
Have you picked up any interesting hobbies?


I've been a Graphic Artist for 50+ years, and I naturally tinkered with calligraphy a bit. I'd have to practice up a bit, but it's a nice skill to have. If you are good enough, you can make a decent side-job out of it addressing up-scale wedding cards, etc.
But I digress-
Gardening (body permitting), garden design, photography, music (7 years of formal training on piano and organ, 1 year on guitar and just now getting into drums a bit), crafts, having another go at building a "Christmastime Model Railroad" for the grandkids, and doing volunteer work for church library, weekly food pantry, and Feed Me Starving Children.
Well, gardening is seasonal, so not really doing that right now. I forgot to mention cooking - yeah, that too. (Need to bake some Christmas cookies soon). Many crafts have gone by the wayside due to arthritis. I do still make machine-sewn toiletry bags for some missions- got it down to about 6 minutes apiece including cutting and sewing. And I usually have a nap after lunch and the food pantry on Saturday mornings. But I still try to keep chugging along. :- )
Thanks for the MHO
Good for you, my handwriting is so bad calligraphy would be a bad joke for me.
I do woodworking (I make toys for my daughter), I read a lot about random things (into nautical knots right now --weird, I know), and I piddle with electronics.
It took me along time to realize how important having a creative outlet is for overall mental health.
Just made her a "Noah's Ark" which she and her friends love. My hope is that she will eventually give these toys to her kids! :)
Wow calligraphy is an awesome hobby.
I’ve been bowling since last summer and just recently I started baking more.
Are used to be terrible at it but I just kept practicing. You just have to commit to practicing and you get better. Thanks for the MHO!
Yes hitting my head to wall😂
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Forms of artistic expression. More than a hobby it's just a way for me to let out my emotions, and the end product is pretty damn cool. Mostly it's an instrumental but recently I've started composing a few songs. I used to wire stories but I find poetry a lot more fun. I dunno if you can call it drawing but when I'm really frustrated I grab a pencil, listen to music and scribble on paper. It looks pretty cool. I don't know if people call this art but I watched this animation about basketball and it made me think, "that's beautiful". Seeing how much care the animators put into each scene made me wish I could someday waltz around the court with a basketball. That said I'm still an amateur. I wish I could say "you gotta take care of your academics" but that'd made me a hypocrite so let's do our best.
I cycle interests all over the place and probably have too many in total to list before I end up boring everyone. In general, I get curious about a skill when I see talented people do it, and what they're doing is like "magic" to me. So I want to learn enough to demystify the magic (not to become as good as them which would take a lifetime if I even have a chance), and then I lose interest and want to learn something else.
But one of my lifelong passions is skateboarding (vert, not so much street -- I'm an air guy and like the feeling of blasting off the coping and can't get that sort of air feeling on street). Another recurring one is drawing and trying to make music, but I really suck at music, and yet I find it so interesting and immediately rewarding to try to record some tunes and hear them being played back to me.
Sample tune (I am not very good and have no training as a musician, but I try to record something on keyboard that doesn't sound too bad to my ears given my limited ability):
https://voca.ro/nuCWbwrPXBk
Oekaki doodle (I am very impatient so I scribble instead of blend and just try to let the eyes blend the scribble):
Also, I got a MIDI drum set a while back and been trying to learn to play drums. I record weird sounds like this (heavily digitally altered and recorded at much slower tempo -- I can't actually play drums anywhere near this well but I can cheat all I like digitally):
https://voca.ro/jh1CQ5I1ZZN
Oh sorry, I just meant like when I see someone amazing, what they do is like "magic" to me. :-D I've never seen so interested in magic tricks as a hobby, although that'd be fun at parties. Probably my most recent one is the drums ever since I got the MIDI drumkit. To me, Jojo Mayer is like "magic" -- I still can't believe a human being can do that.
https://youtu.be/KYnsgaaDEFs
Sailing is a whole bunch of hobbies (if you want to DIY):
the actual sailing
amateur weather forecasting
sewing sails and/or canvas
electrical work
engine maintenance
woodworking
fiberglass work
map reading and navigation
ropework
etc.
finger slip, should be close bracket, not emoji.
Film and wet plate photography.
I collect and use cameras from as old as 1880 and as new as 1988.
I own over 30 cameras, I also have a complete darkroom.
Plus I even do custom prints for customers with my non digital, 100% analog way of doing it the old way.
