29 мар. 2013 г.

We The Tiny House People (Documentary) / Мы народ из домишек

Этот фильм Кирстен Диксон (Kirsten Dirksen):
дает объяснение непонятной статистики уменьшения популярности бревенчатых домов в мире кроме России. В России люди потянулись из городов на природу. Что было в 50-х в США.
Народ нищает (no job - no money) и выбирает что подешевле. У тех же кто зарабатывает неплохо - меняются ориентиры в жизни. Для чего дом? Для понтов (это иллюстрируется результатом поиска по картинкам) или семьи. Но если семья из одного или двух людей - нужны ли траты времени. Дом нужен для детей но дети не в моде. В моде содомиты. Писателя Прилепина возмутила фраза "Институт семьи себя исчерпал", поэтому он и живет в своем бревенчатом доме с собакой, женой и четырьмя детьми.



Описание фильма на английском (источник)

This is journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops.
Basically, Dirksen made a documentary on people living in tiny houses. For around five years she was traveling the world and filming these segments.
Kirsten Dirksen is co-founder of faircompanies.com and a Huffington Post blogger. She has worked for MTV, Oxygen, The Travel Channel and Sundance Channel.
From the author: I still live in a relatively spacious 1000 square foot apartment with my family of 4 (soon-to-be 5) and I’m not looking to downsize, but I can’t get enough of these tiny homes. I’m sure there’s something Thoreauvian in my attraction to the examined lives of those who inhabit them.
I continue to be impressed by how so many Tiny House People have been able to let go of their stuff and not despite, but because of this, find a certain calm. This very Buddhist/Gandhian/Stoic concept of non-attachment as a path to happiness is hardly new.
Over 2 millennia ago Socrates counseled, “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
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  • sknb  9 months ago
    AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME DOCUMENTARY!!!!!!
    I was raised in a certain type of northeastern Unites States culture that devotes a HUGE amount of energy (both physical an psychological) into the purchase, maintenance, and decoration of their suburban homes. I knew from a young age that the longer I lived in that environment the crazier and more neurotic I would become. I'm grateful for the life my parents provided me with. My father was a trained architect who was talking about eco design before it was fashionable. A lot of the house renovations he built with his own two hands after sketching them on napkins. I admire this immensely.
    However the constant maintenance and cleaning and upkeep of keeping the house had annoyed me since I was old enough to have to do hours of housework with my mother, constantly keep the counters clean, wash, dry, fold, and maintain the wardrobe that was expected of a "young lady" and spend time around toxic cleaning chemicals. For her, she claims, all this was a labor of love. She worked constantly since she was 12 years old to escape the poverty and alcoholism of much of her family and for her the house is a grand symbol of that escape. Not living that, it is hard for me to have the same feeling towards that home.
    I currently live in a two bedroom apartment with my boyfriend and two cats. I can not fathom living in a larger space, I can barely maintain this space. (Looks around at the messy floor and stove with crumbs on it). My brother is 44 and lives in Ridgewood, Queens, NY and it is a source of great anxiety to my mother (and great admiration by me) that he is able to live in one room (which he fills with live ferns, collected rocks, and crystals). For people like my mother ( a child of the poverty of 1950s Newark) her large Gothic Victorian is a huge source of pride. We moved their when I was 12. We had moved almost ever two years as a child ..always to larger and larger houses. This meant more and more cleaning (which as an adolescent I came to interpret as a total waste of life and a cause of soul death). I found that living in such a sterile orderly environment left me sick for almost a year when I moved out of my home into the dorms. I was so secluded from people (my only brother moved out when I was 2) that my immunity didn't build up. I wasn't encouraged to go out and play because my mom was so afraid of me being kidnapped. The rare friend that was allowed over always said it looked like a museum. I remember being told over and over that the rugs werent clean enough, the clothes not ironed enough, etc. etc. etc....My mom called it a respect for hard earned objects, I called it OCD. As a result, my living spaces tend towards chaos. She has accused me of not having respect for objects. Perhaps that is so. My mom has chilled out a bit since she has retired, but not much. She just buys and buys and buys and is addicted to ebay... i guess its understandable if you worked yourself out of poverty by owning your own business.... i don't know..this doc touched many places in my heart and mind....
    I admire these tiny house people. I am trying very hard to remove things from my life. It's hard. I'm very attached to my books and my plants. Now I'm being pressured by my parents to marry, and "start building a life". I don't understand what this phrase means. I work hard (I teach) and have established a career that I find honor in, my boyfriend and I have been together 6 years and been through countless life experiences together.... isn't that building a life? For them no. Although they won't come out and say it - for them it means marrying and buying a house. I already have thousands of dollars in medical debt from before I had insurance. I can't fathom gaining a mortgage. What a terror! Then not only am I tied down to a debt, but I'm tied down to living in one place! My life dream is to travel! It sounds horrid to me living in one abode for thirty years.... uggggg. They can't understand this and think I am the weirdest of the weird.
