What are ORBS...???

Teman teman ada yang mengetahui ORBS? ORBS merupakan sebuah fenomena munculnya lingkaran putih pada sebuah frame foto yang di indikasikan sebagai hadirnya sosok dari dunia lain ( baca; sosok gaib), bulatan bulatan pada frame foto tersebut terkadang muncul dalam jumlah banyak dan meninggalkan jejak.

Istilah orbs itu sendiri baru mulai dikenal sejak pertengahan 1990an. Jika dihubungkan dengan perubahan teknologi adalah mulai digunakannya kamera digital bagi masyarakat umum.
Pada teknologi fotografi digital khususnya untuk penggunaan kamera ultra compact, orbs disebut juga sebagai orbs backscatter. orbs backscatter biasanya terjadi karena konstruksi lensa dan built-in flash yang berdekatan pada kamera multi-compact tersebut sehingga mengecilkan sudut pencahayaan ke lensa dan otomatis menaikkan refleksi pencahayaan pada partikel-partikel yang hampir tak terlihat dengan mata telanjang di depan lensa. Oleh karenanya, orbs backscatter bisa dihasilkan dari partikel-partikel seperti debu, bubuk dan partikel cair yang jatuh seperti misalnya derai air hujan. terkadang kalau kita melihatnya kita berfikir kalau lensa kamera kita kotor sehingga menghasilkan efek bola putih tersebut.

Orbs adalah sebutan yang populer untuk bulatan anomali yang muncul pada foto.Dalam bahasa spanyol biasa disebut dengan canoplas.Dalam kamera dan video orbs muncul seperti bola, permata atau bulatan cahaya dengan ukuran gambar seperti bola golf sampai dengan bola basket. Orbs dipercaya sebagai penampakan hantu oleh paranormal atau orang yang memiliki kemampuan melihat alam gaib. Beberapa orang mampu melihat orbs dengan mata telanjang, ini karena bakat atau dengan latihan.

Karena orbs bergerak dengan cepat, maka tidak semua kamera dapat menangkapnya.Butuh kamera dengan resolusi tinggi. Kamera digital dengan resolusi 1.3 mega pixel sekarang sudah bisa menangkap orbs tersebut. Untuk menangkap orbs yang bagus, sangatlah mudah. Anda tinggal masuk ke rumah atau tempat yang dianggap angker oleh masyarakat, sendirian, gunakan kamera digital anda dan foto sembarang ke banyak tempat.

Anda juga bisa memfoto orang yang diduga memiliki susuk atau Khodam (Jin). Biasanya setiap kali kita mengambil gambar tersebut dengan kamera digital, orbs selalu muncul disekitar orang tesebut. Orbs bisa membias menjadi seperti kumpulan awan atau asap, dengan istilah Ektoplasma. Ektoplasma ini diduga sebagai transformasi hantu yang kedua sesudah orbs.

Dari beberapa penjelasan diatas terdapat kontradiksi yang menyatakan bahwa kejadian tersebut merupakan sebuah ketidak sengajaan oleh sebab sang fotografer mungkin lupa menjaga kebersihan lensa kamera mereka (Noise), namun di lain pihak, banyak juga para fotografer yang mengklaim mereka selalu menjaga performa kamera mereka dalam keadaan bersih dan hasil jepretan tetap menghasilkan Orbs tadi. Untuk beberapa pengambilan foto ada yang mengaku kalau gambar mereka setelah cetak bila diperbesar pada lingkaran putih tersebut akan menampakkan sosok gaib (Ghostly phenomena).

Selama ini memang dunia gaib menjadi sangat diminati beberapa orang hingga melakukan serangkaian penelitian, salah satunya dengan alat berkomunikasi dengan alam gaib EVP (Electronic voice phenomenon) yang mungkin pernah teman teman saksikan dalam film "White Noise" (beda halnya dengan Orbs yang menagkap energi lain dengan tampilan Visual pada Frame foto, EVP merupakan sebuah alat untuk menampilkan Voice atau suara suara dari alam ghaib).

Lokasi lokasi yang biasanya cenderung menjadi favorit untuk Orbs menampakkan dirinya adalah seperti rumah kosong yang angker, pemakaman umum. bahkan ada sebuah riset yang menyatakan bahwa tempat ber aura atau energi positif pun bisa jadi tempat penampakan Orbs tersebut, contohnya tempat peribadatan (masjid,pura,gereja,kuil,synagog dll), rata rata mereka yang berhasil mendapatkan gambar Orbs tersebut menggunakan kamera pocket biasa (1.3 MP-keatas) bukanlah sebuah kamera digital yang beresolusi tinggi.

