What else turns us on?

[Sonnar Brian]

In High School I was big into Firesign Theater.

"How can you be two places in once if you are not anywhere at all"

"Give me Immortality or Give me Death"

"If you lived Here, you'd be Home by Now."

Antelope Freeway, One Two-Hundredth and fifty-sixth mile.

 

[nwcanonman]

"Antelope Freeway, One Two-Hundredth and fifty-sixth mile."

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Hey! As a kid, they built the Antelope Valley Freeway in my backyard 🙂

That is inane😛

 

[simonankor]

#1 is photography of course.
#1 is bikes... not motorbikes, and not loads-of-lycra-and-a-road-bike, and not even heavy-duty off-roading. Just... riding... because. I maintain my own bikes, and it gets me where I want to photograph. Makes for cheap holidays too.

and running equal second, literature and jazz.

 

[Russ]

Due to age and time constraints, I don't partake in rockclimbing and mountaineering as much as I used to. For about twenty years, it was a main passion, and I often combined the two. As soon a sI get a decent slide scanner, I'll submit some "big wall" climbing snaps.

Russ

 

[Byuphoto]

I just found the thread and enjoyed readin everyones hobbies. I feel I know a lot more about people on here.
Of course my main love and my profession is photography but my other interests lie in the rebuilding and use of old things. I have a fully restored first year model 1977 HD Low Rider that I still ride. My '72 ford Bronco I bought new. I am currently restoring a 1958 Jeep truck and a 1973 HD Servi-car trike. I also collect, restore and shoot antique firearms. I have Winchester, Colt, Sharps and S&W firearms from 1873-1950.
My current hobby is a combination. I like to ride the bike, camp in national forests, hike the trails and take photos. So far I have been in Ar, La, Ms, Tn, Al and Ga. I am hoping to make some of the west next year. This is the main reason for my return to RF camera. I can carry 2 or 3 and be happy without taking up a lot of room.

 

[stet]

I used to be big into skateboarding. Ten years ago, I and a few friends tried to put out a top-notch skateboarding mag, 4-color offset press, in the agonizingly long days days of PowerMac 7200s. (in these past few months, I've picked up an even greater appreciation of our photogs who drained our account on Velvia). The mag did well enough as far as a fan base and wide distribution, but running a business was not in our stars then.

Funny, on the way home just now, before I read this thread, I was thinking about how I've had a new board and wheels that I haven't set up in months. I just feel weird when I go to the skatepark and I'm older than the moms and dads bringing their kids there. And that their kids are better than I could ever be.

Rick.

 

[ray_g]

Great bump on a great thread. 🙂

I enjoy old things... old black and white movies on my widescreen and surround. I used to have a dedicated home theater too Joe, before we moved to our current home 3 years ago. We're having the basement finished either this year or next, and that's included in the plan.

I collect and restore old fountain pens. They're the RF's of writing instruments 🙂. My favorite is the old Parker 51, and have them in different body and ink colors!

I love driving, especially with an open top on a crisp fall morning 😀 . Had a Miata in BRG till a couple of years ago. Used to ride around New England with the local car club, and race it on weekends in the Miata class of the local SCCA. I since sold it, in exchange for a back seat for the kids, but soon...

In another life, I was a practical shooter. I shot competitively with an accurized 1911 which I had to leave behind with my brother when I came to this country. Never tried the Desert Eagle, but I bet it's a blast (get it? 😉)

 

[existrandom]

hello all,

i have been in a band and still occasionally sing on stage

i have been crazy about films, and i would watch 3 films in a day and go to the same film 3, 4 times

hobbies have been my distractions from mundane/streeful tasks, when i was doing my mphil thesis, i ran into a site about Hi-Fi valve audio and than i got hooked... and it all started there, perhaps because i wanted to have somthing categoricaly different from what lay in front of me on the monitor... and then i found out audio gear are way too expensive and that the small flat i live it would not allow proper placement of the gear for reasonable result...

and so i rumbled into RF photography... i used to be keen on photography when i was in high school... but it dies away somehow... until many years later i saw that canon P on Karen Nakamura's site!

perhaps like many others, esp men and big boys, i lust for small, sophisticated mechanics... my father was a clocksmith, so no wonder i appreciate also mechanical watches

but the two things, among others, i always do and enjoy are reading and writing; i read many things spanning from medieval poetry to political essay on anarchism and medical research on tumour... if things went well i will publish my second book early next year

so that sum up the first half of my life, huh

cheers!

 

[Byuphoto]

Ray, if you ever get the hankering for another 1911 let me know, I think my current count is 7

 

[wlewisiii]

I think I need a Hi-Power to go with my L1A1...

