Do it yourself
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"Do it yourself" is the practice of undertaking the construction, modification, or repair of objects or spaces independently, without the assistance of qualified professionals or certified experts. Ac
Boy building a model airplane, Texas, 1942 (photograph by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration)
Shelves attached to a toy vehicle
Fiberglass dome house, California, in style of the Whole Earth Catalog building techniques
Electronics World 1959, home assembled amplifier
Zine
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A zine is a magazine that is a "noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter". Zines are the product of either a single per
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…booking their own tours, and creating opportunities for smaller bands to get wider recognition through repetitive low-cost DIY touring. The burgeoning zine movement took up coverage of and promotion of the underground punk scenes, and significantly altered the way fans interacted with musicians. Zines…
A box of zines
Aukštaičių kova (The Fight of Aukštaitians) - a zine published by the Lithuanian partisans, 1949
"The Reign of the Superman", a short story from the 1933 zine Science Fiction: The Advance Guard of Future Civilization, which led to the creation of the comic book hero Superman.
UK and US zines