How to Fix Everything
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Uploaded by GristTV on Mar 9, 2010
Umbra visits the Fixers' Collective in Brooklyn, a social experiment in improvisational fixing and mending. They are mending their way to a better world. Once a week they meet, creating community and changing our relationships to objects. Get your fix. Watch this!
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To learn more about the Fixers Collective or support them by buying an umbrella bag:
http://fixerscollective.org/main/
To learn more about Proteus Gowanus, the gallery where the Fixers Collective meets, check this out: http://proteusgowanus.com/main/
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smoke marijuanna and all is fixed
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This is so cool.
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I really like this! If anyone hears of something similar in the Orlando area, I'd happily support the group.
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Very lame guys.
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a few years ago we had a cobbler in town. he is gone as most people by throw away shoes.
nope if you have good shoes you can't get them fixed.
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usually when I try to fix something that is when it ends up broken lol
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Seriously! So many, millions!, of products of all sort are made nonstop! And people, without a second thought, throw away something even while it's decent, just to get the 'new', more 'fashionable', more 'popular' kind!!!
My room is filled with old stuff I turned into art or put in use. I only buy what I NEED and DONT have. And when its matters of fashion I look through catologes and compare what I already have in my closet and work it in. Plus you save allot of money ;-)
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We really need businesses like these all over the world. Remember 200 years ago when there /were/ repair businesses? It has become an dying art that especially in this age we need to preserve. Manufacturers need to stop making mass-produced products that are cheaply and poorly made, but since we can't always rely on that, we should take this matter in our own hands.
princess7strawberry 2 years ago 2
The cool thing is they're not even a business. They get together on Thursdays just because they enjoy it. The money they make selling umbrella bags goes to pay rent on the space they meet in. They're an inspiration.
GristTV 2 years ago