Cie Willi Dorner Calls It Bodies In Urban Spaces But It Could Just Be Group Therapy...

Bodies in Urban Spaces has featured on The Flying Tortoise previously.
It's a unique performance where dancers move throughout a city and organise their bodies into the nooks and crannies of public spaces.
Created by Austrian based Cie Willi Dorner, the series produces a relationship between people and their everyday surroundings.
Since 2007 Mr Dorner has produced performances in France, Austria, Portugal, the US, the UK, Germany and Spain.
It still looks like group therapy to me...

This Very Clever Chinese Architectural Student Deserves Top Marks For His Innovative Tiny 75 Sq Ft House...

Before The Flying Tortoise there was The Little Red Truck which was a 1952 Morris Commercial flat-deck truck with a basic plywood box constructed on the back.
It was only 75 square feet and a simply beautiful space to live in.
Congratulations to this young Chinese Architectural student, whoever he is, on this highly imaginative, innovative and wonderful little wooden house.
It's difficult to design and build a home of this size that's easy to live in.
Somehow he's managed to include a kitchen, bathroom, laundry, bedroom, study, dining area and a tiny deck into this tiny space.
There's no information available on the student or the house detail but if you look carefully you'll pick up some big ideas...

Philip Seymour Hoffman. R.I.P.

One of the greatest American movie actors of our time, Philip Seymour Hoffman died on Sunday. His name on any movie title was reason enough to watch it...

What Surprises The Dalai Lama Most About Humanity...

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity answered. 'Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he's so anxious about his future that he doesn't enjoy the present.
The result being that he doesn't live in the present or in the future.
He lives as if he is never going to die and then he dies having never really lived'...

Some Of The World's Wonderful Hobbit Houses...

Some very strange people think Hobbits are fictional characters.
But most of us know very well that in reality they've existed as long if not longer than Middle Earth itself.
A long time ago these wonderful folk had to leave their original home of the Shire and were fortunately rescued by the ancestors of a mild mannered Englishman who wrote of them and who spread their ways across the world.
Unfortunately a spell cast by Gandalf the White means that some people will never see them but if ever the skeptical open their hearts, their minds and eyes, they'll see evidence of the Hobbits existence.
Why, they need look no further than this very page to see some of the Hobbit's wonderful homes...

Here's A Man Who Wears The Pants In His Family...

This man's under no illusion as to who wears the pants in his family.
And his wife tells him what pair to put on...

This Tiny Pod Shaped Home Is Designed For The Young Footloose And Fancy Free Nomad Of The 21st Century...

The students at Vermont's Green Mountain College enjoy being involved in environmental sustainability programs during their four year liberal arts degree.
They've been re-defining The American Dream and have as part of Professor Lucas Brown's class, designed a tiny 'living system' home with a very small environmental footprint. The 70sq foot pod shaped home includes a sleeping area, a rainwater collection system, a wood burning stove, a composting toilet and a 120watt solar powered electrical system.
If there's any place left for them to freely roam, these young nomads will have a lot of fun in tiny homes on wheels like this...