Beautiful Portraits Of Ethiopian Tribespeople By Photographer Diego Arroyo...

Diego Arroyo is an art director and passionate photographer based in Amsterdam.
He travels the world he says in search of the subtle, a smile, a wink of complicity, that special look that reveals a true and intimate essence.
His challenge is in trying to catch the story behind the eyes of his subjects, the underlying magic that deserves to be seen and usually remains unnoticeable.
There's more of his rare work here...

How Is It That Amsterdam Has So Many Cyclists And So Few Cycling Fatalities...

Amsterdam is the cycling capital of the world with over eight hundred thousand people owning and riding nine hundred thousand bikes of all shapes and sizes.
Ninety nine percent of the city's cyclists don't wear a helmet and yet the rate of fatalities is incredibly low.
You can almost count the number of cycling related deaths on the fingers of one hand.
And sixteen million Netherlanders own eighteen million bicycles. Nationally, there's around two hundred cycling fatalities annually.
In Britain in 2012, where there's around five million cyclists the deaths caused by accidents with motor vehicles totaled one hundred and twenty two.
Fourteen deaths were recorded in London.
America, it's said, is the most dangerous place on earth to be a cyclist but there are fifty seven million of them, many risking their lives on a daily basis. Six hundred and seventy seven died in 2011, down from 850 in 1995.
But getting back to the question, how does the cycling capital of the world have such a low fatality rate?
Could it be attitude. You know, tolerance and respect for other human beings...

A Tiny Hi-Rise Treehouse In Amsterdam...

Imagine staying a night or three
in a tiny, rickety shack built of used wooden crates atop a tree that's standing on top of a twelve story building.
If you suffer from vertigo you'll be hanging on to something right now while just reading about it.
But Dutch designer Leonard van Munster isn't afraid of taking his work to new heights.
As you can see here, it was a project that was commissioned by an Amsterdam museum as part of an installation on Urban Sky Camping.
Or living the high life...