I like the picture (by Annie Leibovitz), but it's kinda ironic that a former communist leader becomes the advertisement icon of the new line of (uber-commercial) Luis Vuitton Travelbags. This guy is a long way from home.

From IHT: Gorbachev was initially reluctant to participate, but he was persuaded when Louis Vuitton made a donation to his environmental charity, Green Cross International, which is cited in the ad. The other ads mention support for Al Gore's Climate Project.

Yeah, right...

Tags: Eighties, Fashion, Environment

So maybe you don't want to spend your life always on dusty roads on to dusty places, eventually you might wanna find home. You remember one of those treehouses on your trip through Thailand, waking up with a clear skies peeping thru branches, the fresh cool air of last nights thunderstorm, or later on sitting at the veranda watching fireflies, thinking wouldn't it be awesome to have something like this back home? Well, you can if you want to. It's called the Fab Tree Hab.

Architects Mitchell Joachim and Javier Arbona, teamed up with environmental engineer Lara Greden, have come up with a concept home made of trees and plants. I hope you are not in a hurry (should you?) cause it takes about 5 years (natures pace) to grow, over a plywood frame, into the right shape. You also might reconsider this if you have bug phobia. Anyway, be the first nature boy/girl back home, wake up as Tarzan, sleep as Jane.

Into visuals? There is a also a YouTube movie.

Tags: Environment, Nature