DIY Days - Reclaiming DIY: it’s not JUST a business model
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My slides from DIY Days in NYC March, 2011. I have very minimal notes in these, but I think you can get the gist of the speech. The video will be online at my blog before too long.
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DIY Days - Reclaiming DIY: it’s not JUST a business model
- 1. RECLAIMING DIY Brian Newman springboardmedia.blogspot.com bnewman001@gmail.com @bnewman01
- 4. Financial Meltdown Lobbyist Influence Tunisia Global Depression NEA/CPB Cuts Egypt Income Inequality Global Plutocarcy Bahrain Government Climate Change Libya Shutdowns Healthcare Backlash Peak Oil Berlusconi Wikileaks Backlash Vanishing Bees Tea Party Loss of Privacy Afghanistan Sarah Palin Patriot Act...still Iraq Union Busting Net Neutrality Guantanamo Glenn Beck And on and on...
- 5. SHIT STORM
- 6. ART WORLD Response
- 14. HMMM Time Was...
- 23. ART, ESPECIALLY FILM, WAS CRUCIAL TO THE CONVERSATION
- 24. DIY Was...
- 41. Sarah Jacobson 1971 – 2004
- 42. Note: In my live presentation, this is where I stopped and explained to everyone that this slide-set really needs more diversity, especially in regards to women. I searched the web for many more images of DIY women pioneers, for this section and the earlier one (where I show Barbara Kopple) and had a very hard time finding them – not that they didn’t exist, but it is hard to find images of many of these pioneering artists online (especially of the right size and image quality). This acknowledgement doesn’t change the slight, but does hopefully make it clear that I am aware of the need for a new version of this in the future that takes into account people like Susan Robeson, filmmakers who worked with Third World and California Newsreel and more. I welcome suggestions in the comments section.
- 43. DIY • Self funded, powered + • Directly connected to fans • Communal Power / • Empowered Collectivism • Self-distributed • Actively Engaged • Honest •A political statement • Breaks confines • Anti-consumerist • Doesn’t accept status quo • Everyday Living • Not selling out (not a complete definition/list)
- 45. DIY + TRANSMEDIA • Participatory • Reclaim Story - not just commerce • Actively Engaged • Directly connected to audience/fans • Actually have impact • Breaking down barriers/norms
- 46. DIY and Social Issue Documentaries
- 47. SOCIAL ISSUE DOCS SUCCESS • Organized • Support Structure • Developed Funding Mechanisms • Outreach and Audience Engagement Central • Having an impact • Not just about money • Sense of community - Not alone anymore
- 48. WHY Are Social Issues Just for Docs?
- 50. Didn’t Used to be... Don’t have to be... Maybe shouldn’t be.
- 51. WHY CAN’T WE BREAK THE CONFINES, AND DO SOCIAL CHANGE WITHOUT BEING CONFINED TO (OH SO SERIOUS) DOC STRUCTURES?
- 52. BOTH ART & REVOLUTION HELP PEOPLE SEE THAT THE FUTURE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AS THE PRESENT APPEARS Ted Hope via Twitter last week: @tedhope
- 53. We need artists We need storytellers We need other stories
- 54. OVERT
- 55. OVERT
- 58. FUN
- 60. NOT JUST...$
- 61. NOT SWAYED?
- 62. ONE ISSUE
- 63. NET NEUTRALITY
- 64. NET NEUTRALITY SaveTheInternet.com FreePress.Net PublicKnowledge.org Do something creative about it.
- 66. Regroup Fight Give us a Better Story
- 68. RECLAIMING DIY Brian Newman springboardmedia.blogspot.com bnewman001@gmail.com @bnewman01
Editor's Notes
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- Everyone seems to have an opinion except artists\n
- For the love of God, Damien Hirst\n
- Maurizio Cattelan’s, Stephanie\n
- Taymor, Spiderman, Turn off the dark\n
- King’s Speech\n
- Hannah Takes the Stairs\n
- Inside Job - docs are active, but a different story for later\n
- very odd\n
- very odd\n
- films were in touch with the times - All the President’s Men\n
- Network\n
- Bonnie and Clyde\n
- Easy Rider\n
- Shaft\n
- Sweet Sweetback’s Badasss Song\n
- Sweet Sweetback’s Badasss Song\n
- Harlan County USA- and docs even then were relevant\n
- what happened? Can we regain that importance? might diy be crucial to this\n
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- Handyman and Maker - still around, but also a political stance\n
- often grounded in 60s counterculture, grassroots direct power, change the world\n
- but what we’re most associated with as indies comes from punk\n
- angry\n
- political\n
- empowered\n
- anti consumerist\n
- engaged - Death (band)\n
- everyday living\n
- Sex Pistols\n
- breaks confines\n
- The Germs - doesn’t accept status quo\n
- self distributed\n
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- connected to hardcore fans, but most of all\n
- not selling out\n
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- If you strip this out, it’s not DIY. Of course, Huyssen would say that’s what capitalism does, strip out the political from the action. Make it about self-empowerment only for self, not for the group, just about the money. But I think we’re better than that and alternate voices are needed.\n
- it’s why I like diy transmedia trends\n
- 1st two - reclaim story and empower audience, not just creator. Why it is resisted. Anti consumerist and pro interaction.\n
- We can also learn a lot from the DIY and general indie movement\n
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- But they shouldn’t be the only ones to have the mantle\n
- as we’ve seen\n
- Break confines, tell better stories. we need\n
- to help people envision a better world\n
- Right is telling a pretty damn good story. we need better ones\n
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- Internet being broken, won’t be as you see it now\nowned by corporate and gov -serve their (and plutocracy) interests\nclaim piracy is problem, but it’s about control\n
- kill switch not just in Egypt\nMovement needs a better story, needs more creative response, needs it now\n
- So this, in closing is my plea to you - regroup, put the politics back in DIY, Fight the power and give us a better story\n
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