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      kimw1999  sknb  6 months ago
      You have built (by the sounds of it) a wonderful life. You don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. I think you should show your parents this doco. and your comments and maybe just maybe they will start to understand why so many of us "run screaming" from the thought of a larger house with a large mortgage attached. But if they don't then you've done your best and you just need to move on with your life in the way that makes you happy. Oh and by the way all I can say about the wanderlust is......just do it. There is a huge wide world out there to be discovered and it will change your life in ways you can't imagine. Why don't you do a TEFL course and travel and teach? Then you can go whenever you want and stay for as long as you want. That's what I did and have had the time of my life.
      Good luck and keep living your dream!!!
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        Maryann  sknb  5 months ago
        I think its awesome that you feel this way. I feel quite similar to you and my mother while not living in a Victorian mansion, also equates having "stuff" with being accepted by society, and can't possibly fathom that I live in a 500 sf apartment with NO storage locker - horror of horrors. So keep on doing what you do...you rock! PS: no respect for objects? nah me neither!!
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        Pankaj Yadav  10 months ago
        come visit India -- 90% population is "tiny house People" -- you will be amazed to see how many ppl can you fit in a small house
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          silkop  Pankaj Yadav  10 months ago
          Another category of "tiny house people" are students or soldiers who live in dorms - lots of smal rooms but with sensible shared facilities and central administration. It's probably a much reasonable way to lower the cost of living and share the work required to maintain housing without sacrificing too much comfort. The "tiny own independent custom-made house" on the other hand sounds like something that appeals to the vanity of people who either can't quite afford the big version or just wish an "adventure".
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        Xercès Des Stèles  10 months ago
        i thought this was gonna be about the tiny people who are living under the floor and in the walls of my house.
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        Just a gal from TX  5 months ago
        I can't imagine paying $800 a month for 78 sf.
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          Jabranpin  5 months ago
          Bank of America directors must be panicking because of this trend. The days of people chaining their lives to a home loan that they could never pay are coming to an end and very fast. Next in line, college education. Harvard, watch out!
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            Eileen Calder  3 months ago
            I enjoyed this documentary, I did not find the music in the least bit annoying and thought it was narrated beautifully - however I found some of the "tiny houses" were not much smaller than the "2 up 2 down" terraced houses built in Victorian times in which families still live in my hometown of Belfast and also in other cities in Ireland and the UK such as Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow etc. The cave house was not tiny by my standards and neither was the boat, however they were fantastic to see in such detail.

            My confusion with the documentary is that millions of Americans live in static mobile homes (trailers) which are no bigger than some of the apartments which were included and there was no mention or sight of any of these at all - I find that strange - surely the "Trailer" is as American as the romanticised log cabin and much more common nowadays.
            I also found it unusual that modern camper vans and the culture of Roma and other travelling people was not even referred to in passing this is odd as they having been living such pared down lives for hundreds of years.
            It has certainly made me questions the square footage of pointless "stuff" cluttering up my life and inspired me to convert my attic space into a small self-contained "little house" where I can hide away from my family when necessary.
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              bye_bags  6 months ago
              The background music does nothing to advance the story.
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                Dawkins  7 months ago
                Suddenly my house doesn't seem so small anymore
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                  corazone  4 months ago
                  An excellent introduction to a radically different approach to habitation. It inspires a creative perspective. It is not a contest to see how small a space, any more than how large a space I "live"in. Rather the opposite. What parameters best free me and meet my needs. A favorite quote, by Erich Hoffer: "It is impossible to get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."
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                    Samantha Nhi  7 months ago
                    marvelous documentary and so inspiring!
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                      yknotbaja  7 months ago
                      I did enjoy the home in Spain. The nature, simplicity and view of the mountains, caught my eye. I could pick up from Canada and live like this in another country. It makes it very difficult to live like this here, for the simple fact that we have bitter winters. We practically NEED a house, and the sad reality is, that a small 900 square foot home, goes for $200,000 in Canada. I remember the days where homes cost $50,000 and it was a decent home. Now, we are lucky to find a shack (literally a shack) for that price!!
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                        bb  10 months ago
                        so many negative comments. I'm shocked, its such a beautiful idea. If everyone lived in a house no larger than they needed (obviously it would be more than 100 square feet for a family of 4) then we could pretty much cure super consumerism. With no extra space for stuff, priorities change. Great doc. I look forward to building my own tiny house.
