Showing posts with label Community and Lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community and Lifestyle. Show all posts

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Crab Hunting In Brazil

People do the most unusual jobs in order to make their living. For example, this 39-year-old Brazilian fisherman Jose Benedito spends his days crawling in the mud surrounding mangrove roots on the coast of Para State and hunting for crabs. His job can’t be called a “dream job”, that’s for sure.



Every day, from morning till night, he searches for crabs.



Jose smokes a homemade cigarette to keep away the mosquitos.



The legal season for crab hunting ended at the end of January, so it’s now more difficult than ever to complete his daily task.









Jose’s everyday harvest is around 150 crabs. He sells it for $11 per 100 along a nearby highway. It’s his main source of income for his family.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cell Phone Mania

Everyone has a cell phone these days. Now the deal is trying to find the best cell phone that can blow your friends away. Here is a collection of phones that we found that were pretty out of the ordinary.

Mobile Script Phone



Futurist Fantasms


It has two touch screens and includes a traditional candy bar style format, and the other is a flexible OLED that stiffens with a low voltage charge when you unfurl it.

The Moto Concept


While some companies are creating smaller phones that fit almost into anything the Joesph Liang moto phone goes for concept over compact. This cute little bugger is bulky, but I bet the kids will love it.

Pomegranate Phone


This phone might not turn out to be to popular, but you never know. It is a very odd concept for a cell phone. It includes gps navigation, global voice translator, a mp3 playback, camera/video, a movie protector, and get this a razor, harmonica, coffee brewer. I looked and looked and I’m still not sure how they will stuff that into this little gadget, but who knows.

Haier Pen Cell Phone


I don’t think you can get much smaller than this! You will look like James Bond when you use this handy phone if it ever makes it out of conception. It will include a usb slot, a microSD card slot, and comes with ear pieces and has a bluetooh as well.

NEC Tag Phone


It wraps around your wrist. The material is called shape-memorizing and it is supposed to be able to change its shape and still act as a phone. I know that the flexible keyboards that roll up to go with your laptop didn’t work out so well, I hope that these will.

Nokia Morph


This little phone is a collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Nanoscience Center(UK) and Nokia. It can become a tablet pc, a wrist band, or just a simple phone. It can be morphed into 3 modes that include standard, bracelet, and landscape. Standard is a normal phone type of position. The Bracelet mode means you can use it as a bracelet and still have video chats. The landscape mode can be used as a tablet PC. The entire surface becomes a touch screen where you can watch movies, and check mail.

Finger Touching


This is another wearable cell phone and anyone can communicate with It is easier and lighter in mobile circumstances corresponding to the 3.5G, 4G communication standard


It uses the instinctive input method “finger joint”. Excluding the thumb, each finger joint makes up twelve buttons, with “the knuckle button”, using the cell phone’s 3X4 keypad, likely being the most popular input method.

Handphone Cell


This odd phone is attached to your hand, and the mic is were your extended pinky is and you would listen with your thumb. Odd, weird, and well sorta ugly.

Now you see it Now you Don’t.


That is what this phone should have been named. Clear phones are the wave of the future and this is just one of the hundreds hitting the markets. Not much more information about this cell phone, but when they do I’m sure we will all love to have one.


The window phone gives you a lot of options and includes telling you the weather, a slick see through design.


When you blow on it, you go into text mode. How neat is that.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Mirror Mirror On The Wall Who Is The Fairest Of Them All

Finding the average face of women across the world was a tough job but someone had to do it. That incredibly tedious task fell on the shoulders of a budding author who sifted through thousands and thousands of images just to find what he claims is the average face of women in different nationalities. While looking at pictures of beautiful girls may seem like a glamorous way to spend one’s time, the author had a tough time finding good frontal shots but his hard work paid off and the results speak for themselves in the pictures below.














Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Insane Tokyo Compression

Michael Wolf is known for his large format architectural photographs of Chicago and Hong Kong (exhibited in colette years ago). In his series ‘Tokyo Compression’, he documents the insanity, which takes place day by day in the Tokyo underground system and presents portraits of people pressed against windows or other people.
















Source: photomichaelwolf