I got interviewed via Skype (with which I’m not too comfortable, at least doing an intercontinental interview) by the BBC yesterday. A last-minute deal.

The Victoria and Albert Museum has an exhibit opening next week titled:

“You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970”

“How have the finished and unfinished revolutions of the late 1960s changed the way we live today and think about the future?”

They’ve been working on this a long time; they came to our house with a camera crew about a year ago; then a month or so ago, V&A personnel along with four British reporters interviewed Stewart Brand and me for several hours in San Francisco. What were the 60s like? What role do the Whole Earth Catalog have in the countercultural revolution? Etc.

 Here’s the news program that ran in the UK last night: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p046zwdy

 Here’s info on the exhibit: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/you-say-you-want-a-revolution-records-and-rebels-1966-70

“Beware, white man, of playing with magic of the primitive. 

It may be strong medicine.

It may kill you.

Ye, sons and daughters, foster children of the cities, if ye would go to the wilderness in search of your Mother, be careful and circumspect, lest she lure you into her secret places, whence ye may not come back.”

-Jaime de Angulo, The Lariat

How many of today’s carpenters could build like this?

These appeared on the wall at the closed-down concrete and gravel facility, Joslin Brothers, on a back road between Petaluma and Pt. Reyes Station, Calif. August 19, 2016

“Focusing on the West Coast and South West

Quail Springs is an educational and land stewardship nonprofit organization dedicated to demonstrating and teaching holistic ways of designing human environments, restoring and revitalizing the land and community, and facilitating deeper understandings of ourselves and one another through immersive experiences in nature. The 2016 Colloquium organizing team consists of the whole Quail Springs team, Sasha Rabin*, Tammy Van, and Rebekah Hacker.”

“The gathering will give focus and priority to the building and builders of the west coast and south west, US.
​ We ask that all people attending the colloquium have some experience with natural building. This is not the event for the novice builder. That being said, we value the fresh eyes and perspectives, and enthusiasm that comes with a newness to the field. We will strive for a balance of experienced attendees, while also encouraging the next generation of builders.…”

https://www.earthenshelter.com/colloquium.html

*Sasha’s beautiful cob house will be in Small Homes.