Rents in San Francisco Are So Outrageous That Young Professionals Prefer Living in Shipping Containers
Unable to afford ridiculously expensive rental housing in San Francisco, young professionals are trying to find interesting alternative living arrangements. One of them literally involves living in a box – there’s a whole village in Oakland where shipping containers are doubling up as tiny apartments! At ‘Containercopia’, you can rent a 160-square-foot metal container complete with […]
Design Studio Creates Installation That Lets You Experience Nature Through the Eyes of Various Animals
Here’s a chance for nature-lovers to experience the world from completely new and different perspectives. ‘In the Eyes of an Animal’ is an art installation in Grizedale Forest, UK, that lets people the woods through the eyes of its various animal inhabitants! The futuristic project is the brainchild of a London-based design studio called Marshmallow Laser […]
Japanese Monk Goes Nine Days Without Food, Drink and Sleep in Grueling Religious Ritual
Can you imagine going without food, drink and sleep for nine straight days and nights? It sounds impossible, but a Japanese Buddhist monk proved that it can be done, after recently completing a grueling ritual. Last Wednesday, 41-year-old Kogen Kamahori, one of the “marathon monks” of Mount Hiei, a holy mountain that straddles Japan’s Kyoto and […]