Dancing kitty

Animation in Photoshop??......Yep, interesting.....

Stop frame animation. I've attempted a really basic little quicktime, of our gorgeous kitten as the subject matter. Very short, very silly, and I am afraid not very good.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Leia....dancing princess.

The magic box

As a young girl (living in a country where houses have a real gardens) I was consumed with creating a little cosy hideout where I could dream, create and escape into my own 'magic' world. Sadly a few blankets, rainy days and a big brother who's sole existence was to bug me in my little fairyland meant they didn't last longer than a few hours.


I recently saw an article for a prefabricated 'box' for the garden, courtyard or rooftop. So much more interesting open than your average garden shed, 'The Magic Box is an extension room that can be used as an office, studio or serve any purpose that the user imagines.'







'The designer calls it “a versatile ‘box’ that changes the stereotypes of prefabricated houses and extension rooms by having qualities such as transparency and simplistic form with high versatility. The Magic Box also creates innovative life styles and business environment. You are free to drive your imagination into transforming this box into your own working space or space for your hobbies.”'



Magic Box design team estimate it takes about one month to produce the components followed by an installation week. Initial foundation work, electricity installation and water supply/drainage will also need to be carried out.


From the website, it seems as if these great boxes are only available in the US and Tokyo for now. Will stick to my sustainable timber shed for now.



http://www.magicboxincusa.com/

Sustainable living?

Something for my next letter to Santa....a treehouse in a Costa Rican Eco-Community. I will probably regret putting this up as it deserves to be hidden but alas, has already featured in the likes of Outside magazine, Inhabitat.com, Travel Gear (online) as well as other US publications.

Located on the base of an almost 6,000 foot primary rainforest mountain on the South Pacific Coast of Costa Rica and is bordered on the North by Rio Piedras Blancas and Rio Bellavista to the South, Finca Bella Vista is exactly as the name states, Beautiful Forest Home.

Treehouses are built in the canopies with land below starting at 2-3 acres. A small price to pay for land and a beautiful unique home in comparison to expensive, polluted city living.

Here you can literally sleep amongst the trees with trunks snaking through your floor boards and up through the ceiling - almost unsure of which came first, the tree or the treehouse, and dine alfresco with neighbours on a deck 50feet above the forest floor.

My ultimate dream of living in a tree on a beautiful remote spot somewhere where the air is clean and nature creeps into every possible area of life, may finally be realised. If no sight or word from me you know where I have disappeared to.