Ask Lemmy

Each Sunday for the last year I've prepared a two hour block of programming accompanied with a fancy breakfast. Basically I'm recreating the Saturday morning cartoons experience for my kid. I have a spreadsheet with over 50 different shows to track where we're at in each one, along with when they were last played so nothing falls out of rotation by accident. I edit them all together next to indie animations (e.g. Bluehilda and Big Top Burger), music videos, those super short animations like RudeJackArt does, random old stuff like school house rock etc.

Sometimes if there's a commercial break built into the cartoon, I'll put something fun in there. I once hid "a Gaudi muaß sein" that video with the tongue flicking choir right in the middle of an episode of the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon. Have also used this format to show off certain things like a video game he's getting for his birthday.

All of it rendered locally with openshot from the stuff on my media server. It's one of the best hobbies I've ever had because not only have I been purposely discovering and preserving a lot of great indie art, I'm spending time with my kid, sharing laughs and bits of culture, making the most of the one day of the week we're all off work, and avoiding the time waster streaming outlets where you just watch whatever CGI talking animal shit for all of eternity.

I've never heard of anyone else doing this, and I sometimes wish there was a legally viable and inexpensive way to share it with the world. I've tried sending it to family via sync thing, but they all have trouble with it. Boo.

I'm a former dancer with no outlet. My PowerPoint presentations are on point! And don't get me started on a good graph! 🤣

I build high end CB radio setups for people I know, and it's always so satisfying

I do not shitpost comments on Lemmy.

I create art.

If interior decorators are artists, then so is posing things like parts for photos. Like real world exploded views of things. It's just part of my job to catalogue these things, but might as well make each one pleasing (to myself at least).

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• Minecraft builds (making houses that would be impossible to build in real life is so wacky)
• Drawing over photos I took
• Customizing my Linux system (it's so beautiful)
• Conlanging (it's been a long time since i've done it, though)
• Writing random formulas in Desmos Graphing Calculator and trying to make cool stuff with it

Lol, my art form is all about the unconventional. I'm a sideshow (and fire) performer. I entertain by fire eating, drilling into my head, cutting my tongue, and more. I especially love oddities shows and sideshow festivals.

Our existance is an expression of art. Each of us is an individual being whos experiences in totalitt act as threads weaving together the tapestry of life. Every emotion expressed is paint, every action and consequence the brush.

The universe and everything born from it are machinations of creative whimsy and play. Being alive and choosing to continue your complicated existance is one of the highest forms of divine art.

I like cooking, and don't use recipes. Drinks, too. I like creating foods and drinks that people love because it's like a gift but they don't have to keep it. I guess it's a traditional art in a way but not always expressed artistically.

DIY fashion design

i get really creative with it

like this

or this

Finding nice places to just be. In the city, in nature, where ever but magical places.

The art is already there, but I just find it and let myself be surrounded by it for a while.

I like drawing on chalkboards and have been doing it for an ice cream shop for a while now. It's kind of conventional but the medium isn't so I often find little resources on how to do it when I have to get inventive because they like me drawing their food.

been a programmer for nearly 25 years now.. i understand what you mean. i find a lot of joy in not just making a program "go", but building it elegantly and efficiently. there are a lot of design guidelines and patterns that make that easier and more predictable, but i always feel there is a lot of value in trusting your sense of aesthetic and building stuff by way of discovery and refinement, sculpting.

Cinematography. The composition of a moving frame.

Userstyles

blueprint work in unreal engine.

i simultaneously love making a big fuckin mess of the nodes like it's a wall of modular synths and cleaning it up into neat blocks.

I build cables and it's truly an art for me. My custom cables are used on many of the biggest movies in the world on the production sound carts the sound mixer uses to record everything. I've also wired full professional camera rigs. I've wired many full cart builds from scratch, meaning every power, RF, timecode, video and analog and digital audio cable in the entire cart was built by my hands. If it connects 2 points, i built it.

I'm going to admit to tooting my own horn here because I've not seen cleaner builds by anyone else. When I begin a build, I plan and visualize the entire setsup and it's organization. It's like a puzzle from the order of operations to the configuration I use based on input from the mixer and gear used. I love it and I approach it as an artist because it truly is. Ive spent many many years learning how to build every single cable you'd ever find on a film set and build them extremely well.