He Willed The Tree Into That Shape
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Crocs.
i’ve seen this before and really wish i knew how he did it!
Google “Circus Trees”
http://www.google.com/search?q=circus+trees
a very slow and dedicated process. you wont do it overnight. first choice of tree is important although im not sure which are better suited than others, obviously you need one with natural thickness that accommodates what you want.
start with a sapling, now as it grows, you simply use stakes or what have you to bend the tree, adjusting routinely until the tree is fully grow into the shape you want.
in this case i’d guess that the tree should look like a scale model of the fully grown plant-chair by the time it is two feet tall and the branches are still relatively thin and malleable.
from there just keep adjusting branches so the tree holds its shape as it grows. it will take you probably 10 years at least to get the final results unless you use some tricky growth hormones.
good luck!!!
pruning techniques are also important to get the right number of branches and more notably the armrest. i’ll leave it to you to find out more about the exact pruning methods to achieve your masterpiece.
It took him as long to grow the hair and beard.
I can’t believe he’s wearing socks with crocs. Hippy Nerd.
dont be hating bro, hippies brought a revolution bro lol
If it starts to grow out of shape, KIL IT WITH FIRE!
Absolutely awesome. See pooktre.com for more of his artwork.
The Crocs totally ruin the awesome.
sweet, second epic pic of mine to be accepted onto the main page
Congrats. The tree is Epic Win, but the black Crocs with socks are Epic Fail.
I agree — the black Crocs are a true abomination.
non, its epic comfort
The crocs are displayed in their one native and reasonable circumstance: gardening.
Well, it’s obviously eco-friendly. too bad he didn’t have a table and chair-set to go with it.
He made tables too… I don’t have a link to his work, but this guy has a lot of other forniture shaped trees…
They do!
http://www.pooktre.com/images/index/becky-living-garden-table.jpg
Context : http://www.pooktre.com/
More awesomeness: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/09/living-growing-architecture.html
Nice Crocs!
The tree is suffering and deformed and all you can do is say “epic win”…
You people are sickening.
Unlike you vain humans, the tree doesn’t really care how it looks. It’s obviously healthy given that it is still alive and lush.
wow, am i seriously reading some kind of tree-rights activist comment or something, thats just crazy talk
Umm, trees dont have human nerve systems. They have no brains. They do not suffer. It is healthy and LOOK! THERE WAS NO PLASTIC USED FOR LAWN FURNITURE OR TREES CUT DOWN TO MAKE WOODEN FURNITURE!
This is an epic win and an eco-win too.
Actually, the leaves and bark look extremely healthy. I’m not sure how well it’s handling the weight, but I wouldn’t think of this tree as “suffering.”
You are on the internet, most likely in your house with AC on. You are just as sick as us. A tree has no nervous system, no brain it cannot feel pain and thusly cannot suffer.
Because trees definitely have the capacity to suffer.
so I take it you don’t like bonsai trees then… cos they’re kept in shape by pruning and a similar way to how this was obviously done
Activists never fail to amaze me. Boycot wood. The tree’s feelings are being hurt. You’d probably step over a homeless person to throw blood on someone wearing a mink.
Pussy!
Trees don’t have nerve endings. They don’t feel pain. And God made them so they can grow into various shapes depending on how they’re treated and environmental conditions. Get a life, loser.
Actually it depends on how you define pain. Pain can be defined as a signal of present or impending tissue damage affected by a harmful stimulus, this is experienced by almost all multicellular organisms including plants. You don’t need nerves and a brain to experience “pain” according to this definition.
Your definition is correct, but you forgot to add the part where said signal causes the organism to withdraw from the cause of said pain. Trees do not do this (that I am aware of), and thus do not feel pain.
It’s a highly semantic and contentious argument though about whether defining pain actually extends to the mechanisms of responding to the harmful stimulus (pine trees might respond by covering the wound in sap for example) or whether you define the signal alone as pain and treat the mechanisms to deal with the pain signal as a consequence, e.g. a person says “ow” as a response to the pain signal but does the “ow” actually count as an experience of the pain or is it a mechanism to minimise and/or cope with the pain.
Torturing trees ROCKS!!
No, don’t torture the ROCKS!
Just go kill your self now…
Oh look, how cute! The baby troll is back!
Botany fail.
HA HA HA HA HA! Good one!
I’m an eco-activist and even I think you’re dumb for posting that comment.
Wow, that was some of the best trolling I’ve seen here recently. Good job!
Trees dont give a sh*t what they look like. And they bend round stuff to grow all the time. Rocks and walls etc. Not everything human beings do to nature is harmfull. Alot of it is, but not this.
This was in 1998, I wonder how the tree looks now
Hi chair tree was planted in 1998 but the image above with Pete in the chair was taken in 2008.
CROCS FTW
I didn’t know wizards wore crocs …
its the latest trend for the modern wizard
…then the tree snaps.
Yes, trees have the capacity to suffer. But look at the bright green of the leaves and the smooth texture of the bark and you can see the tree isn’t being done any harm. People climb trees all the time, and it’s natural for a tree to grow in different directions and shapes in response to its environment. If you saw a condor sitting on the branch of a tree that had been highly altered and shaped by the wind, would you say it was suffering?
