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In summary: far.I thought of learning to play a piano, but then decided against it ( good pianos being more expensive and also not very mobile). But I do hope to start playing them at some point in my life.. It's quite impressive, you playing at an orchestra.
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ProfuselyQuarky said:
A very subjective question, but I've always liked this picture
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We can all imagine that that one of phind's bowls is inside dining room :biggrin:
This one is more elaborate but I feel that your picture comes "from the heart" and was drawn for pleasure (which I think is more important), while this one seems more like a result of hard work.
 
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Sophia said:
This one is more elaborate but I feel that your picture comes "from the heart" and was drawn for pleasure (which I think is more important), while this one seems more like a result of hard work.
hard work can be fun
 
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  • #108
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Gosh, you're phenomenal! Please tell me you do this for a living.
Thank you!
No, it's just a (serious) hobby.
 
  • #109
zoobyshoe said:
Thank you!
No, it's just a (serious) hobby.

I just had a quick look and a couple of likes on the later ones

truly stunning art, zoob, my hat off to you :smile:
 
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James Holland said:
what is really fun to burn is a balloon filled with hydrogen

Like this one? :oldwink:

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  • #111
davenn said:
I just had a quick look ...
Did you see this one Dave? I think it's awesome.
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  • #112
zoobyshoe said:
Thank you!
No, it's just a (serious) hobby.
If I make my drawing hobby any more serious than I do, people I know are going start calling me addicted :-p
 
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  • #113
dlgoff said:
Did you see this one Dave? I think it's awesome.

no, must have been a page or 2 back, I didn't go through the whole thread

Zooby ... stunning art !

Dave
 
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  • #114
ProfuselyQuarky said:
If I make my drawing hobby any more serious than I do, people I know are going start calling me addicted :-p

A lady i know is trying to get into art professionally, It is a hard task as one has to have a name but getting your art onto the internet is a good start.
 
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  • #115
jtbell said:
Like this one? :oldwink:

631px-Hindenburg_burning.jpg
maybe without the people on board and also just a common household balloon opposed to a Zeppelin but essentially yes
 
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I like to mountain bike, climb (bouldering), and "work" in our yard. Taking care of the yard is relaxing, while mountain biking and climbing sort-of "reboots" my brain. :biggrin:
 
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  • #117
ProfuselyQuarky said:
I only drew one building ever. Now that was an abomination. I'm much more suited to doodle people, I think.

http://41.media.tumblr.com/ae72f9df3c6c2adc60941765de4077f7/tumblr_o0xze29eUP1v57x4so1_1280.png
I like your drawing.

I'm so artistically inept that if I tried to draw something similar, you wouldn't be sure whether you were looking at a house or a sketch of a giraffe.
 
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Dembadon said:
I like your drawing.

I'm so artistically inept that if I tried to draw something similar, you wouldn't be sure whether you were looking at a house or a sketch of a giraffe.
sounds similar to my drawing capability
 
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I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple


Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly
 
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Dembadon said:
I like your drawing.

I'm so artistically inept that if I tried to draw something similar, you wouldn't be sure whether you were looking at a house or a sketch of a giraffe.
Thank you :smile: Well, you’re a modern artist, then! There was an art meme going around a while back that said something to the effect of “modern art = I could’ve done that + yeah, but you didn’t”.
 
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  • #121
Kevin McHugh said:
I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple


Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly
That's a lovely poem! I'm not much into poetry because I find the symbolism too complicated and, sometimes, irritating, but yours was very entertaining to read.
 
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Kevin McHugh said:
I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple


Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly
that is great.
personally i like Dulche et decorem est by Wilfred Ownen and Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
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i tried writing them but I am a special child:cry:
 
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ProfuselyQuarky said:
That's a lovely poem! I'm not much into poetry because I find the symbolism too complicated and, sometimes, irritating, but yours was very entertaining to read.

James Holland said:
that is great.
personally i like Dulche et decorem est by Wilfred Ownen and Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thank you both for the kind words.
 
