Urban Cycle Design

Castro M1 is a sleek little bike designed for urban cyclists. 
The minimalist bicycle is designed, manufactured, and assembled in Barcelona, it was imagined and built to meet the demanding lifestyle of urbanites, it is adaptable to a variety of people with different riding styles, and is quick and easy to store, the kind of bike you could just pick up and ride. 

Its slim stainless steel frame can be folded in no time to occupy only 23 cm (9 inches) of space, and can be stored anywhere. 

Mobile Phone For Smart Communicators

The more our phones do, the more they demand of us. Say it with words.

Focus on what matters most and leave the rest. The MP 01 is a simple mobile phone for smart communicators.

The MP 01 by Punkt, is a mobile phone striped down to its bare essentials. Punkt Phone is a mobile phone that´s just that, a mobile phone that sticks to its core functions, calling and texting.
It aims to be somewhat liberating, because you don´t have to check your status or notifications every two seconds and because Punkt Phone keeps it simple. 

This Swiss made device gets up to one month of battery time on standby or 290 hours of talking time! You also get a two inch LCD display, a calendar, an alarm and contacts manager. 

Back to basics in a high quality item.  

Into The Wild Expedition

We are completely in love with the Earthroamer XV go-anywhere, live anywhere vehicle.
Earthroamer are global leaders in Xpedition Vehicles, their spectacular XV-LT model line is currently the best-selling Xpedition Vehicle model in the world, and we can see why, they are in a class of their own. 

The company took a Ford F550 diesel and then overhaul it and transform it into a completely self sufficient expedition vehicle.
It features solar panels to generate electricity, hard wood cabinetry, leather seating, granite counters, convection microwave, forced air furnace, air-conditioning, king-size bed and a private bathroom with shower.

EarthRoamer XV-LTs are designed to accommodate from two to eight adventurers comfortably depending on the cab and camper body chosen.

EXTERIOR:

 

Premium Swing Out Storage

Solar Panels

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Toyota 1978 Land Cruiser

FJ Company is specialized in performing full, frame-off restorations of the classic Japanese Toyota FJ series.

Their latest masterpiece is this beautiful 1978 Land Cruiser FJ40, a build they consider to be their best work to date. 
The guys performed their trademark frame off nut and bolt restoration, replaced the door panels, windows, dash pads, and headliner, and re-upholstered the seats. They also rebuilt the 4.2-liter six-cylinder engine, four-speed transmission, and four-wheel-drive system. 

A Life-Sized Caravan Made From 215,158 LEGO Bricks

After 12 weeks of construction, more than 1,000 man hours and 215,158 individual LEGO pieces, the Largest caravan built with interlocking plastic bricks was unveiled at the at the National Exhibition Centre in  Birmingham, UK. The caravan was built to celebrate 130 years of leisure caravanning.

 Every last detail was thought out, including a sink with real running water, working electric lights, a bed, seating, a chess set, a fridge, and food in the frying pan.

Delicate Oil Work Portraits

Spanish artist Andrea Castro paints delicate oil work portraits overlaid by thick, expressive strokes of color. Castro, who originally studied fashion design, works in the overlap between abstract and figurative art, often adding details such as beading or embroidery to her works

Unequal World

Photographers Capture the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor

The story of inequality is impossible to ignore these days. While we may think we understand wealth through television and tabloids, what we see represents only a drop in the bucket.

The book 1% Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality features 50 images from different photographers that show vast class disparities around the world.

 

Residents dig through a trash dump in Beaufort West, South Africa. The photo quietly suggests the contrast between the un-pictured people who created the waste and those who must survive by digging through it.

Photograph by Mikhael Subotzky

 

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Maids prepare a guestroom in a wealthy home in Kenya. The image is part of a photo essay called "Silent Lives," which profiles domestic workers in the country.

Photograph by Guillaume Bonn 

A man floats in a swimming pool atop Singapore's Marina Bay Sands Hotel, the city's financial district looming behind him. Little says that Singapore is a "tax haven"—a place "where it’s legal for major corporations to hide their money from the tax man."

Photograph by Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti, Institute

A man collects scraps to sell in the dilapidated Packard Motor Car Company plant in Detroit, Michigan. Before the collapse of Detroit's manufacturing sector, a person like him might have been able to find work here as an employee, rather than as a scavenger.

Photograph by Andrew Moore, courtesy the artist and Yancey Richadrson Gakkery

This gated community in Henderson, Nevada, shows "the environmental effects of our consumption and of our privileged lifestyles," Little says. You can create an oasis in the desert "if you add a tremendous amount of money and chemicals and water."

Photograph by Michael Light 

The image of a Chrysler 300 being assembled "speaks to pressures on the middle class," Little says. "You're seeing sparks and a robot and a fancy new car, but what you're not seeing is humans."

Photograph by Floto+Warner 

Dilapidated and demolished buildings sit before high-rises in Shanghai, China, a country in which inequality is increasing.

Photograph by Greg Girard

A store advertises its going-out-of-business sale. "This is another image that, to me, speaks about the pressures of the middle class," Little says. "The sadness of being of a hardworking family who is playing by the rules but who still can't make it."

Photograph by Mitch Epstein

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