Word: do-it-yourself
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...same nuances it has in the countries from which it was imported. Jon Campbell, a promoter for rock bands in the Chinese capital, says that the city's punk culture today has grow into a layered subculture in which groups of people adhere to specific punk ideas such as the do-it-yourself spirit of making clothing and recordings. Some Chinese punks, says Campbell, even claim to be skinheads. "They know a lot about people like them around the world," says the promoter...
...February, reflects that mind-set. The content of the site used to be heavy on information and light on entertainment. Now the portal is billed as a one-stop shop for all things Disney, from fan chat rooms to interactive games to video of movies both vintage and new and do-it-yourself vacation planning to Disney destinations. To capitalize on the mania surrounding the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the elaborate DisneyPirates.com site plunges visitors deep into the virtual world of Captain Jack Sparrow, beyond the usual trailers, screensavers and photo galleries. Cell-phone...
...preparers - the certified public accountants and H&R Blocks of the world. But you would be wrong. More than 60% of the 136 million people paying taxes this year will pay a real live person to do their returns, according to the IRS. Twenty years ago, before the proliferation of do-it-yourself tax prep software and Web services, that figure was actually lower, around...
...South Korea, and a new website, which debuted in January, designed to be a portal for student-created video.In the face of recent criticism about the quality of its programming, HRTV is trying to break through to students. This is the YouTube generation, after all—the age of do-it-yourself, and I-want-it-now—and Harvard might finally be catching up.GOING DIGITALHRTV has been around for at least fifteen years, according to President Michael C. Koenigs ’09, and its flagship program has always been “Ivory Tower...
...same in many ways, and a great departure in others. It goes without saying that the antics that made the band famous remain a constant. Greater exposure—and the increased budget that have surely accompanied such fame—has forced a marked departure from the do-it-yourself ethos of OK Go’s former videos. The clip is overly reliant on the rather uninteresting idea of dressing people in full-body suits cut from the same pattern as the set’s wallpaper and flooring. The one-note nature of the video soon shifts...