Posts Tagged ‘stuff I want’

Underground Fortress for sale.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

An amazing, homemade, underground fortress is for sale.  It’s in Blaine, WA.  He built it over the course of 20 years, working it 45 feet under his house!

The fortress has over 1600 sq. ft. of living area, plus hundreds of more square feet of passages and secrets rooms. It was all hand dug over a 20 year period, and all the walls were constructed with a small electric hand cement mixer. There are 3 ft concrete walls, using 5-bag cement (20% denser than regular cement). Not only are the walls thick and dense, but the finishing work is amazing quality. These walls keep it a constant 60F degrees year round. It is so well insulated that even one small space heater can heat all 1600+ sqft of fortress space in a few hours. The fortress has amazingly fresh air in it with an incredible air ventilation system that pulls air outside and brings fresh air in, leaving no moldy or musty smell that you commonly smell in basements.

It’s listed as a two-story house with four stories underneath. Go through the photos, showing the secret doors, the many levels, the amazing finish work.  I’m stunned.  I really want to live here.

The Painting whose eyes follow you.

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Make has a great article on creating a painting whose eyes move around and watch you. (yeah, the link is busted currently, but that’s the one I have, hopefully they’ll fix it soon).  You can see more examples in their Flickr pool.  

Definitely would want one of these, so if anyone was willing to make me one, well, I wouldn’t refuse it.

Monowheel, or something somebody can make me and give to me immediately.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Monowheel by Ben Wilson.  This is a totally dead-sexy piece of construction and a tribute to the do-it-yourselfer.

I’m pretty serious about somebody making me one and getting it out to me pronto.

Monowheel