Hermitage, Beacon

The Hermitage bookshop, letterpress printer and exhibition and performance space has a new website.  Jon Beacham has created something special here in Beacon.  "Gem," is the word that comes to mind.  For those in the know, Hermitage is a wonderful symbiosis of clean, simple, warm space, its proprietor, contents, events and participants.  Think analog, not digital.

Photo Jon Beacham.

Will the Real Billboard House Please Step Forward

Pic from Flickr.

Billboard House

Via Tuvie.  And this other billboard house has been fairly well publicized.

Old School D.I.Y. Camper

Can't afford a Unimog or Unicat?  Just collect some old barn wood and build your own "go anywhere" house on wheels.

Pic from Offbeat Homes.

Unimog Campers

Pics Travelmog.  The hand, by Mario Irarrázabal, is in Chile.

ICEPAC Interview Coming Soon

I'm in the middle of an interview with Thomas Mulcaire, the co-designer of ICEPAC, a very cool mobile structure that has just been field tested for the first time in Antarctica this International Polar Year (IPY).  Unfortunately, I got the questions to Tom rather late in his expedition and, as of 07h00 GMT today, he's on a ship back to South Africa and without email until March 5.  So, we'll have to wait until then for the answers and the serialized interview posts.

Photo of SA Agulhas (the ship that Tom and his team members are now on) by SANAP, via Erika Blumenfeld's Polar Project expedition blog.  Wishing them all bon voyage.

A Garbage Truck of Your Own

Actually it's an off-road mobile home by Unicat, via Freshome.  The interior's slightly gross, I'll admit, but nothing a gut job and some raw plywood couldn't fix.