Sekali lagi artikel ini hanya sebuah penjelasan mengenai Orbs, bukan sama sekali sebuah ajakan untuk berfikir klenik, terkadang hal hal diluar perkiraan dan kemampuan manusia bisa hadir begitu saja tanpa di minta, dan kita sebagai manusia tetap percaya ada kehidupan lain di luar sana, Artikel ini hanya menjelaskan Apa itu Orbs yang mungkin ada beberapa teman teman belum mengetahuinya. Percaya nggak percaya sich..terserah keyakinan kamu sendiri.
(source : svhoong.con n more)

Dominasi Otak Manusia

Fungsi Otak Kanan; berfungsi dalam perkembangan emotional quotient (EQ). Misalnya sosialisasi, komunikasi, interaksi dengan manusia lain serta pengendalian emosi. Pada otak kanan ini pula terletak kemampuan intuitif, kemampuan merasakan, memadukan, dan ekspresi tubuh, seperti menyanyi, menari, dan melukis.




Sedangkan Fungsi otak kiri; berfungsi dalam hal-hal yang berhubungan dengan logika, rasio, kemampuan menulis dan membaca, serta merupakan pusat matematika. Bagian otak ini merupakan pengendali intelligence quotient (IQ). Daya ingat otak bagian ini juga bersifat jangka pendek.

Add Fungsi Otak Tengah
berperan  dalam proses pendengaran dan penglihatan. Proses pendengaran dimulai dari sebuah sinyal yang diterima dari berbagai inti batang otak disebarkan menuju talamus. Setelah itu, kita bisa mendengar suara.
Selain pendengaran, otak tengah pun juga berperan sebagai proses penglihatan dan pengendalian gerak mata. Jika otak ini tidak berfungsi dengan baik, penglihatan pun jadi terganggu.

Dominasi otak berarti tidak sepenuhnya bahwa kita hanya menggunakan salah satu otak kita secara keseluruhan, karena belahan otak kita saling bersinergi satu sama lain, meskipun berbeda fungsinya.

Cara sederhana untuk mengetahui dominasi otak yang sering berperan dalam otak kita bisa dengan cara :
Option 1. Kita ambil saja selembar kertas dan kita buat lubang kesil saja (sebesar uang koin). setelah itu kita melihat suatu objek benda atau apa (bisa melihat salah satu tombol keyboard, no di kalender atau sebagainya yang intinya objek tersebut tidak terlalu besar ukurannya). Nah setelah itu coba anda lihat objek yang anda tentukan tadi melalui lubang kertas dengan menutup mata secara bergantian. bila anda dapat melihat objek tersebut dengan mata sebelah kiri maka anda lebih dominan menggunakan otak kanan (berbanding terbalik) demikian sebaliknya.
Option2. coba anda berdiri, ambil nafas panjang dan rilekskan diri anda sejenak, kemudian cobalah anda berputar. Jika Anda berputar searah jarum jam, so dominasi otak Anda adalah otak kiri. Tapi jika Anda  berputar berlawanan arah jarum jam, dominasi otak Anda adalah otak kanan.


Namun perlu dijelaskan lagi bahwa sebenarnya otak kita saling bersinergi satu sama lain dan kita wajib bersyukur atas pemberian otak kita oleh Tuhan.

Seseorang yang dominan belahan kiri, biasanya akan:

• Memilih sesuatu yang berurutan
• Belajar lebih baik dari bagian-bagian kemudian keseluruhan
• Lebih memilih system membaca fonetik
• Menyukai kata-kata symbol dan huruf
• Lebih memilih membaca subyeknya lebih dulu
• Mau berbagi informasi fakta yang berhubungan
• Lebih memilih instruksi yang berurutan secara detail
• Mengalami focus internal lebih besar
• Menginginkan struktur dan prediksi

Seseorang yang dominan belahan kanan, biasanya akan:

• Merasa lebih nyaman dengan sesuatu yang acak
• Paling baik belajar dari keseluruhan kemudian bagian-bagian
• Lebih memilih system membaca seluruh bahasa
• Menyukai gambar, grafik dan diagram
• Lebih memilih melihat atau mengalami subyeknya lebih dulu
• Mau berbagi informasi tentang hubungan antara segala sesuatu
• Lebih memilih yang spontan, lingkungan belajar yang mengalir
• Mengalami fokus eksternal yang lebih besar
• Menginginkan pendekatan yang tak terbatas, baru & mengejutkan. (from many sources)

Bio of The Script

It’s been a rags to riches glory ride, an emotional rollercoaster, an all action, all-star blockbuster. Three young Dubliners took on the world, with music fashioned from the emotional detritus of their own hard lives raised up by a love of pop, rock, hip hop and soul. In two years they notched up a handful of hit singles, including ‘We Cry’, ‘Breakeven’ and ‘The Man Who Can’t Be Moved’. Their 2008 debut album, ‘The Script’, went to number one in the UK and Ireland, approaching 2 million world wide sales. They played stadium shows with music heroes U2, Take That and Paul McCartney. They played a triumphant homecoming set at Ireland’s Oxegen festival before 78,000 fans and won Best Live Performance at the 2010 Meteor Awards (beating their mentors U2). And to cap it all, ‘Breakeven’ became one of the slowest climbers in US pop history, eventually hitting the top of Billboards Adult Pop Song radio airplay chart after 40 weeks on release. ‘Breakeven’ has sold over 1.7 million downloads in the US alone.

