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  • A member of Steve Raspe's Futura Deluxe Bubble Fountain and Porta-Temple roving art Installation at the Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • A member of Steve Raspe's Futura Deluxe Bubble Fountain and Porta-Temple roving art Installation at the Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..
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  • York Cliffs house, Cape Neddick, Maine
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  • Clark's Harbor on Cape Sable Island. Nova Scotia, Canada.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, preparing chapati, unleavened flat bread, in her kitchen. Model-Released.
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  • USA_SFOL_06_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • Multi-story golf driving range in Tokyo, Japan, at dusk.
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  • A man prepares food in a small restaurant in the old city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nearly 20 percent of Dhaka's more than seven million residents live in the slums.
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  • The novelty of owning Japan's first robot dog is not enough to keep Mitsuhiko Nozue's son Masahiko from switching his attention to a Pokemon video game. When abandoned by its owner, AIBO, Sony's new, limited-edition mechanical pet, plays with the ball by itself, delighting Mitsuhiko. The man runs for the 150-page manual that came with the robot pet when AIBO displays any new trick, sometimes leaving Mitsuhiko scratching his head; a puzzlement all too familiar from other encounters with digital gizmos. The latest word is that the Nozue family has named their AIBO Narubo. Yokohama, Japan . From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 226.
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  • First generation AIBO robot pet. Although they say it is only a robotic pet, the Nozue family in Yokohama acts like it is a member of the family. This is especially true of Mr. Nozue. During our two-hour Sunday morning visit, the family began by explaining that they had bought the Aibo through a nationwide lottery draw. They had wanted a real dog but their apartment building rules do not allow real pets so Mr. Nozue accessed the Sony site from work and applied for the lottery. His wife, Yoshini, says she never expected that they would actually buy the robotic pet because of the expense involved, they paid $2,500. AIBO is Japanese for buddy. Sony Corporation manufactures the robot. Photographed at the home of the Nozue family, Yokohama, Japan..
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  • A golfer teeing off at a golfcourse overlooking the oil refinery at Grangemouth, Scotland.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • A man from Argentina who gets inside a balloon to entertain people at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Don Knapp, owner of Urban Ore Recycling Company. Berkeley, California. "I see a bright future for recycling: no waste, 100% recycling." Recycled building material and household items for sale.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Chomphet District across the Mekong River from Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian Corporation Software; 4 PM: CEO Doug Merritt meets with three employees to strategize on an internal program to instill company values in their employees. The ping pong table they are meeting over was Icarian's first meeting table. All of Icarian's employees are ranked according to their ping-pong ability and there is a "ladder" of their ranking posted on the web. (1999).
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  • Seven-year-old Masahiko Nozue gets down on the floor and romps with AIBO, Sony's robotic pet dog. The Nozues had wanted a real dog, but pets are not allowed in their apartment. AIBO never needs to be fed, bathed, or walked, although it can simulate urination; it doesn't shed hair, bark at the neighbors, or need to be kept in a kennel when its owners go on vacation. Still, its behavior is so lifelike that the Nozues find it hard to treat it like a machine. One charge on its rechargeable battery lasts about two hours, and during that time AIBO is for all intents and purposes one of the family. Yokohama, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 224-225.
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  • Elderly Japanese and their community caretakers play beach volleyball in an indoor pool at a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa. Patrons can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous, vibrant and lively places. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Two girls walk past a mural on Hollywood Boulevard. Shot for the book project: A Day in a Life of Hollywood. Hollywood, California. USA.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto trains some of his students at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto instructs some of his clients at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Buffalo Groove, Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto instructs some of his clients at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Buffalo Groove, Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Diamond polisher Mestilde's Shigwedha's netball team (outside the court on left) waits their turn to play in a city tournament in Windhoek, Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The team is sponsored by Mesti's employer, NamCot Diamonds, which is part of the Steinmetz Group.
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  • Children play just outside Marble Moahi's fence in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana.  (Marble Moahi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) .
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto trains some of his students at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto's children play with a pitbull at their new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Fast food in Manila runs the gamut from American fast food stores to home grown varieties such as Jollibee, and the take-away chain Kiss, King of Balls, owned by a Manila businessman. Kikiam balls are ground pork and vegetables wrapped in sheets of bean curd; gulaman balls are sea weed gelatin. Squid and crab balls are composed of what the name implies. Over 250 shops are operated nationwide, and the company is expanding into other markets. Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94)
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  • Pachinko parlors in Japan are packed and popular with the older set. Osaka, Japan. (The girl holds a sign that says: "right now all of the machines have 'no panku'," which means they have turned off the part of the machine that randomly stops you from getting balls when you've started getting them. (The point of the game is to collect more and more balls, but sometimes when you get a ball somewhere, that makes them start streaming out, there is a function of the machine which will stop them after some random amount, so you usually get fewer; they've turned that function off). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fast food in Manila runs the gamut from American fast food stores to take-away chains such as Kiss, King of Balls, to the home grown varieties such as Jollibee, pictured here. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Hindu pilgrims cook simple meals of fried dough balls during the Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain, India. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Hanging from a network of cables, Brachiator III quickly swings from "branch" to "branch" like the long-armed ape it was modeled on. (Brachiator refers to "brachiation," moving by swinging from one hold to another.) The robot, which was built in the laboratory of Toshio Fukuda at Nagoya University (Japan), has no sensors on its body. Instead, it tracks its own movements with video cameras located about four meters away. Brightly colored balls attached to the machine help the cameras discern its position. Brachiator's computer, which is adjacent to the camera, takes in the video images of the machine's progress and uses this data to send instructions to the machine's arms and legs. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 87.
