Other creative interests

In terms of hobby, cooking.

Most creative thing in my mind is my work though (software engineering and semiconductor technology).

Cheers,

Roland.
 
Chef by trade--that is creative, on demand, and for other people. My photography is sort of an antidote for that. Some small scale woodworking--small boxes and the like. That may interact with my photo hobby: I'm sketching some ideas for pinhole cameras.
Truly bad water colors.
Rob
 
Cooking is very like photography, really. You can follow a recipe and produce a meal (or an illustration) or you can start getting clever about it, at which point it is creative.

I'm about to barbecue veal chops, which are not very creative (apart from choosing which wood to use, how long to cook them, etc.) but Frances is cooking courgettes (zucchini), garlic and onions with extra virgin olive oil, a recipe which has evolved and involves more creativity.

Tashi delek,

R.
 
Although I am a Cyclotron Engineer and all my work experiance has been in physics labs, all my education has been in the arts. For over a decade, I was a painter, and I even had a two person show in Downtown New York.

I have had a disrupted choppy life, due to being in Foster Care for over a decade early in my life. Somehow the painting was a way to explore the fragmented jumpy thinking inside me that was a result of my disrupted childhood. I painted in multilayers of glass that had superimposed images that changed depending on POV. These paintings abstractly represented disturbed choppy thinking inside me.

At the end of the Cold War, I went to Grad school and got my first Masters in TV Journalism and screenwriting. There was a degree of safety in writing from a third person POV, and I began writing about myself from a third person POV. I wrote about some horrific losses and experianced some emotional breakdowns that dealt with closure and loss.

Fifteen years ago did a lot of performance art in New York and throughout the northeast. Performed at The Joseph Papp Public Theater, off-off Broadway at Second Stage Theater, and at dozens of colleges and universities. I further explored my tramatic past and experianced further closure and developed a first person voice.

Then September 11th happened, and I fell apart. The past I had resolved became unglued again. I was still filled with a lot of unresolved grief and began writing, turning my insides out again. I am now a 51 year old man, but it has taken decades to be able to write a first person narritive of what happened to me. I lost my family, my culture and my identity.

In 2005 I graduated with my MFA in creative writing. I am currently writing a memior about Foster Care, home and identity. I have an agent who wants to read my manuscript when done; last year I was on the short list to attend Breadloaf Writers' Conferance, where only 230 people are invited each year, and if there was a cancelation I would have attended; but earlier this week I received yet another rejection for a NYFA Fellowship.

Received an invitation to Gracey Mansion on May 20th to meet with Mayor Bloomberg in celebration of Asian American Heritage. Funny thing is the way I indentify myself, because of my upbringing and disrupted childhood, is that I am a basically a white boy trapped in an Asian body.

Calzone

P.S. I think all my creative work is to document my life, and this is how photography fits in. In a way, it is for me journalism.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Cooking is very like photography, really. You can follow a recipe and produce a meal (or an illustration) or you can start getting clever about it, at which point it is creative.

I'm about to barbecue veal chops, which are not very creative (apart from choosing which wood to use, how long to cook them, etc.) but Frances is cooking courgettes (zucchini), garlic and onions with extra virgin olive oil, a recipe which has evolved and involves more creativity.

Tashi delek,

R.
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Those would be the creative choices. And they need to be made for even the most pedestrian food.
Rob
 
Since so much is being mentioned about cooking, I should probably mention I took the day off today to smoke about 60 lbs of meat. I have two smokers going right now and will be firing up the grill shortly. Brisket, pork shoulder, pork tenderloin, and chicken. My oldest is graduating college this weekend and to save money, I am smoking the meats myself for her party. However, if I didn't enjoy it we'd just do hamburgers and hotdogs.

Off to go check.
 
bmattock said:
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Culture-jamming.
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That sounds interesting, Bill. I remember seeing a video on culture jamming years ago. The one that sticks out is called "The Fax Attack", which involves a loop of black construction paper, fed into one's fax machine, set up to dial an annoying fax machine's phone number over the weekend. It uses up all their paper and toner.

For me, I like reading, writing, messing with pinhole cameras (building and using), bicycling (staying alive in traffic is creative), motorcycling, Appalachian Dulcimer, manual typewriters, woodblock printing, etc. Collecting new hobbies and projects is a big time-sink, too.

~Joe
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For me it's thinking about cameras, often resulting in new tools to work with ;)
And music, playing guitars.

The creative cooking has not been a real success.....
 
Keep 'em coming folks! - plenty of fascinating stuff, varied interests and hobbies!....and a few posts back, one guy posted his autobiography!;)
Dave.
 
Calzone said:
Funny thing is the way I indentify myself, because of my upbringing and disrupted childhood, is that I am a basically a white boy trapped in an Asian body.
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Thanks for a fascinating story, and one that may (I hope) give hope and strength to others.

A quote that might amuse you, from a Tibetan friend who fled Tibet in 1959: "I'm a banana. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside."

Tashi delek,

R.
 
Thanks Roger for the encouragement and kindness.

The book is happening and is very powerful and revealing, but it is not all about sadness and loss. Some of the writing provides an explaination for someone understandably lost that displays very differant/bizzarre behavior that is both amusing and laughable, and I'm pretty good at making fun of myself and presenting myself as a pretty strong character with many huge weaknesses.

There are also great moments of kindness that happened that changed my life that came from mostly strangers. This forum and the generousity it provides a great example of that understanding: it promotes kindness.

Calzone
 
The past vice president of the university where I work had two enlargements of my images in his office. He told me that he would point to my photos to his visitors when he would talk about the creativity of the faculty members.

I guess, my creative work usually is my statistics work. My latest applied research is on the geographical mapping of pediatric cancer clusters in Florida. It feels rewarding to somehow contribute to the well being of others.

Photography became important to me when I was stressed out during the graduate studies years.
 
I don't cook unless you count Popcorn, pancakes and scrambled eggs...not all together...
I like to mess with woodworking...last item made were a few Lensboards for my Zone VI 4x5 View Camera...it sounds simple but there are a few nice cuts in there...
Right now I'm working on getting this years garden started...just got back from Lowe's and picked up some tomato plants, another grape and a few packets of seeds...
 
Wine is my other passion, and creativity comes into play when you have more bottles than you have storage! :D

Cooking also comes with the territory - I taught myself to cook b/c I wanted something worthy to eat with my wine!
 
Music recording! Love it as much as photography. It's kinda indie rock type of stuff. Here's a download of my last album, if anyone's interested.

I have also posted on here before about writing, which is my main creative outlet. I don't know what I'd do with my head without all these interests. Probably go barking mad.
 
Hmm , writing / poetry saw me through the trauma of realising my Gender Dysphoria and Autism , and has since helped others to understand and embrace me ... I also create Baby Name paintings @ '' daisymeidoodles.co.uk '' theraputic for me . I also like making models- and photographing them .
Simliar situation with calzone - but girl child dealing with adult guy stuff .
 
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