Unique mushroom cloud inspired tree houses designed by Dietrich Wegner.
The beauty of a mushroom cloud is frightening, how it floats for a minute, delicate and blooming, yet remains chaotic and utterly destructive.
These creative playhouses make us experience a contradiction between what our eyes enjoy and what our mind knows.
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Moist Popcorn
Uh… they are very pretty, but what these clouds stand for I can not agree with. Booyah
Mar 1st, 2011
Kids
Kaboom!
Mar 2nd, 2011
Betty
Does a mushroom cloud have to be bad? I’ve seem similar clouds behind harmless rockets. My kids would be “gaga” for this.
Mar 2nd, 2011
Addled One
We can’t stand behind the message of Guernica, either. This playhouse is imaginative, child-like and, even though it has the form of a device that cost countless lives, it is not (in itself) responsible for the murder of innocent civilians. Through the contrast of innocence and the reality, there is a divide…an incongruity. Therein lies it’s message of peace. The artist and the viewer knows it’s evil, and is trying to find beauty, value, and progress in what is so terribly ugly.
Mar 2nd, 2011
buffynut101
does it have to be good or bad? why can’t just be awesome. grown ups always have to make things serous.
Mar 2nd, 2011
Mihirr Panchaal
awesome!!..
Mar 2nd, 2011
Lukerville
Every little kid’s dream.
Mar 2nd, 2011
forumlogic
“Tiddly-pom” said Pooh as he floated higher.
Mar 2nd, 2011
Radu
they’re pretty and seem really cozy, but i don’t aprove the idea on which they’re built. Cool anyway.
Mar 2nd, 2011
Gert
Pretty but disturbing concept. I don’t think I’d want one for my kids.
Mar 2nd, 2011
Junnie
I like it. Doesn’t really look stable though, but I have overactive fears.
Mar 2nd, 2011
ugh
All you people grow the hell up we would all be enslaved by the germans or the japanese with out that bomb it CREATED peace using destruction
Mar 2nd, 2011
Atavistica
No it didn’t Ugh.
The A bomb was detonated AFTER Germany called a cease to war on the 8th of May. America dropped the bombs TWO MONTHS LATER on the 6th and 9th of August, leading to an end to hostilities in Japan. They only shortened the end of the war, they did NOT cause it.
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/1945.htm
Link to a time line of the end of WW2, for your studies.
I very much doubt that the amount of lives that would have been lost in ending the war in conventional style would have amounted to the amount obliterated in the two detonations on civilian targets and the resulting radiation sicknesses that killed tens of thousands more. The only difference, i suppose, was that they were not american lives.
Atomic war, huh? what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Mar 2nd, 2011
ugh
” leading to an end to hostilities in Japan.”
Definition of peace
1. freedom from war, trouble, or disturbance
2. treaty ending a war
The bomb made it so a treaty was signed with japanese bomb created peace
Definitions from dictonary.com app on blackberry
Mar 2nd, 2011
Atavistica
*we would all be enslaved by the germans*
*2. treaty ending a war*
The worlds first atomic detonation, the New Mexico Trinity Test, was in July months after Germany had signed a treaty to end the war it started. Not sure if I need to continue that one – nukes didn’t even exist on the 8th of May.
Japan was already weakened by the war, having no natural resources of its own it was being starved by blockades of imports of coal, fule etc. There was no doubt that they would have given up, but it was a question of when. Their national pride and characteristic not to quit something once started meant they weren’t willing to give up – It took the worlds most horrific devices to convince them to finally stop. Please note that they did not give up after the first. It took two, and the deaths of 400,000 people, to convince the nation that it was a conflict they could not weather.
Mar 2nd, 2011
ugh
So they signed a different treaty with us they would never have given up the nature of their empire is to stay solid and not surrender unless beond a reasonable doubt they’d lose with out the bombs we would have invaded Japan completely and the Japanese civilians would have defended their homeland resulting in more American and japanese casualties combined than bomb did
Mar 2nd, 2011
Atavistica
Interesting reading for your studies:
http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html
Includes memos on suggestions as to what the target should be, if the nation should have a humane fore-warning of targets and petitions by the people who actually made the device advising against use against civilians.
The long and the short of my argument is that Japan would likely have fallen with less loss of life. I suppose i can’t prove that just as you can’t prove that the bombs, in killing nearly half a million civilians, spared more souls.
Its been an interesting discussion, i hope we’ve both learned something :)
Mar 2nd, 2011
whatever
we all die in the end and our lives are too insignificant to bother protecting while we’re alive
Mar 2nd, 2011
ugh
Yes neither of can proufe our points indefinitely
Truse then??
Mar 2nd, 2011
Atavistica
Indeed, truce.
Mar 2nd, 2011
CharlieSheen
This this is ugly, bro. Seriously- not fit for a warlock
Mar 2nd, 2011
Emily
isn’t a mushroom cloud just an easy from to have as a cloud tree house? how else would you have a free standing cloud? i would love to have one of these, why does everything have to be taken so seriously..
Mar 4th, 2011
Natassja
That’s the beauty of being creative, people that can’t think outside of the box will never be able to experience what it really means to be a creative being. What I see is a very innovative way to change up what we normally would see as a negative thing. But now it is turned into something fun, fluffy, and fairy like.
BRAVO for letting your mind free and out
Mar 11th, 2011