “caricature” comes from the Italian caricare, “to load”, thus the caricaturist’s aim is to invest his image with as much meaning as possible.

Caricature, therefore, experienced its first successes in the closed aristocratic circles of France and Italy, where the such portraits could be passed about for mutual enjoyment.

Notable caricaturists

George Cruikshank (1792–1878, British) created political prints that attacked the royal family and leading politicians (in 1820 he received a royal bribe of £100 for a pledge “not to caricature His Majesty (George III of the United Kingdom) in any immoral situation.”^{[citation needed]} He went on to create social caricatures of British life for popular publications such as The Comic Almanack (1835–1853) and Omnibus (1842). He also earned fame as a book illustrator for Charles Dickens and many other authors.

Honoré Daumier (1808–1879, French) is considered by some^[who?] to be the father of caricature.^{[citation needed]} During his life, he created over 4,000 lithographs, most of them caricatures on political, social and everyday themes. They were published in the daily French newspapers (Le Charivari, La Caricature etc.)

Thomas Nast (1840–1902, American) was a famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in the 19th century and is considered by some^[who?] to be the father of American political cartooning.^{[citation needed]} He is often credited with creating the definitive caricatures of the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant and Santa Claus.^{[citation needed]}

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872–1956, British), created and published caricatures of the famous men of his own time and earlier. His style of single-figure caricatures in formalized groupings was established by 1896 and flourished until about 1930. His published works include Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen (1896), The Poets’ Corner (1904) and Rossetti and His Circle(1922). He published widely in fashionable magazines of the time, and his works were exhibited regularly in London at the Carfax Gallery (1901–18) and Leicester Galleries (1911–57).

Alex Gard (1900–1948, Russian) created more than 700 caricatures of show business celebrities and other notables for the walls of Sardi’s Restaurant in the theater district of New York City: the first artist to do so. Today the images are part of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003, American) was best known for his simple black and white renditions of celebrities and Broadway stars which used flowing contour lines over heavy rendering. He was also known for depicting a variety of other famous people, from politicians, musicians, singers and even television stars like the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was even commissioned by the United States Postal Service to provide art for U.S. stamps. Permanent collections of Hirschfeld’s work appear at theMetropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he boasts a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

Mort Drucker (1929, American) Drucker joined Mad magazine in 1957 and has become well known (and revered by some) for his parodies of movies and television shows. He manages to combine a comic strip style with consistent photographic likenesses of film and TV stars panel after panel. He has also contributed covers to Time magazine. He has been recognized for his work with theNational Cartoonist Society Special Features Award for 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988, and their Reuben Award for 1987.

Vitaliy Peskov (1944–2002, Russian ??????? ??????) was a famous Russian caricaturist.

Robert Risko (1946, American) is known for his retro airbrush style. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and Interview.

David Levine (1926–2009, American) is noted for his caricatures in the The New York Review of Books and Playboy magazine. His first cartoons appeared in 1963. Since then he has drawn hundreds of pen-and-ink caricatures of famous writers and politicians for the newspaper.

Sam Viviano (1953, American) has done much work for corporations and in advertising, having contributed to Rolling Stone,Family Weekly, Reader’s Digest, Consumer Reports, and Mad, of which he is currently the art director. Viviano’s caricatures are known for their wide jaws, which Viviano has explained is a result of his incorporation of side views as well as front views into his distortions of the human face. He has also developed a reputation for his ability to do crowd scenes. Explaining his twice-yearly covers for Institutional Investor magazine, Viviano has said that his upper limit is sixty caricatures in nine days.

Sebastian Krüger (1963, German) is known for his grotesque, yet hyper-realistic distortions of the facial features of celebrities, which he renders primarily in acrylic paint, and for which he has won praise from The Times. He is well known for his lifelike depictions of The Rolling Stones, in particular, Keith Richards. Krüger has published three collections of his works, and has a yearly art calendar from Morpheus International. Krüger’s art can be seen frequently in Playboy magazine and has also been featured in the likes of Stern,L’Espresso, Penthouse, and Der Spiegel and USA Today. He has recently been working on select motion picture projects.

Hermann Mejia (Venezuelan) is known for his frequent work for MAD Magazine. Mejia uses multiple techniques for his work, sometimes rendering his illustrations in black and white ink and copious amounts of cross-hatching, sometimes using watercolor, and sometimes combinations of both.

Computerized caricature and formal definition of caricature

There have been efforts to produce caricatures automatically or semi-automatically using computer graphics techniques. For example, provides warping tools specifically designed toward rapidly producing caricatures. There are very few software programs designed specifically for automatically creating caricatures.

