This Strange Shed Is Made With Recycled Automobile Tyres...

Small backyard sheds come in a large variety
of styles and shapes and make use of many different materials, but here's something rather quirky and well, different.
Tyres have been used in the construction of Earthships for a long time, check out Michael Reynolds, but Dutch designers Denis Oudendijk and Jan Korbes created this unusual 26ft x 8ft shed using recycled doors and windows and plexiglass sheeting laid over a wooden frame that's cladded with cut-up 'tyre shingles'.
It's called Le Maison Comme or The Rubber House and it looks like there's lots of mileage
still left in those tyres...

National Geographic Photographer John Stanmeyer Captures Thousands Of People, People Just Like You And Me, Fleeing Death And Worse In Syria, Escaping To Turkey...

One day a couple of weeks ago, sixty six thousand people, people just like you and me, Syrian Kurds with their children, their dreams and their lives in tatters with their meager belongings in their hands, escaped their homeland of Syria and the violent Sunni group ISIS that is spreading terror not only in their world but throughout our world.
Who knows how this conflict will end or if it ever will, but do have a look here at what National Geographic's Scott Johnson has to say about what's happening...

John Cleese Lost His Virginity In New Zealand Fifty Years Ago. Have You Seen It?

The brilliant British comedian John Cleese
lost his virginity on his first tour to New Zealand fifty years ago.
Initially embarrassed by inadvertently misplacing it somewhere, the funny man who's famous for Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and A Fish Called Wanda still has fond memories of his virginity and despite international police investigations and private searches there's been no sitings of the highly elusive intimate body part.
I would really like to be re-united with it once more he said, even for a short time.
Just for sentimental reasons...

This Beautifully Renovated 1954 Airstream Is A Very Stylish Little Home On Wheels...

Wally Byam who in 1936 introduced the Airstream Clipper to the world and and changed the way North Americans in particular indulged in their leisure pursuits would be delighted
to see how Timeless Time Travellers have renovated this 1954 Airstream.
It's a very professional result and I'm sure many dollars were spent in the refurbishment but someone will be delighted to live or travel in this stylish little home on wheels...

Meet The Most Wonderfully Fashionable Frenchman Featured On The Sartorialist...

This wonderfully dapper, eccentrically fashionable Frenchman on the Avenue du President Wilson in Paris featured recently on Scott Schuman's The Sartorialist Blog.
Is it his amazing eye glasses I love the most or is it his gorgeous hat.
I don't know but isn't he just one of life's great individual fashion statements...

Warning. You Are About To Have An Accident...

Cyclist please note.
You are about to ride into a pole.
Isn't it amazing the lengths bureaucrats will go.
To be stupid...

That's A Really Beautiful Bus Steve But I'm Sorry You Can't Stop Here For The Night...

I'd spent many many months since first seeing and then buying the bus back in 2000, working so hard to build our dream, sometimes working for money during the day and then working on the bus project during the night, collecting materials, meeting and working wonderfully supportive folk there in Sisters, and then in Selma, Oregon and we finally moved in and moved off to see The Pacific North West.
Everywhere we went, people smiled,  took pictures and gave us the peace sign. 
Stopping to buy food sometime took hours because people wanted to see the inside or just tell us what a joy it was to see something so beautiful. But, all was not well.  
We found that we were stopped often by the Police. We couldn't stop along the roads or beaches at night. Many times I had to drive the whole night and sleep during the day.  
Most Parks were closed to us and when I drove up to a Trailer or Motor Home Park the owners would come out and rave about the bus but when we asked to spend the night we were told time and time again that Buses were not allowed 'because of the people that lived in them'.   
I felt like a black man in Mississippi.  
After a month of this we took the bus to a Car Show  and within minutes had a long line of people waiting to see the inside. 
The second person to enter the bus that day bought it the next and a week later we were on our way to Belize.  
Steve Selby, his wife Ana and their daughter then moved aboard Drumbeat a Bruce Roberts designed Spray yacht that had been sitting in the tropical sun for fifteen years. It took them five years to restore it, eventually sailing around the North West Caribbean for a few years.
The family then moved back to Guatemala where Steve worked on a bamboo construction built on the third storey of a stone temple. 
The beautiful structure at San Marcos De La Laguna is used for tai chi and meditation. 
It overlooks Lake Atitlán with its numerous volcanos and ever changing cloud formations.
This man of many talents is now doing a lot
of marvelous wood carving.
There's more about him here and here...