#X.1 The Reef 20140102 Radja Ampat – Melissa’s Garden, Papua, Indonesien. Explorers Robin Lilja and Niclas Evestedt Fotocredit Niclas Evestedt
Moonhouse #X.1, famous from the landfall (seafall(?)) in Melissa’s Garden is now in the able hands of the latest addition to the league of hose holders. Serhat Özdemir. Serhat is a professional diver and has promised to let #X.1 lighten up the darkest underwater places of underwater Stockholm.
We at HQ wish you fair winds for your coming expedition Serhat!
On its journeys across the great American continent what was bound to happen has transpired. Moonhouse #2.37 has followed in the foot steps of #2.19 when it and Hans Hallberg made landfall in Las Vegas on February 20. The keen eyed observer will recognize the scene below from a landfall made by #2.19.
#2.37 Las Vegas Hans Hallberg 20140220
Congratulations Hans Hallberg to your successful expedition. We wish your fair winds for your coming adventures!
The Expedition has reached the shores of the Great Lakes as Katharina Ayres brought Moonhouse #2.39 to Chicago. Chicago is known as ”The Windy City” but we can let you in on a secret; No matter how hard you huff, no matter how hard you puff, you will not blow this house down.
Congratualtions to the successful expedition Katharina. We wish you fair winds for your coming adventures!
#2.42 Bacchi Lada at ”den Gyllene freden”, Gamla stan, Stockholm, Sweden. Emil Vinterhav. February 1, 2014
The House on the Moon is art as is reflected clearly in the first article of the manifesto. Another artform is music and among famed composers Carl-Michael Bellman shares age and geographial roots with the red houses. Maybe it would even be fair to bring an Epistle to the Moon when the house gets there.
On February 1, 2014, three days before the composers 249th birthday, the Moonhouse #2.42 and Emil Vintehav explored the poetry of the songs and epistles of Carl-Michael Bellman when Bacchi Lada met up to honour the composer, in song and circumstance at Den Gyldene Freden, an establishment that the composer himself frequented in his lifetime. The participants at Bacchi Lada treated each other to singing to the accompaniment of variety of instruments including electric balaljka, melodica and the traditional perisan tar all played an sung at an incredibly high standard.
Congratulations Emil to your successful expedition and fair winds on your coming adventures.
#X.1 The Reef 20140102 Radja Ampat – Melissa’s Garden, Papua, Indonesien. Explorers Robin Lilja and Niclas Evestedt Fotocredit Niclas Evestedt
Today we are treated to a one of a kind, never seen before picture from the colourful land under water of a tropical coral reef. An earlier landfall on this expedition brought us to the well cared for nest of the Volgelkop Bower bird. On this landfall (waterfall(?)), on January 2, 2014, Robin Lilja and co-explorer Niclas Evestedt explored the coral reefs of Melissa’s Garden off the coast of the Raja Ampat Islands near Papua, Indonesia.
Thank you for the stunning picture* and congratulations, Robin and Niclas, to your very successful expedition. We wish you fair winds for your coming adventures.
*According to rumour ther are more stunningly beautiful underwater pictures like this which we hope to share soon….
#2.37 The Swedish Cottage in Central Park New York Hans Hallberg, The Swedish Cottage in Central Park New York, NY, USA, November 8, 2013.
Two days after landfall in Atlantic City, on November 8, 2013, Hans Hallberg and Moonhouse #2.37 made landfall in New York City. This time the Moonhouse or Moon Cottage, paid tribute to another cottage, namely the Swedish Cottage in Central Park, New York. The Swedish Cottage was build in Sweden 1875 and erected in Central Park in 1877. It is currently serving as home of the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre.
Congratulations Hans on the second landfall on your successful expedition (after landfall in Atlantic City) and fair winds for your coming adventures.
#2.37 The House Always Wins Hans Hallberg, Atlantic City, USA, November 6, 2013.
It is an old truth that ”the house always wins” and in this case we have a win-win situation when Hans Hallberg brought Moonhouse #2.37 to the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City on November 6, 2013.
Congratulations Hans to your successful expedition and fair winds for your coming adventures.
#2.35 in the Indian Ocean Petra Vainionpää, Maldives New Years Eve 2013.
The Moonhouse really has a predisposition toward exotic beaches and the ocean. Perhaps this is in anticipation of and longing for an eternal existence on the shores of the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.
Here the seasoned explorer Petra Vainionpää treats us to a magnificent scene from the Maldives in the Indian Ocean with Moonhouse #2.35 basking in sunlight with bungalows built in stilts in the back ground. (Wouldn’t we all have liked to be there to take the picture…)
Congratulations on your successful expedition Petra and fair winds for your coming adventures. (Petra was one of the first explorers and something tells me that the Maldives may not be the last landfall Moonhouse #2.35 makes with Petra. We certainly wish to continue to part-take in Petras exotic expeditions wherever they take here and the Moonhouse Expedition.