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piranhacomment on this post and say HEY, DO ME BABY or something like that. i will choose five interests from your profile and you can then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. if you want, post a similar invitation along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
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la_penguinita picked:
industrial archaeology
is the systematic investigation of structures and artefacts as a means of enlarging one's understanding of the industrial past. it's kinda presumptuous for me to have that as an interest because i am completely not systematic, and i don't even study it. i just have a thing for industrial ruins and how things work, and when i come across something that looks cool and "weird" i try to find out what it was used for, and how people did things. my first interest is usually visual, such as seeing a structure and taking a picture of it, like the morden colliery tipple. but sometimes i come at it from trying to figure out how to do something myself with modest means and simple tools, and that usually leads me to how people did it some centuries ago.
collecting other people's hobbies
*heh*. i stole the expression fromfirecat and i think we're still the only two people on LJ who have it as an interest. if you have a hobby and you talk about it enthusiastically to me, i will be infected by your enthusiasm, and i will want to talk with you knowledgeably about the hobby, and i'll therefore pick it up and learn about it. i'll probably never get very far into it, but i will learn enough so i can ask good questions and wonder about interesting aspects of it. this is part why i am a jack of all trades and a master of none, but i actually like this aspect of myself because my knowledge base is very broad, and it allows for a lot of lateral thinking.
handspinning
first there was making my own clothes. for which one can use knitting and crochet. for which one needs yarn. once i had yarn, i wanted to not only create my own colours (-> dyeing -> growing plants for natural dyes), but i also wanted to learn to construct my own because then i can control the material and the texture. and the cheapest way to make your own yarn is spinning with a handspindle (you can make one from a dowel and a toy wheel or a CD). i sometimes joke that keeping and breeding sheep or alpacas is next (and i am only half-joking).
nina paley
a talented cartoonist, illustrator, and animator whom i knew when i lived in champaign-urbana. she got me into comics because she drew the funniest things with some bite, while i had previously only been exposed to superhero comics (which bored me stiff). i still have a lot of her early work (waves tozemblan), and i've loosely followed her career since then. oh, i see she has a wikipedia entry now. here's her personal site. she puts the fun into dysfunctional. :)
ukiyoe
浮世絵, "pictures of the floating world", is the main genre of japanese woodblock printing from the 17th to 20th centuries. the "floating world" was the world of pleasure-seeking culture of the urban centres -- teahouses, kabuki theatre, brothels, more broadly, the world of common people. i am less interested in the depiction of geisha, sumo wrestlers, and actors as more into what ukiyoe broadened out into in the 18th century -- depictions of landscapes, daily life, and motifs from nature. the process of creating a woodblock print is fascinating, and it's easy to see why it became so popular -- it allowed for "mass production" of famous sights before photography, even non-wealthy people could afford the equivalent of postcards from far-away places. you have probably seen some ukiyoe; they became quite famous in the west during the impressionist era and beyond, they influenced van gogh, manet, degas, toulouse-lautrec and others. i think everyone has seen at least hokusai's great wave off kanagawa. wikipedia has an article with links to sites that go into much more detail.
la_penguinita picked:industrial archaeology
is the systematic investigation of structures and artefacts as a means of enlarging one's understanding of the industrial past. it's kinda presumptuous for me to have that as an interest because i am completely not systematic, and i don't even study it. i just have a thing for industrial ruins and how things work, and when i come across something that looks cool and "weird" i try to find out what it was used for, and how people did things. my first interest is usually visual, such as seeing a structure and taking a picture of it, like the morden colliery tipple. but sometimes i come at it from trying to figure out how to do something myself with modest means and simple tools, and that usually leads me to how people did it some centuries ago.
