Dear Lloyd,
My name is Benjamin, I´m an English teacher from Bielefeld, Germany and an avid follower of your blogs.
Maybe you find this interesting for your blog as well: These guys from London / France build velomobiles from wood using techniques from the times when airplanes were made of wood.
Very skilled craftsmen with beautiful vehicles – I think these guys reserve much respect 🙂
This is NOT advertising – I´m just fascinated by these vehicles !!!!! 🙂
https://www.mosquito-velomobiles.com
My brother Bob sent me this link, a film made by his friend Dick Ryerson. I didn’t know there was such an activity.
From David Shipway
Not sure why they truncate the boards’ noses, maybe to avoid pearling.
Check out the old guy rippin it up.
Maui’s finest watermen including Kai Lenny, Jesse Richman, Robby Naish, the Porcella brothers, take on Jaws… Windsurf, kite surf, tow in, SUP and all while Dan maneuvers his Hughes 500D (helicopter) like a DJI Phantom to get the shot nobody else dares to get.
From Dick Ryerson via Bob Kahn
I just listened to this wonderful woman on NPR, being interviewed by Michael Krasny. Just one of her accomplishments: two years ago, at age 64, she swam 110 miles from Cuba to Florida in 53 hours.
“I’m a way better athlete in my 60s than I was in my 20s…”
“Get your body ready…”
“Have your body be as lean and taut as a cheetah and then you can do anything in life.”
“I like to live an epic day every day.”
From Anonymous
Once it starts, hit the full screen icon (to left of “Vimeo”) and crank up the sound.
From Godfrey Stephens
Blog Posts I just did 2 posts for our new blog — they’ll be up within a week — https://www.theshelterblog.com/, as I transition to a different blogging mode. Not as much stuff as this (although I can’t resist blabbing now and then). More material on building, the home arts, gardening, farming. Especially building.
I feel like I have a lot to communicate with builders after all these years of non-academic study of carpentry and other methods of construction.
Back in the saddle with this new blog.
Coming off 5 years of building domes, I set about to learn the most practical methods of building homes, small buildings, and barns. It can be so simple.
Sample future posts:
•Drawings of 5 tiny homes (including every stick of wood in framing (from Shelter)
•Barns of my acquaintance
•Timber Framing
•Master Builders of the Middle Ages
•Architecture: architects need to know that the definition of architecture is “…the art and science of building.” Building.
•Dwell magazine: occasional comments on this paragon of soulless living
•Rad Rigs: More tiny homes on wheels
I’m really excited to be shifting to this mode. I have something like 70,000 photos, both film and digital, to draw from.
Today’s New York Times has a terrific science section, including a stunning photo of the moon by the Lunar Orbiter V, and an article about a combo robot/man diving suit that will be used to explore a Roman ship believed to have sunk in the 1st century BC, and which carried “…the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical device for predicting celestial movement.”
Serena was just superb on Saturday. Power and grace. Beautiful.
Surfing Without Catching Waves Went out on my 10′ Haut Surftek board the other day, too many surfers for me, just got a couple of krappy rides in the foam. Then a few days later could not get out through 6′ surf with my surf mat BUT as I get older I settle for just being in the ocean AND I’m gonna get waves — going to Kauai in November with surf mat and fins.
Over & Out I’m leaving tomorrow for Pittsburgh, then to Seven Springs, PA to do a presentation Friday, Sept 12 at the Mother Earth News Fair. Anyone know if Pittsburgh is worth exploring?
Photo: grapes at Louie’s
Mike Basich was our featured builder in Tiny Homes. This is his home built of rock, local timber, steel and glass in the High Sierras of California.
Mike is the featured speaker at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif. on May 18th. I’m doing a presentation just after Mike on Tiny Homes on the Move (in which we show Mike’s pickup truck/camper/snowmobile carrier).
Click here for an article last week on Mike and his homemade ski lift in Make Magazine.
There is a 2-mile and 12-mile paddle race in Capitola (sister town of Santa Cruz), Calif. on June 22, 2013. It’s in honor of surfer Jay Moriarty and has divisions for different ages and for regular paddleboards and standup boards.
Click here.