But that was just the first draft. Now it’s time to write a whole new Script.

The scene is a recording studio in London. Two young Irishmen are listening to playback. Handsome, dark haired Danny O’Donoghue is The Script’s charismatic vocalist and keyboard player. Shaven headed Mark Sheehan is their intense, loquacious guitarist. Third member, friendly but taciturn drummer and multi-instrumentalist Glen Power is in an adjoining studio, laying down a beat. Danny and Mark cannot sit still. They are leaping about to the music blasting from huge speakers, an addictive blend of hip hop rhythms, flowing melodies, sparkling hooks and emotive, story-spinning lyrics, with Danny’s mellifluous soulful vocals riding high over huge, anthemic choruses. This is their forthcoming second album, ‘Science And Faith’, and it is fair to say the band are excited.

“We’ve gone from playing little clubs to doing theatres, festivals and stadiums,” says Mark. “It’s a little bit shocking to us as new band, playing to these mass audiences. And we feel we have to touch everybody, hit ever fucker in there.”

“I’m just so excited about this record,” declares Danny. “We are more confident about our sound, so you really want to fine tune your writing skills. Find the essence of what we do, songs that mean something, that people would like to sing out loud at a concert.”

“We’ve had to really think about who we are, what we are, and why it matters,” continues Mark. “Take all that experience and try and do something positive with it. We really just want to nail that last album. Put it to the wall.”

“For me, it’s like working out to the point of exhaustion,” continues Danny. “We come in here and try and give ourselves to the track, emotionally, spiritually, lyrically, musically, whatever we can give, and then walk out here utterly spent. And then, job done.”

The studio door flies open, and in bursts drummer Glen. “I’ve nailed that track lads!” he declares. “Wait til you hear it! I’ve got blisters on my hands!”

The Script are like this all the time, highly passionate, sincere and poetically articulate, with a tendency to talk over each other in their eagerness to express themselves. The journey to their new album has been a strange one, with many twists and turns. Danny and Mark met in their early teens in Dublin, and had a long struggle for musical recognition, albeit picking up early admirers for their prodigious songwriting talent in U2. They somehow wound up in the US, working as songwriters and producers with such R’n’B heroes as Dallas Austin, Teddy Riley and The Neptunes. A chance encounter with Glen focussed their ideas on making their own music, and the trio was formed. But in the midst of recording their debut album in Dublin, both Mark’s mother and Danny’s father passed away, inspiring bittersweet live favourite ‘The End Where I Begin’. A meteoric rise through the world’s charts followed but, even at the moment of their greatest triumph, they found themselves having to keep their pride in check, as their native Ireland sank into a devastating economic crisis, amongst the hardest hit of European nations following the credit crunch.

And this is where the new chapter in The Script’s tale really began.

“We were coming back to Dublin victorious, only to be confronted with stark reality,” recalls Danny. “It’s like you've waited for that great day when you can say, ‘I've finally made it’ and everyone else is saying, ‘My life has turned to shit’.”

“I actually felt really guilty,” admits Mark. “Meeting my mates who used to tell me I might need to get a real job to support my family, and buying me a beer when I was the one who was suffering. The tables have turned quite considerably, and you want to be a little bit excited and go, ‘oh, man, we just played with McCartney, we just got to number one,’ but they're going ‘I just lost my job’, or ‘I split up with my wife.”

“What’s going on in Ireland is a microcosm for the rest of the world,” suggests Danny. “So here we were back in Dublin and there’s a lot of relationships going on and we're seeing people who have met under money, under the Celtic Tiger, and they've never known what to do without money. People are getting stripped of everything, stripped of their jobs and their homes and their furniture, so its going to back to an old thing of drinking cheap bottles of wine, having dinner on the floor, nothing but candlelight, and it’s like they are meeting each other for the first time. But I'm not saying that in a bad sense. Its getting back to reality, you are standing naked in front of this person. That notion really resonated with us, and we wrote a song, ‘For The First Time’. I felt like it was something that could be a real flagship, to set the tone for what we want to talk about, emotionally. And the rest has spun off from there.”

