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Two Kim Aronson Micro-Docs: Dumpster Living, Table Building

By Rain Noe - September 15, 2011

in Object Culture

Kim Aronson is a Berkeley-based lensman who shoots microdocumentaries on random subjects that interest him. On his site we came across two we thought you'd like to see. The first is on a project by artist Gregory Kloehn, who's something like Jay Shafer meets Oscar the Grouch—which is to say, he takes Shafer's Tiny House concept one step further, by converting a dumpster (not even one of the big ones!) into a livable space:

The second is a quick manufacturing vid of furniture builders The Wooden Duck putting together a dining table from start to finish. There's no fancy CNC in here, just your standard shop fixtures, some clamps, and good ol' fashioned elbow grease. The video is very simple and straightforward, but I like this one simply because it makes it all look so do-able: