I've concerned myself with figuring out how to live in less space with less things for the last few years. They call it voluntary simplicity, less is more. Last night, I saw a pre-preview copy of a new documentary film called "All Consuming" which only emphasized the problem for me: if I want to live with a smaller ecological footprint, then I have to learn to live in less square feet. Well, it seems that a man named Jay Shafer from Iowa has certainly been doing some hardcore research and development in this regard. Yesterday, we drove through Sebastopol, California, where he has transplanted himself. It wasn't all that difficult for him to move house down here clear across the continent -- because his house sits on a chassis -- it's a house on wheels! He calls this style "Rolling Gothic", and he has built a whole bunch of different models of mobile houses, all of them incredibly economical in spatial arrangement, but somehow still feel expansive, at least in relative terms. The one we saw was 75 (!) square feet, weighs 400 pounds, and includes 100 cubic feet of storage space, a 6 gallon water heater, a toilet, a shower, a fridge, a sink, and a cooker. Friend and fellow Anarchitect Andy Thomson has long advocated a mobile housing paradigm in order to lighten our eco-load. Now that I've actually physically felt what it's like to be inside, I have a body memory of it, and I can honestly recommend it to anyone who wants to live closer to the earth right now, and yet still have the freedom to roam the open road. Jay has a whole bunch of photos of his houses on his website, which you should definitely check out, at www.tumbleweedhouses.com. But all of his photographs are shot with regular lenses, perhaps to not scare people into thinking that the houses are uncomfortably small. I shot with a macro fisheye lens to get as much in the picture as possible. Enjoy!