The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Cool Buildings, Cool Homes


Why live in a home like everyone elses?  Surely, there are numerous discarded things that would make a swell home, or at least a swell clubhouse.  This woman lives in a jet plane (a Boeing 727), and it cost here far far less than a normal house would.  The original rest rooms still work, and the fold down stairs evidently work with a garage door opener.  She’s even put a jacuzzi bath tub into the cockpit.  If you are in Benoit, Mississippi, stop by and say “hi!”. (tip WebUrbanist)

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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