DIY Tech

knitting the tech way

"...was discussed (nor why they still matter). Instead, the DIY crafter-panelists were more concerned about the state and future..."

March 10, 2008 SXSW Post by Melanie Haupt

Body Hacking and Human Augmentation Conference Celebrates All Things DIY Cyborg

Get chipped (or don’t) at BDYHAX

"...Implantable technology, self-surgery, nootropics. ... Are we not in Black Mirror?..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

It's Do or DIY

Whether quiet protest or paradigm shift, the handmade crowd has plenty to say

"...fits with tech. What constitutes the "yourself" part of DIY is expanding. Increasingly inexpensive 3-D printers allow home users..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Brandon Watson

Ex-Punk Author, DIY or Die Forever

Test-driving the newest iBooks Author app (bumps ahead)

"...a long, strange trip for an ex-punk rocker and DIY writer/musician/artist...."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Stitch V: Would You Like Some Glam in Your DIY?

"...like Etsy, is about perpetuating old-school craft with new technology. Take a few minutes to check out the site,..."

Nov. 11, 2007 Design Post by Anne Harris

Gizmometry

Riding the circuit with Austin's mutant noisemakers

"...generation who came of age at a time when technology was still clunky and strange (IBM, Texas Instruments, etc.),..."

July 9, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Jimmy Leets World

Graffiti Research Lab's James Powderly takes technology to the street

"...what's become a Hancock-sized signature of the current zeitgeist's DIY soundtrack...."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dale Dougherty: Hacking the Physical World

If you can "mod software," you can mod the real world

"...secondary part of that is that we play with technology. It's something we do in our spare time, and..."

March 1, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Band on the Run

ACL's battle of the bands, the Sound and the Jury, represents another new paradigm of indie music exposure in the post-label era of the music industry

"...As the epitome of a River City DIY act made good, Ghostland Observatory had already built a..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...At the same time there was the convergence of technology becoming more and more affordable. So, I jumped from..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Connecting a Whole Community

Austin and Google Fiber move to bridge the digital divide

"...of Austin Free-Net, a local nonprofit that has provided technology training and access for the community since 1995...."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

TV Eye

Neighborhood Watch

"...by the city of Austin and the Austin Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission. Of the registrants, at least three..."

June 30, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Work for Hire

The RIAA amends a copyright law that labels "sound recordings" as "work for hire" thus robbing most musicians of right to their masters.

"...Blair Witch Project of the music business. The best DIY success story of recent lore is still perhaps Ani..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Revolution Will Be Printed in 3-D

Great hope or so much hype?

"...with listening to nerdy panelists discuss some hip, new technology. But every time you hear one of these well-groomed..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Jeff Winkler

A Corner in Cyberspace Turned Blog Party

Jon Lebkowsky asks, why blog?

"...During the dot-com frenzy an important technology emerged from the need to build efficient publishing systems..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Kids Stay in the Pictures

When the Cinemaker Co-op and the Center for Young Cinema combined to make the Motion Media Arts Center, at least one thing stayed the same: the importance of kids

"...the United States, there's more of a fear of technology and media, almost a mistrustful view of it. But..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Six (Not So) Easy Pieces

Eight local filmmakers team up to shoot DV shorts in and about Austin.

"...neighborhoods -- and the unorthodox use of 16mm film technology. With the support of producer Barbet Schroeder, six cinema..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

Adapting “Weirdness” at SXSW 2025

Amid changes and challenges, the Festival attempts to preserve Austin’s spirit

"...ways for Austin to create accessible art through immersive technology. These international relationships are possible because of Austin’s growth..."

March 14, 2025 Music Feature by Caroline Drew

The Gay Place Guide to a Kweer SX 2017

SXSW: Another year queerer

"...PWR BTTM – New York’s queer DIY glam-punk duo get queer’d for SXSW...."

March 3, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...forefather of lo-fi culture alongside brother David in early DIY band Half Japanese, Michigan's Jad Fair made a career..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Who Shall Play at GayBiGayGay?

HeyByHeyHey: It's the 2014 line-up as we know it

"...we provide this day to be free, anti corporate, DIY affair...."

Feb. 26, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

What Would Martha Do?

If the ideas are there, design it yourself!

"...of a novice is but an Internet connection away. Technology has put the rules of how-to on our monitors,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Features Feature by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe

Say Baby

Davíd Garza's still DIY.

"...The nature of "the album" has changed because of technology. People say, "Oh, well, the classic album ... If..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Walking the Straight Edge

Texas Documentary Tour brings Jem Cohen's documentary on Fugazi, Instrument, to the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...in the past 12 years, become something of a DIY cause célèbre, a tightly knit quartet that has proved..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe Pass The Beta Test

How the indie filmmakers burned Hollywood down

"...one of the most prominent faces of the current DIY indie scene, and a constant advocate for making your..."

Nov. 3, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Plain Speaking About Complex Things

Robert Jensen on his book Plain Radical and the friendship that inspired it

"...the Third Coast Activist Resource Center, a sort of DIY progressive think tank...."

June 17, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Luv Doc: Secret Santa

Maybe your Secret Santa owns a thrift-store Timex and a whiskey-dented 2001 Ford Escort

"...This is America in the third millennium – Austin,..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Film Releases First Wave of Panels

The Mr. Robot crew are back

"...Theatrical + Festival DIY Power Combo (Organized by: Bryan Glick / The Film..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Closing the Digital Divide

Low-income housing gets cheap Google Fiber

"...Rachel Martinez, made the connection between equitable access to technology and social and economic mobility, pointing to the myriad..."

Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Science Fiction Gets the Vapors

On steampunk

"...human reckoning; the more personal bits of today's polyvinyl-chloride technology now reconfigured in brass and wood and leather. Nothing..."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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