Step 1: Crack the binding. Step 2: Choose an activity. That's how to dig into Do It, a new book of 180 do-it-yourself projects. Editor Hans Ulrich Obrist tapped artists, architects, writers, and scientists for original entries that range from the practical (Colombian painter Wilson Diaz's 20-step recipe for cocaine) to the purposely impractical (Generation X author Douglas Coupland's tongue-in-cheek "How to Create a Blog"). Art taking the form of an instruction manual isn't new (see Marcel Duchamp and John Cage). But Do It archly combines influences from Martha Stewart to Ikea and, in its own way, takes art open source.
- Jessie Scanlon
HOW TO put on a pullover without sticking your arms or head through the normal openings.
HOW TO create a backpack out of a pair of womenés stockings.
HOW TO turn your colander into a modern electrical appliance.
HOW TO kill a bug.
"HOW TO play a record backward."
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