European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 stars and stripes sunday april 22 2007 Low on bread by couple tries living in a truck by Erika Hayasaka los Angeles times new York their Home is a purple bread truck in Brooklyn parked Between a Hearse and a yellow Volkswagen Bug the 100squarefoot pad is outfitted with Bamboo floors solar Power and a full size bed the two artists who live Here do so Xvi Hout a toilet or Kitchen when temperatures plummet outside their Seltzer water and soy milk freeze they Cook vegetable mini pizzas on a Woodburn ing stove and Shower at a nearby gym they Access the internet on a Laptop hooked up to a handheld treo phone that serves As a Modem Angel Hess a photographer and his Girlfriend Theresa Magario a poet and sculptor came to new York from Small towns to live big dreams they met fell in love and fretted Over paying rent in a City where a 400squarefoot apartment can run a month Hess 28 afford More than and Magario 24 could pay even less both had bounced from room to room living with random roommates found online i was stressed out said Hess who also makes jewelry i said in not going to waste the Money anymore i started thinking about getting a House in another location but i still get Loans then i started thinking about trucks and train cars and contain ers just unusual things that could be a House Hess found the 1953 Ford truck Carolyn Angeles times photographer Angel Hess and poet and sculptor Theresa Magario have made a True Mobile Home out of a 1953 purple truck they pay to Park at a gravel lot in Brooklyn and they Shower at a nearby gym on Ebay for it was in Eureka Calif he saved for three months then bought a plane ticket for to pick it up it would be come his ultimate Art project Hess painted purple53com his web site that details the truck Ren ovation on its right Side next to the portrait of a fast food drive through restaurant his family didst really under stand his Mobile real estate invest ment Why dont you buy a car or get an apartment or get an re asked his father Larry Hess 58 Hes always been very creative you know As a kid but this one was pretty strange the couple parked the truck on North Lith Street in the Wiliams Burg neighbourhood it seemed the perfect place for their Bohemian lifestyle Home to More than 60 Art galleries win Ramsburg is a hipster Haven of poetry readings indie music shows wheat pasted Street murals and overnight dra Athons where dozens of artists sketch to live music As nude models pose at first life for Hess and Magario inside the truck was awkward the roof and windows leaked when it rained and frigid wind blew through the Walls Drunken bar hoppers and homeless people urinated on the tires Hess woke up to the sound of hissing Spray cans defacing his Home he pounded the Wall until the startled tag Gers ran away twice a week Street cleaning trucks rolled Down the Block at 3 am Hess woke up to move the truck across the Street then moved it Back after the cleaning Crews finished he fell Back asleep Only to be awakened by garbage trucks after two months Hess decided to rent a spot Down the Block for a month in a gravel parking lot and life became Calmer now the couples Windshield looks out on multimillion Dollar condominium projects under Way next door Hess told a nearby Church about his living situation the Church gave him a thick Down comforter and paid for a gym membership so he and Magario could take showers Hess installed solar panels generators and giant batteries for electricity he carved a Hole in the Selling for the Chimney of the woo burning stove that he bought for online he put in three layers of insulation Hess who moved to new York to photograph dancers and performers for magazines and press kits gets by with monthly social Security checks he receives because of his anxiety disorder he said he earns less than a year taking photo graphs because he takes most por traits for free he posted updates of the truck and welcomed donations on his web site and on Craigs Estorg bloggers picked up on his Story one called him the hipster of the year others called him an idiot Wil Hamburg is so cliche and if you cant afford that go Home if he wants to achieve the ultimate in hipster Dom hell have to drive Cross country and stay in a different Walmart parking lot every night ironically of course feeling offended Hess read All of the comments to Magario she told him people Are mean they went Back to fixing up the Ford injured civilian workers including nonus citizens the Law office of Barnett Lerner a wants you to know and protect your Legal rights did you know that if you Are employed by a company under contract with the United thank you for helping me get the medical states government outside the us and Are care and lost wages injured at work you have the right to benefits Gary Thailand under us Law More specifically you would be entitled to benefits under the defense base act this Law protects and 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