I brought along 1,000 of our mini (2″ x 2″) Tiny Homes book and we’ve already given away 3/4 of them. The kids are crazy about them. (We just had a big bump in sales (of the real size book) due to the NYTimes article on Tiny Homes on Friday.)
Deek Diedrickson and I are here in Charlotte, North Carolina to talk to people about tiny homes. Deek is the affable host of Relaxshacks, also the maker of over 100 YouTube videos, and author of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages…Deek desiged a tiny home for the show and it was supposed to he ready when we got here. Surprise! It wasn’t, and we’ve been working on it the last few days. Had to scrounge up tools, fasteners, polypropylene sheets. Borrowed a ladder from the Little Giant Ladder Company (fantastic ladders — see here — and have been running back and forth to the service room to cut plywood.
Here we are this morning. More posts to follow. This is great town and this is a great show.
“I spend perhaps an inordinate amount of time looking at images of axes. There’s just something about them. I think that axes will never go out of fashion, nor will they cease to be useful in their multitude of functions. Over the hundreds of thousands of years they have been in use by humankind, any number of styles, shapes, and sizes have been made to perform a variety of splitting, chopping, and shaping work. It’s the sheer variety, and the craftsmanship that I am most attracted to, I think. Of course I love using them, too, probably more than any other hand tool.
To celebrate the axe and the people who continue to make them, here is a selection of 26 modern day (steel) axes made by a variety of craftspeople that are beautiful, functional, and swoon-worthy.…”
-Ziggy
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From Cheryl Long, Editor, The Mother Earth News
See also “Ziggy’s Cob Cottage,” pp.110-113, Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter
“Just ran across this video. Some pretty amazing joinery here. No idea where this is…”
Mackey Smith, Pure Salvage
I turn off the music on a lot of YouTube videos; often it’s just distracting.
-LK
I’m on an airplane on my way to the Southern Spring and Garden Show in Charlotte, NC ($10 for one hour of Wi-fi — harumph!) — and just read this large article in today’s NY Times, where our book Tiny Homes is called “…a dream book…the scale is humble, but the architectural detail is rich…” by writer Michael Tortorello.
Looks like you cannot access this unless you are subsribedto the NY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/garden/small-world-big-idea.html
“Julie Olson needed a traveling home for her mobile dog training business. With no architecture training, she drew up plans for exactly what she needed and sent them to Jason Dietz of Molecule Tiny Homes Over a couple of months he built her home to her specifications: a fold-out porch, storage stairs, 2 lofts (1 for sleeping, 1 for storage or 2 sleeping quarters), a slim closet, and a bathroom with tub, composting toilet, tiny sink and escape window/door for viewing nature.” – Kirsten (Dirksen)”
Click here.
He Calls That Religion by Maria Muldaur on Grooveshark
Album art by Neil Osborne
Pipeline Winter 2013 from Eric Sterman on Vimeo.
Found this on this great surfers’ blog: https://wavetribecompany.com/
Hummingbirds get into the office or studio from time to time, and I trap them in my hands, then go outside and open my hands. They sit there for a second, then realize they’re free, and take off like a miniature helicopter. This one must have got into the studio when no one was around, and we found it dead. They are so small that they mummify, with no smell.
