Casting Call: DIY Network Looking for Off-Grid Home Builder

June 14, 2018 at 5:38 pm

We just received this email.

Greetings,

My name is Gwendolyn Nix and I’m a casting producer with Warm Springs Productions (www.warmsprings.tv) and the DIY network. I’m currently casting the third season of DIY’s show “Building Off the Grid.” I’m reaching out to you to see if you or anyone you know would be interested in this opportunity.

We’re looking throughout the United States for folks who will soon be building an off-grid dwelling (i.e. starting within in the next few months). We cannot consider homes that are already underway.

All types of structures can be considered i.e. straw bale, earthship, tiny homes, yurts, container homes, earth-sheltered, log, stick-built, or whatever else your imagination comes up with! If you’re chosen for this project there is generous pay involved.

If you’re interested, please reach me at the contact information that follows my signature via either email or phone.

Please note, in order to be considered for the show, the home must be built on the land where it will ultimately exist (as opposed to being built in a warehouse and then transported to the land).

Here is a sneak peek link to the show: https://www.diynetwork.com/shows/building-off-the-grid

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Gwendolyn Nix
Casting Producer & Social Media Manager
Warm Springs Productions
Cell: 406-214-6405
Email: gnnix@warmsprings.tv
Available 9am-5pm Mountain Standard Time

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Steve and Hank

June 11, 2018 at 10:21 pm

After a morning of dealing with foreign publishers, legal matters, and the morning’s email (sigh), I finally got around to working on the revision of the Driftwood Shacks book.The fun part of publishing.

I turned on Sirius radio to Outlaw Country, and heard Steve Earle doing Hank’s “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive.” True to the master. Listen to the steel guitar and the fiddles — channelling. And do I hear a tuba?

Great vintage photos. Way to go, Steve! Video closes with this quote by Hank: “If a song can’t be written in 20 minutes, it ain’t worth writing.”

Then DJ Mojo Nixon followed up with Hank doing : “Hey, Good Lookin'”, saying :

“Life would surely stank,
If there hadn’t been no Hank.”



True that.

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Coffee, Food, Pubs in NYC

June 11, 2018 at 12:34 am

Coffee

-Cafe Reggio on Bleeker

-Stumptown Roasters: 30 West 8th (2 blocks from Washington Sq.), and in the lobby of the Ace Hotel at 18, W. 29th (which looks like maybe a good place to stay)

-Blue Bottle: 450 W. 15th, 54 W. 40th

-Abraco, 81 E. 7th Street. All time great place. https://www.abraconyc.com/

Restaurants

-Saigon Kitchen, 114 McDougal Street

-Snack Taverna (Greek), 63 Bedford at 7th Ave.

-Periyali (which means “seashore” in Greek), 35 W. 20th  between 5th and 6th. https://www.periyali.com/

-Rosemary’s, 18 Greenwich Ave. https://www.rosemarysnyc.com/

-Blue Ribbon Sushi, 119 Sullivan St.

-EAK Ramen, 469 6th Ave.

-Cafe Mogador, 101 St. Marks Place. https://www.cafemogador.com/

-An Nam, 234 W. 48th, Times Sq. district. Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese food. Normally this combination would make me suspicious, but this place, in an area I wouldn’t normally eat in, was really good — and inexpensive. I had a big plate of duck on brown rice, nicely cooked vegetables on a lunch special for $9.50. Plus delcious spring rolls.

Pubs

St. Dymphna’s, 118 St. Marks Place

The Blind Tiger Ale House, 281 Bleeker

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Stewart Brand and the 50th-year Anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog

June 9, 2018 at 1:12 am

Last night I went to an event at Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange in San Francisco, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog. It was a 3-hour tribute to and lovefest for Stewart Brand, and the role he has played in shaping so many trends and affecting and inspiring so many people’s lives. I got invited because I was the shelter editor of the WEC back in the day. About a dozen people gave 3-minute speeches, including Kevin Kelly, Orville Schell, Peter Calthorpe, Tim O’Reilly and astronaut Rusty Schweikart on Stewart’s impact on their lives. Not to mention that Steve Jobs (now famously) said that in high school he was reading the WEC and it had a lot to do with inspiring him to get into building computers Wow!

This was a private event, but a prequel to a big celebration, open to the public, coming up on October 13th, 2018, at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco: https://www.wholeearth50th.com/

I’m going to write a bit about my experiences with Stewart next week.

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