DIY Architecture

afterthefact · 08.08.2008, 09:54 AM

The ideas behind the DIY aesthetic are good ones. The problem is, as with most things, the real ideas behind them have moved to the side and now we have a bunch of hipsters into DIY because they want everyone to see the shirt they made on their blog. Have people forgotten that everything used to be DIY? People made their own clothes and built their own houses, not to show them off to people, but because they NEEDED THEM.

That being said, this is pretty cool:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat...hitecture.html

atsonicpark · 08.08.2008, 09:58 AM

Yes, fuck those D.I.Y. hipsters! Doing it themselves? Fucking posers! Only I'm allowed to do it myself! So, do it yourself!

In all seriousness (I have to say that now so people know when I'm kidding), this is pretty cool.

afterthefact · 08.08.2008, 11:05 AM

Doing things for themselves is not what bugs me. It's doing it for the sole purpose of showing people what you did. It just irks me sometimes.

But I would totally live in that house, even if I did have to fear it falling in on me.

atsonicpark · 08.08.2008, 11:06 AM

Nah, I knew what you meant... that's why I said I was kidding.

The house is badass!

afterthefact · 08.08.2008, 11:11 AM

And it looks like Nikolai Sutyagin has this half Chuck Norris half David Hasselhoff thing going on. That means he punched the ground and the house built itself, but then he went inside, got wasted, and ate a sandwich off of it's floor.

atsonicpark · 08.08.2008, 11:15 AM

I want to use that as a lyric.

afterthefact · 08.08.2008, 11:16 AM

Go for it, it's cc-licensed.

pbradley · 08.08.2008, 11:19 AM

Is cutting off the labels of one's clothing a hipster thing to do? Because I've started to do that.

afterthefact · 08.08.2008, 11:23 AM

Even if hipsters do it, it doesn't make in a hipster thing to do. If you showed everybody that you cut the labels off of your stuff and explained that you didn't want to be a corporate whore and that's why you did it and you think everybody should do it, that's being a hipster. Actually, that may even be worse.

Either way, don't cut the label off of your mattress, it's not worth the prison time.

!@#$%! · 08.08.2008, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

Is cutting off the labels of one's clothing a hipster thing to do? Because I've started to do that.

i like to keep the washing instruction labels. if you don't wash your clothes you're not a hipster-- you're a filthy hippie instead.

pbradley · 08.08.2008, 11:44 AM

Oh yeah dude, I wash my shoes all the time.

!@#$%! · 08.08.2008, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

Oh yeah dude, I wash my shoes all the time.

good man!

pbradley · 08.08.2008, 11:58 AM

Gotta keep them ice creams crisp.

afterthefact · 08.08.2008, 12:59 PM

But isn't not washing your clothes punk? I believe the lines between hipster, hippie, and punk are very thin...

08.08.2008, 01:57 PM

holy shit. let me guess the bathroom is on the top floor

08.08.2008, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

Oh yeah dude, I wash my shoes all the time.

I never wash anything, if it gets dirty I throw it away and by a new one.

pbradley · 08.08.2008, 01:59 PM

That's how I feel about my friends.

afterthefact · 08.08.2008, 02:10 PM

That's how I feel about your mom.

BURN!

golden child · 08.09.2008, 04:24 PM

ive wanted to do something like this, just need the land to do it on

08.09.2008, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by golden child

ive wanted to do something like this, just need the land to do it on

russia

08.08.2008, 09:54 AM	#1
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	The ideas behind the DIY aesthetic are good ones. The problem is, as with most things, the real ideas behind them have moved to the side and now we have a bunch of hipsters into DIY because they want everyone to see the shirt they made on their blog. Have people forgotten that everything used to be DIY? People made their own clothes and built their own houses, not to show them off to people, but because they NEEDED THEM. That being said, this is pretty cool: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat...hitecture.html
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08.08.2008, 09:58 AM	#2
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Yes, fuck those D.I.Y. hipsters! Doing it themselves? Fucking posers! Only I'm allowed to do it myself! So, do it yourself! In all seriousness (I have to say that now so people know when I'm kidding), this is pretty cool. __________________
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08.08.2008, 11:05 AM	#3
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	Doing things for themselves is not what bugs me. It's doing it for the sole purpose of showing people what you did. It just irks me sometimes. But I would totally live in that house, even if I did have to fear it falling in on me.
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08.08.2008, 11:06 AM	#4
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Nah, I knew what you meant... that's why I said I was kidding. The house is badass! __________________
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08.08.2008, 11:11 AM	#5
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	And it looks like Nikolai Sutyagin has this half Chuck Norris half David Hasselhoff thing going on. That means he punched the ground and the house built itself, but then he went inside, got wasted, and ate a sandwich off of it's floor.
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08.08.2008, 11:15 AM	#6
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	I want to use that as a lyric. __________________
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08.08.2008, 11:16 AM	#7
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	Go for it, it's cc-licensed.
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08.08.2008, 11:19 AM	#8
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Is cutting off the labels of one's clothing a hipster thing to do? Because I've started to do that.
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08.08.2008, 11:23 AM	#9
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	Even if hipsters do it, it doesn't make in a hipster thing to do. If you showed everybody that you cut the labels off of your stuff and explained that you didn't want to be a corporate whore and that's why you did it and you think everybody should do it, that's being a hipster. Actually, that may even be worse. Either way, don't cut the label off of your mattress, it's not worth the prison time.
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08.08.2008, 11:44 AM	#11
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Oh yeah dude, I wash my shoes all the time.
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08.08.2008, 11:58 AM	#13
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Gotta keep them ice creams crisp.
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08.08.2008, 12:59 PM	#14
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	But isn't not washing your clothes punk? I believe the lines between hipster, hippie, and punk are very thin...
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08.08.2008, 01:57 PM	#15
al shabbray Posts: n/a	holy shit. let me guess the bathroom is on the top floor
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08.08.2008, 01:59 PM	#17
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	That's how I feel about my friends.
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08.08.2008, 02:10 PM	#18
afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	That's how I feel about your mom. BURN!
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08.09.2008, 04:24 PM	#19
golden child expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,672	ive wanted to do something like this, just need the land to do it on __________________ blind
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