The songs came thick and fast. ‘Exit Wounds’, about the damage relationships can wreak. ‘You Won’t Feel A Thing’, about suffering all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to protect your most loved ones. ‘Nothing’ about a drunken, broken hearted phone call to a lost love (“We’ve all been there,” as Danny says). ‘Don’t Change A Thing’ about always leaving the door open for the possible return of a loved one. And the title track, ‘Science And Faith’, about the primacy of love in the universal equation. “With all of these subjects, we're always trying to attack at a level where it’s optimistic,” insists Danny. “We're dealing with complex emotions in the simplest of ways, that's what we battle with in these songs.”

“On first listen, the subject matter might sound bleak,” says Mark. “But I think being Irish there is this undertone of hope all the time. It’s about having coping skills to get over things. With Irish people, no matter how bad things get, you always pick yourself up and carry on.”

The Script are songwriters of the first order, combining thoughtful, heartfelt lyrics with lush melodies. They have fielded numerous requests to write for other artists (including Beyonce and James Blunt), preferring instead to focus on each other. “I feel, honestly, we are three people who write for us, and we write together, and feel those songs, internally, as mates,” explains Mark.

“If there was somebody I wanted to write with, I’d probably be in a band with them,” points out Danny. “I love writing with these ****ers! It’s a challenge. You walk in here, you better be on the ball, cause these guys are good.”

They still pronounce themselves incredulous that Paul McCartney personally asked The Script to support him at a series of American stadium shows. “That was pretty mad, that he loved our songs, he knew them, came and watched us while we were playing on stage,” says Mark. “He said the reason he picked us was our message is very humble and honest. We're not preaching, we invite people into our world, and our experiences, and to relate to us. He felt like we were dealing with important stuff.”

There can surely be no higher honour for a songwriter than the imprimatur of a Beatle. But that’s where the Script operate, in the highest realms of pop, easily accessible yet artistically, emotionally and spiritually resonant. “I don’t see us as anything other than lads from Dublin,” admits Mark. “I don’t feel like I‘m in some big band. We come in and we make really heartfelt music. I get to really express myself in this band. And that’s as far as it goes for me. I’m not trying to change the world. I’m not trying to heal anybody. I generally find most of these songs are healing myself because getting them out has certainly helped externalise the feelings. ‘The End Where I Begin’ is such a poignant song for us, from losing parents, that when we play it people ask ‘do you feel like your reopening those wounds every night?’ Well, yeah, I honestly do. I set myself up for that song, I remind myself why it was written and what it was all about, and then we play it. Yet it’s not tough for me at all. I feel justified. I feel like I’m actually sharing something that you all relate to. You have all lost somebody too. You can all understand exactly where this is coming from. And it feels good to do that.”

“You know what the Script is?” says Danny. “It’s the journey from a feeling of devastation in the pit of my stomach, for me to be able to think about that, put it into words, to be able to sing it, a band to play it, for you to hear it, to go to your brain, to understand it and for you to replicate that same feeling. It’s such an amazing thing. You couldn’t work it out with a calculator. But that’s what we try and do.”

“And that’s the pay off,” says Mark. “The thought of some person somewhere sitting in their apartment putting our music on because they are hurting and we’re the soundtrack to that emotion, whatever is going on in their life. That to me is the greatest power of music. And I cannot get over that they might choose our record. Cause I do that. I sit in a room and pick out a song to articulate my feelings. It floors me every time.”

Get ready for the return of The Script. There are going to be more twists in this tale before it is done.
from thescript.com - thnx

Biography of Panic At The Disco (extended)

Panic! at the Disco is an American rock duo, formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Brendon Urie (lead vocals, guitar, piano), and Spencer Smith (drums). Original and former members Ryan Ross (guitar) and Jon Walker (bass) left the group in 2009. The band has been described by critics as a variety of genres, most commonly pop punk, alternative rock, and baroque pop.

The band formed and recorded their first demos while they were all still in high school. Shortly after graduation, the band recorded and released their debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005). Bolstered by the lead single "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", the album eventually was certified double platinum and met with much success. The group then wrote and recorded their second record, Pretty. Odd., released in 2008. Marked as a drastic change in tone from their debut, it undersold commercial expectations but met with critical success.

The band released their third album, entitled Vices & Virtues, on March 22, 2011, while the record's first single, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", was released February 1, 2011.

History

Formation and early years (2004 - 2005)
The band was formed in 2004 in the suburban area of Summerlin, Las Vegas, by childhood friends Ryan Ross on guitar and Spencer Smith on drums. Both teens attended Bishop Gorman High School, and the two began playing music together in ninth grade. They invited friend Brent Wilson from nearby Palo Verde High School to join on bass, and Wilson invited classmate Brendon Urie to try out on vocals. The quartet soon began rehearsing in Smith's grandmother's living room. Urie grew up in a Mormon family in Las Vegas and early on skipped rehearsals to go to church. Ross initially was the lead vocalist for the group, but after frequent late-night visits with Urie, they unanimously decided to move him to lead. The teens initially worked solely as a Blink-182 cover band.