What? :angel:

William

 

[Byuphoto]

Good combo. I have a Canadian Inglis and a Canadian L1A1, Best issue arm ever made

 

[aizan]

cooking, reading books, watching movies, all things typographic...

 

[kiev4a]

Computers (I started with a Commadore back in 1982), History of the American West. Tom Clancy's EARLY novels. Yard Work and landscaping, watching in wonder every time out two-year-old granddaughter learns something new.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Tom Clancy's EARLY novels.

You know... I think he is still living off of those. I read "Netforce" and was hugely dissappointed. Haven't picked up a Clancy novel since.

Whats else turns me on? Guitars. But I have settled on having just three. I have had seven at once in the past. GAS looms large when you have electric guitars. There is always something you can add or modify. Then there are the amps and effects that go with them. Gets crazy way faster than cameras, I think.

 

[JoeFriday]

not too late to jump into this thread, is it?

let's see.. past passions first:

motorcycles.. never anything too exotic or expensive.. my favorite was a Honda 1985 VF500F Interceptor that was mint.. I bought it for $900 about 6 years ago, and sold it 2 years ago for $1400 (and the guy still got a deal, IMO)

downhill skiing.. still enjoy it, but living in the midwest kinda takes the fun out of it

mountain biking.. I used to bike about 200 miles a week, all off-road.. now I'm lucky if I do that in one summer

and my current passions (besides photography):

fly fishing, and fly tying

movies (my dvd collection is at approximately 480 movies today.. more will be added tomorrow)

music (blues, jazz, classical, rock, alternative, pop).. my 20 GB iPod is full.. in order to add a song, I have to take something off

cooking, and wines.. altho I'm much better at selecting wines than I am at cooking

target shooting (pistol only).. I've had a H&K, Browning Hi-Power, and various Rugers.. I've settled on a trusty Kimber CDP (1911) with a .22 conversion kit to keep it economical

something I'm just now getting into.. building "rolling ball sculptures".. aka marble machines.. I'm fascinated with kinetic art objects

and I can't forget my Audi A4.. I'm very fortunate to live about 15 miles from a premier road racing course (Road America).. a 4 mile, 14 turn course that my Audi club rents out at least one weekend every year.. here's me (and a passenger) taking turn 7 at about 85 mph, and accelerating.. btw, my car was only 6 weeks old and had 4000 miles on it at the time.. LOL

 

[rover]

Fun stuff,

I am off soon to play Transformers. I hope I don't have to be the Decetpicons again. (Hobby? Playing with my son, not the Transformers)

 

[Roman]

Hmm, missed this thread the first time around...

I used to play bass in a punk rock band, but haven't been doing that for quite a while; I still strum the guitar, and I'm trying to learn to play accordion, but not in a band at the moment.
I'm still very much into music, though - esp. what's nowadays called 'alternative country'/'Americana' (anything from 16 Horsepower to Calexico); another favorite band are Element Of Crime from Berlin.

I would like to read more than I have time to - I like short stories & novels by guys like TC Boyle, Douglas Coupland, Ian McEwan, James Salter, and many others.

I used to be a big movie goer (esp. Aki Kaurismäki, Jim Jarmusch, young French cinema of the mid-1990s, etc.), but I have to little time for that, too.

I like travelling, have been to at least half of the European countries, and a few overseas, try to go abroad at least once or twice a year.

I like good wine (hey, my dad makes wine, I grew up with it), and good food (esp. seafood), which is very visible in pics of myself (advice: bring a wide-angle, if you want to snap one of me), and I also like cooking.

And I like to go hiking, but nothing too extreme.

All of that suffers from too little time due to job, studies, and surfing RFF for hours 😉


Roman

 

[Honu-Hugger]

New Jesse luggage and Remus exhaust on the R1100GS -- the old Tourtech boxes finally had to go. Now I'm itching to hit the road...

 

[ErnestoJL]

Hope it isn´t too late to join this thread....
Well, let´s go... what really turns me on...
Huhhhh... lot of things, but specially good classical and jazz music, together with some special pictures... dogs (mine of course!)... good moments at home with my family (my wife and dog)... and some places where it´s only you and the universe....

 

[kmack]

The most expensive, time consuming hobby of all...Renovating old houses. 😀

My wife and I are currently renovating a 1830's balloon frame folk victorian.

We do most of the work ourselves, except for rough plumbing and electrical.
I also hired a crew to do the roof last year, I am getting too old to haul plywood
up 30 feet of ladder.

We try to keep to the original look and feel of the house, and recycle as much as possible.