Quotes About DIY

In 2009, an artist named Thomas Thwaites set out to make his own toaster, of the sort that he could buy from a shop for about £4.

I think the ideal number of participants for each round of do-it-yourself testing is three.

This new, reactionary music was called Punk. It tossed the dominant Rock culture into the garbage can. The only rule was to break the rules.

I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.

You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.

Johnny Gargano, to me, he's the best professional wrestler in the world today. No doubt about it. Inside the ring, bell-to-bell, there's just nobody better. So having him as a teammate for years as part of DIY helped me tremendously.

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash.

We toured the U.S. and Canada for two years, which was a lot of fun. It was very much a do-it-yourself, punk-rock ethic of booking your own shows, sometimes sleeping on the floor of the club you had played or meeting folks that would take you in, or sleeping on the side of the road or at rest stops in the car.

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.

The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.

Make your own learning materials, such as counting beads, fraction circles, tangram shapes, geoboards, and other hands-on math manipulatives.

I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.

Finger knitting was the greatest — no knitting needles needed. She looped the yarn over her fingers, one, two, three, four, back, over, under, through

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

I'm the type of bloke who gets a flatpack cabinet from Ikea, puts it together without reading the instructions, then gets the drill out because the holes are in the wrong place.

I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.

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punk placed no premium on technique or production values.

Flipside, Maximumrocknroll, and Forced Exposure—but there were literally hundreds of smaller zines that collectively framed the indie aesthetic.

In retrospect, Hart believes that taking on so many responsibilities may have hurt the band in the long run. "The DIY thing, I don't know, it's like we handicapped ourselves in a lot of situations to maintain that," he says. "There were things that, by all rights, we should have been able to let go of and oversee.

seemed that the DIY ethos that gave birth to the indie rock movement was threatening to become its undoing. Now everyone was doing it themselves—and a lot of it was mediocre. And like an oversize herd of deer, there was simply too much of it for all to thrive.

The Internet allows DIY to range far beyond anyone's wildest dreams.