GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS: a "Keep calm and carry on" alternative for the econopocalypse

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 18, 2009 11:00 AM | permalink

Matt Jones has a fitting remix of the classic, Blitz-era "Keep calm and carry on" posters for the current econopocalype: a sign reading "GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS." Right on!

Don't keep calm and carry on. (via Warren Ellis)

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#1 posted by hypeful , March 18, 2009 11:35 AM

Definitely a more constructive suggestion than my "Now panic and freak out" t-shirt:

http://www.typetees.com/product/1466/Now_panic_and_freak_out

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#2 posted by ianm , March 18, 2009 12:28 PM

Does constant learning, studying and writing papers count as 'making things'? I am always excited about the former, but physical creation - not so much.

Either way - cheers to tinkerers and innovators - I am one of you but my media are words and ideas not nuts and bolts, but I feel a kinship nonetheless.

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#3 posted by tuscadero , March 18, 2009 1:23 PM

I have a 13 year old boy in my house, that shirt would be entertainingly disruptive. Giggity!

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#4 posted by kengor , March 18, 2009 2:20 PM

I guess those "Hang in There Baby" cat posters just ain't hip enough for you trustfund pioneers, eh?

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#5 posted by padster123 , March 18, 2009 3:54 PM

Brilliant. I will print it out and stick it on the wall of my work. A new business, out of the ashes of a closed-down-by-big-fat-stupid-parent-company one. It's definitely time to be starting new things.

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#6 posted by mattdidthat , March 18, 2009 4:31 PM

I couldn't resist making one of my own.

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#7 posted by hundredsofthousands , March 18, 2009 6:24 PM

man, there are dozens of comments on the Flickr site like: "yay! great image! now please make a shirt for me."

looks like only the first half of the message got across...

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#8 posted by mikey p

, March 18, 2009 11:07 PM

Thanks! It's my new desktop background, and just what I needed.

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#9 posted by Sewnagain , March 19, 2009 7:43 AM

Instead of making things for sale on Etsy, my latest focus is in making things so I don't spend money. It seems futile to hype myself up to keep going in a direction that clearly isn't working.