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Tiny Intricate Treehouses for Houseplants

Los Angeles–based artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz is a prop-maker for TV and film by day who has a charming side business making tiny treehouses for potted bonsai trees, cacti, and succulents.

“Building miniatures for stop motion always leaves me with a huge bin of scrap balsa, basswood, various fabrics, etc. and I found myself making little fantasy constructions out of that stuff during my downtime,” Voltz told The Slate in an email. “Those little scrap forts led to me building some more serious ones in little diorama settings, and last year I built my first living treehouse.”

The tiny treehouses will be on display (and for sale) at L.A.’s Virgil Normal starting April 23. Voltz is available for commissions in L.A. and is developing DIY miniature treehouse-making kits that he hopes to make available next year. Check out more of his work here.

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Shinjuku

From time to time I end up in Tokyo. One weekend in July I was invited to come along with dear friends visiting from Germany and we spent a lovely weekend exploring the greatest city in the world.

We stayed in Kabukichō, an area of Shinjuku which is traditionally one of the seediest areas in Tokyo. Apparently it is now being cleaned up for when the Olympics come into town in 2020. After all, you wouldn’t want the tourists be ripped off when they frequent the strip bars and hand job places, would you.

Kabukichō is also filled with love hotels, were lovers go to spend a few not so quiet hours. Most offer a rest, which is for a few hours, and a stay option, which is for the whole night. Even respectable hotels such as ours offer a rest.

Apparently, Shinjuku’s gay neighborhood is really famous in Japan. When I mentioned to my colleagues in passing that I had visited Shinjuku Nichōme they made big eyes.

https://aliveinkyoto.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/shinjuku/

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Glimpses of Hiroshima

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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque by Nikola and Tamara

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Versailles, film by  lucie777

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French garden inside the Grand Palais, Paris.

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Château de Blois, France.

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Quentin Regnes     -     http://quentinregnes.tumblr.com

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Studio Ghibli Museum and Inokashira Park

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Chinatown, Singapore (2/2) | 05.02.2016

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Scala dei Giganti - The Giants Staircase.1483-85. Palazzo Ducale. Venice. marble.

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by Keith Carey

Mt. Hood, Oregon

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Vertical Farming on the High Rise

Imagine getting your fresh produce directly off of a nearby building. This building would have multiple stories, with an intricate system that cultivates different plants on every level. This is an example of vertical farming, an idea proposed by Columbia University microbiology and Public Health professor Dickson Despommier, where food is continuously grown in tall buildings within an engineered environment. With an estimated 1,090,000 square miles (about 120% the size of Brazil) of farmland needed to grow enough food for the world’s population in 2050, it is no wonder that vertical farming has been on the rise. In fact, one acre of vertical farm is estimated to equate to about 10 to 20 traditional soil-based farms. Read more…

Photo credit: (Cjacobs627/Wikimedia)

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