Diy Culture

• 1. DIY Media and Collaboration KCB201 Virtual Cultures Barry Saunders [email_address]

2. Long history of DIY

• Media

• Music

• Electronics

• Film

3. Zines and pamphlets 4. Punk and folk 5. Community radio and TV 6. Indymedia 7. Blogging 8. Electronics 9. Open source software 10. Blender 11. Citizen journalism

• Youdecide2007

• Multi-format citizen journalism project

• Hyperlocal

• Anyone could join and participate

12. Youdecide2007 YouDecide2007 Video interview http://www.youdecide2007.org/content/view/377/101/ 13. Livejournal and fanfic 14. webcomics 15. Current TV 16. Current TV Sony Ad http://current.com/items/76314302_sony_v_cam_transformation 17. Swarm of Angels 18. Archive.org 19. machinima Red Vs Blue http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/ 20. Ask a ninja Killacon http://askaninja.com/classickillacon?video=flash 21. Sky Captain

• Trailer created at home with homemade bluescreen and Macintosh Iici

• Used to generate interest in film financing

22. Flickr 23. Flickr - HDR http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/ 24. Johnathon Coulton Still Alive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUcVj31QaM 25. 1000 true fans

• Idea that 1000 fans are sufficient to have a successful (as in, sustainable) career

• Reduced entry and development costs

• Johnathon Coulton is an example of this

• http://www. kk .org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans. php

26. Nine Inch Nails

• Encouraged piracy of his album when he found out the price in Australia

• No longer on label

• Made album at home studio in 10 weeks

• sold online for $5 - $300

• Made $1.6 million in firstweek.

27. DIY

• Long history

• More popular in economy with lowered costs of entry

• Pathway to professional work

• Strategy for established professionals to lower costs, reach audiences in a different way

28. Links from slides

• http://zinebook.com

• http://www.zinegeek.com/?page_id=127

• http://www.4zzzfm.org.au

• http://www.31.com.au/

• http://www.nirs.org.au/

• http://indymedia.org

• http://boingboing.net

• http://www.popularmechanics.com/

• http://www.makezine.com/

• http://www.chumby.com/

29. links

• http://www.us.debian.org/

• http://www.ubuntu.com/

• http://www.blender.org/

• http://youdecide2007.org

• http://livejournal.com

• http://pvponline.com

• http://dieselsweeties.com

• http://current.com

• http://aswarmofangels.com/

• http://archive.org

30.

• http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php

• http://askaninja.com

• http://www.skycaptain.com/

• http://flickr.com

• http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/

• http://www.jonathancoulton.com/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUcVj31QaM

• http://ghosts.nin.com/