Are you serious? Trees cannot suffer. They don’t have nerves, much less any sort of capacity for thought. They are rather simple (though still wonderfully complex) organisms. They grow, they die. That’s about it. They don’t think, create, hunt (in the sense of a predator stalking prey) and they cannot feel, see (in terms of having anything other than photosensitive pigment that tells them where sunlight is), or in any other capacity have anything nearing even an ant’s capacity to communicate. Reproduction is 100% passive in terms of “impregnation” (even jellyfish do better than that) and that pretty much sums it up.
Crazy tree-hugging hippies. I thought all you folks were luddites anyway, get off that electricity guzzling computer (made from steam or hydro, both of which are harmful to trees (one floods areas where trees were, the other cuts down trees for the mining of natural resources such as coal))/phone/iPad.
Hypocrite.
I meant powered, not made by. Doh.
actually the DONT have the capacity to suffer
Yes, they do.
Just on a much, much slower time scale. It’s why they don’t need a brain for all those high-speed reactions.
Anyone with any knowledge of magic knows that elves have obviously sung the tree a song and made it grow that way….
Or an Ogier
WoT for the win!
Inheritance Cycle FTW! Still can’t compare to the Menoa Tree though…
Check out Redlance from elfquest, he a elf tree shaper.
Activists never fail to amaze me. Boycot wood. The tree’s feelings are being hurt. You’d probably step over a homeless person to throw blood on someone wearing a mink.
No, i must disagree! A ‘WIN’ must not contain any of the following
1). – A Mullet
2). – A seemingly Eco-friendly pacifist wearing a Karate uniform
3). – An Adult male wearing ‘Crocks’ that are too big for him
Sorry but the trees awesomeness is invalidated
What if this guy was Chuck Norris in disguise?
Ignore the man!
Hi,
I’m Becky Co-founder of Pooktre.
1. That not a mullet but baldness setting in.
2. No not a Karate uniform but Japanese peasant working clothes.
3. That my fault I stuffed up with sizes, first to small and then to large, he told me not to try again.
Who could possibly give this a thumbs down??
I’ve heard of this guy. He like, ties certain parts of the tree to other parts of the tree and shit, so it’s grows in a certain shape. He makes all sorts of living tree sculptures like this. Crazy Awesome. And patient.
It is a very old technique called pleaching.
Hi I’m Becky Co-founder of Pooktre.
We create the design and supports first then grow the trees into place. This is a slow process but worth the patience.
Pleaching like Arborsculpture uses existing trees to weave or bend into a design. This gives an instant appearance of a chair, but Arboursculpture sufferers from 30% die back and uneven growth.
Lol. Nice crocs.
omg i’m wearing the exact same shoes, cotton garments, and beard. that’s totally me in 10 years. rofl
Great! Then you’ll have plenty of time to grow urself a chair, lol
i’ll grow a two-seater
That picture lost 10 awesome points for crocs.
Cool, Jesus grew a tree.
“and god said tree chair and there was tree chair”
Sorry, but not a ‘WIN’. A Win must never feature…
1). – A Mullet!
2). – An seemingly Eco-pacifist type person, in a Karate uniform!?
3). – An adult male wearing ‘crocks’ that are too big for him!
If this tree is suffering it’s only because of that guy.
The first Hokage!
Did anybody notice that he kinda looks like Chuck Norris? No wonder that tree bended that way O.o
Is that John Malkovich?
Nah, it’s Steven Wright.
This guy is totally an epic-level druid.
Actually, I think it’s Tom Bombadil
That looks like it must be a chairy tree. I’d recognize the bark anywhere . . ..
i want one
You know this would be Internet GOLD if that was Chuck Norris.
With Crocs… Everything is fail.
Look! It’s Tom Bombadil!
note: i dont play it anymore
isn’t that Steven Wright?
Well, everyone’s whining about his crocs, but if you can grow trees like that, you can also wear fuckin crocs
I met this guy. Richard Reames. He made the chair. He’s an arborsculptor. He teaches at the Folk School and has this stuff all over the campus: http://folkschool.org
Hi I am Co-founder of Pooktre
Richard wishes that he could grow a chair like this. His instant arborsculpture techniques as detailed in his books will never grow a chair like this one. The guy is Peter Cook from Pooktre.
2 words…
Chuck Norris!
Chuck demanded the tree to place him a place to sit, out of fear, it did. Now those whom sit there gain a year to their life.
It’s Ted Nugent!
Haha! That’s who I thought of as well.
This is awesome. I don’t even care about the Crocs; if he can get a tree to do this (and still be a healthy, flourishing tree), he can wear whatever the hell he wants.
i wish my bonzai sprouted, maybe i could have dont that. oh well. he did an amazing job because i know that is a very difficult tradition
too bad he couldn’t will the crocs into… Well, actual shoes.
See, John Malkovich CAN do anything! He’s a world famous actor, producer, director, carpenter, he has his own line of fashion and he can bend trees with his mind!