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unusual facts about DIY: Design it Yourself



Album Minus Band

Album Minus Band is the debut full-length album from DIY collective Bomb The Music Industry! Recorded by ex-Arrogant Sons of Bitches frontman, Jeff Rosenstock in a bedroom as an unexpected creative outburst during a month-long sobriety spree.

Anti-Social Music

Inspired by the success of the Nitrate Hymnal, ASM has partnered with innovative composers working outside the classical and jazz traditions in a new DIY commissioning program called "ASM Sleeps Around." The first partnership was with experimental hip hop group Dälek; the second was with Warn Defever from His Name Is Alive.

Before the Dream Faded...

Before the Dream Faded... is the second album of DIY guru Calvin Johnson.

Brico Dépôt

Brico Dépôt is a French chain of DIY and Home Improvement stores, headquartered in Longpont-sur-Orge.

D*Face

He credits this to Henry Chalfant's coverage of subway graffiti in New York City in Spraycan Art and Subway Art, later as a teenager skateboarding and in particular Thrasher magazine's coverage of skateboard deck graphics led his interest in stickers and the DIY mentality associated with skate and punk fanzines.

Daniel Peacock

He appeared in a series of musical adverts in the 1980s for the Do It All chain of DIY stores along with another Comic Strip actor, Ron Tarr, and the Birds Eye Steakhouse advertisement featuring the song "We Hope It's Chips", sung to the tune of "Que Sera Sera".

DIY SOS

Launched in 1999, after audience figures showed interest in other home make-over shows such as Changing Rooms, DIY SOS is a weekly full builder and designer level renovation of a section of a viewers home, taken on by a team of professionals after a viewers DIY project has gone wrong and not been finished.

Dudley Stamp

Besides DIY work at home in Bude, Cornwall, Stamp acted as a director of the family grocery firm and was president of the Institute of Grocers (1960–63).

F.J. Christopher

Frederick John Christopher (1912 – 1960) was an English author, journalist, magazine editor and broadcaster, working within the field of DIY journalism.

Fab@Home

The effort was inspired by the history of the Altair 8800, one of the first DIY home computer kits released in 1975.

Forestville, New South Wales

Cook Street is also home to many DIY shops such as a Mitre 10 and multiple car service centres.

Four Deadly Questions

Most DIY bands and Recess Records affiliates utilize this band for setting up gigs in the New York City area as all members of this band have been in the punk scene for many years and have access to setting up shows for bands who would otherwise have no way of booking themselves at larger clubs.

In the Cesspool of Culture

It features all of the original material written by Gandhi's Cookbook up until the time of recording and was recorded DIY at Chris Ryan's home studio.

International Pop Underground Convention

This series was a forum for independent and DIY bands, exposing Olympia-area favorites like The Softies, Chromatics, and Tiger Trap, while also including divergent musical contributions by The Make-Up, Built to Spill, The Rondelles, Thatcher on Acid, Thee Headcoats, and many others.

Islamic toys

Until Recently Fitra toys, a company based in Hong Kong has introduced a diversified range of Islamic toys that combines a story book series and variety of Science DIY toys, wooden toys, and Islamic Art and craft.

Laura Greene

Greene was born (1972) in London, England, the daughter of Welsh DIY expert Harry Greene and actress Marjie Lawrence.

Mobile safety steps

Because they are very sturdy and easy to manoeuvre they have a wide variety of uses - for example in a warehouse (for safe order picking) DIY Hardware store and various types of factory; they can even be used as aircraft steps.

Mount Kimbie

The announcement of the second album was welcomed by most major music press including: Clash Magazine, This is Fake DIY, FACT Magazine, Dummy and Mixmag.

Music of Denver

In the latter 2000's, math metal, doom metal, and Powerviolence flourished in the inner city's many DIY (as well as legal) venues.

Nate Powell

He owned DIY punk record label Harlan Records and performed in several punk bands including Universe, Divorce Chord, WAIT, and Soophie Nun Squad.

Open-source robotics

Despite this however, some DIY builders are already looking to helpful activities that can be performed today as vacuum cleaning, floor washing and automated mowing.

Pilot to Gunner

A lifetime's worth of American DIY tours, as well as one through Australia, followed, as did the a deal with the Arena Rock Recording Co., which reissued Games at High Speeds with an additional bonus track in early 2003.

Roll Up Your Sleeves

Interviewees include Ian MacKaye of legendary alternative bands Fugazi and Minor Threat, Ellen Lupton, author of DIY: Design it Yourself and Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Ellie and Louise Macnamara of young Irish band Heathers (band) and members of long running Dutch experimental punk band The Ex

Romance of Young Tigers

Romance of Young Tigers was an instrumental band from Dayton, OH that released two albums through Magic Bullet Records and is noted for DIY handmade or recycled packaging for albums for limited or unique runs.

Sarah Jacobson

As a result of the success of her films, Jacobson was an important champion of the DIY approach to filmmaking and wrote for several publications, including Punk Planet, Grand Royal, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Indiewire on the topic.

Sarah Matravers

She moved on to presenting and acting in national television and is best known for presenting BBC's DIY show Big Strong Boys, playing the roles of Joly Salter in ITV's Footballers' Wives and Footballers' Wives: Extra Time, Victoria Baptiste (wife of Didier Baptiste) in Sky's Dream Team and Jackie Randall in Mile High.

Shoes and Socks Off

His debut album From The Muddy Banks Of Melitzer was recorded in September 2008 and released through DIY indie label Big Scary Monsters.

Simo Soo

Soo prefers to perform on the floor (rather than the stage) of DIY venues such as L.A.'s The Smell and Sydney's Red Rattler.

SparkPeople

In January 2013, Consumer Reports assessed 9 DIY diet plans and rated SparkPeople with an overall score of 76, behind top scorer MyFitnessPal (83), The Paleo diet (80), and the Mediterranean diet (77).

Teenage Jesus

Album came about when The Emotron played with Chicago Synth-Pop Act The Mystechs, Singer/Label Owner Emil Hyde asked The Emotron if they would like to record and put out a DIY release on his label Death By Karaoke Records.

Teenage Jesus is the debut diy release from One Member Synth-Punk Band The Emotron.

The Animal Project

In a story about Canadian films at TIFF, Maclean's dubbed Veninger "Toronto’s reigning queen of DIY cinema".

The DiY Sound System

This became more marked around the time of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, with DiY playing a key role in the largest illegal rave ever put on at Castlemorton Common Festival prior to the Bill and a constant stream of illegal, outdoor parties (often at travellers' sites, quarries and disused airfields) all over the country.

The New Journal

Anya Kamenetz, writer, Fast Company; author, DIY U and Generation Debt

The Taqwacores

Knight originally self-published The Taqwacores in DIY zine format, giving copies away for free until finding distribution with Alternative Tentacles, the punk record label founded by Jello Biafra.


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