The monotonous nature of local Las Vegas bands influenced the members of the band to be different and creative, and they soon began laying down experimental demos. The band had not even performed a single live show when they were signed. "We never went out and played shows before we got signed because the music scene in Las Vegas is so bad. There's not a lot going on," Smith said. "In our practice space, there were something like 30 bands, and every day we'd walk into that room and hear the exact same death-metal bands. So it kind of influenced us to be different. And to get out of Las Vegas." Urie began working at Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Summerlin to afford rent for the band's new practice space. The four left their education behind to concentrate on music, with Ross falling out with his father for leaving college after his first year. Upon telling his parents of their intentions to quit high school in favor of being in a band, Urie was kicked out, forced to stay at friend's homes and eventually affording a one-bedroom apartment.

Ross and Urie soon began to commit to their laptops the demos they had been developing, and posted three early demos ("Time to Dance," "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks" and "Camisado") on PureVolume. On a whim, they sent a link to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz via a LiveJournal account. Wentz, who was in Los Angeles at the time with the rest of Fall Out Boy working on their major-label debut, From Under the Cork Tree, drove down to Las Vegas to meet with the young, unsigned band. Upon hearing "two to three" songs during band practice, Wentz was impressed and immediately wanted the band to sign to his Fueled by Ramen imprint label Decaydance Records, which made them the first on the new label. Around December 2004, the group signed to the label. As news broke that Wentz had signed Panic! (who had yet to perform a single live show), fans on the Internet began to bash the group. "Almost right away we knew what was going to happen," Ross explained in a 2006 interview. "We had two songs online and people were already making assumptions on what kind of band we were and what we were going to sound like."

Meanwhile, Wentz began to hype the band wherever possible: from wearing "Pete! at the Disco" T-shirts onstage to mentioning them in interviews. Wentz gave a quick shout-out to the band during a press junket on the day before the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards: "I've got a couple of bands coming out soon on Decaydance, one being this band called Panic! at the Disco," Wentz said. "Their record is going to be your next favorite record. It's called A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - get it before your little brother does." At the time of their signing, all of the band members were still in high school (with the exception of Ross, who was forced to quit UNLV). Urie graduated in May 2005 and Wilson and Smith finished school online as the band left for College Park, Maryland to record their debut record.

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out and mainstream success (2005 - 2007)

The band relocated to College Park, Maryland to record their debut album from June - September 2005. Although they only had shells of songs when they arrived, the rest of the album shaped up fast through the marathon session. "We didn't have a day off in the five-and-a-half weeks we were there, 12 or 14 hours a day," Ross said in a 2005 interview. "We were making things up in our heads that weren't there, and on top of the stress of trying to finish the record, we were living in a one-bedroom apartment with four people on bunk beds," recalled Ross. "Everyone got on everybody's nerves. Someone would write a new part for a song and someone else would say they didn't like it just because you ate their cereal that morning."

The album is split into two halves: the first half is mostly electronic dance punk, while the second half features Vaudevillian piano, strings, and accordion. The band grew tired of writing only with drum machines and keyboards and, inspired by film scores (specifically the works of Danny Elfman and Jon Brion) decided to write a completely different half. "By the end of that, we were completely exhausted," said Ross of the studio sessions. After its completion, "we had two weeks to come home and learn how to be a band," Ross said. The group played their first live show during the summer of 2005 at local Las Vegas music venue The Alley on West Charleston. Afterwards, the band toured nationally on the Nintendo Fusion Tour with mentors Fall Out Boy, as well as Motion City Soundtrack, The Starting Line, and Boys Night Out for the rest of 2005.

Their debut album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, was released September 27, 2005. Sales began relatively slow. It debuted at #112 on the Billboard 200 album chart, #6 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart, and #1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, with nearly 10,000 albums sold in the first week of release. Within a span of four months, Panic! would see the video for their first single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", rocket up the Billboard Hot 100 as sales of Fever passed the 500,000 mark. At the end of March 2006, they announced their very own headlining tour. By August, their debut record was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and the music video for "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" won Video of the Year at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. "Some aspects of the fame are annoying, but at the end of the day it's something we're most grateful for. It's certainly opened the door to a whole new batch of opportunities," Ross said of the band's newfound fame and instant success.

