Last April, I was visited by Yuichi Takeuchi, an artist, carpenter and treehouse builder from Japan.
Yuichi said he’d been heavily inspired by our book Shelter. He was making a movie called Simplife and wanted to interview me.
Here’s the result, 3 minutes long. In the last part, I say, “I like to tell people what I see going on in the world…” Yeah!
I’ve had a lot of Japanese people come here — media, builders, artists, publishers — in recent years and they’ve all been wonderful — kindred spirits of the Pacific Ocean.
Yuichi’s website and on Flickr:
https://www.treeheads.com/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/treeheads/sets/
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
That's why I like your blog so much-you see interesting and cool stuff in the world and then tell us about it! Yes!
That's was just the best way today to say good morning-thanks for letting us take a peek into your world so often!