MAN(and women) MADE ISLANDS

We live in houses which reside in countries. Are there any other options you ask? Fuck yea. The internet has opened my eyes to whole new possibilities for living; specifically on a man made island. Im not talking bout houseboats, which are cool in their own right. but self built islands. I have never thought of myself as being an adventurous person. Actually I would consider myself fairly boring. Maybe even half-tarded and useless. But there are people out there that achieve crazy great empowering things when it comes to where they do their liv'n.
The previously mentionned woodland home is a perfect example of someone on their own punching off the grid and living in soemthing they built themselves (not to mention kinda cool looking.)


The woodland home is not nearly close to the extreme lengths that some people have gone to in order to live somewhere unique and autonomous.Lets move onto the topic at hand: floating island house things. Way down in Peru there is a man who under the influence of Ayahuasca(look it up) had images of a floating pyramid. So he started building the fucking thing. This pic is it in its early stages.
http://www.pyramidperu.com/
When finished its gonna be way way bigger and have a ton of features, such as a 500 person theatre a gym etc. This one project is very spiritually based according to my co-worker who went down and visited the guy. Shamanism n stuff propels his floating house thingy. cool shit.
The idea that someone could attempt such a monumentous task really struck a chord in my lazy ass. so I delved deeper into the world of insane people building floating houses. One of the best examples of such is a house floating off the coast of cancun..get this...on 300,000 pop bottles. Its got a couple of beachs, trees, a house, etc etc. Heres a pic:
http://www.geocities.com/spiral_island/pics.html
Thats a floating island people. FLOATING. Apparently the trees have started rooting so its kinda stationary for now.
The grandness of such projects makes me feel bad bout my inability to put away clothing in my room let alone building something so fucky. If your house reflects who you are. these poeple are whimsical fairytale japanese cartoon islands whereas I am a messy boring normal run of the mill bad art collecting..damn...where was i going with this.
anywho, ontyo paddy bates. ..hes a whole nother thing. He made a fucking floating country. He named it Sealand. built on an old ww2 base of some sort, he successfully (kinda) proclaimed it as a new nation in 1967 with its own postage, money, sports teams and so on. The story of sealand is much too complicated to outline here but you can read about it on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand The micronation has been throu alot inits breif history. war, government in exile, fire, porn hosting. But heres the capper. Its now up for sale for like over 50 million pounds. Thats right...you can buy a nation if you have the money.

There are several more examples of similar undertakings on the net. Some peoples in italy tried a sealandesque proclamation of independence years ago. all very itneresting stories.
In the end, floating your house is a dream saved only for the crazies out there. For the rest of us i suppose a dingy or waterwings will do. (great conclusion beanpoutine! A+ for effort)