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  • Readying for the RoboCup championship in Sweden, Jörg Wilberg (rear left) and his research team at the German National Research Center (GMD) outside Bonn, Germany review the prospects of their five-machine robot-soccer squad. The GMD team plays in the medium-sized division, which uses a real soccer ball on a field about a third as big as a basketball court. Each robot monitors the position of the ball with a video camera; special software lets the machine track its round shape. Kneeling on the floor, researcher Peter Schöll tests the software by observing the image of the ball in the monitor. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 215
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  • In a spanking new, richly-appointed research center above a busy shopping street in Tokyo's stylish Harajuku district, Hiroaki Kitano shows off his robot soccer team. In addition to Kitano's humanoid-robot work at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, a five-year, government-funded ERATO project, Kitano is the founder and chair of Robot World Cup Soccer (RoboCup), an annual soccer competition for robots. There are four classes of contestants: small, medium, simulated, and dog (using Sony's programmable robot dogs). Kitano's small-class RoboCup team consists of five autonomous robots, which kick a golf ball around a field about the size of a ping-pong table. An overhead video camera feeds information about the location of the players to remote computers, which use the data to control the robots' offensive and defensive moves. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 213 top.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Making the long return trip to their home in Tingo, Ecuador from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109).
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  • Making the long return trip from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109). (MODEL IMAGE RELEASED)
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  • Reviewing the results of her work, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Manuela Veloso (kneeling) watches the university soccer-robot team chase after the ball on a field on the floor of her lab. Every year, the Carnegie Mellon squad plays against other soccer-robot teams from around the world in an international competition known as RoboCup. Veloso's team, CMUnited, is highly regarded. Flanked by research engineer Sorin Achim, postdoctoral fellow Peter Stone, and graduate research assistant Michael Bowling (right to left), Veloso is running through the current year's strategy a month before the world championships in Stockholm. CMU's AIBO team members are Scott Lenser, Elly Winner, and James Bruce. Pittsburgh, PA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 214.
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  • The Sony humanoid robot prototype SDR-3X is held by professional Sumo wrestler Tamarashi ("Bullet-storm"). Sony Corporation announced the development of this small bipedal walking robot in November of 2000. By synchronizing the movements of 24 joints on its body, Sony says, the robot can perform basic movements such as walking and changing direction, rising from a seated position, balancing on one leg, kicking a ball, and dancing. Tokyo, Japan.
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  • In a spanking new, richly-appointed research center above a busy shopping street in Tokyo's stylish Harajuku district, Hiroaki Kitano shows off his robot soccer team. In addition to Kitano's humanoid-robot work at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, a five-year, government-funded ERATO project, Kitano is the founder and chair of Robot World Cup Soccer (RoboCup), an annual soccer competition for robots. There are four classes of contestants: small, medium, simulated, and dog (using Sony's programmable robot dogs). Kitano's small-class RoboCup team consists of five autonomous robots, which kick a golf ball around a field about the size of a ping-pong table. An overhead video camera feeds information about the location of the players to remote computers, which use the data to control the robots' offensive and defensive moves. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 213 bottom.
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  • German National Research Center robot scientists pose for a group portrait in the main hall of the center's Schloss Burlinghoven (administrative building of GMD). Left to Right: Bernhard Klaassen holding "Snake2", Rainer Worst, Jurgen Vollmer (with hand on KURT, a sewer inspection robot prototype), Frank Kirchner, holding "Sir Arthur" a first generation walking robot, Ina Kople, Herman Streich, and Jorg Wilburg. (Three people on right in back of robocup-playing middleweight robots and soccer ball.) Bonn, Germany
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  • In Beijing's Forbidden City a middle-aged couple in Zhongshan Park practices ball room dancing to recorded music. Nearby, hundreds of people practice the long-standing tradition of morning group dance and more traditional Chinese exercise. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A traditional Thursday afternoon qat-chewing and tobacco-smoking session among friends in Sanaa, Yemen, can last five or six hours. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The men pick through the bag selecting leaves to chew until the masticated mass in their cheek is the size of a golf ball. Qat is harvested year-round.  Its leaves lose their potency within a day, so they must be picked, sorted, washed, and rushed to market daily.
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Peter Menzel Photography

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