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  • #125
phinds said:
My site gets 15,000 unique visitors per month.

:bow:

My "tramspotting" site gets about 1,300 per month. Probably says something about the relative popularity of the two hobbies. I've sometimes said, "You know how most people think train buffs are a bit weird? Well, most train buffs probably think people like me are a bit weird." o0)
 
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  • #126
Kevin McHugh said:
I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple


Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly
I'd have to Google several words to understand fully, but it sounds interesting as a whole. You've got talent for modern art.
 
  • #127
jtbell said:
:bow:

My "tramspotting" site gets about 1,300 per month. Probably says something about the relative popularity of the two hobbies. I've sometimes said, "You know how most people think train buffs are a bit weird? Well, most train buffs probably think people like me are a bit weird." o0)
Your site's cool . . . so you're also into stamp collecting? :smile:
 
  • #128
ProfuselyQuarky said:
so you're also into stamp collecting?

I belong to both APS's: American Physical Society and American Philatelic Society. So if you know Ernest Rutherford's famous quote about physics and stamp collecting, that means I ought to know everything. :oldwink:

I haven't worked on my stamp collection for a while, though. For the last few years, when I go to stamp shows, I've been mainly looking at the exhibits and concentrating on the postcard dealers. After I retire, maybe I'll have some time to go through my collection and update my want lists.
 
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jtbell said:
:bow:

My "tramspotting" site gets about 1,300 per month. Probably says something about the relative popularity of the two hobbies. I've sometimes said, "You know how most people think train buffs are a bit weird? Well, most train buffs probably think people like me are a bit weird." o0)
I love trains and do not think you are weird
i am firstly far far to weird to judge and also just being uncommon dose not mean its bad i have never met anyone who i know to like trams doesn't mean their aren't many out there.
 
  • #130
anyone like studio Ghibli films?
i think their great.
 
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James Holland said:
anyone like studio Ghibli films?
i think their great.
Especially Spirited Away, but I like all the Miyazaki films.

My Hobby (so I can play while others sleep):
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  • #132
meBigGuy said:
My Hobby (so I can play while others sleep)
That's so kind of you, meBigGuy :biggrin:
 
  • #133
My hobbies include playing tuba, collecting/pinning insects, growing bonsai trees, and collecting fossils. If it counts as a hobby I also like to play a lot of Kerbal Space Program.
 
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Kevin McHugh said:
I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple


Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly

Your style is like mine. Here's one I wrote yesterday. http://patrickpowers.deviantart.com/

The Tunisian Tuna Tsunami

A Toonerville Trolley of refugee escapees
African bees clambering ducklike entering foreign government homeland insider junctures
Klammering lividly downhill at risky bottom speed
An avalanche of hooked meat

Flopping on the party line of future endeavors
Futilely flailing for filched documents
Striving to become EU tax cattle
Pursuing this relative euphoria

A caroming clattering klezmer improv of bribes and brides
Accompanied by friends and relations
An anti-abduction from an addled seralgio
Ignited by the cold of the sea

Men tightroped into tornado turnaround implosion
Failures and capsized abattoirs of fishy backwash
Bitwise wisdom tracked by
Dominant satellite networks

Approaching protected borders
Poached upon by yeggs
Pockmarked panels holding out sea walls
Sometimes
Sometimes not

Political dynamite
A kieselgur diatomatious absorbed TNT for the stuck up
The rear of the body politic
Full of earth
 
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  • #136
Ballroom dancing gets you laid.
 
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Me too, I like backpacking and climbing.
 
  • #138
Watching films, sitcoms, cartoons, listening to music, playing video games, mostly shooters, surfing the Internet, staying on social networks, this kind of things
 
  • #139
Competitive rowing. For some reason, never heard from another PF'er who does same.
 
  • #140
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Nobody else likes to draw :frown:
I used to draw more. Here's one from a while back that isn't too bad.
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