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September 18th, 2007

Urban Refuel

Oh, if only Mari Santos had tutorials on her website, then her’s would be fairest website in all the land. As it stands, her site is wicked inspiring, full of cool pics on how she sliced and diced over-sized tees to make super cute couture. Besides her t-shirt revamps for her Urban Renewal portfolio, she also has some awesome, Pack Ratty low-cost, high-design replications of some famous celebrity fashion plates signature styles, such as Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy, and Sid Vicious Love it!

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September 18th, 2007

A is for Anarchy

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If you’re feeling a little old these days and you want to get in touch with your inner punk rocker (circa 1982), then check out the DIY Survival Guide(”There is no subculture, only subversion”). Their website describes it thusly: “DiY SURVIVAL is a compilation of cutting edge strategies, methods and techniques of DIY art, delivering a wide range of practices, actions, events, enterprises and issues which all have to do with the art of DIY, with forms of media subversion and the intelligent sabotage of cultural markets.” If you want to buy it, it only costs 4.99 Lbs. (oh those crazy, anarchist Brits), but why not check it out for free? Just scroll to the bottom of the page for a .pdf copy of the book. Includes: “pissing on monument as form of urban intervention; how to create a wireless node; mobile art gallery; Strategies of audience engagement; techniques of mobile phones hijacking; the creation of subversion in the supermarket; brandalism and street art; Trashware; street Television; collaboration as art practice, plus essays on avant gardes, Media Pop Art, net art, the hyperconnected multitude, teaching cultural activism and much more.” Don’t you love things that promise you much more?

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