In May 2006, Panic! at the Disco announced that original bassist Brent Wilson had left the band, "posting a statement that was both diplomatic and entirely inscrutable [�] yet [failing] to mention any reason why Wilson is leaving Panic," according to MTV News. In June, Wilson asserted to MTV News that he was kicked out of the band via a phone call. "It was done as a phone call and the only person who spoke was Spencer. Apparently Brendon and Ryan were on the speakerphone too, but they didn't say a word. They never even said they were sorry," explained Wilson. Smith wrote a lengthy e-mail back to James Montgomery of MTV News, stating, in part, "We made the decision based on Brent's lack of responsibility and the fact that he wasn't progressing musically with the band," and revealed that Wilson did not write nor play any bass present on Fever: instead, Urie recorded these parts. Wilson demanded a cut in royalties, and threatened to take his former band to court.

The band supported The Academy Is� on their worldwide The Ambitious Ones and Smoking Guns Tour from January to May 2006. Beginning in June, the group headlined their first unnamed national tour, that would last until August. During their performance at the 2006 Reading Festival in August, the band was greeted by excessive bottling, one of which hit Urie in the face that knocked him unconscious. Despite this, the band continued with their set after Urie recovered. The band's second headlining tour, dubbed the Nothing Rhymes with Circus Tour, began in November. In roughly one year, Panic! at the Disco went from being the opening act on a five-band bill to the headliners on a massive arena tour.

The Nothing Rhymes with Circus Tour debuted the band's highly theatrical and notable live show, which featured every song with dance numbers, skits and tricks performed by a six-member troupe, as the band donned intricate costumes, loosely re-enacting moments from the songs. Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times noted the sudden success and circus-inspired tour of the young band in a concert review: "There�s something charming about watching a band trying to navigate sudden success, aided by a contortionist, a ribbon dancer and all the rest of it." The group, fresh off the major success of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, took a break after non-stop touring and began formulating ideas for their next record together during the winter of 2006.

Pretty. Odd., ...Live In Chicago, and continued success (2008)

After a short period of development regarding the ideas of the album, on March 6, 2007 the band arrived at a cabin in the rural mountains of Mount Charleston, Nevada and began the writing process for the new album. After recording the new tracks and performing them live over the summer, the band returned to their native Las Vegas as well as their old rehearsal studio, where they wrote their debut record. The band grew disinterested in the songs previously written and by August scrapped the entire new album (which Ross later revealed was "three-quarters" done) and started over. "We wanted to approach these songs in the most basic form," Ross said. "We wrote them all on one acoustic guitar and with someone singing. I think that we kind of skipped that part of songwriting on the first record, and this time we're sort of paying attention to that. [�] We've written a bunch of songs since we've been home [Las Vegas]. I think it's the most fun and the happiest we've been since we started." With simplicity the new focus and the old album shelved, the group settled in and began recording what would become Pretty. Odd. In October, the band entered the Studio at the Palms at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas to begin recording the album.

In January 2008, the band unveiled a new logo and dropped the exclamation point from their name, effectively becoming Panic at the Disco, which soon caused outrage among the band's fanbase. Released on March 21, 2008, Pretty. Odd. was described by the band as "more organic and mellower" than A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, as well as unintentionally and coincidentally similar to music of The Beatles, in both songwriting and scope. The record debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-day sales of 54,000, and first-week sales of 139,000 copies in the United States. Those figures marked the band's biggest sales week to that date, beating a previous record held by A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (which sold 45,000 during the winter of 2006). The record also debuted at "Current Alternative Albums" chart and #2 on the "Digital Albums" chart, the latter of which accounted for 26 percent of the disc's overall sales. The album charted high in various other countries and was eventually certified gold in the United Kingdom, however, Pretty. Odd. received relatively disappointing sales in the face of its' predecessor. Pretty. Odd. was, however, critically acclaimed in contrast to Fever: Barry Walters of Spin called Panic's debut album "embarrassing" while regarding the new record as "[daring] to be optimistically beautiful at a time when sadness and ugliness might have won them easier credibility."

The band announced plans to headline the 2008 Honda Civic Tour in January 2008, which took up the majority of early touring for the album. Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet opened for the tour, which April 10 to July 14, 2008 across North America. Throughout October and November 2008, the band toured with Dashboard Confessional and The Cab on the Rock Band Live Tour promoting the video game Rock Band 2.

As expected and predicted by several music publications, the band adopted a very different style for the touring in support of Pretty. Odd., in contrast to the dark, circus-themed elements of their previous stage shows. Each show contained "woodsy set pieces, projections of flora and fauna, and mic stands wrapped in lights and flowers," and each band member dressed in a vest. While reflecting on the theatrical nature of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out touring, Urie commented "We did it and it was a lot of fun when we did it, but this time around I think we wanted to get back to a more intimate, personal setting, and scale it down a little bit." Ryan Ross explained that "It's more about connecting with the audience and seeing what's gonna happen every night. It's not as scripted out and pre-planned. It makes it more exciting for us, and less monotonous every night." A live album, ...Live in Chicago, based on live recordings from Chicago during the Honda Civic Tour, was released December 2, 2008. An accompanying DVD contains photos from the tour, each music video from the album as well as behind-the-scenes footage of the videos and the tour, the short film Panic at the Disco In: American Valley, and the documentary feature based on the tour, All In A Day's.

