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concrete. Lishman compared the structure to that of molehills, and media outlets have compared it to a Hobbit hole. Cooled in the summer by the dirt, it is heated during the winter by ground water. It has a round refrigerator that rises from the counter through pneumatics, custom cabinets and door-hinges, and domed skylights.
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anywhere near him will remember him flying over with a flock of geese behind him. That was a common sight in the late eighties and early nineties. He'll be remembered for a lot of different things but mostly for being an innovator and someone who wasn't afraid to try new things", Aaron
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Lishman's career as a sculptor began in 1962. He became known for repurposing metal from existing items; a 1969 exhibition profile cites "It Could Have Gone Up" as including "a long slab of rusted metal which had once been part of an ancient threshing machine." The natural rust on his works were said
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Basically we built a new aircraft and used a few parts from the old one. Unfortunately my concept for using this type of aircraft for disaster relief still has not got off the ground but I keep gnawing a way forward with it. With that said I have lost my passion for flying and this year my total time
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for ultra-light flight, Lishman doubled as Tom Alden, the character based on
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on the behaviour of geese. Carrick provided goslings, who Bill and his children worked with daily, eventually doing twice-daily runs on a motorcycle with the geese flying with him, then switching to the ultra-light. In 1988, he became the first person to lead the flight of geese with an aircraft, and
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Lishman died at his home and his son Aaron said that "his passing was peaceful, surrounded by family and friends. Thankfully he did not suffer long." The cause of death was not stated by the family. A Book of
Memories was provided to the family by the Newcastle Funeral Home. "Most people that lived
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In 2015 Lishman produced and self-published a coffee table book highlighting views of the Oak Ridges
Moraine from Above which was its title. In December 2015, he wrote about this project. "We had the book launch here in the underground house on Earth Day April 22 and it all worked I have had great
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The resulting 2,600 square foot structure, described as an "underground home with igloo-like domes ... overlooking the Purple Woods valley and Lake Scugog", includes six circular rooms, made from onion-shaped steel domes covered in steel squared netting, metal lath, sprayed inside with a layer of
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story, Lishman was barraged with offers, many of which he found questionable. He chose Bruce
Westwood of Westwood Creative Artists, then Canada's largest literary and entertainment agency, as his agent. Westwood's environmental consciousness appealed to Lishman. The story was chronicled in the
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Lishman family lived in a 1970s pre-fabricated wooden Viceroy cottage. In 1988, Lishman built a new home in the top of a hill on the same property, in an effort to reduce the exterior repair of structures, and reduce the energy used in heating, by removing direct contact with the wind.
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Lishman met with movie studio representatives in Los Angeles, January 1994. They signed a deal with Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures in February, worth $ 500,000 and a 5% royalty. The deal included a five-year option on creating an IMAX documentary. The resulting film was
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plants, which would flower each summer, on the over 1000 tonnes of earth covering the house. It cost about $ 400,000 to build in 1988. Lishman once talked to an
American mobile-home builder about how his underground method would protect against tornadoes. Producers of the movie
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in the air can only be measured in minutes. When I was flying with birds or photographing the Oak Ridge
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in spring 1995. Each had to be exercised, separately, for three hours daily, by a person wearing a crane puppet. Unlike the geese, if the cranes imprinted on a human, they would attack their own kind.
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1.4 million. Weeks from the start of production, the Ontario team was told by the director to customize the aircraft to look like geese, requiring the sculpting of geese necks and heads.
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