MakerTHE HIGH-TECH HOBBITS OF TROUT GULCH
These cutting-edge animators are creating a live-in hackerspace in a California forest.
In the mountains outside Santa Cruz, Calif., an intentional community is under construction. On 10 hilly acres in Aptos, three filmmakers who live in tiny houses and their friends have established a sort of rural hackerspace where nail guns are more prevalent than soldering irons. The compound also has a small organic farm. The guiding philosophy can be summed up in three letters: DIY. This utopian outpost is called Trout Gulch by its inhabitants.
“We’re building a 21st-century Hobbit village in which things are extremely bucolic and integrated into nature, but we’re also embracing the best of technology,” ...
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