Pretty. Odd.'s touring was also defined by a larger effort to remain environmentally conscious. On the tour, the band worked with two non-profit eco organizations: Reverb, which facilitates environmentally friendly touring; and Global Inheritance, which seeks to inspire more eco-activism. In a 2008 interview, Ross revealed that the band traveling on a biodiesel bus, to re-using plastics, and recycling more backstage. The band went as far as to print tour booklets on recycled paper, with soy ink, and organize an "eco-contest," in which profits from the tour went straight to environmental organizations.

Lineup change and Vices & Virtues (2009 - present)

In spring 2009, the band began recording material for their then-untitled third studio album. However, on July 6, 2009, Ryan Ross and Jon Walker announced via the band's official website that the two were leaving the band. The statement, in part, read: "Ryan Ross and Jon Walker will be leaving Panic at the Disco to embark on a musical excursion of their own. Though the four of us have made music together in the past, we've creatively evolved in different directions which has compromised what each of us want to personally achieve. Over the years, we have remained close and honest with each other, which helped us to realize that our goals were different and that parting ways is truly what is best for each of us." In an interview following the split, Ross explained that he first brought the idea to Smith in late June 2009 over lunch: "Spencer and I had lunch and caught up for a while, and then the big question came up, like, 'Well, what do you want to do?' and I said, 'Well, I think it might be best if we kind of do our own thing for a while', and he said, 'I'm glad you said that, because I was going to say the same thing'", Ross recalled. "And there was really no argument, which is really the best way that could've worked out." Ross said the split was largely due to creative differences between him and Urie. Urie wanted the band to explore a more polished pop sound, while Ross - and, by extension, Walker - was interested in making retro-inspired rock.

The news asserted that both tour plans with Blink-182 in August 2009 and new album production "will continue as previously announced," and the announcement ended with the teaser for a "surprise" soon to come. The following day, Alternative Press broke the news that "New Perspective", the first song recorded without Ross and Walker, would debut the following month on radio and as a part of the soundtrack to the film Jennifer's Body. On July 10, 2009, Alternative Press also reported that the band had regained the exclamation point, becoming, once again, Panic! at the Disco. "New Perspective" was released on July 28, 2009. Former The Cab member Ian Crawford filled in for Ross on their tour during the Blink-182 Summer Tour in August 2009, and Dallon Weekes, singer/songwriter of the indie band The Brobecks, filled in for Walker on bass.

The band re-entered the studio during early 2010 and spent much of the year recording their third studio album. On January 18, 2011, the band revealed that their new album, Vices & Virtues, would officially be released on March 22, 2011. The album was produced by Butch Walker and John Feldmann. The record's first single, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", was released digitally on February 1, 2011, with the music video being released February 8, 2011. Vices & Virtues was officially released March 22, 2011 to relatively positive critical reviews.

The band began touring in support of the album, christened the Vices & Virtues Tour, in earnest beginning in February 2011. The tour has sported the same electric, over-the-top theatricality the band was known for during the Fever era. "I really miss wearing costumes and makeup," Urie told Spin. "I love throwing a big production. I've recently been reading about Tesla coils and I'm trying to figure out how I can get one that sits on the stage and shoots sparks without hurting anybody."

Musical Style

Music critics have named a number of different genres to describe Panic! at the Disco's music. These include emo, pop punk, electro, vaudeville, and baroque pop. These labels are more of a reflection of the band's work on A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, as the stylistic shift on their sophomore effort Pretty. Odd. made many of these claims insignificant.

Panic! at the Disco went on record many times saying that their second album would be completely different from A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, as Rolling Stone wrote in an article: "The group cemented its next direction with their first single, called "Nine in the Afternoon". "It's influenced by the music our parents listened to: the Beach Boys, The Kinks, the Beatles", says Ross. "Our new songs are more like classic rock than modern rock. We got older and started listening to different music  -  and this seems like the natural thing to do right now." Pretty. Odd. has been described as being like "[Panic] dropping the entire Beatles catalog into a blender, adding some modern alternative ice and the horn section from Sonia Dada, then churning out a new-millennium Liverpool smoothie." In his review of their live album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted, "...Pretty. Odd. suggests that they're becoming that rare thing in 2008: a pop-oriented rock band. They might not be doing this knowingly, but the results are entertaining all the same."

Since the release of Vices & Virtues, the band's musical sensibilities have returned to the theatrical pop rock of their debut, albeit more mature and restrained in the style of Pretty. Odd. Urie has gone on record several times claiming that this was not the band's intention, stating that Virtues is a rebirth for the band and indicative of a new identity following the departures of Ross and Walker.

