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This photo was voted 4th out of the 5 winners in the "SlickrFrame" contest! Thanks very much to Richard at FreshArrival, Gizmodo readers, and friends and family for the support.
Be sure to check out the other winning entries, they're excellent:
Grand Prize: Stairwell by apleshampo4life, with 18.1% (163 votes)
2nd place: Commodore Barry Bridge from the Air by MikeNeilson with 17.0% (153 votes)
3rd place: DC2006-8 by xtol, with 13.0% (117 votes)
4th place: west oakland by Shaun Roberts, with 9.2% (83 votes)
5th place: Crossover by pk-Images, with 5.3% (48 votes)
Fresh Arrival had a contest last month where they were giving away some free IZZE Sparkling Juice and I won! I've had the pomegranate and blueberry flavors before and thought they were both really good, but haven't tried the pear and grapefruit, which they sent to me.
IZZE has a great looking logo and their products always seem to catch my eye whenever I'm wandering down the soda isle at the grocery store.
A photoshopped image of Richard Felix´s selfmade digital frame which he programmed to show all images tagged with "slickrframe"... True infinity...
Check out the other entries here: www.flickr.com/photos/tags/slickrframe/
Here is Richards Website:
www.fresharrival.com/slickrframe/contest/
Update: Hooray! This just received an honorable mention for the contest over at Gizmodo!
Thx to Richard & The Giz!
Comments appreciated
(Photo: E Pape) - Actually, both of these teenagers jumped on a rickety boat with dozens of other people in Senegal and they rode the dangerous high seas for about a week, running out of food and surviving a broken Global Positioning Device to make it to the Spanish Island of Tenerife on the Atlantic Ocean. There, because they are minors -- the little boy was 13 when he arrived -- they became charges of the Spanish state. They should normally stay at the youth detention center until they are 18. The taller kid is a basketball prospect who risked his life to reach Spain in the hopes of becoming a professional basketball player. He is two meters tall.
A weekend trip to the beach reminds kids of their homes across the sea, but also of the Atlantic ocean that almost killed some of them
my desk, complete with dual 17 inch Samsungs, a Sonos controller for a FreshArrival review I'm working on, one of the Sonos ZonePlayers, iPod nano, Treo 650, and my Mac mini hiding in the back.
Fourteen and sixteen year-old Senegalese kids who survived a week of rough seas, little food, and flooding fishing boats on the Atlantic with more than 60 young men. They are among thousands this summer who take the risky trip to the Canary Islands, as a gateway into Europe, to find work. The tall guy didn't want his face photographed.
A Malian kid took a bus all the way to Mauritania on his own, found himself in a village on the coast, and realized that he couldn't communicate with any of the Arabic-speaking residents. He eventually discovered two Malians who were trying to raise money to pay for pricey slots on the fishing boats to Tenerife. He left, he said, because he knew his education wouldn't get him anywhere in Mali. Simply because the country is so poor that there is nowhere to go but away.
A tiny fourteen year old stowaway who snuck aboard a boat in Senegal to get to Spain's Canary Islands. They barely made it after about a week at sea. He, too, just wants work in Europe. He doesn' know what. He doesn't care what. And his decision to sneak on board a boat with dozens of others was spontaneous.
(Photo: E Pape) Everyone else came to work. Believe it or not, this two-meter tall 16-year-old came to fulfill his hoop dreams
my desk, complete with dual 17 inch Samsungs, a Sonos controller for a FreshArrival review I'm working on, one of the Sonos ZonePlayers, iPod nano, Treo 650, and my Mac mini hiding in the back.
The clothes are given to them by the State, as the kids often arrive with nothing. It isn't usually because they are so poor, it is a) because they can't carry much on the packed boats their are crammed into, and b) because most such boat people don't want to carry anything that would allow Spanish authorities to figure out what country they are from.
At the port of Los Cristianos, in southern Tenerife, the Spanish Red Cross does heroic work every time they are called by the Spanish coast guard to help with the arrival of a boat discovered in Spanish territorial waters off the coast of Western Africa. There have been so many arrivals this year that this 'portable' base pretty much stays put.
There's also a 17 inch flatscreen on the side of my desk.. I'll be getting a new desk and replacing that 17 inch with a second 24 incher. Then my world domination will be nearly complete.
The tired joy of being in Spain endures for months after the exhausting and traumatic journey for many.
(Photo: Eric Pape) Through the metal bars at the entrance to the Youth Immigrant Center (full of kids from West Africa a braved a week on the open seas to reach Europe), you can see what appears to be a former parking lot that is their main play area. And the basketball is part of their introduction into Europe.
Sports in the parking lot is a big part of the day when they aren't accompanied out of the complex that only went into service as a youth center 20 days earlier, due to the complete saturation of the youth center network in Spain by the arrival of more than 600 of these kids, mostly in recent months.
These guys have plenty of time to sit, watch and wait. Years. The Spanish state, by law, must care for them until they are 18 years old
This slab of concrete is a popular place to sit and chat. Officially, all 80+ kids there are under 18, otherwise they might have been sent back to their homelands.
The visual line between them is like the informal information line, in which successful boat people contact people back home and tell them do's and dont's of boating. Get rid of your ID card, for example. Forget what country you come from. Etc.
When not helping out or studying, they spend much of their days in the new centers hanging out. Most are remarkably well behaved.
A sixteen year-old Senegalese kid at one of several hastily opened youth centers where kids who survive the journey are taken in by the Spanish state (fed, clothed, educated, aculturated, et al) until they are 18, when they are set free in Spain.
(Photo: E Pape) There's no hoop on the grounds, but a month or two after arriving in this outpost of Europe, and three weeks after the center opened, a ball still has its allure for a boy who risked his life on a boat to get here.
A fresh lot has just have been bought by the fishermen from the fisheries livestock market and from here they will carry this bucket to the city area either in the donkey cart or on the bicycle and will sell the stuff there door to door...