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  Kirsten Dirksen

  12 years ago

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  I've been filming tiny houses for 5 years now... I stumbled on Jay's 89 square foot place because he happens to live near my parents (and I happen to be a former tv producer) and I got hooked.
  
  I'll be releasing my documentary "We the Tiny House People" taken from the hundreds of hours of footage from the past 5 years of travel (both in the US and Europe) this Monday April 23rd. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHEjzjTFSSY

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  jon

  12 years ago

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  I think of five acres as a large yard. Even a typical home could have a large yard if city codes would allow us to opt out of the monstrosity called the frontyard. Put a house closer to the curb, and there's more room to play.
  
  The goal of a tiny house is to not be stuck inside it.

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  barn

  12 years ago

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  Its not hard to rip and copy a DVD. I've done it on occasion (for personal use).
  
  I can understand if its the only way you currently have right now of distributing your work, but to say that it protects your work is laughable.

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  anotherkindofdrew

  12 years ago

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  @Ken - I don't particularly see any irony. The tiny house in the film strip is shown on wheels. Therefore it is portable, I would think, meaning it has less of a carbon footprint. Once moved the land it sat on returns to the Earth. The point of 5 acres is more than likely to do some small farming or raising animals or something similar. I doubt Smith is going to parcel it out to a real estate developer for McMansions with a view.

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  Tiago

  12 years ago

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  So now less space equals more freedom... ok

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  Merete Mueller

  12 years ago

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  Hey all, thanks for sharing the trailer. And thanks for bringing up the very important point about the way we are selling and packaging DVDs. Consumption and sustainability are obviously issues that we have been thinking about a lot, so we really like seeing other people raising these questions too.
  
  The short answer to the DVD question is that because we're a small, indie operation, we don't have any way to ensure that a digital download of the film couldn't be burned to a DVD and distributed or otherwise shared without our consent. Right now, the only way that we know of to distribute the film and also protect our creative work is via DVD. (That said, if anyone else reading this knows of other outlets, please let us know!). We'd love to distribute via iTunes or another similar site. Hopefully that will be an option for us once the film comes out.
  
  For the small number of DVDs that we're selling on our site, we'll be working with a company called Without A Box, to package the DVDs in small, lightweight, simple, plastic-free, cardboard sleeves. This is the best option we've found to package the film in a way that both looks good and is as sustainable as possible.

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  Anita C

  12 years ago

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  Depends on if he's planning to develop the rest or not. My fiance would LOVE to own 5 acres of land to ensure solitude surrounded by nature. Me, I'd want at least a grocery store nearby! Having a garden and some chickens would suffice though.

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  Ken J

  12 years ago

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  Anyone else see the irony of a tiny house on 5 acres?

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