Band Members

Current members
    * Brendon Urie  -  lead vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, piano 2004-present
    * Spencer Smith  -  drums, percussion 2004-present

Current touring
    * Ian Crawford - lead guitar, backing vocals 2009-present
    * Dallon Weekes - bass guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals 2009-present

Former members
    * Ryan Ross  -  vocals, lead guitar, keyboards (2004 - 2009)
    * Jon Walker  -  bass guitar, guitars, backing vocals (2006 - 2009)
    * Brent Wilson  -  bass guitar (2004 - 2006)

Former touring
    * Eric Ronick  -  keyboards, backing vocals, percussion (2006 - 2008)
    * Bartram Nason  -  cello, keyboards, electronic drums, percussion (2006 - 2007)
    * Bradley Potter  -  lead guitar, backing vocals (2006)

Discography

    * A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005)
    * Pretty. Odd. (2008)
    * Vices & Virtues (2011)

Awards and nominations

At the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards a random audience member who identified himself as Sixx jumped on the stage while they were giving their acceptance speech for winning the award for Music Video of the Year.

    * MTV Video Music Awards:
        * Nominated: Best Direction in a Video (2008) for "Nine in the Afternoon"
        * Nominated: Best Pop Video (2008) for "Nine in the Afternoon"
        * Won: Video of the Year (2006) for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
        * Nominated: Best Group Video (2006) for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
        * Nominated: Best Rock Video (2006) for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
        * Nominated: Best New Artist in a Video (2006) for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
        * Nominated: Best Art Direction in a Video (2006) for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"

    * Los Premios MTV Latinoam�rica:
        * Nominated: Best International Rock Group (2007)
        * Nominated: Best International Rock Group (2008)

    * MTV Asia Awards 2008:
        * Won: edc Style Award

    * TMF Awards:
        * Won: Best Video International (2006) for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"

    * Grammy Awards:
        * Nominated: Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package (2008)
        * Nominated: Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package (2009)

source : stafaband

Mengungkap Misteri Adu Penalti

Dalam sepakbola, pasti nggak ada pemain ataupun pelatih maupun official tim yang menginginkan penentuan hasil pertandingan melalui adu tendangan penalti. Namun toh meskipun hal tersebut terjadi, yang menjadikan alasan utama sebuah tim bola, menang ataupun kalah dalam adu penalti hanyalah suatu "KEBERUNTUNGAN"

Dalam adu penalti pun, tidak bakal bisa diprediksi dengan kualitas ataupun ketenaran dari sebuah tim sepakbola itu sendiri. Sudah banyak yang telah saya lihat sendiri, bahwa tim dengan kualitas baik dan diatas kertas jauh dari kualitas pemain lawan, toh akhirnya mereka bisa juga kalah.
Tidak peduli event kecil sekedar laga persahabatam, calender liga maupun final sebuah kejuaraan, adu penalti seakan menjadi momok dalam diri pemain, karena merekalah aktor utama dalam adu penalti dan mereka  tidak ingin hari itu menjadi hari ketidakberuntungannya.

Setelah observasi, menonton sekian banyak pertandingan bola (yang terjadi moment adu penalti) dan mencari berbagai video dan sumber lain, saya mempunyai pandangan sendiri tentang beruntung atau tidak beruntungnya dalam sebuah drama adu penalty.
Yang mendapatkan tambahan nilai keberuntungan adalah terletak pada eksekutor atau pemain yang menjadi penendang PERTAMA.
Sebelum melaksanakan adu penalti pasti wasit akan mengundi siapa diantara dua tim yang manjadi penendang pertama. Nah, pemain dari tim pertama yang menjadi eksekutor mempunyai beban mental yang sangat2 berat karena dialah yang menjadi harapan awal sebuah kemenangan ataupun kekalahan timnya, lain dengan pemain yang menjadi eksekutor pertama dari tim lawan, karena dia (tim lawan) dapat menunggu sejenak hasil dari tendangan pertama tim lawan.
Meskipun banyak sumber yang mengatakan bahwa kedua eksekutor pertama sama2 mempunyai peluang yang sama dalam adu penalti, tapi beban mental kedua tim berbeda meskipun sedikit sellisihnya (tidak ada presentase pasti).
Hasilnya..??? bahwa tim yang mendapatkan giliran pertama untuk menendang bola,kebanyakan menuai kekalahan dalam drama adu penalti. (berdasarkan survey sendiri-hampir 80%). PERCAYA NGGAK PERCAYA !? terserah Anda ....:)

Nah untuk Anda sebagai pelatih maupun pemain, lebih baek menjadi tim kedua yang mendapat giliran menendang penalti. Survey saya mengatakan demikian. Dan berharaplah juga hari itu KEBERUNTUNGan di pihak tim Anda. :)