Unusual Life

There’s a guy from New York who builds mega-treehomes for rich people and movie stars, complete with kitchens and baths. Here’s a video from the Today Show. You have to wait through a commercial before you get to the good stuff…..

Treehouse Video

Manmade Beach in Japan — Ocean Dome

If you can’t find a nearby crowded beach, make one! Only in Japan…

Ocean Dome is known as the world’s largest indoor water park
with a retractable roof. The air temperature is always kept around 30º C and the water temperature is kept at around 28º C.

The name Seagaia is a combination of the words “sea” and “gaia”, which is Greek for earth. It’s located near the Pacific Ocean on Kyushu Island.

Impact Lab’s photos of Ocean Dome

More photos of Seagaia

More photos here of Ocean Dome

Online Archive of Cereal Boxes from The Imaginary World

Cover Pop of cereal boxes

General Mills retro cereal boxes at Target

You can build incredible homes with ferro cement. It is extremely strong and durable and the thing I love most is that you can build the whole building, walls, roof, gutters, cabinets, etc. out of the same material.

You build a cement home by first building the frame, which is made of metal. You wire rebar, remesh and lathing tightly together. You can make the design as fanciful as you wish.

Stage two of the process is stucco, covering the frame with concrete. Stucco goes on in layers. The first is called a scratch coat, for which the concrete should be a little drier than the subsequent coats. It’s called a scratch coat, because you have to scratch it up before the mud sets. This gives the second coat something extra to grip to.

The finishing coats are called brown coats. The stucco needs to be almost runny. It goes on a lot faster than the scratch, and can even be applied with a hopper gun.

Want to build your own ferro cement home? Start here at FerroCement.com