By “unconventional” I mean something other than classical visual or audio arts like painting, sculpture, music, etc.
I’ve never been a very “artistic” person. But when I took my first programming class, I worked on my code like it was a sculpture. I found beauty in making my code clean, efficient, easy to read, and user-friendly. It still seems weird and affectatious to say, and I wasn’t really expecting that kind of experience from that class! It was one of the only times I ever felt “artistic.”
But why not? Any medium can be artful.
What’s your non-traditional art?
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Cinematography. The composition of a moving frame.
I’m a former dancer with no outlet. My PowerPoint presentations are on point! And don’t get me started on a good graph! 🤣
I build high end CB radio setups for people I know, and it’s always so satisfying
Each Sunday for the last year I’ve prepared a two hour block of programming accompanied with a fancy breakfast. Basically I’m recreating the Saturday morning cartoons experience for my kid. I have a spreadsheet with over 50 different shows to track where we’re at in each one, along with when they were last played so nothing falls out of rotation by accident. I edit them all together next to indie animations (e.g. Bluehilda and Big Top Burger), music videos, those super short animations like RudeJackArt does, random old stuff like school house rock etc.
Sometimes if there’s a commercial break built into the cartoon, I’ll put something fun in there. I once hid “a Gaudi muaß sein” that video with the tongue flicking choir right in the middle of an episode of the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon. Have also used this format to show off certain things like a video game he’s getting for his birthday.
All of it rendered locally with openshot from the stuff on my media server. It’s one of the best hobbies I’ve ever had because not only have I been purposely discovering and preserving a lot of great indie art, I’m spending time with my kid, sharing laughs and bits of culture, making the most of the one day of the week we’re all off work, and avoiding the time waster streaming outlets where you just watch whatever CGI talking animal shit for all of eternity.
I’ve never heard of anyone else doing this, and I sometimes wish there was a legally viable and inexpensive way to share it with the world. I’ve tried sending it to family via sync thing, but they all have trouble with it. Boo.
they all have trouble with it.
Then the next step is to make this user-friendly!
tbh it already is, they’re just not into it enough to put in the effort. And that’s fine, it’s easier to enjoy it as a hobby with an audience of two. But if it was possible to throw it up for everyone without getting sent to a DMCA gulag, I would be happy to do so.
I do not shitpost comments on Lemmy.
I create art.
If interior decorators are artists, then so is posing things like parts for photos. Like real world exploded views of things. It’s just part of my job to catalogue these things, but might as well make each one pleasing (to myself at least).
Wait
So your job is to disassemble things and take well lit pictures of their parts ?
Where do I apply
Tl:Dr; small business; pictures of shipment components from the lease pool.
I run a very small scientific equipment company where our primary income stream is the lease pool. A lot of the equipment is modular, so before sending the equipment to the customer, we have to assemble and test in whatever configuration is appropriate for their study. We take photos and send them notes on how to use the device as configured. Then we disassemble and take a picture of all the components we’re sending, then finally package for safe shipping. This picture is one of the steps in the process of making sure that we get all the components back when we get the equipment back.
Because of the modulatity, it would take a lot of time to individually itemize each shipment, so the picture saves a lot of work. But only if the picture is actually useful and you can see and recognize every component. So there is an art to laying it all out. It feels like laying out Lego components, trying to optimize the view.
I just set a subset of the photo above as my LinkedIn banner because it looks cool (to me). Thus, “art”.
We are very small. Aside from myself, I’ve got a business manager and an electronics technician. As we grow, more will be needed. But I suspect ~10 people is the max we can grow to before our market is saturated and we will always be a small business.
That’s very interesting
Is that a ground penetrating radar wheelbarrow?!
Yes. ;)
Very cool toys, hadn’t seen a one wheeler before
It’s actually just an odometer wheel that drags behind the unit. You need the antennas to be in contact with the ground for best data. So the instrument isn’t exactly balanced on the wheel. But close enough to a wheel barrow for illustrative effect :)
Our existance is an expression of art. Each of us is an individual being whos experiences in totalitt act as threads weaving together the tapestry of life. Every emotion expressed is paint, every action and consequence the brush.
The universe and everything born from it are machinations of creative whimsy and play. Being alive and choosing to continue your complicated existance is one of the highest forms of divine art.
I like drawing on chalkboards and have been doing it for an ice cream shop for a while now. It’s kind of conventional but the medium isn’t so I often find little resources on how to do it when I have to get inventive because they like me drawing their food.
been a programmer for nearly 25 years now… i understand what you mean. i find a lot of joy in not just making a program “go”, but building it elegantly and efficiently. there are a lot of design guidelines and patterns that make that easier and more predictable, but i always feel there is a lot of value in trusting your sense of aesthetic and building stuff by way of discovery and refinement, sculpting.
