(Photo: The Turducken)
You may try to find an endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus in this tree, but I doubt that you’ll be successful. The Octopus Tree is a Sitka spruce located near the Cape Meares Lighthouse on the northwestern coast of Oregon. With a base about 50 feet across and branches that grow straight up about 100 feet, it looks like a huge upside down octopus. Hard coastal winds probably account for its shape.
Some historians claim that the tree was a gathering place for Native Americans of the Tillamook nation. The tree itself was used for funeral rites as participants arranged the property of the deceased on the branches.
-via Amusing Planet
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More seriously, there's a lot of hype about using discarded materials to create pratical or decorative objets, the idea is obviously good, I think however that these items should sell for a fair price.
Remember the tinny tin can cars, planes and motos made in Africa? I thought that when these items were in shops the overprice was due because the shops paid the creators a good one, but not. The shops just make enormous profits by taking advantage of press covers and customers who think they do a good action like for fair trading...
http://www.meublesindustriels.com/collection-ecolo-chic-c-3365.html?language=en
But this one is quite cool :
http://www.fairesadeco.tv/leblog/objets-insolites/%E2%80%9Cre-tyre%E2%80%9D-la-chaise-pneu-par-carl-menary
more pictures of the tire horse in progress by german artist Mirko Siakkou-Flodin