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[collinsmark]

One hobby i used to have was metal detecting, [...]

There's a British show called, Detectorists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists). It's streaming on Netflix if you are in the USA; not sure about other countries. It's worth the watch. The series is very endearing.

 

[zoobyshoe]

@zoobyshoe is known for some amazing artwork. I'll leave it to him whether he wants to share or not. Either way, it's really good though.

I hope he does!

Here's a link:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/a-drawing-in-progress.95252/page-21

It's a long thread. The link is to the last, most recent, page. You can work backward from there if you like.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Here's a link:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/a-drawing-in-progress.95252/page-21

It's a long thread. The link is to the last, most recent, page. You can work backward from there if you like.

Gosh, you're phenomenal! Please tell me you do this for a living.

 

[James Holland]

I'm a social pyromaniac. I build big fires in a fire pit instead of burning down the neighbors houses. When I was young and we were in North Carolina, sometime in the 50's when there were small-business tobacco barns everywhere, one of the bigger ones caught fire. A big wooden tobacco barn full of dry tobacco, all burning, is a sight to behold. I decided right then and there that I was going to be a pyromaniac, but the thought of going to jail keeps me contained

what is really fun to burn is a balloon filled with hydrogen
and better still 2 part H 1 part O in a balloon (i don't know why that doesn't make water but it dose make a big bang)

 

[James Holland]

i want a metal detector too

 

[Sophia]

A very subjective question, but I've always liked this picture

We can all imagine that that one of phind's bowls is inside dining room

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.

 

[James Holland]

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

 

[zoobyshoe]

Gosh, you're phenomenal! Please tell me you do this for a living.

Thank you!
No, it's just a (serious) hobby.

 

[davenn]

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

 

[jtbell]

what is really fun to burn is a balloon filled with hydrogen

Like this one?

 

[dlgoff]

I just had a quick look ...

Did you see this one Dave? I think it's awesome.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

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

 

[davenn]

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

 

[wolram]

If I make my drawing hobby any more serious than I do, people I know are going start calling me addicted

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.

 

[James Holland]

Like this one?

maybe without the people on board and also just a common household balloon opposed to a Zeppelin but essentially yes

 

[Dembadon]

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.

 

[Dembadon]

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.

 

[James Holland]

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

 

[Kevin McHugh]

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

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

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 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”.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

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.

 

[James Holland]

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

 

[James Holland]

i tried writing them but I am a special child

 

[Kevin McHugh]

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.

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.

 

[jtbell]

My site gets 15,000 unique visitors per month.

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."

 

[Sophia]

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.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

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."

Your site's cool . . . so you're also into stamp collecting?

 

[jtbell]

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.

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.

 

[James Holland]

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."

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.

 

[James Holland]

anyone like studio Ghibli films?
i think their great.

 

[meBigGuy]

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):

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

My Hobby (so I can play while others sleep)

That's so kind of you, meBigGuy

 

[Hoophy]

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.

 

[collinsmark]

[added] I just found out about "drainspotting". Is anyone here into it?

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35696967

A few decades ago I used to wear a T-shirt stamped from a template made from a New Orleans water meter cover.

 

[Hornbein]

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

 

[alan2]

Ballroom dancing gets you laid.

 

[Pepper Mint]

Me too, I like backpacking and climbing.

 

[physics user1]

Watching films, sitcoms, cartoons, listening to music, playing video games, mostly shooters, surfing the Internet, staying on social networks, this kind of things

 

[mheslep]

Competitive rowing. For some reason, never heard from another PF'er who does same.

 

[Janus]

Nobody else likes to draw

I used to draw more. Here's one from a while back that isn't too bad.

 

[ISamson]

Electronics, judo, reading.

 

[Janus]

Electronics, judo, reading.

I used to do some electronics as a hobby, but that was back in the day when you still could pop over to the local Radio Shack to pick up components, and hobbyist magazines like Radio-Electronics(ended in 2003) and Popular Electronics(ended in 1985) were still in print( I actually got a circuit printed in the reader submission section of the second of these mags). I still do quite a bit of reading.

 

[Comeback City]

Recently I've been listening to a lot of music... also love to play almost any sport, especially basketball and soccer.

 

[dlgoff]

@davenn

Any idea what this may be?

Front:

Back:

 

[Bystander]

Front: leaf/fern print/fossil. Back: sandstone concretion.