The Landing

The Landing

Bahamas

Photo from Tablet Hotels

So are Austria from Hetalia and Cheren from Pokemon B+W related?

Vienna Calling by L0rant - www.vientainment.com on Flickr.

P103003111 on Flickr. Photo taken by Yagiz Yilmaz in Vienna, Austria.

Horn, Austria. The city I’ll be living in from August to June. 

WHY? XDDDD

I’ve been a bit absent lately, I know. The reason for my sudden disappearance was a planned family gathering in Austria. And although I was raised in Sweden, my family still lives in Vienna - hence the visit. 

Will start daily updates from now on!  

Austria - Roderich Edelstein
Seriously. This man is just so wonderful. Ugh. Fucking perfection.

SWIFT ASCENT: This picture reminds me of my family holiday last year in a province called Carinthia (Kaernten) in Austria. Most of my family and I took a cable car up into one of the mountains because my sister wanted to go paragliding from the top (it was available for anyone who wanted to do it, it wasn’t just her). I believe that we had better weather than this but nevertheless there is something about the gloomy, overcast sky, sparsely scattered raindrops and panoramic view of the mountains behind the cable car that make this picture taken at Zell Am See (I also spent time here but that’s another story) so appealing.

Austria, Prussia, and Hungary.

Austria, Prussia, and Hungary.

I was just wondering. Please tell me I’m not the only one who noticed? xD

Lights in Belgrade, Serbia

My photo :)

Lights in Belgrade, Serbia

Amazing Trees From All Around The World

 It was Buddha who said:
“A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down.”

And Joyce Kilmer immortalised the grace and beauty of trees in poetry:
“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.”

Here we present some of the most amazing and unusual trees from around the world. They include the Basket Tree, Giant Sequoias of California, Circus Tree, Chapel-Oak. Tule Tree. Banyan Tree, and Baobab Trees – including one with a toilet built inside it.

Amazing Tree Houses: Plans, Pictures, Designs & Building Ideas

 As a young child (or perhaps even an adult) who hasn’t dreamed of living tree houses? Some structures are built on trees or hung from trees, but some unusual tree house building designs are even grown from trees or built right into a tree. Some people live in trees as a luxury, some to help save the environment and others out of tradition or necessity. Here are ten incredible tree house designs that range from functional to fanciful, sustainable to strange and affordable to incredibly expensive.

 Baumraum treehouses blends classic notions of a simple wood structure in a tree with modernist angles, clean lines and other design elements. These both blend with and stand out from their natural environs and are customized to client wishes before being installed. The Baumraum group is both experimental and experienced, wish expertise in tree types, capabilities and environmental impact.

 The mobile, durable and somehow fanciful Free Spirit Spheres can be hung from anything from trees to buildings and rock faces. Webbing and ropes literally and metaphorically anchor these spheres to their locations. Just four anchor points are needed to carry the entire weight of the spheres. Each sphere is waterproof and impact-resistant, composed of an internal laminated wood frame and clear fiberglass exterior.

 The 4Treehouse by Lukasz Kos floats like a “Japanese lantern on stilts” and is situated to accommodate four existing trees on the site. As with the best tree house designs, this project successfully worked around the existing natural site conditions. The three-story house itself rents suspended from these four primary site trees.

 The TreeHouse Workshop is a Seattle-based company that takes the art of constructing tree houses extremely seriously. They build an average of one tree house per month and hire extremely able builders and carpenters to construct their projects. Their finished works vary in luxury but some even include (counterintuitive!) fireplaces.

 The 02 Sustainability Tree House defies many of the conventions one associates with a typical tree house. The paradigm of a square shack-like wooden structure is replaced with a light and spacious geodesic dome structure that requires very little (and eco-friendly) material and has minimal impact on trees in which it is placed (hanging from cables rather than bolted to trees). It is designed for residential, meditation and meeting functions.

 Of course, not all tree houses are avante garde examples of design and sustainability – some people live in far more traditional tree houses such as the tree dwellers shown in the photographs above. In the jungles of the Brazza River Basin in the Indonesian province of Papua the local tribes have slowly built their way up into the trees to escape pests and one another. Their residences now reach dizzying heights of over 100 feet.

 This amazing Vietnamese tree house structure is a “tree house” in an entirely unconventional sense of the phrase and draws tourists and guests from around the world. Of course not just anyone can get permission to build a house like this: it helps to be the daughter of the ex-president of the country. Tourists are even able to stay in the rooms overnight.

Asin and Salman Stuck on a Tree for Three Days

It was a simple scene that had to be shot for the upcoming film Ready in which Asin and Salman Khan are paired up once again. It was meant to be a simple jungle sequel to be shot for Anees Bazmi's Ready but it turned out to be a nightmare for the two actors.

Asin insisted she would do the scene herself. The director was ready to use a duplicate for Salman and Asin. But Asin said no way and Salman joked that she is crazy. But then he too admitted that the girl had the balls of steel. He had no choice but to do the same.

But there were so many disruptions in the shooting that it took three days to complete the scene. Asin's shoulders became numb due to the harness but she was happy that it was her childhood fantasy to climb the tree.