DIY wiki and Punk music scene!

Do It Yourself, or DIY, is a term that is used by various communities of practice that focus on people creating things for themselves without the aid of a paid professional. Many DIY subcultures explicitly critique consumer culture, which emphasizes that the solution to our needs is to purchase things, and instead encourage people to take technologies into their own hands. DIY is associated with the international alternative and punk music scenes. Members of these subcultures strive to blur the lines between creator and consumer by constructing a social network that ties users and makers close together. The idea behind the music is that it’s for the common man. It’s for everybody. There are three chords. Anybody can pick up a guitar and write a punk song. The drummer can be blackout drunk and as long as somebody can yell out “1, 2, 3, 4!” at the beginning of each song, he can keep beat. However, DIY represents the ultimate in individual capability and separation from one’s peers. Want to put out a record? Do it yourself. Paste fliers. Play gigs in your mom’s garage. Want some new clothes? Do it yourself. Patch up the holes with other clothes. Whatever you do, don’t pay somebody else to do it for you. Express your individuality in whatever way you see fit. Reject the system. Rebel. React. Anarchy as a punk philosophy was becoming a way of life.

Fashion is a stupid Obsession. Everyone would feel a lot better without it!

I was surfing in the net and I found this Myspace page with written that sentence and the first thing I thought was: yeah! I totally agree! Everyone has wondered about how it could be better to live in world without the problem of fashion, trends and clothes but none has declare it on a t-shirt! That’s sound a contradiction because their t-shirt are really fashion but I love it! that’s what happened when a swedish girl, Emeli, meets an Italian guy, Diego! Of course they didn’t know that’s their creation would have been so successful. Emeli was working on her column for an Italian teenage magazine and she did a ‘Do-It-Yourself’ piece on how to print T-shirts with stencils. They did a T-shirt turning the classical Chanel logo upside down, took a picture of them wearing it and put it on MySpace with no intentions whatsoever. In the next days they got so many requests from all over the world of people who wanted to buy t- shirt, they decided to organise themselves so they create their own brand “5preview”. Friends helped them with different things – screen printing, distribution, parties, media contacts and so on – and they started producing in Abruzzo. Now even rockstars like The Teenager wear their design. At the moment Emeli and Guido have finished the “Second Collection” (S/S 2009). They are adding to the collection bags, tank tops, college sweaters and a huge hoodie. They have already presented it at Stockholm Fashion Week and at London’s Fanny And The Caves Showroom. Many people don’t know that they are based in Italy because they think that Italian fashion scene it’s very conservative but it isn’t! there are lot of new designer and new Idea coming from the peninsula you just have to do something if you really wanted. That’s their spirit and I totally agree.