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 Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:28 am
Recently, I've started doing things. I've fashioned part of an old rocking chair into a wooden short sword, for example. I'm currently trying to fix my machete (again), while also attempting to think of a way to make an object that looks and works enough like a cane or walking stick that I can carry it unmolested through a city environment, and yet is capable of being used as a blunt alternative to a sword without breaking. Which I can handmake out of stuff I have at home, with very limited tools. A wrench, a box-cutter, and a handsander. Some screwdrivers, depending on what day it is. Not much on that front, yet.
I've also picked up on something: I was much more inventive as a child. I once made a relatively serviceable sword out of a Halloween flat torch and a curtain hanger. I used to build robots, man. I could take objects that I found on the street and make them into functional items that weren't anything like what the parts came from.
I can't do that as much, mainly due to lack of practice. About the closest thing I've found to that recently is when I figured you could use the stand that my clock is in (it's one of those brass desk-style clocks, like those of the 19th century or so) and use it to hold a frame with a magnifying lens my mom gave me, and use that whole thing as a way to set stuff on fire.
(Did you know that when you burn ants with a magnifying glass, you're basically using a crude form of laser weapon? Food for thought.)
I've rambled a bit here, I guess. I'm just curious. My hobbies are such. I tinker, build crude machines (and usually hurt myself in the process -- I currently wear two bandaids, having gotten a painful combination of gasoline and hand soap in one of them earlier today), that sort of thing. I'm curious as to what, exactly, you do. Explain. What is it? When did you start doing it? Why do you do it? What got you started? That sort of thing. Basic social conversation, devoid of any embellishment.
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:06 am
I do a lot of stuff.
Sew, make kandi, rollerblade when the weather's nice, dance, spin poi, draw things, and paint things. I don't really consider listening to music, going on the computer or talking on the phone hobbies. My brother does a lot of tinkering, though. He's made countless small electronic gadgets with various parts. I've been sewing ever since I was in eighth grade and didn't have money to buy cool stuff, and now I make myself and others cool stuff. I need to make more kandi for Otakon, there's going to be a lot more people wanting to trade this year, methinks. Skating outside is nice, but I generally try to avoid the neighbor's kids because they are not always nice. Spinning poi this summer has been such good fun. It's one of those things that I've wanted to do for a long time but haven't had the resources to until now. It impresses people, and it just feels so good to be surrounded by patterns of flashing rainbow light. I haven't done much art at all partially because I've been so busy traveling and working this summer. I haven't really had time to let my mind cool off and be inspired, except that one time on the bus on our way to Assisi from Venice.
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:03 pm
That's a big head. surprised
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Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:57 am
My favorite passtime is to call NYZ and spend the entire tme making random fish impersonations back and forth like: "shloom, shloop, shloomp, shluohm"
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