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25 Seriously Twisted Trees
weburbanist.com — Trees and plants have a kind of flexibility that is both disturbing and inspiring. Left to their own devices they can wrap around objects and create strange works of unintentional art.
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- RedneckRandy, on 04/23/2008, -0/+13Wow. The ones that were actually sculpted into chairs and stuff are really cool. Amazing
- tomd123, on 04/23/2008, -2/+0I have an IDEA for the home office!!! It's going to be great, you'll see, no fires plz.
- Djharlock, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Why climb a tree when you can sit in a tree? Hmmn I don't know.
- thesnowfox, on 04/23/2008, -1/+4A neighbor of mine manipulated a tree in his yard so that it grows in a perfect spiral!
- sofaKing812, on 04/23/2008, -0/+7My neighbor only manipulates himself in the front yard. I'll trade you.
- mikkee07, on 04/23/2008, -0/+15Dugg for bicycle in the tree.
- drafhk, on 04/23/2008, -4/+10I highly doubt that most of these were "unintentional."
- suxmonkey, on 04/23/2008, -2/+5And ... that's why you comment AFTER you read the post, not what someone posted on Digg as a partial quote from the post ;)
- EwMo, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2He's right... And what drafhk said didn't imply that he hadn't read the article...
- suxmonkey, on 04/23/2008, -2/+5And ... that's why you comment AFTER you read the post, not what someone posted on Digg as a partial quote from the post ;)
- Emused, on 04/23/2008, -0/+8Those ruins looked like something out of Tomb Raider.
- mikolby, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3Those are the same trees as in Tomb Raider. It was filmed in Cambodia at Angkor Wat. I've been there 3 times. Very impressive.
- rockefeller2, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Actually, the pictures are of an ancient temple called Ta Prohm, not Angkor Wat. They are both within the city of Angkor. Angkor Wat doesn't have trees growing all over it. If you've been there 3 times, you would know this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_Prohm- mikolby, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1of course I knew that. no need to get testy. my wife is cambodian. there are many temples within the ankor city. when you go visit the area even some of the locals call the whole area angkor watt as a generalization.
- rockefeller2, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Actually, the pictures are of an ancient temple called Ta Prohm, not Angkor Wat. They are both within the city of Angkor. Angkor Wat doesn't have trees growing all over it. If you've been there 3 times, you would know this.
- mikolby, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3Those are the same trees as in Tomb Raider. It was filmed in Cambodia at Angkor Wat. I've been there 3 times. Very impressive.
- devoted, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4Oh my! can one grow a tree house?
- zohaibusman, on 04/23/2008, -7/+1look how nature is so innocent against the new world... interesting post
- sammybond455, on 04/23/2008, -0/+6Trees can be artists too.
- usafdave, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3Or firewood
- AManWithNoName, on 04/23/2008, -2/+1I hope that "artist" gave the money he made off that piece to the willow. It did all the work, after all!
- riversc, on 04/23/2008, -1/+8ents.
- bfk68, on 04/23/2008, -2/+33I was getting worried for a minute there, I haven't seen this on Digg for at least a month!
- Nhmarine, on 04/23/2008, -1/+0I wonder how long they had to leave that ***** there for the trees to grow on it.. way to neglect your stuff.. But, the contrast between nature and technology is beautifully frightening (as if I don't see that contrast every day)
- raublekick, on 04/23/2008, -1/+0It has to take at least a decade for that stuff to happen (wrapping around fences, bikes and cars, not the manual twisting), I would think. I agree with you, it's beautiful in a very sickening way.
- Navicerts, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1neglect your stuff? I doubt whoever s bike that was came to get it one day and was like "aww damn, looks like it has grown into that tree about 5 feet in the air."
- finalcloud33, on 04/23/2008, -4/+1trees.....FTW
- aladrin, on 04/23/2008, -6/+1Buried for inaccuracy. They weren't unintentional, and they weren't twisted, for the most part.
Actually, mostly buried for being a 'top x list'. Really sick of the crappy lists.- michael43, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1And all the crappy lists are sick of you.
