Above: tiny (each (4″ x 7″) roughs of a few pages
The tiny homes book is taking way longer than anticipated (what else is new?) I have over 250 mailboxes for contributors, am corresponding with them to get decent-size pics. We have about 124 pages laid out now, around 600 photos.
I’m trying to get out to the studio around 6:30 AM, usually work until 6:30- 7 PM, 2-3 days a week. Shit! Most of my contemporaries are retired. But you know what? I love it. Every day is vital. It usually takes me hours to deal with general publishing biz stuff before I can get into layout. But then, I’m havin fun. I can’t imagine being retired.
Part of the thrill is not knowing what the finished book will be like. Kind of like skating downhill with no brakes. Here we go; it’l be what it’ll be. The best way to make a book. Organic. (Am in repeating myself here?)
New material coming in almost daily. Lew is starting to help with layout. He just did 4 pages of photos by Rick Auerbach, a photographer who documented hippie buses and campers in the ’60s – ’70s. (You know that the ’60s happened in the’70s, right?) There are over 80 pics on these 4 pages. So there’s a bit of old stuff along with the new. These days I’m putting together pages on pre-fabs and kits available in the US and Canada. It’s just staggering, the interest in this subject right now.
I’m gonna stay home for a while now, except for the BEA book convention in NYC the end of May, and the Frankfurt Book fair in October. Once the book is done I’m either going surfing in Hawaii or trekking in Borneo. (I hesitate to say it, with all that’s going on in the world, but) life is pretty darn good.
At this very moment, the Stones came on singing Gimme Shelter. Cosmic!
oh Gimme Shelter is one of my favorite Stones tunes. Especially turned way up high. Think I'll go dig up that CD and put it on.
wooooooooooooohooooooo. looking good Lloyd!
Will you mention the overarching problem of permits/almost nowhere to live legally in a tiny house?
I can hardly wait. – Margy
ça va être d'enfer !
we do expect an edition in french !
PS. Led Zep is also a good boost
Sounds like all you need right now is another suggestion (ha!) — but I'm going to make one anyway. Have you seen the pre-fab bamboo houses being made in Hawaii? http://www.bambooliving.com/ They are truly gorgeous (some of them tiny, some of them not).
gaias daughter: Thanks! I'm on it.
I can't wait!!!!
I got Builders of the Pacific Coast for my birthday and couldn't put it down ubtil I'd read it from cover to cover – I showed it to everyone I met a number of whom dashed out to get a copy.
Lloyd you have excelled yourself. Shelter was my all time favourate book. The one I would wish for on a desert island. Now Builders has knocked it off the top spot. It is like Shelter come of age. All colour all grown up. Shelter seemed full of youthful exuberance, ideals of the 60's. Builders is the result. The fruits born of those philosophies. Realisation. Manifestaion of the truth. Proof of the pudding !
Thanks Lloyd I really look forward to tiny houses.
Rich