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diy in the modern day
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## DIY in the modern day:
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**Self-funded**
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- Initial backing is savings, day jobs
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- Self-propelled income is primarily merch and cover sales
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- ALWAYS look for the cheapest path
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**Self-produced**
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- Usage of free DAWs like reaper for producing, mixing, and recording
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- Uncleared samples
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- Personal-use physical sound systems
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**Self-organized**
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- Organized by creators, and their fans - nobody else.
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- Grassroots, not corporate
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- Emphasis on live performances - recording for archiving, not profit
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- Eschewing social media and the commericalized internet in favor of decentralized communities and personal conversations
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**Self-distributed**
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- Avoid focusing on corporate paths such as streaming services and labels
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- Focus on live music, personal ownership (mp3 downloads, digital CDs), and voluntary donations
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diy in the modern day
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## DIY in the modern day:
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**Self-funded**
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- ALWAYS look for the cheapest path
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**Self-produced**
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- Usage of free DAWs like reaper for producing, mixing, and recording
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- Uncleared samples
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**Self-organized**
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- Organized by creators, and their fans - nobody else.
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- Grassroots, not corporate
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- Emphasis on live performances - recording for archiving, not profit
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- Eschewing social media and the commericalized internet in favor of decentralized communities and personal conversations
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**Self-distributed**
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- Avoid focusing on corporate paths such as streaming services and labels
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diy in the modern day
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## DIY in the modern day:
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**Self-funded**
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- Initial backing is savings, day jobs
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- ALWAYS look for the cheapest path
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**Self-produced**
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- Usage of free DAWs like reaper for producing, mixing, and recording
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- Uncleared samples
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- Personal-use physical sound systems
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**Self-organized**
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- Organized by creators, and their fans - nobody else.
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- Grassroots, not corporate
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- Emphasis on live performances - recording for archiving, not profit
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- Eschewing social media and the commericalized internet in favor of decentralized communities and personal conversations
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**Self-distributed**
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- Avoid focusing on corporate paths such as streaming services and labels
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- Focus on live music, personal ownership (mp3 downloads, digital CDs), and voluntary donations
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“But the social pressures eventually became too strong and one day, Kurt walked up to Loftin, visibly upset, and told him that he couldn’t hang around with him anymore. He was just getting too much abuse for being the friend of a “faggot.” Loftin understood completely, and they parted ways. (Michael Azerrad, Come As You Are)”
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a lot of things sprout in my mind reading this little paragraph. i think of the world that he lived in to have any of this happen. that you could just up and become someones friend in a day or two, and then start hanging out with them every day, spending hours on end, whenever you had the time. and just as easily, you could stop spending time with that person, and thats it. spending time with other people was just something that you could do constantly, and kind of had to actively opt out of if you didn't want to.
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maybe the nature of socialization has drastically changed for the worse, alienating swathes of youth across the western world as a whole, or maybe i just didnt have friends
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why im pretentious
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i dont want to play the game. i dont want to be a part of the souldraining whirlpool of slop - i opt out. everyone else in ottawa is doing it, and it hasn’t worked for any of them, so why would I keep doing something that doesn't work?
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its not even about popularity - i cant think of a single ottawa band that has been influential in a genre or a scene. we can try and carve out our own special little area without getting fucked up the ass left right and center, by venues, by promoters, by streaming services, by the general public, we can make something nice without being exploited relentlessly and spit right out. go ahead, make zuckerberg 5 dollars in ads and fade into obscurity for the rest of your life if you want to.
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people will only see your stuff if you post it on social media? yeah, they'll see it between ten videos of people getting hit by cars in a drooling haze of fog and misery. you might as well flash the old testament to a toddler watching cocomelon and ask them to start praying. if something goes on social media, its dead. its part of the corpsecart, part of the endless wagon of content and stimulation, and the promise of authentic experiences a few weeks from now will NEVER compete with instant gratification as far as the eye can see. if you want to advertise an authentic experience, you cant do it in an inauthentic environment. go up and walk up to people with flyers, put shitty posters on bus stations, tell your friends, draw it with chalk on the pavement on campus, do something that will catch peoples eyes in real life and not on the internet.