- flxfxp, on 04/23/2008, -5/+4NOM NOM NOM NOM
- greenlight2001, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Forgot the 'OM' but even still, it doesn't make sense here....
- ModernChem, on 04/23/2008, -1/+18buried for the same pictures in a different article for the 10000th time
- GonzoAKQJ10, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1There were a few new ones
- Mie42, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2My friend's father lives on a lake and has groups of bushes he pruned into various life sized small boats. He's been in the local paper a few times.
- gandhii, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1lets see some photos
- roarus, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Bush pruning? Motorboating? Caught on local news? Oh my...
- B345T, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0"Let me get my time machine..."
- yujie, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1Haven't they learned from The Ruins about trees
- EwMo, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2*Chair Tree sits and waits*
- Lunarbunny, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1This list lacks bristlecone pines. Fail.
http://www.artismax.net/artwork/ancient%20bristlec ... - greeniemeani, on 04/23/2008, -4/+3Digg needs a section for "Lists Containing 5-50 Items of Stuff That Anyone Who Has Ever Used The Internet Has Already Seen, Most Likely Scattered Across Multiple Pages and Possibly Submitted By Mr. Babyman".
- hoodmonkey, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2Maybe if weren't on digg all the time you wouldn't get so upset when people try to show you what outside looks like..
- NoCt1, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2dupe... but dugg. think this same article was on here a month ago.
- dedelman912, on 04/23/2008, -3/+2SOOOOOOOOOOO OLD
- michael43, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Looking at the ones shaped like people makes me wonder how spooky they'd be at night, especially to a kid. Sorta reminded me of that freaky apple tree on the Wizard of OZ.
- Macksimum, on 04/23/2008, -4/+0buried for fake.
- RudeTurnip, on 04/23/2008, -0/+4My grandmother had a tree in her yard that appeared to have testicles. It was trimmed one day and now we joke about it being neutered.
- tschau, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1'shopped.
all of them. look at the shadows. - ElBeh, on 04/23/2008, -2/+7FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: AMAZING TREES!!!!!!!
- bjs3171, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2"Trees that consume people, animals or other objects have also featured prominently in various works of literary fiction such as Little Shop of Horrors."
uh...what the ***** are they talking about? Little Shop of Horrors was about a GIANT VENUS FLY TRAP that ate people with its GIANT MOUTH, not a tree that grew around people over a few years. - Ph0biA, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Dugg for Tree Chair.
- vertexoflife, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Dude, the tree ate my ***** car!
- tanjonner, on 04/23/2008, -2/+1MY GOD. This has been on the front page at least 234981273498127394812734 times.
- Mist0r_Wiggles, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2hummm...
why didn't tree man make the list? - libby1987, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2the idea of attaching pens to a weeping willow is genius...and B A
- robthom, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I suspect half of diggers may be keyboards attached to a weeping willow so its good enough I guess.
- willbb123, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1wouldn't it be alot easier to go round the tree instead of cutting through it
- robthom, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1What would be the fun in that?
- poleag, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I've been twisting trees since I was 17 years old.
- robthom, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Late bloomer huh. Nothing wrong with that.
- robthom, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Pretty awesome. I wish the photo's where larger though.
- starguy, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1I got that Volkswagen beat... I was driving down the road coming back from photographing local damage of a tornado that swept through town, when spotted this old sunroof Volkswagen off in the briars from the road, on some property long, long ago abandoned... there was also a lawnmower a tree had grown through as well, until the lawnmower cut off circulation, or more likely, the wind just blew it down:
Click photos for larger images: http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m145/mrstarr/su ...
Slideshow: http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m145/mrstarr/su ... - SheilaNoya, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1Here's another one of several trees grown together into something that looks like one of those Chinese finger traps.
Descanso Gardens (near Los Angeles) also has a living fence made this way by planting rows of trees leaning left at 45 degrees and crossed (latticed) with rows of trees leaning right at 45 degrees.
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20 ...
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