Thread "Anything other than Comics?" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 1:01AM, Jan. 10, 2012

BuddyParaiso wrote:
I collect Action figures (The 12 inch, clothed kind) of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Military…just about anything (No super heroes and ninja turtles)
I collect (or start to collect) "

Ditto but my comics are done with them so one segues into the other. Now I mostly collect furniture and accessories and create the sets. Not precisely sure if one is seperate from the other as creating the sets and accessories and customizing the figures ends up in the comic yet is often seperate from the comics.

Build model kits of aircraft and armored fighting vehicles and research them endlessly. Also research military uniform and make miniature figures of various periods. Used to compete in contests and donate models to museums. Now I just try to build more shelving.

I used to collect actual uniforms but sold it all to buy those action figures.

Posted at 12:01AM, Jan. 12, 2012

I go to art school.
I used to be able to sing well but I dont think I can anymore haha.
I'm good at writing.
I'm good at DDR (ehh.. haven't done that in awhile, maybe I suck now..)
I like biking, but only if I have somewhere to go.
I'm an RA at my school.
I make friends very easily.
I get hit on a lot by lesbians (is this a talent? ;D)
I worked at Disney Imagineering for a year, then interned on Adventure Time at cartoon network.
I just turned 23 and I like being an odd number of years rather than an even number :)

Posted at 1:01AM, Jan. 12, 2012

I make pretty hair bows and sell them on my site and other sale sites
I intern at a costume/prop studio
I freelance illustration
I do art direction and graphic design for a lolita magazine (that sucks by the way).
so yeah… when I'm not doing comics … I'm doing some sort of other art…

Posted at 2:01AM, Jan. 12, 2012

Well I'm a full time parent.
I do karate.
used to do fencing… both types, swords and the type that separate gardens and such. I used to do a bit of amateur film making, I may do some again soon.
video games
and watch too many tv series and not enough films

Posted at 4:01PM, Jan. 13, 2012

I am a book person - a self-discovery at age 6? - and it's been rather major ever since.

Yeah - married, with kids (2). And those 2 kids are my biggest, best "hobbies". And Himself - well, that's - what it is. But books call to me. When I was 6(?), my class went to the town library, and it was then I knew what Ali Baba sensed, surrounded by riches, without having a clue to who Ali Baba might have been. uummmm -

I like the feel of a "real" book, that 10/8/12 pt board in the binder, the smythe-sewn, the acid-free pages, 5? 6? color plates printed in Italye. lovely. l-o-v-e-r-l-y.

I zone in a good bookstore. seriously, it's taken the very plaintiff expressions of my kids (please. O - please, mother mine) to drag me out, after an hour. maybe 2. OK - maybe 3 (really).

gardening is good, too. My front yard is "known" locally - kinda cool.

sometimes I like to cook. And when I'm on, I'm hard to beat. But that's not a constant. To me, it's all about flavors and textures. presentation can remediate, but does not substitute, imo

and then there's making stuff (generally involving textiles/needlework - sometimes clay). Never know when that will strike, nor how long it will consume.

Posted at 1:01AM, Jan. 14, 2012

I'd describe myself as a horse with blinkers on, I see something and will focus only on it!
At the moment its playing thru dragons age, so computer games is a big one for me! I do read a lot and I always take a book with me tho I never read any thing that "smart" but I didn't take to reading until college when I was told that black and white writing was not meant to jump around the page! I love watching Films but again nothing "smart" (oh Evil Dead how I love you)! I don't watch much tv there never anything good on nowadays Sherlock it at the moment. I play desk top RPGs with friends because they are such a lath!

Posted at 9:01AM, Jan. 14, 2012

uglyfun wrote:
I get hit on a lot by lesbians (is this a talent? ;D)

If you're a lesbian, yes. If you're straight, I imagine it would get pretty annoying.

Fun facts about NickyP, eh? Hmmm…
-Though I'm not an art major nor do I have any real artistic talent, about half of my ex-girlfriends were art majors. And every time I would tell myself, "I'm never dating an artist again," I'd realize I was hitting on one right then and there. D'oh!
-I was in a chorus that performed at Disney World.
-For the last 5-6 years, I've been a competitor in a debate team. In all my years I've only lost once; my very first round. I also do mock trials, and have yet to lose one of those.
-Despite the previous factoid, before college I wasn't the best public speaker. Sure, I could deliver speeches and readings with great ease… but when it came to speaking my mind, instead of just reading someone else's words, I was very shy. My debate team coach helped me realize that I'm a lot smarter than I thought I was, and I couldn't be more thankful.
-I just graduated with a Bachelors of Applied Science in Paralegal Studies. Why am I telling you this? Because I have zero interest in being a paralegal. lololol
-Currently teaching myself piano. I can play a couple of short tunes, but beyond that, it's not going so well.
-I'll be 25 years old in June, and because of the way a typical Greek household works, I've still never done my own laundry.

Posted at 7:01PM, Jan. 14, 2012

well i like to paint
used to play guitar, got a little baglamas from Greece though so that's fun.
worked on a ship and got about 40 hours in at the helm, pretty damn sweet if you ask me!
fightin fires (with my unbridled charm)
im refocusing my energy on art history now, and i really wanna study the epic cycle, or at least dork out about it for a long long time to come. i just love the hell out've greek culture. history in general is just amazing.
im a sucker for good beer.
even bigger sucker for good music, giddy for thrash metal. giddy as the biggest most flamboyant school girl.

