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[1] Christopher Butler ☼
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[2]Archive
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[3]Info
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Periodical 14 — v DIY
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While you’re here, make the world your own.
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Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as home.
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Home should be a makerspace! At any level — food, art, life, clothing, and on
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to more difficult craft like furniture and construction — everyone should have
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their hands in something. Ideally, it’s unique, if not straight-up weird. Life
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is too short to default on your surroundings.
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What Kyle Chayka calls [5]AirSpace is not exactly new, but it has been newly
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invigorated by the power of Instagram (he also coined that term [6]back in 2016
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!). Yes, every coffee shop looks the same, and so does every Zoom background,
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and every book cover, and every haircut, and so on. It’s called style. What is
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culture, after all, but a shared sensibility? Kyle’s point, though, is that the
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technology of the day spreads style especially quickly, which creates a
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feedback loop that radiates outward into economies and life choices. I think
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he’s right about that.
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Because there’s a big span of something between a shared culture of images and
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things made in a certain way to express a certain value and images and things
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made to do little more than appear like something else. The problem with going
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much further with this critique is it really can’t be done without some kind of
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snobbery — espousing the notion that one preference is simply better than
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another. That’s not for me, so I won’t.
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But I will say that while debates over culture rage on, you can always just
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make your own. It’s interesting; it’s fun; it’s often cheaper.
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This weekend was a very DIY kind of weekend.
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The first project I finished was one I’d been contemplating for years. It was
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High Optimization. You see, we store our CD collection on a set of built-in
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shelves in our den that originate with the house itself — seventy-two year-old
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construction, encyclopedia-deep like any good mid-century den should have.
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What’s bothered me for years is that even though I rebuilt the shelves to
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reduce the vertical space and house more rows of CDs, the depth remained the
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same. The discs were always getting pushed back, making them hard to retrieve
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without disrupting the entire row of discs and making everything look out of
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order. It made me very twitchy. So I built custom frames to insert at the back
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of the shelves, reducing their depth to about half-an inch shy of a CD. Now you
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can push a disc fully back, keeping the row perfectly flush, and the half-inch
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that hangs over the edge of the shelf is just the right amount to make
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retrieving a single disc very smooth. The frame also retains the space behind
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it, which is great for storing overflow or box sets.
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I also made a set of dividers that are wrapped in very bright orange cardstock.
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They divide the collection by genre and pop out very nicely.
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Since my tools were out and I had some extra wood, I made a quick sketch of a
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desk riser I’d been imagining and quickly made it a reality. The moment my
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daughter saw it in the office, she exclaimed “I WANT ONE TOO!” I said, let’s
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draw one and make one together!
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One thing I hope my children learn is to nurture the balance of curiosity,
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creativity, and willingness to mess-up that is needed to make the world your
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own while you’re here.
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Written by [7]Christopher Butler on January 21, 2024, In [8]Log
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© Christopher Butler. All rights reserved
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References:
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[1] https://www.chrbutler.com/
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[2] https://www.chrbutler.com/archives
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[3] https://www.chrbutler.com/information
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[4] https://www.chrbutler.com/now/2024-01-06
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[5] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same
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[6] https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification
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[7] https://www.chrbutler.com/information
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[8] https://www.chrbutler.com/tagged/log
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[9] https://www.chrbutler.com/2024-01-07
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[10] https://dontthinkaboutthefuture.eo.page/8y4tg
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[12] https://www.chrbutler.com/impressum
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