An interesting aspect of some computer graphic systems is that by necessity they require quite different skillsets to caricatures created on paper. Thus using a computer in the digital production of caricatures requires advanced knowledge of the program’s functionality. Rather than being a simpler method of caricature creation, it can be a more complex method of creating images that feature finer coloring textures than can be created using more traditional methods.

A milestone in formally defining caricature was Susan Brennan’s master’s thesis in 1982. In her system, caricature was formalized as the process of exaggerating differences from a mean face. For example, if Prince Charles has more prominent ears than the average person, in his caricature the ears will be much larger than normal. Brennan’s system implemented this idea in a partially automated fashion as follows: the operator was required to input a frontal drawing of the desired person having a standardized topology (the number and ordering of lines for every face). She obtained a corresponding drawing of an average male face. Then, the particular face was caricatured simply by subtracting from the particular face the corresponding point on the mean face (the origin being placed in the middle of the face), scaling this difference by a factor larger than one, and adding the scaled difference back on to the mean face.

Though Brennan’s formalization was introduced in the 1980s, it remains relevant in recent work. Mo et al. refined the idea by noting that the population variance of the feature should be taken into account. For example, the distance between the eyes varies less than other features such as the size of the nose. Thus even a small variation in the eye spacing is unusual and should be exaggerated, whereas a correspondingly small change in the nose size relative to the mean would not be unusual enough to be worthy of exaggeration. Leopold et al. found that individual face-recognizing neurons in the inferotemporal cortex respond more strongly to caricatured faces than to the veridical representations of the same face, and suggest that the visual brain may code faces relative to a prototypical face, consistent with Brennan’s formalization.

Some, on the other hand, argue that caricature varies depending on the artist and cannot be captured in a single definition. Their system uses machine learning techniques to automatically learn and mimic the style of a particular caricature artist, given training data in the form of a number of face photographs and the corresponding caricatures by that artist. The results produced by computer graphic systems are arguably not yet of the same quality as those produced by human artists. For example, most systems are restricted to exactly frontal poses, whereas many or even most manually produced caricatures (and face portraits in general) choose an off-center “three-quarters” view. Brennan’s caricature drawings were frontal-pose line drawings. More recent systems can produce caricatures in a variety of styles, including direct geometric distortion of photographs.

In a lecture titled The History and Art of Caricature (September 2007, Queen Mary 2 Lecture theatre), the British caricaturist Ted Harrison said that the caricaturist can choose to either mock or wound the subject with an effective caricature. Drawing caricatures can simply be a form of entertainment and amusement – in which case gentle mockery is in order, or the art can be employed to make a serious social or political point. A caricaturist draws on (1) the natural characteristics of the subject (the big ears, long nose or whatever); (2) the acquired characteristics (stoop, scars, facial lines etc); and (3) the vanities (choice of hair style, spectacles, clothes, expressions and mannerisms).

The science of caricature

Ramachandran and Hirstein suggested that caricature is related to peak shift. In the peak shift effect, animals sometimes respond more strongly to exaggerated versions of the training stimuli. For example, if a rat is trained to respond to a rectangle of a particular aspect ratio, and to avoid a square, when later presented with several rectangles it will prefer the one with the most elongated aspect ratio (this being the one that is most different from the square) rather than the original rectangle used in training. Ramachandran and Hirstein speculated that cells in a monkey brain that respond to particular faces would respond more strongly to caricatured versions of the face. This effect has been confirmed in FMRIexperiments by Tsao.

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This is a caricature of the great TV presenter form Indonesia.. Mr. Pepeng Soebardi and Andy. F. Noya, meet on Kick Andy talk show soon.

SUSAN BOYLE

Newman DOWN
Manohead / SC

Newman JOKER

Eder Galdinor / Brazil

Newman Senna

Eder Galdinor / Brazil

Newman President Lula

Lex / Brazil

Newman Mona Lisa

León / Colombia

Newman Frida

Guaico / Colombia

Newman Papa Bento XVI

Tiago Gomes Carneiro / Brazil

Newman Che Guevara

Omar Zevallos / Peru

Newman Seu madruga

Felipe Moreira Coutinho / Brazil

Neuman The Fat and the Thin Man

Moisés / Brazil

Neuman The Beatles

Leon / Colombia

Neuman Picasso

Caio Yo – Brazil

Neuman Marilyn Monroe

Alan Souto Maior / Brazil

Neuman Tsé-Tung

Manohead / Brazil