Ana Diogo - Miss Benguela
Age: 32
City: Benguela
Mine accident: 1984
Kids: 3 (12, 11, 3)
Occupation : Unemployed
Dream job: Anything
Favourite color: Sand

Clothes : American Apparel, € 34
Turban & Jewellery: Myffdesign, € 15
Location : Hotel Panorama, Ilha do Cabo, Luanda

Mine: VS-50 anti-personnel , € 12
Release: Pressure
Explosive: 45 grammes TNT
Produced by: Italy

Miss Landmine Angola 2008 pageant in close collaboration with the Angolan government (CNIDAH) and supported by the European Union is under way: The crowning of the world's first Miss Landmine in front of a live audience and a special jury in CineTropico in Luanda, Angola on April 2nd, 2008. The winner will receive a custom-made prothesis from Norway's leading manufacturer.

The Miss Landmine photo Expo will open in Luanda on April 4, the UN International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

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"Tank Driver" is a promo film for the amazing Pangea Day. Inspired by the meaning of the worldwide film event, it tells the story of Tiannemen Square through the eyes of the tank driver.

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Converse has gotten together with the esteemed creator of high quality apparel pieces, Dr. Romanelli, to create this new Chuck Taylor High as a part of their Converse Product (RED) project that looks to work with various artists on the Chuck Taylor and sell the shoes in limited numbers with proceeds going to help AIDS research.

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Photos by Kongjian Yu and Cao Yang

In Qinhuangdao, China the Tanghe River Park features a new installation of a red steel bench that runs for half a kilometre through the park.

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Are elephants the new steadycams? Or the new paparazzi? (elephrazzi?) Are spy cam technologies finally being put to good use to capture incredible new nature footage? Does a tree trunk rendition of R2D2 really slip under a tigers radar as it rolls around the jungle floor?

Apparently YES! A three-part BBC One series: Tiger - Spy in the Jungle, which is narrated by Sir David Attenborough is the latest creation of John Downer who has been recording footage over a period of 3 years in the Pench National Park in India… using some ingenious “trunk-cams”, which allowed the team to follow four newborn tiger cubs through adulthood.

You MUST check out the videos over on the BBC page. For our lucky UK readers - the first programme of Tiger- Spy in the Jungle will be shown on BBC One on Sunday 30 March at 2000 GMT

The crew used three types of high-definition cameras, designed and built by Geoff Bell and operated by cameraman Michael Richards:

A remotely-operated trunk-cam, which could film while the elephants were on the move and could also be set down.

A remotely-operated tusk-cam, which was smaller than the trunk cam and could be carried by the elephants for much longer periods.

Log and rock cams - cameras disguised as logs or rocks - which could be set down either by an elephant or human crew member and were activated by motion sensors.

There is also more info and pics of many random animals also captured on camera over at the Daily Mail

The Mission Bay Community Church is featuring a virtual Jesus presented as a Nintendo Mii character to promote their Easter service. The church is taking the Buddy Christ concept to a whole new level.

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From Pixeloo - this is Homer Simpson as he would look if he were walking around the streets of Springfield today.

Poster protesting Olympics Beijing 2008 - By designers Michael Parisi & Rebecca Cadman.

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Enjoy these pictures of toys from Kenya and Ghana. They are a sampling of the pictures on the AfriGadget flickr group. The materials used to make these toys are scrap metal, tins, wire, and pieces of leather.

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At a certain point (it took me a number of minutes) you realize that you’re not seeing exotic, underwater life, but extreme close-up views of people squeezing blackheads. The dancing forms are filaments of pus released from under the skin, and their explosive appearance in the frame suddenly reads as grotesque and not pleasing. “I want to portray human beings as a kind of organic living being, that’s what they are actually, an organism,” Delvoye has said, and a number of his pieces use a scatalogical frame to articulate that organic nature.

In what is a huge step forward towards the acceptance of garden gnomes in the NRA, the SwissMiniGun company has released a revolver is only 2.16-inch long, 0.7 ounces, and can fire real 4.53-millimeter caliber bullets at 399 feet per second, with a range of 367 feet. That's fast enough to be deadly at close range so yes, cute and small can kill. Macro shot of the gun and the key ring holster after the jump.
The Swiss MiniGun costs almost $6,000, but a diamond-studded 18-carat gold version will get you up to $60,000.

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An expedition explores a remote island with a gigantic ape deity known as Kong. Kong falls in love with a beautiful actress, who accompanies the expedition, when she is offered as a sacrifice. She is rescued. Kong is captured and taken to New York for exhibition. Kong breaks out of his cage and tries to elope with the actress.

King Kong...already 75 years passed.

Vogelboomhut by Maandag meubels ~ birdhouse/tree made of steel, and perfect all year round!

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The future of ballertastic vacations will be for those who check into this underwater hotel. The Poseidon Undersea Resort rests 40 feet underwater and boasts six restaurants, seven bars, a dive shop, a retail boutique as well as tennis and golf courses. This aquatic ‘tele is slated to open early 2009, and will be located on the Fiji islands...hummmmmmm...

Nestography - Adam Mathes - screenshots of retro games coupled with poignant statements as art.

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An excerpt from the 1958 "Disneyland" TV Show episode entitled "Magic Highway USA". In this last part of the show, an exploration into possible future Transportation technologies is made. It's hard to believe how little we've accomplished on this front since 1958, and how limited the scope for imagining such future technologies has become. Witness an artifact from a time where the future was greeted with optimism. Note the striking animation style here, achieved with fairly limited animation and spectacular layouts.

The Versus Cancer concert held once a year in Manchester features a collection of Manchester music icons coming together and playing each others tracks together.

To promote the charity further than just the concert BJL used the idea that it’s not just the musicians coming together to fight cancer but it’s also the crowd and anyone else who wanted to show their support.

They created a pin badge and online list that allowed people to come together and ‘Line Up’ shoulder to shoulder, once registered on the site you received a unique number that you wrote onto your badge.

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Advertised brand: Versus Cancer
Advert title(s): Line Up
Advertising Agency (Name, City, Country): BJL, Manchester, UK
Art Director: Richard Pearson
Copywriter: Harinder Bajwa
Designers: Neil Boote, Ian Patterson
Production Director: Caroline Marsden

Less than 5 days left to vote for your favorite cities to be part of the
new Monopoly World Edition. Go Lisbon Go!

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