Because we’re too big, dammit.

The extraordinary ‘bonsai treehouse’ creations of artist, former maze illustrator and architect Takanori Aiba who sez:

All my works are created through my extraordinary fantastic and sometimes even chemical imaginations. However, they do not like pipe dreams. In fact people believe that they are real buildings and spaces because I depict not only the outline but also all of elaborate details in each works. I create image of the side, back, and even the inside of the buildings. My eyes circle around, and sometimes intentionally wander between buildings in the space. Eyes are like those of bird or like those of wind.

Baby, you had us at ‘chemical’…

Above: Hôtel de Michelin, the Rock Island, the Lighthouse and Hawaiian Pineapple Resort.

More pix here.

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Do you like prizes?

Researchers in Trinity College Dublin are carrying out a major survey of Irish travel patterns, as in where you travel in Ireland. You don’t even have to be going somewhere.

Just click this link and you could win prizes.

The survey takes about 14 minutes and 35 seconds. It asks about you, how you get where you need to go to and what that costs you.

Did we mention the prizes?

 

Team GB?

What about the irish OlyNOMNOMNOM

From ‘Cycling In Dublin’:

The new light railway bylaws or bye-laws drafted last year and enacted on Tuesday reads:

5. (1) A person shall not on a light rail vehicle or a light railway—…

(q) board or attempt to board a light rail vehicle with a bicycle unless it is folded and fully encased.

The national cycle policy says:

Bicycles and LUAS We will provide for the carriage of bikes on LUAS when services are of a frequency and at a capacity that allows for it. i.e. when it is considered possible to carry bikes on carriages when they do not interfere with the capacity for pedestrians.

 

Hmm.

Bicycles Officially Banned On Luas, Against Government Policy (Cycling In Dublin)

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