Relaxshax's Blog

A longtime friend of mine, Greg Aloe, recently traveled to New Mexico, and took a slew of really great photos (from rundown houses, to the earthships of michael reynolds, and more), some of which I’ll share with you all later. For starters though, as the adobe look is so foreign to the area where I live (and for that reason I’ve always been so fascinated by this style of construction), I thought I’d start with these photos, which I love. Houses made of dirt- the banking industry must HATE it- and the thing is many of these houses outlast the “Safe, tried n’ true, mortgage approved”, cookie-cutter houses that most of us have little or no option but to live in today.

-Derek “Deek” Diedricksen

A COUPLE OF OUR MINI CABINS will be for on display, AND for sale- in Baltimore…..

@THIS weekend’s the Transmodern/Camp-Camp Festival in Downtown Baltimore- and myself and Steve Sherrick are heading down as we had been invited to display a couple of my micro-shetlers/cabins in the exhibit.

Locale- 421 N Howard Street- Baltimore, MD- and we’ll be setting up in the gallery’s Tyson Alley from what I understand. We’re there friday and saturday night from 7-11pm for their open exhibit hours.

Again, we’ll also be shooting THREE new episodes of “Tiny Yellow House TV” down there- with some very appreciated help from airbnb.com. Folgers would have been a great sponsor too, as this weekend will be exhausting!

This cabin shown below is the micro-shelter “The GottaGiddaWay”- a mere 4′ by 4′ at the base….designed as a greenhouse, an indoor/outdoor micro-office, reading nook, kids fort, a very-funky chicken coop, or who knows….its been in the NY Times, on ABC News, CBS, and several magazines abroad and overseas…. $1200- all funds will go towards shooting more education how-to videos, and developing a larger model of this cabin for the homeless. kid cedar at gmail dot com.