The Creative Type ...

I was just wondering...

being at this site for quite some time now, I've noticed that through all the shades and tones of orange and black, there are some very colourful people here! and a special nod to you newcomers! It's always interesting to see people's characters start to develop as they post and share their stuff with us.

So... I was thinking that besides love of reading, writing poetry, studying ( as so many of you seem to be attending school of some sort) what else do you do to express your creativity? Do you collect something weird? Do you belong to any esoteric groups? Do you have an odd hobby?

Of course ok I'll start :p

I paint, usually acrylic on canvas, draw and am often found with sketch pad in hand.
I'm trying to perfect the short story structure and omelette, love cooking.
I volunteer with the local humane society because I love animals and they bring me back down to earth and also give me inspiration.
I'm helping teach a group here that works with mentally challenged people to grow their own gardens on land donated by the city.
Oh yeah, and I collect clocks. :p

next?

I'm into drama. I act and direct. I also try to write, although school kind of sucks up all my writing, but during vacations I often write short stories or start novels that never get past page 10. I used to juggle alot too. Seriously.

What did you juggle ?

I eat and build fires.

I love to write.

I also work and pay bills, work some more and pay more bills.

I workout at the gym.

I am in the 30-39 age group.

I would like to take drama, but it isn't available where I live, only in the college.

:D hee hee , `Clan of the CaveBear' stylee?

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Originally posted by simon
I eat and build fires.

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I have more style and natural grace, but in essence I find silverware an inhibitor and go for the chef boyardee boiling in a fire, followed by the antics of trying to take it out with two sticks, void of burning my extemeties of course.

Do you open the can before or after heating? or are ashes good for ya? :p

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Originally posted by simon
I have more style and natural grace, but in essence I find silverware an inhibitor and go for the chef boyardee boiling in a fire, followed by the antics of trying to take it out with two sticks, void of burning my extemeties of course.

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I draw with charcoal. With it I usually produce surreal and abstract works, some up to 4 feet tall at times.

I also tend to write a lot, not too much creative writing really unless I've got a lot of time on my hands to go at it (since when I start, pages fly out quick) but I do write a lot of philosophy as well.

Otherwise, my creativity is more or less expressed in other's emotions portrayed in the music I listen to. Since I'm unable to commit time to producing music, I let those who share my feelings express them for me so that I might vent them in someway. Concerts are usually quite an endurance of pain and emotion for me.

I draw with pen and ink, sometimes pencil. I love to draw people and hate straight lines. Usually surreal subject matter. Even as a little kid I never used crayons or markers; just black and white for me. I can't paint well, but I've been experimenting with creating mosaics out of tiny bits of construction paper. Ever since preschool people have been telling me I'm gonna be a famous artist or writer (which sucks far more than you might imagine), so now I'm going to go to art college.
I so envy creative writers. I used to write a lot of poetry and fiction, but as I grew up I stopped being able to. Inspiration comes to me in images, not words, and though I'm good at coming up with ideas and scenarios, anything that happens is deliberately created by me; characters never take on a life of their own.
I design tons of clothes for myself, but have yet to create any of them. When I was a little kid I'd make myself costumes to wear to school for no reason, and also wear my mother's long skirts.
I dabble in amateur photography, experimenting. I am clueless when it comes to technology, but I'm motivated by the type of image I'd like to be able to create.
I sing soprano in the church choir and sometimes cantor at Mass. We suck pretty badly, but it's not my fault :p
I pick out tunes on the piano -- am desperate to play better, but can't afford lessons. It's my favorite instrument.
I volunteer twice a week at the animal shelter with my mother. We clean/feed/love up the kitties. Also I bake desserts; I'm a peace activist; in HS I was in a gay rights group, and I'm still big on that issue; and I'm in a Clockwork Orange group on Yahoo. I also participate in this one really kickass literature forum online. :p

Damn, I do a lot. Yea me. I gotta learn when to shut my mouth.

sculpting

I draw sometimes, write poetry at bus stops and train stations, play piano. Only I like to mess up the timing and push the tempo. So I'll play the first movement of the moonlight sonata way faster than it should be, and the third wayyy slower. It kills musical people, people who believe in structure, people who can hear. Oh, and I sing.

I draw, charcoal and pencil. Collect stamps :p.