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also a websites cooler than an instagram page
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Tue Nov 26 14:23:56 EST 2024
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Why Social Media is not DIY
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what does a major label do? they find an artist, produces their sound, records it onto a medium, distributed it out onto the world, and advertises its existance. Major labels do not manifest the way they used to, but the core concepts remain.
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my thesis is that both the personal and public social interactions formed by social media are artificial. they are not real, they are not authentic, they are manufactured for profit. an artificial, profit seeking corporate behemoth dictates the way you should sound, dictates where it is distributed, dictates who sees it, and dictates the compensation you should receive.
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the trick, the wool they put over your eyes, is that they make you think YOU are in charge of the process. You're not. you think you are the one deciding how your music should sound, where you choose to distribute it, who you show it to, and then you directly receive the compensation. this is by design. the entire reason social media giants have become so powerful is because they found an ingenious method of creating a digitized form of the human condition, amplified it, made it shiny and attractive and enticing, and capitalized on it. THAT is the difference. the moment profit enters the picture, authenticity is gone.
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Now they have an overwhelming incentive to manipulate the human condition, the social experience, and you can see this everywhere. they manipulate the way you compare yourself to others, the way you form opinions on groups of people, the way you communicate ideas, the way you laugh, you talk, you think, you breathe, you sleep. they dont simply give you a free space - what a naive assumption. they stick their grubby little fingers into the contraption and make sure to perform all the necessary tweaks and adjustments so that there's more and more and more. more talking, more happiness, more laughing, more buying, more yelling, more hatred, more everything, but that is not human. humans do not grow like that. once you reach that level of exponential growth, the parts within the sum lose their meaning. they fade away into obsucrity under the tidal wave of endless expansion, and art dies.
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that is why social media is not DIY. the moment you surrender the creative process to social media, you surrender your freedom and your humanity to corporate overlords. it is out of your hands, it is out of the communities hands, it is now in the hands of the powers that be that must twist and manipulate and destroy your passion at will in the name of profit, and if you think along that way you'll find popularity and distribution and meaning for your art, you're a fool. you gotta do it yourself.
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Positivity and Negativity
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i think ottawa is missing positivity - not in the happy/sad sense, but in choosing for something to be instead of not. to create instead of to deny, to do instead of dont, to say yes instead of no. theres so many barriers, so much red tape, that it feels like a curtain of negativity lays over the whole city. Everything has to be thoroughly scoured with a fine comb - you have to make enough money, you have to be popular enough you have to say the right things. Everyone's staring at eachother, just waiting for them to make the wrong move.
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The default state of youth has turned from boredom -> anxiety over the years
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stop
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stop fucking giving me dopamine
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let me grow up
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leave me alone
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they cant deal with it
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it might be up to us
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how do you stop someone who loves misery?
