DIY (dee - eye - why)

noun, adjective, verb
1. acronym for do-it-yourself
2. Anything innovative people are doing without
the help of a large institution

Thank you for being interesting and thanks for being interested in this. We hope you like it here. This is the home of the Destination DIY radio show and podcast. It's about revolutionary do-it-yourself projects. This innovative show has grown up from Portland’s grassroots. It started out as a monthly show on KBOO Community Radio in January, 2006 and has become a full-fledged audio documentary series with a significant following on the Internet and radio audiences around the country.

We explore new ways people are working with limited resources to create rather than consume the world around them. Destination DIY blends recorded field sound, in-studio interviews, local music and personal narration to create an arc that takes listeners on a journey and brings them back inspired.
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Who We Are:

Julie Sabatier creator, host, producer

Jaymee Cuti producer

Alex Johnson assistant producer

DIY Musicians

Host, creator & producer Julie Sabatier

In addition to hosting and producing Destination DIY, Julie has produced quality radio for outlets such as Oregon Public Broadcasting, Pacifica and American Public Media. In her brief stint as a print reporter, her work was published regularly in Willamette Week, Just Out and the Portland Sentinel.

She is a producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting's daily talk show, Think Out Loud. She is also the podcast producer for Bitch Magazine. Julie grew up in Baltimore, attended Oberlin College and now lives happily in Portland, Oregon where she shares a home with musician Levi Cecil and two unruly cats.

Jaymee Cuti, Producer

Jaymee Cuti has spent the last 10 years writing and editing news and entertainment stories for newspapers including Just Out, the Portland Observer, Portland Mercury and the Pasadena Weekly. She is enjoying her foray into the art and craft of radio production. While Jaymee cannot sew a straight seam, she participates in the DIY movement by wearing, driving and surrounding herself with second-hand objects. Jaymee studied communications and art history at University of California, Santa Barbara and now lives in Portland, Ore. When she's not writing or thrifting, Jaymee enjoys seeing live roller derby bouts and rock shows.

Alex Johnson, Assistant Producer

Alex joined Destination DIY in the spring of 2011. Before that he
spent his days working in social services and his nights writing for
community newspapers like the Portland Sentinel. After graduating from Lewis & Clark College with a degree in social anthropology in 2009, he worked on a vegetable farm in Yamhill County. Though Alex has spent most of his life in Oregon, he has also lived in Havana, Cuba, and Strasbourg, France. Alex's favorite DIY projects include every haircut he's had for the last seven years and the loaf of bread he just baked. When Alex is not producing radio, taking photographs, or blogging, he's wondering what to do with himself. Alex also works as an associate producer at Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud.

DIY Composers

Grey Anne (aka Anne Adams) has a deep appreciation for magical realism, and a knack for classically catchy jingles. She wrote the current Destination DIY theme song and performed it using a kazoo, a ukulele, and a Hotlips blackberry soda bottle. Her debut album, facts n figurines, includes performances by Levi Cecil and Nick Jaina.

Nick Jaina has painted faces in the streets of New Orleans for Mardi Gras, he has worked in the Trump Building on Wall Street in New York City, he has played music in the alleys of San Francisco, and he has run out of gas in the oil-rich state of Alaska. He otherwise lives and plays music in Portland, Oregon and sometimes produces albums for other people. He composed the first Destination DIY theme song.



Jason Leonard finds and creates sounds on traditional instruments, unconventional objects, and stuff lying around the garage. Aural projects include live scoring for animation and film, music for radio, live sound effects and music for theater, and sitting on the back porch in a rocking chair with a guitar eating peaches. He currently plays with Nick Jaina and Laura Gibson. In addition to music, Jason creates illustrations and animations and runs a vintage poster restoration studio.



Leviethan is the first and middle name of Portland, Oregon musician Levi Ethan Cecil. He has been informed by the Minutemen, Fugazi and the entire independent movement of the 1980's and 90's. He has recorded and toured with idiosyncratic Northwest bands including Clock, System + Station, Heroes & Villains, and Deep North. He has released music by his own bands, and others in the Northwest on his own label Emeritus Records. He has worked in television, a hospital, and driven a taxicab. These experiences have informed his songs. He has just released his solo debut album "Monuments in Memory of Nothing So Far" on Emeritus. He was born in November, 1979 in Wisconsin, USA



Ali Ippolito is a musical implant from New York. She writes and sings and plays the piano. Other than her solo material, she performs with Heroes & Villains as a pianist/back-up (sometimes front-up)vocalist, Mr. Frederick as the same, the Nick Jaina band as an accordionist, clarinetist & back-up vocalist, and Rainbow & the Kittens as keyboardist/accordionist/back-up vocalist. She also teaches piano, and directs a choir and plays service music at a church. Her duty in life is to understand why she was made to play music.