collecting other people's hobbies
*heh*. i stole the expression from
firecat and i think we're still the only two people on LJ who have it as an interest. if you have a hobby and you talk about it enthusiastically to me, i will be infected by your enthusiasm, and i will want to talk with you knowledgeably about the hobby, and i'll therefore pick it up and learn about it. i'll probably never get very far into it, but i will learn enough so i can ask good questions and wonder about interesting aspects of it. this is part why i am a jack of all trades and a master of none, but i actually like this aspect of myself because my knowledge base is very broad, and it allows for a lot of lateral thinking.handspinning
first there was making my own clothes. for which one can use knitting and crochet. for which one needs yarn. once i had yarn, i wanted to not only create my own colours (-> dyeing -> growing plants for natural dyes), but i also wanted to learn to construct my own because then i can control the material and the texture. and the cheapest way to make your own yarn is spinning with a handspindle (you can make one from a dowel and a toy wheel or a CD). i sometimes joke that keeping and breeding sheep or alpacas is next (and i am only half-joking).
nina paley
a talented cartoonist, illustrator, and animator whom i knew when i lived in champaign-urbana. she got me into comics because she drew the funniest things with some bite, while i had previously only been exposed to superhero comics (which bored me stiff). i still have a lot of her early work (waves to
zemblan), and i've loosely followed her career since then. oh, i see she has a wikipedia entry now. here's her personal site. she puts the fun into dysfunctional. :)ukiyoe
浮世絵, "pictures of the floating world", is the main genre of japanese woodblock printing from the 17th to 20th centuries. the "floating world" was the world of pleasure-seeking culture of the urban centres -- teahouses, kabuki theatre, brothels, more broadly, the world of common people. i am less interested in the depiction of geisha, sumo wrestlers, and actors as more into what ukiyoe broadened out into in the 18th century -- depictions of landscapes, daily life, and motifs from nature. the process of creating a woodblock print is fascinating, and it's easy to see why it became so popular -- it allowed for "mass production" of famous sights before photography, even non-wealthy people could afford the equivalent of postcards from far-away places. you have probably seen some ukiyoe; they became quite famous in the west during the impressionist era and beyond, they influenced van gogh, manet, degas, toulouse-lautrec and others. i think everyone has seen at least hokusai's great wave off kanagawa. wikipedia has an article with links to sites that go into much more detail.
no subject
on 2008-04-11 21:22 (UTC)Re: meme me
on 2008-04-12 03:36 (UTC)Re: meme me
on 2008-04-12 20:49 (UTC)I love to draw but i'm not as talented as some of the most famous mangakas so i dropped it cause if i can't be the best i don't want it at all but now i'm regretting it.
I would actually really love to be a hear dresser and make up artists i think i would be great at it.
I wish to go one day to Japan but i think i would have a hard time there cause i think it's too different from my culture.
I wish i was smarter i feel i'm dumber each year since i finished high school.
I love small collectable figurines but have none.
I love beautiful things and images and pictures keep me captivated for days.
I love Oprah
no subject
on 2008-04-11 23:36 (UTC)@%<
nina paley
on 2008-04-12 18:51 (UTC)i sometimes think i should write and let her know i am enjoying her more recent work, but it always feels weird -- like "ha, i knew you before you became famous", and i don't want to come across like that. i should get rid of that notion.
and you didn't want me pick interests from you, right?
Re: nina paley
on 2008-04-14 00:01 (UTC)And I think my interests are all too self-explanatory to need much explication.
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no subject
on 2008-04-12 02:35 (UTC)Re: meme me
on 2008-04-12 03:07 (UTC)fainting in coils
guild of long-haired cabbage assassins
gravy bath
the eye of reality
and of course:
fish bliss
no subject
on 2008-04-12 05:44 (UTC)Re: meme me
on 2008-04-12 18:46 (UTC)arp 2600
high winds
kathleen raine
math and mysticism (i especially like that these two follow each other)
no subject
on 2008-04-12 07:44 (UTC)no subject
on 2008-04-13 00:11 (UTC)no subject
on 2008-04-13 03:25 (UTC)If I had one, I'd name it Tina :>
no subject
on 2008-04-13 16:45 (UTC)Re: meme me
on 2008-04-13 18:37 (UTC)brocéliande
communal living (your personal vision for it)
foxes (of all animals, why foxes?)
jewitchery
the capital steps