Creating, making stuff - who are we artistically?

[Bluebiyou]

This is one topic I don't recall seeing here at bisexual.com

How many folks out here create things in your spare time?

The things I'm talking about are having your own workshop (garage or room) where you make furniture, carve stone, rebuild engines, etc, just for the fun of it.
I'll go first to show what I mean.


I'm Bluebiyou and I love woodworking. I have a pretty nice workshop in my garage. I've made many pieces of exotic furniture. I've often incorporated stone and glass in my works and want to become proficient at carving stone (and wood) to integrate in my creations.
I also like/am interested in composites: fiberglass, carbon fiber (with traditional poly or epoxy resins), and lately basalt fiber with concrete for lightweight but strong outdoor items.
I have a huge passion for this stuff, always ideas for new things, but often wait for the marriage of time-money-inspiration (working for a living really gets in my way of being creative).

[biguy3113]

I'm biguy3113, I am a songwriter, musician, recording engineer and producer. I have a limited home studio but have worked in professional studios that I helped design and build. I write and record various genres of music and never limit myself by style or sound. Music is my life and what I truly love in life. My ultimate dream is to make my living in music creation, a dream I was fortunate to live for a couple years and hope to revisit.

[Realist]

I like to work with my hands.........built my own home, carpentry, plumbing, electrical. Restored two more homes. Love antique cars, recently sold a Crosley and a Model A that I rebuilt. Would love to play music, but have not talent for it.

[Falke]

I love to re-create things in miniature. Mostly it involves working with styrene plastic kits, or a combination to build whatever I wanted to re-create. *or in some cases what other's wanted re-created.* This also involves airbrushing/hand painting, as well as a significant amount of research depending on the subject being replicated.


Here is one example, a 1/72nd scale McDonnell F-101B
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5971/64801010063965808881000.jpg

I also do auto restoration and am hoping to take the airbrushing out of the basement to the garage.

[MarshallP]

i write poetry , song lyrics but i cannot write music or sing but i love to write

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

I write, make jewelry, garden, and cook like you wouldn't believe. ;)
Untalented Cat

[jem_is_bi]

I get paid to create new mathematical stuff. Stuff may not be the right technical description. It is whatever I happen to think is important to create.

[12voltman59]

I think that many on here are already aware---I do a number of things that are artistic/creative in nature---it is the way I basically make a living---doing abstract art, my photography and writing. I also do enjoy gardening in the summer---fitting that in with being out on the water in a boat as much as possible.

[by~his~side]

I'm a scrapbooker. I've been a scrapper for 10+ years and have not made a single album that I've kept for myself. I've created albums for vacations, babys, anniversarys, heritage....and have given them all away as gifts. I'm currently juggling 3 albums that when finished will be ours to keep....the key word there is FINISH. :)
Maybe this is a good time to make a New Year Resolution?

~D~

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

lol I make these nice beaded necklaces that have the shape of a naked man or woman on them..They are Great attention getters, and they are pretty. :bigrin:
Cat

[Paul B.]

Thank you Blue, for creating this very nice thread!! It's refreshing to be reminded that we aren't one-dimensional people living exclusively for the next opportunity to fuck anything that moves (as per the title of the long defunct zine of the same name)!!! I don't consider myself to be very creative, but my passion I guess, would be in regard to making ours a more equitable society in which ALL people could live in greater dignity & with greater opportunity. I believe we have lost our way in this county, particularly with regard to the latter. I think we'be become a ME nation rather than a WE nation. I want to find ways to help make us a WE nation again.

[Arthas]

Hi, I'm Arthas and I do.... Well, everything.

I know how to work with metal and I'm making simple tools/weapons (they're functional, but I make them for decoration), some chainmail jewelry and armor, I know how to weld, solder, everything basically though I still need to learn a lot.

Working with wood is also very simple, for me it's like metal, but softer and easier.

I'm excellent in technical drawings/schematics and I' good at drawing dragons (but for some reason only them).

I'm also writing a book, I'm very good at cooking, I read a lot in several languages, work with all kinds of electronics, play a lot of computer games....

Basically I know a bit of everything, true jack of all trades. And I'm more-less creative but not in artistic way.

[Tom P]

This is a great thread. We are all creative insome way. I create pieces of stain glass art. I am an inventor. I love to cook.
Happy new year. Peace and love to everyone.

[njbearguy]

hi i go through phases of photography. i find time to dedicate to it in between other hobbies.

[BiJoe696]

See my post in reply to the recent Choices Comics thread. Perhaps someone would enjoy a project?
I have enjoyed woodworking, mostly for function, not much of a creative style to the woodworking I have done.

:bipride::2cents:

[twntexas]

I'm happiest when I'm making something. Always have been. I love to cook and lately have had a passion for parquetry and marquetry. I'm finishing a snack table now with exotic woods from all over the world. One of the best periods of my life was when I was working for a guy that built dragster chassis. I wasnt making any money but I loved the work. Right now I'm torn between buying a lathe to make bowls, cups etc from exotic woods or building a fast little hard tailed chopper from Harley Sportster parts. Decisions, decisions :-)

[tenni]

I'm a visual artist and exhibit my work professionally in public, artist run centres and the odd commercial galleries. I've used a variety of media over the years. Presently I'm a video artist who exhibits video installations and the juxtapostion of paint and video. My art practice would fall under the general category of experimental, social commentary. I also do some curating for galleries and some art writing. I've always been an artist but for quite awhile had a "day" job to pay the bills. For me, it isn't a hobby. It is a life. I can not say that it is satisfying as much as a compulsion. Still when I get it to work and think that it is finished or execute something new for me ...it fills me up. I have almost no idea where the ideas come from but generally are from my observations on life.

