“A low impact home made from natural materials whilst staying well within our comfort zone. Made with four layers of cotton, canvas and felted sheep wool. Situated on a raised wooden deck with running water, a wood burning stove, electric lighting and more. www.HandmadeMatt.com“
Extensive review of Tiny Homes by Robin Tierney in this online magazine. There’s even a short video (that I’ve never seen before) of our featured builder Mike Basich jumping out of a helicopter at 100 feet on his snowboard. https://www.theurbn.com/2012/07/tiny-homes-part-2/
Thursday night I’m doing my 15th (and the last for a while) Tiny Homes slideshow, talk, and book signing in conjunction with Pt. Reyes Books, a community supported bookstore in Point Reyes Station, California. Thursday, July 5,7:30pm, at the Point Reyes Presbyterian Church. I begin these events by talking about all the things that were going on in the 60s in San Francisco (before the “Summer of Love,” when things were already falling apart), working on the Whole Earth Catalog, and starting my publishing career with two books on dome building, then show slides and discuss the builders and buildings in the book. I’ll also highlight what I’ve learned working on this subject and this book, why I think tiny homes are so popular right now, and who I think they are appropriate for.
“Hey Lloyd:
Our recent Timber Framing Workshop went amazingly well and was a huge blast. The students had a fantastic time. We got an incredible amount of work done on our new timber frame home, especially considering we used hand tools exclusively, and most participants had little or no prior experience. Wow!
Here’s a slideshow of the event that I wanted to share with you:
https://small-scale.net/yearofmud/2012/06/27/timber-frame-workshop-2012-photo-slideshow/
We did everything from traditional square rule layout, to lofting with daisy wheel layout (just like illiterate French carpenters of old used), and everything in-between.
Your books were no doubt an inspiration for us to do timber frame construction, especially Builders of the Pacific Coast.
Yahoo!
– ziggy”
See: The Year of Mud: https://www.theyearofmud.com
(Ziggy’s Cob Cottage is featured on pp. 110-113 of Tiny Homes.)
Mike is the star builder in Tiny Homes. See pp. 2-11.
Bug from Heritage Salvage in Petaluma takes a break from his nation-wide mission of recycling in America’s small towns to visit two NorCal coastal residents.
“Published on Jun 26, 2012
This time Bug talks Coast Miwoks with George Snyder and then bops on down the coast to talk Alternative Building with…Lloyd Kahn!”
“…There you’ll see what makes the RX100 such a revelation: insane amounts of detail and vivid, true colors. Hand-held twilight photos. A burst mode that can fire 10 frames a second. And macro shots — supercloseup — that will curl whatever’s left of your hair. A typical S.L.R. can’t get any closer than 10 inches from the subject with its included lens; the RX100 can nail focus only 2 inches away.…”
Sounds like the first camera to rival (surpass?) Canon Powershot S100.
Article by David Pogue, NY Times June 27, 2012: https://shltr.net/sonysrx100
Includes links to the Mud Girls, Tiny Texas Houses and other builders in the book, as well as a 2-minute video shot here at the homestead by a film crew commissioned by Sailor Jerry Rum.
Last night I called my son Will. Turns out he was in the van with members of his band, Sambadá, en route to three gigs in the Pacific Northwest. Sambadá bills itself as an “Afro Samba Funk Dance” band. They have infectious energy and get everyone dancing. They are playing:
– Tonight, Thursday, June 28 at the Someday Lounge in Portland, Oregon
– Friday, the 29th at Barboza in Seattle, 10:30 PM
– Saturday, the 30th at the Salem Worldbeat Festival, Riverfront Park Amphitheater in Salem, Oregon, 1 PM
If you happen to attend, go up and say hello to Will; tell him his dad sent you.
Colors look great in the fog.