Making Stuff & Doing Things: A Collection of DIY Guides to Just About Everything
"Perhaps the best known, general-purpose, Do-it-Yourself guide around, Bravo’s comprehensive compilation of his legendaryHOW2zines includes information on projects as prosaic as bike-cart building and homebrewing and as potentially controversial as billboard liberation and birth control. An indispensable resource for the DIY 'lifestyle' no matter what your level of commitment to it might be."  —Lime"Making Stuff & Doing Things, the DIY book compiled by Kyle Bravo fell into my lap last summer. I was enraptured by the book, with its guides to doing just about everything under the sun – from playing guitar to making toothpaste – and by the use of the original layouts. I learnt about Hot Iron Press through the book. Unfortunately Hot Iron Press was in an area of New Orleans badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina – and the collapsing levees – during the Summer of 2005. I emailed Kyle to see if he would be willing to answer some questions about how Katrina had affected them, their reaction to Hot Iron Press being badly damaged and what the future held after the damage."—Last Hours#13 Interview Introduction