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 15, 2012

okaaay… seems I'm on a forum roll today. :P

- I am a professional psychopedagogue (= I teach how to teach, correct teachers' errors in kids, that sort of thing, but within the educational psychology field)
- I'm a research psychologist too, specialising on the effect of fear on cognitive fuctions.
- I am also a professional author, so far in fantasy but I am branching out to other genres right now.
- I love to make sweets- cakes, cookies, anything that involves honey, sugar, butter and the like gives me great pleasure to make and share!
- I like logic, justice and human rights. And I fight for them on and off line with a vengeance. No goddamn compromise. EVER. >:(
- I love debates, but I hate manipulative rhetorics.
- I love wearing hats. I got a hat collection, both summer and winter ones.
- I love to fuse retro and modern elements in compositions.

Posted at 4:01PM, Jan. 16, 2012

ooohhh my turn?
Ok lets see
I hate horror and vampire stories and movies
I love childrens cartoons and anime and Robot Chicken
I travel between Adelaide and Utah at least once a year
I am a freemason

Posted at 3:01PM, Jan. 17, 2012

hmm let's see here…

I write (published a novel a year ago)
I'm a business student
I sell t-shirts
I council people who are going through hard times
I sword fight
I study and design video games as well as review and work on walkthroughs of them
I enjoy science and phylosophy especially space/time and the make up of energy
I create complex calculators on excel
I do puppetry, used to post them on youtube until the whole music pirating thing came up
I enjoy designing things, I'm currently working on:

An mmo
A personal hover craft with a higher altitude rating
A way to charge batteries using static electricity
A personal desktop secretary to handle apps and files and searches and such
A business plan

I play rythm instruments, guitar, trumpet, french horn, and I'm trying to teach myself piano
I enjoy long walks (I mean like hours at a time)
I love cooking, have been doing it since I was 7
I enjoy watching both nerdy movies like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Doctor Who, anything DC universe and historical movies such as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensability and such
I enjoy writing on forums =D

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 22, 2012

Tantz Aerine wrote:
- I love to make sweets- cakes, cookies, anything that involves honey, sugar, butter and the like gives me great pleasure to make and share!
- I love wearing hats. I got a hat collection, both summer and winter ones.

Ooooh… new, surprising facts! Now I feel like I've never known you at all :P

Posted at 5:01PM, Jan. 22, 2012

Abt_Nihil wrote:
Tantz Aerine wrote:
- I love to make sweets- cakes, cookies, anything that involves honey, sugar, butter and the like gives me great pleasure to make and share!
- I love wearing hats. I got a hat collection, both summer and winter ones.

Ooooh… new, surprising facts! Now I feel like I've never known you at all :P

That makes me raise the ante even more, and say I also collect coffee mugs, because I'm a coffee addict and I like variety in the …vessels I use to drink it off from. XD

Do these facts honestly surprise you about me? XD

Posted at 6:01AM, Jan. 23, 2012

Well, it's not like they contradict anything I know about you, it's rather that I guess I really don't know that much about you, despite the fact that our discussions could fill books :P

Okay, I should say something about myself too…
- I have an MA in philosophy and am currently studying neurosciences and writing a PhD thesis somewhere between these two fields, so I do have a knack for scientific thinking.
- I've been producing music for over ten years, working with local hip-hop artists, and recording and producing four LPs myself. I've more or less abandoned that in recent years, for lack of lyrical inspiration and lack of time. But I'm still producing tracks for other people and making remixes and such. I've never worked on a "professional" level, but I've had a few stage performances here and there, which was fun.
- I've also acted in a stage play, which took about half a year rehearsing, and we had two performances in early 2010.
- I don't play any instruments and I suck at sports :P

Posted at 5:01AM, Jan. 24, 2012

That's amazing Abt Nihil!! I never knew about that! Now you MUST let me listen to your work!

Posted at 9:01AM, Jan. 24, 2012

Since you're asking so nicely… :P
This footage is from five years ago: clip 1 clip 2

Posted at 4:01AM, Jan. 31, 2012

- Video games
- Novels. I like novels too. Like to write them too.
- Film. I do post production work on some films.
- Job. Unfortunately this is mostly what I do!

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 10, 2012

too much vidya gaming. or not enough.
i like to think of new games, i don't have the technical know-how or knowledgable hook ups.
i know how to play the piano!
i love to cook. i'm not a vegetarian, but i love creating vegetarian or vegan alternatives.
clerical stuff, but that's boring.
ooooh, partying. ENDLESSLY.

Posted at 3:03PM, Mar. 11, 2012

Ah, yes! This is why I disappeared for two years. XD

- I'm a multi-instrumentalist. I play the sax, keys (organ, piano, and analog synths), violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, bassoon, oboe, clarinet, the list goes on. I like shiny things.
- ^ that lead to joining multiple bands and one nationally touring Pink Floyd show. I have lost at least a year of my life to riding in a vehicle.
- I write original music too of the melodic rock nature (http://www.mypieceofjunk.com)
- I'm a junior in college studying forensic science
- I love chemistry. Probably more than I should.
- I'm moderately addicted to social networking. And I'm really not sure why.
- I like to write but I'm almost too ADD to spend too long on it. Hence, comics.
Oh yes, and also endless partying. ;)

Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 11, 2012

Good music too. I Highly reccomend it!

Posted at 8:03PM, Mar. 13, 2012

Drawing comics is my "day job," what I really am is a paranormal author for a small publishing company. What I do is go out into the field, finding urban legends or ghost stories, and busting them using historical data and interviews. Whee!
So I literally go ghost hunting for a living.