ThreadBanger makes the Sunday Times
By Tim.Back in June, in one of my many favorite episodes of Thread Heads, Rob and Corinne responded to a request video from viewer John Paul, where he asked for their help making a baggy shirt fit like a custom-tailored shirt.
Little did any of us know at the time, “John Paul” was John Paul Flintoff, a writer for the UK’s Sunday Times, and a month later, after we had also featured another viewers’ use of the “pinch and pin” shirt tailoring method in the Viewer Appreciation Week episode, Mr. Flintoff got in touch with the ThreadBanger gang and asked for an interview. The resulting article was published in yesterday’s Sunday Times, and it’s a great ode to the DIY movement that ThreadBanger represents, which he rightly ties into a raise in awareness we all need to have to stop being such a trash-generating culture and learn to live more lightly on the Earth. Flintoff writes,
But soon we’ll all have to become more self-sufficient – to undergo what Rob Hopkins of the fast-growing Transition network calls the Great Reskilling. We must learn to grow and cook food, build and restore buildings and infrastructure, process sewage, create a healthcare system that does not rely on petrochemical-based pills, and puzzle together a no-growth economic system. And, I modestly submit, we must learn to make and repair our clothes.
Just goes to prove again that you never know who’s watching, and the power of answering viewer requests. Thanks, John Paul, for a great video submission in the first place, and we’re glad you dig ThreadBanger.
Read the full article: Climate change: A stitch in time
November 5th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
wow, that’s amazing!
November 6th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Fantastic. I love seeing old media writing about the best of new media.
February 28th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Very interesting and helpful post.
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