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Jay Shafer Interview
Amanda over at Constructing a Simpler Life is one of my favorite writers on the small home movement. She is currently working on her masters in photojournalism and she was able to talk her thesis advisors into allowing her to focus on people in the small home community.
One of the things I love about Amanda’s interviews is her ability to capture people’s personalities on film, which is something I think a lot of the news stories lack. (The photo in this entry is one of hers.)
A lot of journalists seem so focused on the structures that they miss the personalities behind them.
Amanda also has a talent for getting people to really open up during her interviews. For example, here’s a quote from Jay Shafer: “I feel like confessing that I threw a Styrofoam cup away once.”
I strongly encourage you to go check out her interview on Jay along with many others. (Make sure you also read her post on painstakingly rescuing a mouse she first caught in a glue trap. That was when I knew without a doubt that she was a kindred spirit.)
Photo by Amanda Abel
Amanda over at Constructing a Simpler Life is one of my favorite writers on the small home movement. She is currently working on her masters in photojournalism and she was able to talk her thesis advisors into allowing her to focus on people in the small home community.
One of the things I love about Amanda’s interviews is her ability to capture people’s personalities on film, which is something I think a lot of the news stories lack. (The photo in this entry is one of hers.)
A lot of journalists seem so focused on the structures that they miss the personalities behind them.
Amanda also has a talent for getting people to really open up during her interviews. For example, here’s a quote from Jay Shafer: “I feel like confessing that I threw a Styrofoam cup away once.”
I strongly encourage you to go check out her interview on Jay along with many others. (Make sure you also read her post on painstakingly rescuing a mouse she first caught in a glue trap. That was when I knew without a doubt that she was a kindred spirit.)
Photo by Amanda Abel
Thanks so much for your gracious post, Steph! I, too, think that the personalities and actual lives of small-housers are what’s lacking from most of the coverage out there so I really am striving to get that across. I can’t wait ’til you’re in the houseboat and I can include you! Also, I am always looking for other small-housers to photograph, so if any of your readers are interested they should contact me.
Thank your for your website. The interviews are great. I don’t feel so alone in my thinking despite having no one around me who is even remotely on the ‘same page’ as the saying goes. I built myself a 9 x 15 ‘little house’ in the back of my suburban home, hoping that spouse would agree to let our son, his wife and our granddaughter have the ‘big house’, but spouse is not ready to give up the big house. So the little house has become my retreat and my hope that he will eventually come around.
Dolcevita, welcome to the site! I would love to see some pictures of your little place.
Hi ‘sis’…do u travel to do interviews? Ever in Wa. State? Hummm…
Ive about finished mt Part Underground Oveol “Hobbit Hut” (?)? “Gnome Home” (?). Sleeps 2 adults / baby n youngster (on floor). NOT BIG…more a Servivil permint “tent”. FROM COUNTY DITCH CLEAN-OUT DIRT (free). 2 n 1/2 piles. #2 pile to b bath-rm. / storage….(yet to start this).
If intrusted u can see its START by visiting a Hub by “Ghoast”…; Build A Servivel Cabin on a Showstring Budget.
He too another SMALL “DOer”.
My hut looks alot like the “Hobbit Hut in Wales”. Ck THAT out!
My cost; $350.00…E V E N. This amoune leaves “left-overs” to do #2.
Slowly building simuler 30 Dia x 18 1/2 Hi…AND a “Dog Pen” cabin, on r other property. The 2 to b connected as One. Again; EXSTREAMLY LOW COST.
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