[Dorian Earnest]

I create all things theatrical. I have been a drama teacher for a decade or so and, in addition to directing and producing the shows, I usually design and supervise the set and costume design (often sew them too), the choreography and songs. I enjoy all kinds of creative pursuits when I have the time like designing and sewing my own clothes, making jewelry or other crafts. And -- oh yes -- I write. The novel is no longer a novel -- it is a volume of 4 novels that are related. Now for the editing and then maybe someday I'll publish. i have also written several plays and musical reviews.

This is a fun thread! Thanks!

[onewhocares]

I am Belle and I am from the Boston area. I have an event planning and catering business on the side. I enjoy the planning aspect of an event..finding just the perfect items to ad to overall presentation. I particularly enjoy setting a nice table. I collect antique dishes, glassware, serving pieces and linens.

If I have one regret is that I wish I were able to sing or play the piano.

Belle

[ATaurusJoker]

Hey everyone,

Great idea for a thread. I've got a number of hobbies/artisitc pursuits...

I'm an actor and director (I've done some design work, but I don't really love it in the same way that I love Directing). I'm a camper and hiker. I'm also also a writer and I enjoy comic books, film, board games, running, and playing with fire.

I'll be learning a foreign language and learning to play piano in the near future. I also want to get into boxing, martial arts and wrestling.

Thanks everyone!

[DuckiesDarling]

I write, had a few poems published but I am working on a few books. Started for me when I would read a book or watch a movie and think I could have ended it better.

Take Highlander for instance. Connor MaCleod is the one, he wins...what does he win after a dozen lifetimes of burying women he loves? A chance at a normal lifespan or the granting of his new love interest eternal life as well?? No, he got knowledge.

I often wake up with stories in my head and can't wait to get started on writing. Sometimes they come out as short stories and sometimes they take on a life of their own that demands more and more pages to complete their tale.

I do regret never learning a musical instrument and I love to sing although I don't do it well.

[sexy couple]

Hi everyone! Great thread!

I (Tamara) have been artistic my entire life. I am lucky enough to work and play as an artist. I worked 14 years in the film industry creating miniature special effects. Now, I am a puppet fabricator for stop motion animation for television and film. I love painting, and have painted murals and faux finishes in my home. I also created a figurative painting in acrylic this year with an ancient Roman mythology theme. I own a gift basket company which keeps me creative and busy during the Holidays.

I love figure drawing in charcoal, sculpting in oil clay, and gardening as well. I love to visit museum exhibits and galleries and I'm especially drawn to ancient art. I suppose you could say I live every day as an artist, always appreciative of the beauty in nature and life itself.

(Just to clarify, I am not part of a couple any more and I am trying to have my profile deleted so I can start fresh with a profile just for me! ;) )

[Annika L]

I write, both poetry and prose. I love stories and storytelling (both the written and the vocal art).

I teach, and that for me is creative: 75% performance, and 25% exploring the best ways to convey complex ideas (oh, yeah, and 250% grading...that part isn't so artistic).

We decorate our windows seasonally with window paints...that can become quite elaborate, depending on the season. We're behind right now on the snowflakes...we always decorate with snowflakes in winter to invite the snow...perhaps that's part of why we've had so little so far this year. :tong: I do other small (short-term) decorative artistic stuff as well...I think of it as going along with being a witch.

I have created mathematical theorems, and have three mathematical papers published...but that's professional, rather than "in my spare time", and for now seems largely in my past.

Since I was a teen, I have designed and written computer programs for fun, rather than for profit (I've done it for profit as well, but not the one's I've designed). It is a marvelous feeling of creation, to want to see the world in a particular way and then sculpt code that makes the world in that way. Most recently I've been working on a program that uses artificial evolution to create a controller for a robot. This is partly for fun and partly for work...if it ends up working, it'll be for work...otherwise it's for fun!

My major creative/artistic outlet these days, though, is cooking. I love to cook, and have a wide range of cuisines that I prepare. But I am known in a small circle of acquaintances as the Mistress of Drinks, Soups, Stews, Sauces, and Condiments (with a secondary title of Baroness of Breakfasts). It is so much fun to start with whatever's in the fridge and throw together an absolutely amazing soup. But it's not just about the food. When my partner and I have dinner parties, there is the menu selection and food and drink creation, yes, but there is also the scene: the music, the lighting, the place settings, the selection of serving dishes, the napkin fold.

I would love to have time to devote to creating music, but so far that has not happened in any significant way. I have resolved to take a stab at that this summer.

[Realist]

Annika

Cooks are definitely artists! What better thing than eating something both tasty and easy on the eyes?

That reminds me....I haven't eaten lunch, yet!