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shnozlak
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Location: pushing crates in the sewer level
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 Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: to make rather than consume. |
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Making is good for your soul, I recently started trying to make rather than consume with as much of my time as I can. This is hard becasue I want to play all the latest and oldest and greatest games, read news 5 hours a day, consume a novel a week and expand my record collection until my shelves collapse and kill me(the only way to go).
This week I have been making a toy chest for my Girlfriend's neese's birthday and it been amazingly rewarding. We started with measurements and requirements, made a drawing, revised it, shopped for parts and lumber and now I'm making a huge mess outside my apartment's front door assembling it and sanding it. Im about to finish the lid which will then need to be sanded filled and resanded then the entire thing will need to be varnished and maybe polished.
Dose anyone else here make things? And if so what? Gadgets? Wood working? Car modifications? Home brewed beer/mead?
I know someone(s) here makes knives which is pretty neat.
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CubaLibre
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!=
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: the planet of leather moomins
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:28 pm |
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(...) make rather than consume with as much of my time as I can. This is hard becasue I want to play all the latest and oldest and greatest games, read news 5 hours a day, consume a novel a week and expand my record collection until my shelves collapse and kill me(the only way to go).
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I published something about this feeling yesterday. The text is not excessively well written; it's actually about my supergamebakedown'08 entry which was supposed to be about the conflict between creating and consuming.
Consuming (especially information) is really addictive and I have to devise many different ways to trick myself into producing instead. (deadlines, work rhythms, shutting myself off, making internet access difficult etc..)
It's a tough ride since as soon as the flow is broken I revert back to consumption.
However I notice that it's often triggered when melancholy sets in.
The consumption of information serves as a dampening of this feeling of melancholy. This is what makes it an addiction, at least in my own case.
People don't often talk about it (unless they're talking about fancy theory about overabundant information and distortion of reality which is really not what I'm feeling is the worst part of it) and rarely admit it in public. Although I did stumble today on this as well.
It is an important topic, one that is very relevant today, and will become relevant to a lot of people as networks get used by more and more people, and information becomes pervasive.
Also: things I've made
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psiga
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:29 pm |
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I am really close to but not actually yet getting a bunch of soldering tools and making myself a headphone amp, as practice for ultimately making ionic headphones with single-wire conductors. I may or may not fry the unholy shit out of myself in the process, but!
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shnozlak
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psiga
saudade
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:21 pm |
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Haven't decided yet, actually. It'll probably be a bit more involved than a usual CMOY, but not too much.
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boojiboy7
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: take me on a blatant doom trip.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:42 pm |
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| My girlfriend and I make crafty things pretty regularly. we are working on a weird diorama right now, just for the fuck of it. |
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alice
not nana komatsu
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:43 am |
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By making you are consuming DIY culture so there's a fundamental contradiction.
Try fake vegetarianism instead. |
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km
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Minor character in a frame story
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:01 am |
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I finally uncovered the secret of soldering the other day!
hacked myself up a case fan extension cable yesterday, does that count?
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Talbain
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:32 am |
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I'm not sure if writing is making, but I do find that I write more often and that it's a very good way to relieve stress.
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astralpancakes
Joined: 02 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: to make rather than consume. |
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| shnozlak wrote: |
| Making is good for your soul |
You've pretty much been my favourite poster ever since the IC cribs thread, and this thread only reinforces it.
I like to solder together gadgets and whatnot, but I'm not very good at electronics so it's usually either simple stuff or following instructions. Some small-time woodworking and home DIY gets done as well, but I'm really constrained for space in my apartment. I'd like to get into metalworking someday. I did some in school way back and it was loads of fun, but I'd need space for a proper workshop first.
I've some photos of stuff I made over the summer, actually: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27496636@N08/ |
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