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                          magarac  10 months ago
                          Have been thinking about using a 20´shipping container for a house for some time. Just placing it with the small side down and you get a 2 story house very solid and water proof. With a nice flat roof to grow some vegetables on. And it only uses 6 square meters of land:)
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                            laughingaussie  magarac  10 months ago
                            Just do it. I live in a shipping container and I wouldn't swap my little home for the average 2-3 bedroom house for all the tea in china.
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                            dewflirt  magarac  10 months ago
                            I've seen houses built of those, good idea but the architect went a bit mad and stacked them like lego, could be a lovely tiny house :)
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                              magarac  dewflirt  10 months ago
                              I already know a lovely place at a lake out in the forrest. And the house should be all red to make a nice contrast to it´s natural surrounding. Think it´s important to keep it simple with some good and functional ideas. 
                              The house on the rooftop in the documentary was nice but it somehow seemed to be overdone. And it surely was not cheap.
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                                dewflirt  magarac  10 months ago
                                I liked the cave house, though I wouldn't call it tiny, just simple. My favourite would have to be the one the hippy chick built with wood from the tip, and then the one the kid was building in his parents garden. They both seemed more in the spirit of tiny house life. I wonder if the authorities are not so keen because they might end up with quirky little shanty towns and travellers. Who knows, personally I think if you own a patch of land or you should be able to live on it any way you like :)
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                            PeterMaskell  6 months ago
                            great doc gave me some ideas for my tiny rent-a-closet
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                              KsDevil  10 months ago
                              The documentary completely missed the monolithic dome houses and cabins. Small efficient and disaster resistant homes.
                              Have you ever looked around a modern housing developement? There is more house than land. Building smaller and more efficient would do wonders to creating a housing community rather than a collection of social prisions dedicated to the ego.
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                                Matt van den Ham  10 months ago
                                There's this invention called the camper-trailer, it's pretty neat--expert technicians/engineers premanufacture these 'mobile homes' so that you don't have to build it yourself. You can pick up a use one for pretty cheap! amazing
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                                Barzee  10 months ago
                                I've just moved from a matchbox to a shoebox! and its like a mansion!
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                                  Matt van den Ham  10 months ago
                                  What a novel idea. Throughout the years I have always dreamed of owning a house on a lake or near the ocean and having a beautiful landscape and garden, and you know, the size of the house never really entered my mind. This sort of housing actually makes my dream life possible because now all I have to worry about is buying land. It's funny that there's actual laws prohibiting people from building a small home, maybe their argument is that it would be inhumane or too small of a space for someone to live in, but obviously the laws didn't consider this approach. It's not the size of the space, its house you use it. :)
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                                    dawnowens  10 months ago
                                    If all the world's housing were divided between all the world's people, everyone, if they were lucky, might get 10 square feet, a leaky roof and no indoor plumbing.
                                    As someone who has been paying mortgage money out for over 30 years and still owns nothing (I mastered the art of buying high and selling low!) I wish I had thought of this, NO, had the NERVE to do it back when I did think about it, lo these decades ago. Woulda been able to travel the world with the savings both in mortgage interest money, the most sinister invention ever, and the savings in junk I didn't buy.
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                                      dewflirt  10 months ago
                                      Absolutely beautiful. We are 6 living in a two bed flat at the moment. My 17 year old wants more space, most kids that age are straining at the bit anyway and she is not unhappy living close with us all. The other kids hardly even notice, home after all is a place to eat, sleep and be together. My man would happily live in a tent if it was up to him so no worries there. Myself, I love to be with my family, nobody hides in their rooms or closes the door on another, everyone keeps their stuff together because there is no room for mess. I don't want more space to live in, the only thing I would really like is a bigger balcony but we get round that by going to the beach or the parks. The kids have to play on the path which has bought other kids out to play. One of the families I clean for have a house so big that they are further apart in one room than we are in our home :)
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                                        dmxi  dewflirt  10 months ago
                                        that sounds like you're leading a happy life & even though i don't know you personally,i'm happy for you.i bet you have great kids & your
                                        spouse seems to be a cool cat!reading your post awakes idyllic
                                        scenery..........just beautiful.
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                                          dewflirt  dmxi  10 months ago
                                          Everything is feeling idyllic right now, life has been a bit of a maelstrom for the last few months. But now the sun is out and everything is beaming. Sometimes it's so easy to count your blessings, Cheers ;)
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                                          sknb  dewflirt  9 months ago
                                          That's so cool. I bet you have a lot of quality time with your family and your kids learn about sharing and efficiency really early and well
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                                          Jonathon Twiz  6 months ago
                                          I'm all for simplicity but, that teenage boy who wants a Composting Toilet in his tiny space, I draw the line at that point
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                                            Justcoll  7 months ago
                                            I absolutely loved this documentary and am inspired to downgrade and live small! Thank you so much for the research and the footage. Just goes to show that we do not need lots of stuff to make us who we are.
