Life After Coffee

This past September my girlfriend Michelle and I drove up the West Coast for a few weeks to visit some old friends. I took along my camera and drone and put together this video.

People

Eric Ethans- We moved down to San Diego together when were 19, he now lives in Tahoe after the success of his juice company SUJA

Lee Leatherman- Son of Leatherman multi-tool founder Tim Leatherman, Lee lives on a farm in rural Oregon

Foster Huntington- Successfully navigating the world of social media, Foster now consults with select companies and self-pulishes books to fund his projects. After traveling the US in his VW van, he’s returned home to Washington and turned his focus on creating his dream compound.

By Cyrus Sutton

Featuring Foster Huntington Eric Ethans Lee Leathermen Michelle Marchese Joe Curren Ryan Lovelace

Music Arklife "Some Unheroic Hill" arklifemusic.bandcamp.com

Additional Footage Donnie Hedden Reis Paluso

so, it’s true. after 6 years of owning and renovating and renovating some more and living in the most interesting home in l.a (which is saying something, as there’s no shortage of interesting homes in l.a) i’ve sold wolf’s lair and moved on.

wolf’s lair was built in the 20’s on 4 acres overlooking almost everything: the reservoir, the hollywood sign, griffith park, the observatory, hollywood, downtown, and on clear days catalina and the channel islands, 40 miles away. then in the 60’s john lautner re-designed and re-built the guest house (which i posted pictures of about a year ago).

it was and is an amazing place. a bucolic and storied 4 acre hilltop retreat in the middle of a city of 15,000,000 people.

so why did i sell? simplicity.

i loved wolf’s lair. but it was just too elaborate for one simple little guy (aka: me).

if i’d started a cult or a family(and trust me, i’ve tried to start both)it would have been the perfect home. basically i wanted something simpler than a mountaintop castle.

oh, over the last few years i took a bunch of random pictures of wolf’s lair. and as we all like some good voyeuristic architecture & design porn, here are some of the random pictures (including deer, coyotes, and some of my houseguests and their knife wielding kids. oh, and one picture of wolf’s lair when it was first built in the 20’s).

go to moby.com for the full set, here »

voyeuristically yours,

Col d’ Aubisque…