The City of Garbage

The Manshyiat Naser slum, on the outskirts of Cairo, is often referred to as "The City of Garbage" because of the large quantities of trash shipped here from all over Egypt’s capital city. As unbelievable as the photos below may look, Manshyiat Na

  place, where people make their living out of trash. 

Like in any other normal community, you’ll find streets, houses and apartments throughout the settlement, but everything and everyone here depends on garbage. The inhabitants of Manshyiat Naser (called Zabbaleen) bring the trash into the city, by truck, cart, or any other means necessary, and sort any recyclable or useful waste. 

Every street and every building in Manshyiat Naser is stacked with mountains of garbage, and you’ll see men, women and children thoroughly digging through them, looking for something they can sell. Although it may seem like an outdated system of handling trash, the Zabbaleen do a far better job than any of the waste handling systems of the modern world. Around 80% of the trash is recycled and resold, while the rest is either fed to the pigs roaming through the city streets, or burned for fuel.

The Zabbaleen barely manage to survive on what they make sorting out garbage, but many of them have done it for generations and wouldn’t conceive living their lives otherwise. They dispose of about a third of Cairo’s garbage, at no cost to authorities, and manage to make a decent living for them and their families. The Model of Manshyiat Naser has been copied in various cities around the world, including Manila, Bombay and Los Angeles.

Many photographers have been fascinated by the Zabbaleen way of life and the distinct look of the City of Garbage.ser is a real

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The Spider man Window Cleaner

When he spotted a mark on his apartment window, this chap just had to pop out to give the glass a quick wipe with a squeegee. Nothing odd about that “except that he lives 400ft up on the 34th floor of a tower block in Jumeirah Beach, Dubai. He stepped out on to the narrow ledge and, holding the frame, stretched across to wipe away the annoying smudge.

Hell for leather: A window cleaner, circled, takes his life into his own hands on the 34th floor of a Jumeirah Beach apartment block

 As he takes his life into his hands, at least he has the sense to hold on to the window frame, even if it is by his fingertips, as he goes about his task.He was snapped making sure the windows were sparkling by a resident in a neighbouring apartment block. A resident of a neighbouring block who took these pictures said: "The professional cleaners have safety harnesses and cradles and helmets. He had nothing."

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Any thing is possible when it comes to God. There is an amazing twins with two heads, 3 lungs, 2 heart  but only have one body which their body are conjoined together since birth. This is the amazing two headed twins.

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A Swimmer Without Arms and Legs

42-year-old Philippe Croizon is the first man without arms and legs who could cross the 22-mile-wide (35,4 km) English Channel (French: la Manche) that separates England and France. Phileppe lost his arms and legs after a horrific incident 16 years ago. He had received a powerful electrical discharge of current while trying to fix a television antenna. Two years ago he was watching the documentary about the swimmers who were crossing the channel, when he decided that he was able to do the same. He started practicing 30 hours a week. And he succeeded. Wearing a special swimsuit he started his race the British port of Folkestone at 7.00 am, he finished the race at 9.13 pm in the French city of Wissant. Truly Amazing!.

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Body Painting - The Invisible Man 2

Liu Bolin blend in with the colorful background of the shelves in a supermarket

Chinese artist Liu Bolin has become world renowned for his camouflage art. Liu uses a team of two assistants to paint the camouflage onto him to make him invisible, and each photograph can take up to ten hours to set up. In some cases, Liu has his assistants paint his body and then he remains extremely still until an unsuspecting passer-by happens to walk past.

Liu Bolin poses in one of the seats at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan

He has toured his work across the globe for the past five years, and is looking forward to a new exhibition at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in New York in 2011

 

 Liu Bolin poses by the Ponte di Rialto in Venice

 Liu Bolin stands on a bridge in Venice

 Liu Bolin poses on a balcony while at the Milan World Expo

 Liu Bolin poses on the Ponte di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy

Liu Bolin poses in front of some graffiti

 Liu Bolin poses for his work entitled 'American National Flag'

Liu Bolin poses in the Royal Box at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan

He says he sees his work as a statement on the world and its anonymous inhabitants. "My urban camouflage paint series began after Suojia Village Art Campus where I was working was shut down by the Chinese government," said the 38-year-old artist. "My resistance to the force of governments made me experience the life of people with no social status, no job, no family, no income and this was the emotional reason I began my series of works. My pieces talk about the question of the social status of art in general. In my work the artist is hiding to restore his strength and to protect himself."

 Liu Bolin poses by the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing

Liu Bolin poses on the Great Wall of China

 

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