GUMBEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
Do check out this video about Art Clokey, the fellow who brought Gumby to life.
And….check out the archives….all those reels of Gumby adventures.
All those reels….on wooden shelves….in what looks like Mr. Clokey’s garage.
That’s amazing to me….that even the most iconic things need a place to land.
An archive can be in someone’s garage.
Amazing.
I was going to say something snarky about stainless and granite.
That’s the cliché on all these home improvement shows….stainless and granite….”I need my stainless and granite”….but….these guys have it in their tiny home and it looks pretty cool.
Who would imagine that these hippies would use stainless and granite in their beautiful tiny home?
So…I need to check my attitude at the door….most times.
Usually, the cliché is a truth that’s just used too many times.
That’s all.
Here’s another great Kirsten Dirksen video.
From the YouTube description:
Spud and MaryEsther Hooley have spent four decades in tiny homes, including a converted caboose in Idaho, a trapping cabin on the Snake River, a yurt in Mongolia, a wall tent while commercial fishing in Alaska, a 19’ van in Mexico, and a year in a sailboat from Europe to Russia.
When they moved back to the United States, the Hooleys began building a tiny home in Sisters, Oregon, relying on their years of construction experience with both tiny spaces and community development work in Romania, Nepal and Mongolia. Named “The North Sister” (after the local mountain peak), the the 300-square-foot home on wheels (200 floor + 100 loft) is the sum of many handcrafted details: custom storage stairs finished in bamboo for a soft step, a full-sized shower with corrugated metal and exposed copper pipes, a kitchen with a generous farmhouse sink and full-height fridge.
The Hooley’s tiny house co: http://woodirontinyhomes.com
Lloyd Kahn!
Washing dishes!
If you’re going to do something, do it well!
And…when you finish, you can have a friend over….and cook a duck.
I need to find some new shock cord for our thrift store tent.
These guys are renting a vintage VW Van to camp in the French Riviera.
WTF?!!
That’s how they roll.
Our existence (right now) doesn’t include doing anything like renting a vintage VW bus and driving around the French countryside.
That’s how we roll.
And…that’s OK.
We just finished spending almost a week at the NC coast….and it was good…..travelling around in our vintage Dodge Grand Caravan.
Will our van ever be as cool as a vintage VW?
From the YouTube description….
Fred Reid has reached the top of his industry- he’s been president of Delta Airlines, CEO of Virgin America, president and CEO of Lufthansa and today he’s president of Flexjet-, but often when he’s not working he escapes to his secret place: a tiny house on stilts. His hermitage is a small cabin three stories above the ground. It’s not exactly a treehouse since it’s not attached to any tree, but it’s tucked so tightly between the redwoods it appears a part of the grove. To design the elevated home- permitted as an observation tower- he called upon Scott Constable of Wowhaus who crafted a refuge with only the “luxury of the essential”. The House of Tree- as Reid has dubbed it- doesn’t have plumbing or electricity, instead he relies on kerosene, bottled water and a camping stove. “Though not technically a ‘tree house’ because it makes no connection to any tree, the elevated cabin,” explains Constable on his Deep Craft blog, “has all of the hallmarks of one: 360 degree views through the trees, rustic accommodations, no utilities, and a feeling of being apart from everything but closer to nature.” In this video we visit Reid’s West Sonoma “spiritual sanctuary” where Constable takes us for a tour inside the second growth redwood grove and up above in the roughly 200 square foot rustic, crafted home.
Here’s the treehouse you build if your funds don’t have claustrophobic limits.
Good grief!
That’s kind of a cool thing to spend your money on, though.
Makes me think that no matter our accomplishments in this life, the thing that brings joy as we age are often the things that got us jacked up as kids….freedom, funkiness, a fort in the trees.
I’m glad that we don’t completely outgrow a sense of wonder.
We get stiff….but we never forget how it feels to run.
That’s a real blessing….good memories.
From the YouTube description:
Today we’re featuring an amazing tiny house that is a modern version of a traditional Danish allotment hut. Back in the day, allotment huts were owned by people living in apartments who didn’t have a garden, and who could then use the allotment to grow fruit and vegetables, and to enjoy the fresh air. The house is 236 sq ft, and every square feet is used for a purpose, with many design details. It was build 9 years ago by Karen Jelnes and her husband before they had children; after they had kids they build bunk beds on top of their own bed, which is a really clever solution. The house is really beautiful and unique, and they build it small on purpose to make more space in the garden to grow vegetables, berries and fruit that the whole family can enjoy!
Beautiful….small….clean.
That’s a good direction to go.
video from GoDownsize
Here’s another video about Jay Nelson…out in San Francisco….getting creative.
A funky little homemade electric bike thing.
You go, Jay Nelson!
You….go.
Video by Kirsten Dirksen
Here’s Jay Nelson again….out in San Francisco building a tiny outbuilding out of recycled material.
Don’t pass by a fence demo without getting the fencing for a new structure.
He talks about the old material….how the boards were wider on the old fence boards.
I guess the trees were bigger, maybe?
We had redwood fences all around the neighborhood when I was growing up in San Jose.
We’d walk the top rail….eating fruit in people’s back yards…reaching….eating.
I like all this salvaging for materials….but you need some time to look for and….get the stuff.
You need time.
This is another great Kirsten Dirksen video.
I wasn’t a very good climber.
Or…I had the potential to be a reasonably good climber….I could climb…but….I was terrified of heights….so…I was never a very good climber.
I was a scared climber.
My friend Steve asked me once, though, what I liked about climbing and I told him, without hesitating, “the LIFESTYLE!”
I think that he thought that was kind of funny.
The lifestyle isn’t the activity.
Only liking the lifestyle is for posers, right?
Here’s a short film about artist and surfer Jay Nelson.
He’s a doer…but the lifestyle is still pretty appealing.
Beach.
Mountains are great….beach is different and fun.
What would it be like to live by the ocean for a while?
Dutch dudes….looking for the real music.
Man.