Den: Open the can before heating or it will explode all over you and all persons within a 5 yard radius. This explosion will undoubtedly inflict burns.

I don't do anything, but I am looking for a creative outlet. Last month i was toying with getting a drum set, a couple months before that I went and painted pottery. What i do do very well is traumatizing my coworkers: I've signed them up to wildly inappropriate mailing lists, decorated their cubes for christmas (way over the top), and made little cut outs of many of them and stuck them all over the office and countless other creative things I can't think of at the moment, hhhmmmmmm......idle hands ARE the devils playground.

Photography, mostly. I have a darkroom, and process my own black and white film - I like to muck around with time exposures, of waterfalls, or fireworks, or stars...
And the farm just down the road has baby cows right now, so I'm on a bit of a bovine streak at the moment :)

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Originally posted by Den
What did you juggle?

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Just juggling balls. I could never get anything oblong right, which prevented me from moving on to flaming chainsaws :(

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Originally posted by simon
Open the can before heating or it will explode all over you and all persons within a 5 yard radius. This explosion will undoubtedly inflict burns.

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I have a hole in my sleeping bag from finding that out the hard way. Only I was destroying Bush's baked beans rather than Chef Boyardee. :D

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Originally posted by GapingStarling
And the farm just down the road has baby cows right now, so I'm on a bit of a bovine streak at the moment :)

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Uhh... what you do in your own time is your own business!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: ... poor baby cows. ;) :p

wine... collect and drink.
running, hiking, working out.

wine collect eh, any personal favorite?

my creativity is all bottled up inside of me and occasionally comes out in something i dare to call poetry... it used to also force me to start writing short stories, but I finished only one or 2 of them... talk of lazyness and lack of discipline...

I used to want to be a painter when I was in kindergarten, but that's really not for me... can't even draw a flower properly, and I'm not a visual person at all...

Uh, so sad, i really don't do anything else... I used to want to be a journalist too, but that dream was killed a couple of years ago...it comes back at time, but I have many issues to solve before I get confident enough to do anything...

Just to add something, for those who still don't know, I'm interested in learning languages, thought of course I'm too lazy even for that :D But it can surely be added to the list of my passions.

Oh come on! No one thought my cow joke was funny?!? :D:D:D

I laughed. :) I smiled at koa's post too. sorry sista, but You're so like me. :D [I liked the phrase 'what I dare to call poetry.' can't be bad as all that] most of the time I want to express myself I end up having two or three hour phone rants. Where it's me and my best friend screaming about how much everything sucks for about half an hour, than two and a half hours of talking about food, mostly. :D I"m proud to say I've perfected the packet mix mudcake, and I can make pancakes and banana smoothies. :) Last time I tried to flip a pancake, it landed on the stove and caught fire. My immediate reaction was to grab some OIL. But right after that I grabbed a towel to smother it. And finally my brain kicked in and I reached for water and turned off the stove. Then I realised it was only a bit of pancake hanging off the edge of the frying pan, and all I had to do was lift the frying pan and it went out by itself. :D Eventually. And that is why I should never cook.

Oh I see...my rants appear to be mostly in the internet these days, more than on the phone... scary!

And I can't even cook!!! My friends spend time making nice cakes or fine food, and I just don't have any interest in doing that... I just can cook my pasta and all those other basic things, I'm not even bad at that but I have no passion for going further and be a chef... which for an Italian woman is quite rare it seems...

I mostly eat in a cafeteria that is quite possibly the worst cafeteria in any uni in the world. But my girlfriend cooks REALLY well so I invent special occassions where we need to celebrate by not eating in the cafe.

Really??? Is she English??? My English ex-idontdaretocallhimboyfriend was impressed cos in his view I was able to cook...cos for his English mind cooking just meant take something from the freezer or from a can and put it in the microwave....

