#Living with no strings attached: ProtoHaus, a compact #home on wheels made of #recycled materials

13. November 2013 von schall & rauch

Tired of your job? Bored with your surroundings? Can’t stand your neighbours? Not a problem! Well, it wouldn’t be if you lived in a ProtoHaus. You could just hook up the house to your car and go. Oh, but don’t forget to hand in your notice to your boss, file a change-of-address order with the post office, find a new dwelling in the destination of your choice, get another job and … okay okay okay, it wouldn’t be easy. But […]

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Documenting forty winks – The Ted Spagna Project: Sleep

5. September 2013 von schall & rauch

As a kid I used to wake up in the morning with my feet on my pillow and I’d always wonder how the heck I came to lie upside down and managed to crumple up the sheets like that without falling out of bed. Well, I never found out. I could have, if I had then known of Ted Spagna, who for more than a decade from 1975 till 1988 took photographs of people asleep and not just once but […]

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