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<img src="http://up.thirdculture.top/J2ilrOrf66/041901.gif" alt="smoker_outside_arlington_five">
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- credit to [shawn scallen](https://www.scallen.com/041901.html)
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*"5 Arlington, located at 5 Arlington Avenue in Ottawa was the best local music venue i have ever encountered. it fostered the whole Ottawa hardcore scene of the early 90s spawning the likes of Okara, Union of Uranus, Shotmaker and also hosted amazing shows with touring bands like Drive Like Jehu, Jawbox, Sparkmarker, Franklin. the PA may have been crappy and the space decrepit, but unlike all other Ottawa venues before (One Step Beyond, Club SAW, various community centres) and after (Two Steps Above, Club SAW, Liquid Monkey, various community centres) the "Five" acted as a centrepiece to build a community. as well as two to four rock shows a week, it hosted film nights, potlucks, activist meetings, had a bit of a library and provided kitchen space to food not bombs.*
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*sure we have shows nowadays at Club SAW or Sandy Hill Community centre, and a punk/hardcore community is slowly building with punkottawa.com, the hardcore sports league and miscellaneous bowling and movie nights, but without an autonomous and dedicated space it takes a lot longer.*
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*5 Arlington is now an antique/curio/junk store.*" - shawn scallen
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<img src="http://up.thirdculture.top/J2ilrOrf66/041901.gif" alt="smoker_outside_arlington_five">
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- credit to [shawn scallen](https://www.scallen.com/041901.html)
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*"5 Arlington, located at 5 Arlington Avenue in Ottawa was the best local music venue i have ever encountered. it fostered the whole Ottawa hardcore scene of the early 90s spawning the likes of Okara, Union of Uranus, Shotmaker and also hosted amazing shows with touring bands like Drive Like Jehu, Jawbox, Sparkmarker, Franklin. the PA may have been crappy and the space decrepit, but unlike all other Ottawa venues before (One Step Beyond, Club SAW, various community centres) and after (Two Steps Above, Club SAW, Liquid Monkey, various community centres) the "Five" acted as a centrepiece to build a community. as well as two to four rock shows a week, it hosted film nights, potlucks, activist meetings, had a bit of a library and provided kitchen space to food not bombs.*
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*sure we have shows nowadays at Club SAW or Sandy Hill Community centre, and a punk/hardcore community is slowly building with punkottawa.com, the hardcore sports league and miscellaneous bowling and movie nights, but without an autonomous and dedicated space it takes a lot longer.*
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*5 Arlington is now an antique/curio/junk store.*" - shawn scallen
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<img src="http://up.thirdculture.top/K7TLCbKw9L/053101.jpg" alt="mtlpunk">
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- credit to [shawn scallen](https://www.scallen.com/053101.html)
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"*this is a photo of a member of Montreal Motorhead-wannabes Inepsy. they played at Club Saw two weekends ago. i was working that show doing sound and snapped a few photos as well. you gotta admire someone who a) has a full chest tattoo of his band's logo and graphic (what happens when they break up?) and b) dances around drunken master style, blathering incoherently in French, through a gas mask. i missed an amazing shot of him moshing around shirtless with two cleancut high school punk kids, one under each arm, but this pic is pretty sweet.*
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*also on the bill was a Montreal band called Last One Running. they were pretty good - straight ahead hardcore in the vein of Black Flag before they got metal. the vocalist and guitarist used to live in Ottawa 12 years ago and were in a band called Dr. Sicky. they were 11-13 at the time. i thought it was pretty cool that they were so young and in a band and took some pix and helped them get a write up in MaximumRockandRoll. it's pretty cool to see some people actually stick with punk for more than a high school or college sentence...*" - shawn scallen
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<img src="http://up.thirdculture.top/K7TLCbKw9L/053101.jpg" alt="mtlpunk">
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"*this is a photo of a member of Montreal Motorhead-wannabes Inepsy. they played at Club Saw two weekends ago. i was working that show doing sound and snapped a few photos as well. you gotta admire someone who a) has a full chest tattoo of his band's logo and graphic (what happens when they break up?) and b) dances around drunken master style, blathering incoherently in French, through a gas mask. i missed an amazing shot of him moshing around shirtless with two cleancut high school punk kids, one under each arm, but this pic is pretty sweet.*
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*also on the bill was a Montreal band called Last One Running. they were pretty good - straight ahead hardcore in the vein of Black Flag before they got metal. the vocalist and guitarist used to live in Ottawa 12 years ago and were in a band called Dr. Sicky. they were 11-13 at the time. i thought it was pretty cool that they were so young and in a band and took some pix and helped them get a write up in MaximumRockandRoll. it's pretty cool to see some people actually stick with punk for more than a high school or college sentence...*" - shawn scallen
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