English food is DISGUSTING!! kik, there ISN'T a good cafeteria in the whole country. :D

i beg to differ, my cafeteria is quite good

but don't you live in the US? I"m talkin english cafeterias with weirdo cafeteria ladies

Sorry, Kik, I haven't been on 'cause I've been upisland for a few days -- I thought your cow joke was good too (well, I blushed, and then I laughed...):p :D

Any food is great if someone else cooked it for ya...

yeah, I thought the english boiled everything :eek: :p

um, ya. i have to totally support the contention that english food sucks pretty bad.
i used to live with this guy from Manchester, and his idea of gourmet was mushy peas (pronounced Mooshay pays) which caused him to evacuate whole office buildings for days afterwards and tasted like split peas soaked in eau de old sweat sock.
however, running a close second was his old favorite, steak and kidney pie. now i, personally am not one for organ meats (no comment), but anything that takes three hours to put together, and then has to be carefully steamed (yes, steamed) and still tastes like split peas soaked in eau de old sweat sock just does nothing for the reputation of the inhabitants of the region.

i have never really considered myself a creative person; however, i do love to cook (with the exception of the above mentioned culinary mistakes) and once i have mastered a recipe, i usually try and put my own spin on it. a while back i worked in a bar that allowed me freedom to create and i came up with some interesting drinks that sold really well, but usually knocked out the consumer in two or less, which isnt exactly a marketing boon.

also, i love kickboxing, which i find allows me time to both express myself creatively and blow off steam, while working up a sweat. this is good as the only other time i break a sweat is, well. nevermind. on that note, i have creative outlets that are unmentionable. and this is where i sign off. blushing.
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Originally posted by Koa
Really??? Is she English??? My English ex-idontdaretocallhimboyfriend was impressed cos in his view I was able to cook...cos for his English mind cooking just meant take something from the freezer or from a can and put it in the microwave....

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No, my girlfriend is DEFINATLEY not English. She's American. And its true, the food in England is really gross. The pub I work at serves somthing called "Bubble and Squeek". Evidently its cabbage mash with chunks of terrifying, unidentifiable meats and veggies. Eew. I have yet to meet an English woman who can cook English food that doesn't make me want to hang myself.

Aaah right Kik. Now everything fell into place. For a moment I was worried that you had met the only English woman who knows the meaning of the word cook...You know, if such girl existed, her place would be in a museum! :D Now there are also stereotypes about Americans&Cooking, but I'm sure that there are some who don't eat only hamburgers and peanut butter... :D

The majority do, however, abstain from anything they cannot deep-fry and smother in ketchup.

Deep fried mars bars? How do they do that? (And WHY?)

Sadly ... I work, and that´s mostly it.

But sometimes - I write , paint (badly, but who cares!) , cook - right now I´m trying to learn how to cook thai food to my boyfriends delight, tend my garden, and once in a while I´m involved in live action roleplaying events. I dress up, sometimes in period costumes, and pretend I´m someone else for awhile. That is really a lot of fun.

I used to practice kenpo-karate and train selfdefense - but I´m not sure if that can be considered creative. :-).

Oh, yes - and I dance every chance I get.

Okay, my turn
I like to take pictures, haha my camera is like my baby. It's sad. It is fun to try and capture moments in the worlds history...
I also dabble in writing, but nothing too intense. My life generally takes all my time away for that, but one day I will write a novel.
:)
I also like to watch movies, sing very badly...
Okay, so school and work takes away from any form of a social life, I try though. hehe

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Originally posted by emily655321
The majority do, however, abstain from anything they cannot deep-fry and smother in ketchup.

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My girlfriend comes from a conservative southern christian home. Her and her sister are amazing homemakers. She's going to make a damn good wife. We're talking huge three course dinners of traditional southern food (not deepfried), big chunks of meat and potatoes, fresh garden-picked veggies, homebaked bread, homemade fruit pies, everything from scratch. She also likes to expiriment with multicultural food and makes good Indian, Italian, Pastries, basically if you can give her a recipe, she can make it. If she learns how to make Kebabs, I think I'll die. Just die. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

I'm in the 13-19 group.
I'm into drama, on the improv team at school. We, as a whole, didn't do very well in the competition, but it certainly doesn't help that we are a new team and had only several practises. I love art. Sculpting, painting, drawing,... all that stuff.
I'm a drummer.:D Been playing for almost a year, had piano for 5 years before that.
I like talking to people I know on messenger and playing computer games.
I'm a swimmer. I've taken Bronze Medallion, Aqua Leaders, and am currently in Bronze Cross, if that means anything to anybody. It is my goal to become a lifeguard. I was on the school swim team.
It's probably already obvious I love to read.