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                                              Sheepyrock  7 months ago
                                              terrible music, wish I could silence it without losing the narration
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                                                Pysmythe  10 months ago
                                                Packed with vaguely effeminate men (except for the French guys), cute houses, and recurring cameos from two adorable little blonde-haired babies... This whole documentary is a little spine-tingly, like petting an especially affectionate house cat!
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                                                  Out_Of Africa  10 months ago
                                                  Lovely!!
                                                  Sadly I bought a bigger than needed house as I had to house 4/5 kids and a wife...
                                                  ...but my saving grace is I have been able to start up, and now run, a successful "light industrial, 'design and manufacturing' business" entirely from within a low-ceilinged space that's an awkward 'L' shape and just 120sq feet!!
                                                  ...and to think I used to have to earn £10k a year just to be able to afford to commute daily into London!... I now get by, with a HUGE smile on my face, manufacturing stuff efficiently from an area the size of a small shed in the attic.... and just need to convince everyone else here to be a tad more efficient...(& happier!) :D
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                                                    JezusVanNazareth  10 months ago
                                                    What a fun idea!
                                                    [X] Live in a WAY tiny house
                                                    [X] Act like you can be self sufficient, when in fact you still need people
                                                    [X] Accept your social isolation and pretend it's just 'happy alone time'
                                                    [X] Build up years of frustration, anger and dissociative behavior
                                                    [ ] Find out your name is Ted Kaczynski, and your destiny is to 
                                                    become the unabomber....
                                                    (SOURCE: http://www.concertina.net/imag... / Which actually was Ted's shack where he lived...)
                                                    Right on.... NEXT!
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                                                      dewflirt  JezusVanNazareth  10 months ago
                                                      This isn't about living alone, it's about paring down, realising what is important. I know the guy at the start said we should have fewer friends, I think he might mean that we know more people that we call friends now. People's lives are so packed up against each others it would be hard not to know so many of them but friends and acquaintances are not the same thing. Anyway, lots of people are very happy in their own company, doesn't mean they are alone or friendless or mad in a bombing kind of way :)
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                                                        Sharon Hutchinson  dewflirt  10 months ago
                                                        We loners have an undeserved bad rep. I've always felt more comfortable by myself, even as a child. Just because we are alone doesn't mean we are lonely!
                                                        Glad you mentioned "bombing kind of way". Actually the media and even the FBI warns of loners when these people are really pseudo-loners. Society has rejected them for some reason. They did not seek to be alone.
                                                        For an excellent read on loners try "Party of One" by Anneliese Rufus. Wish I had that book years ago. Also explains how the media has made "loner" a bad word with no evidence whatsoever.
                                                        Getting back to little houses....I've been as satisfied living in one room as in a whole house. Heck, you can only be in one place at a time. If you are content within yourself, what you live in ceases to be important.
                                                        I esp. like the little houses on wheels. You can go almost anywhere for a change of scenery. Good if you don't have kids and have to worry about schools. I'll probably end up in one of these little places. Very appealing to me.
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                                                          dewflirt  Sharon Hutchinson  10 months ago
                                                          There's a film on here somewhere, The Hermit of........ Can't remember right now. Not at all a lonely boy and I think his own personal problems were somewhat dissolved by his lifestyle choice. What troubles he had day to day were those that were given to him. It's a sad end but a lovely watch. 
                                                          There is an old building around the corner from me, floorspace enough for a large car and two stories high. Red brick starting to crumble, the front has double doors onto a tiny patio and it wears an old pointy hat roof. When all my kids are gone, that is where I want to live. Me, my man and a pot belly stove ;)
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                                                      Godspeed311  JezusVanNazareth  10 months ago
                                                      I didn't hear a lot about self sufficiency here, just letting go of a lot of material posessions.
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                                                      Mercenarry ForHire  10 months ago
                                                      One step to the right Direction :D
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                                                        dmxi  10 months ago
                                                        sign of the times!i personally love these small housing boxes,reminds me of my state sanctioned holidays,where you maximize comfort by enjoying all the small things which one takes for granted.i've always been a minimalist,it's my life philosophy,but sooner or later,we're all be sitting in a small boat when everything continues as it is!minimalists UNITE!!!!!!
                                                        (shoplifting is a virtue.......new-age rebellion!lol'ly)
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                                                          Kendyl Taylor Van Dÿck  8 months ago
                                                          I can't stop thinking about the things Ive seen and learned in this documentary. Im back to watch it a second time. Brilliant work, Kristen!


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