The stuff I can do with a film camera can never be done digitally.
I learned calligraphy from a book I got from Amazon. I never realized that there were multiple styles of it. I forget what the one I chose to learn was called.
One thing I was considering trying is clay sculpting. Using small tools to make houses and stuff out of clay and paint them. Size them to be somewhat compatible with D&D for future use. I haven't got around to trying it yet because I started something else recently.
Here is the book on Amazon:
www.amazon.com/.../ref=sr_1_5
I chose to learn Roman calligraphy from it. I liked that the letters looked good and weren't overly complicated so most people could still easily read the letters.
I've never gone to higher learning, so the majority of my skills in life are self taught. That being said, one of my hobbies is achetectural design, in fact I once got a job as an achetect's assistant with a set of blueprints I hand drafted.
I dabbled in calligraphy for a while, but gave it up after my ex (she did calligraphy aswell).
Learning an instrument,
or if you are into calligraphy maybe other types art may interest you?
Acryl painting is quite easy to get into, or simple coal and pencil drawings.
I mean a hobby you dont need much skill for would be reading 🤷♂️
Otherwise for almost any other hobby you need to practice to get good, but thats the fun of it, isn't it?
I started playing piano 3 years ago. I also recently picked up kickboxing, but broke my arm a month ago (unrelated) so I'm recovering right now.
My main hobby is making music compositions and learning guitar/bass guitar.
Ehhh, yes and no. I can't read or write music but I memories the music I want to make.
Thank you and so is calligraphy! It definitely takes some skill
Writing
Poetry
Classical Painting
Martial Arts
Collecting sports cards and memorabilia
You know the norm.
I draw, paint, sculpt, and can do calligraphy.
Currently, I am trying my hand at making some dioramas. I've found the hobby is extremely expensive and will need to sell the pieces if I complete them if they are good enough.
Guitar. Work has a lot of quiet moments so I started learning guitar... and answering GaG questions.
In a strange way it is kind of zen/relaxing. At least for me it has been so far. Only been a couple of weeks...
Yes, trying to get back into bodybuilding again & I have my own youtube channel where I do some gameplay commentary videos.
www.youtube.com/.../UC3Dg94Vodg0kCClNMgxh4xA
Have a look.
I never tried calligraphy but love too & talking about different I m trying to learn different languages that help me out during my trips!! Last language learned-spanish
I love calligraphy. Im working on a poem i wrote for a girlfriend of mine. 😁
I had an interest in political, social and economic etc systems and wanted to know what utopia would look like.
I am a little short of something to do now.
Seeking utopia, now that is quite a hobby! This sounds like an awesome Phd thesis.
@KrakenAttackin Yeah, I can see why youd think that but the answer is somewhat anticlimactic.
Oh, I am sure, but the thought process has to be fascinating. The immediate impulse would be where "people have resources to never have to work, blah, blah", but dissecting real human nature and applying all of the counter-intuitive realities would be interesting.
@KrakenAttackin Oh yeah, its a rabbit hole for sure.
Kept me busy for a while.
Worldbuilding, my own little (imaginary) world to change and shape as I desire.
No interesting hobbies picked up, if anything - hobbies have been dropped
i am pretty artistic but that's not new. no, i have not
Massage therapy and traditional Filipino Marshall arts
I'm a photographer, artist and I play the guitar and sing a little
And I went to culinary school so I worked as a chef for many years
Silver picking, coin collecting, silver refining and dabbled with mixology
I wanna teach myself how to write with my left hand in the meantime I've been doing adult colouring
Im staying to get into making my own fishing lures. Mostly roostertail spinners.
Recently I've been on a homemade melee weapon trip. I don't know why, I think maybe subconsciously that while I do not support our 45th POTOUS, I would support and participate if he / Congress initiate a PURGE.
No. I like playing tennis and going to the museum but isn't new.
Getting outdoors is always good try going for a nature walk.
One of my friends studied calligraphy
No. I have too many other hobbies and too little free time. But her handwriting is beautiful.
If writing a blog is a good enough than maybe..
Craft beer brewing. SO many rewards. ;)
I’m teaching myself to play guitar
Probably fitness and watches
Booze. Lots of booze.
Like a queer.
With a beer😉
That's how I roll🤷♂️
Right where I started.
I mean... it's like a constant merry go round.
It has it's moments.
skinny dipping
no, i have not
You wanna?
No, I do not
Coolio
Yeah
Masturbation
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