Timelapse – Log Cabin Built By One Man

From My Self Reliance:

Timelapse video of a complete log cabin build by one man alone in the wilderness of Canada, from 1st tree I cut to last floor board I laid. If you want to build a rustic log cabin or tiny off grid home alone in the wilderness and you haven’t seen the rest of my videos, this is a good primer. It’s super fast motion though, so if you are interested in building a primitive log cabin like this, take a look at the “Log Cabin The Bear Den” playlist on the channel.

At the beginning of the video, I show a winter drone photo of the cabin in the snow in December. Then I flashback to the first balsam fir tree I cut down with a saw and axe near the cabin. I drag the trees into place and clear the cabin site. All summer, I cut the notches in the logs as I built the cabin up, offsite. Once I was finished notching the logs with a log scribe, saw, axe, adze and wood carving gouge, I loaded up the entire cabin of logs and moved them to my land near Algonquin Park, Ontario Canada.

Once on site, I spent a month reassembling the cabin on a foundation of sand and gravel. Once the log walls were up, I again used hand tools to shape every log, board and timber to erect the gable ends, the wood roof, the porch, the outhouse and a seemingly endless number of woodworking projects.

For the roof, I used an ancient primitive technology to waterproof and preserve the wood – shou sugi ban, a fire hardening wood preservation technique unique to Japan and other areas in northern climates.

Because the cabin is offgrid, I have used handtools for most of the build and without power, I have no options on site regardless. The tiny house will continue to be operated with power, not even renewable energy for now, so I’m heating the cabin with a woodstove fire place, which I also cook on.

The cabin is made of cedar fence posts, twelve feet long and the cabin measures 10 feet x 20 feet inside with a one hundred square foot sleeping loft on the second floor.

The floor is made of two inch thick pine planks, torched to help repel water and to give them a rustic barn board appearance.

 

 

Self Portrait Using A Mirror

Artist Ewan McClure shows of a nifty painting technique, in which he looks in the mirror to view his own image, then paints a self-portrait from behind the backside of the canvas, while looking at its reflection in the mirror.

 

 
via The Awesomer

Ticino Mistico

Ticino is the Italian flair of Switzerland, its sun-trap, a region also known for thunderstorms. The lovely landscape transforms into a mystical scenery and the city of Lugano suddenly looks like Rio de Janeiro. Wind draws bizarre reflections on the water surface of the lakes, while lightnings strike the clouds. After this storm the sky clears up fast, a new day awakes with a splendid sunrise at the Monte Rosa (Pink Mountain). The images have been taken at Serpiano, Sighignola, Ronco sopra Ascona, Monti di Motti, Monte Gambarogno, Monte Brè and Gotthard. Many thanks to Michael Gertschen (michaelgertschen.ch) for composing the beautiful soundtrack for this movie.

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Ticino Mistico

 

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