#2.22 on Epiphany
Ulla Vinterhav, Epiphany in Knivsta, Sweden. January 6, 2014
On this thirteenth day of Christmas, Epiphany, Ulla Vinterhav brings us this Christmas Greeting with Christ, the three wise men and Moonhouse #2.22.
Happy Epiphany Ulla and thank you for the greeting. Fair winds on your coming adventures!
#2.19 Kwau, West Papua
Robin Lilja December 26, 2013
From his expedition to South East Asia, exploring both above and below, Robin Lilja sends this report. Robin has installed Moonhouse #2.19 in the nest of a Vogelkop Bowerbird at Kwau in West Papua, Indonesia. The Vogelkop Bowerbird is famous for its elaborate building style and for decorating its nest with colourful accessories. Try a google image search for vogelkop bowerbird or the BBC:s website for stunning and beautiful examples. Robin recommends a look at the ”Birds” episode of the BBC Life series for more information.
Congratulations on your ongoing and already successful expedition Robin. We wish you fair winds for its continuation and look forward to future reports.
Times Square
#2.34 in Times Square New York, John Olof Vinterhav, December 5, 2013
Admittedly, there is not much snow at HQ at the moment and we are not likely to get any more before Christmas. How lucky then that Moonhouse #2.34 brings back some of that wintery feeling. The house carries the thin snowflakes all the way from Times Square in New York to HQ and to everywhere else around the globe in need of that special Yule ambiance.
The wintry imagery is brought to us by John-Olof Vinterhav with co-explorer Ulla Vinterhav from their expedition to New York in the beginning of December, 2013.
Thank you for getting us into that special holiday spirit John-Olof and Ulla. Congratulations to the successful expedition. We wish you fair winds for your coming adventures.
#2.33 Falun
Emil Vinterhav och Mikael Genberg
Today we celebrate the 1st anniversary of the very first Moonhouse expedition. The expedition made landfall on one of the two summits of Kungsholmen in Stockholm, the one in Kronobergsparken.
The Moonhouse Expedition has since made landfall on and a number of yet to be reported summits of Europe and, notably, on Kilimanjaro. The expedition has also reached summits of more metaphysical nature such as the church of nativity in Bethlehem and the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem, highlights in art with Picasso paintings, historical moments in sports, when Nadal was eliminated from Wimbledon and more and more. The Expedition is well into the task of making the red house with white corners ubiquitous around the globe.
Right at this moment, there are active expeditions to great mountains, to underwater wonders, to tropical paradises and to amazing feats of human endurance. No doubt, the holiday season will fill in even more white areas on the map, be it geographical of metaphysical, and bring otherwise hidden aspects of the world out into the shining light for all of use to share and to admire.
Also, we shall not forget the very exciting expedition of Moonhouse #2.33 is making today when the expedition is aiming for landfall in the home of red, Falun from where the red signature colour of the red house with white corners comes.
With this said, this anniversary would not be even closely to as interesting without the dedicated efforts by all the Moonhouse Explorers. A good, great Thank You is the least we can to offer for your selfless efforts and fair winds for your coming expeditions.
Moonhouse #2.38 before shipping to Magnus Steen and The Marathon
Today Moonhouse #2.38 was shipped to Magnus Steen in Helsingborg. Magnus will be running already tomorrow but the house will in all likelihood reach Helsingbord in good time for Mangnus’ last third of the run which he will be running on Thursday.
Check our Helsingborg Marathon Running for Muskhjälpen!
We wish Magnus fast feet and fair wind on his coming adventure.
#2.29 in Hong Kong
Lotta Liljelund November 30, 2013
Lotta Liljelund is exploring the four corners of the world with Moonhouse #2.29. Recently the expedition landed in Brazil. Now it has reached the far east as Lottas expedition explores Hong Kong in the South China Sea.
Congratulations Lotta on your successful expedition and fair winds for your coming adventures!
On Monday, November 25, Moonhouse #X.1 of the all-new experimental underwater design was placed in the keep of seasoned explorer Robin Lilja in anticipation of an upcoming diving expedition to Indonesia in December.
#X.1 has been extensively tested for submersion also into unfriendly environments. In the image above it is seen in a setup testing the compatibility with 10 yo Glenfarclas concluding that for future similar expeditions the varnish need to be more resilient to this liquid.
The whiskey test was the second submergence test and it was done to see if the design was suitable to use as a non-melting ice-cube. The test failed as it made the whiskley taste bad. The first submergence test was to establish that the model had negative bouyancy and that it did not dissolve in water.
We wish Robin fair winds on his diving expedition and look forward to learning more about it in reports to come.
House on the sand bank in Pemba, Tanzania. Emil Vinterhav February 2013
You will not have missed how the Underwater Room at the Manta resort in Tanzania has created quite a buzz in media world wide over the last few days (c.f. BBC, SvD, Hindustan Times, Yahoo, Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Skift, CNN, Fox News etc.).
The Underwater Room was conceived by Mikael Genberg, the very same artist that conceived the idea of placing a house on the moon. Moonhouse #2.10 explored the Manta Resort and Pemba in February 2013, when the Underwater Room was still under construction. Be sure to check out the report!
#2.29 Ipanema, Brazil
Lotta Liljelund, November 2013.
Finally! After a full year of exploring the world, the Expedition reached South America at last. In November 2013 Moonhouse #2.29 on an expedition with Lotta Liljelund became the first Moonhouse expedition to explore South America when it made landfall on Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Congratulations to your successful expedition Lotta and fair winds on your coming adventures!
International Trade
Cicci Rikanovic, World Trade Center, November 2013.
Cicci Rikanovic continues to bring Moonhouse #2.25 on expeditions to innovative destinations. Following the expedition to international diplomacy, Cicci has brought the house into the stream of international trade with a landfall at the World Trade Center in Stockholm on November 11, 2013.
Cicci writes
Trade policy tools are also required to get The Moonhouse to the right platce – The Moon itself
Congratualtions to your successful expediton Cicci and fair winds for your coming adventures.