I play music at home, sometimes recording it. I have zero interest in monetizing it. The most I’d like to do is collaborate and make music with others.
I also ran a YouTube channel for a few years. Made about twenty cents from that.
I used to write Wikipedia articles and blog posts about music if that counts.
I cook for the family. It’s not the cooking that’s creativity for me, most of the time, it’s the menu planning that is the hardest to think through.
Omg! I complain about this all the time! Deciding what to make is by fast the hardest part!
Occasionally make movie posters for YouTube videos I download, primarily using low-tech means like cropping, layering, etc.
Mainly because I don’t know how to do the more advanced stuff, but I find it kind of fun though to try to do similar levels of quality with lower-tech tools. Kind of like coding challenges but with Paint.NET. Lol. (BTW, that’s not a link. Lol.)
Did you watch that short movie that someone here made a few months ago? It was about a doc who dresses up for Halloween. It was really good and making a poster for it would be cool.
I actually didn’t! Do you have the link for it?
Thanks! I’ll watch that tonight after I get off work!
It’s about 12 minutes.
…Thanks? I’m sorry; I’m just confused why you would mention that.
Just to let you know that it’s a short film. You don’t have to commit to 2 hours.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/C7lYOkjU03o?feature=shared
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Creating memes…
I crochet little animals for friends and family.
Unasked, most of the time :)DM/GM from time to time.
Do you have a game of choice? I’ve just finished running a Dresden files accelerated game which was a lot of fun.
D&D and Pathfinder are the main ones, and Genesys sometimes when I can convince my players to give it a try. Currently trying to maybe get something going with Cyberpunk Red.
I do calligraphy!
This is visually beautiful but makes me long for a few days ago when the weekend was ahead of me.
Knit, crochet, cannabis edibles.
People want to pay me for my knitting. Too bad for them that the amount they want to pay me is laughable and also there’s no way in hell I’d take the time to knit someone I barely know a sweater.
People have offered to pay me for stuff but i feel i can’t produce the quality that it would require. Like someone else here shared, i mostly make and give things that people don’t ask for- baby sweaters, blankets, scarves, shawls, dog sweaters. I keep a stash of hats and scarves in my car to give away to people on the corners in the winter. I’m a good starter but a terrible finisher. I mostly see a cool pattern, struggle to figure it out, and then when i get the hang of it I wander away and find another cool pattern.
Totally get that. I used to be that way; somewhere along the line I decided that I would not allow myself more than three WIPs at a time, and I’ve mostly been pretty disciplined about that, and it’s helped. I make a lot of sweaters for myself so when people learn that I knit, they know to ask me if I made what I’m wearing, and the answer is often “yes.” The ones who are also crafters just admire the work, but the ones who aren’t start telling me I should sell (big lol) or that they’d pay me to make them one. If I charged an hourly rate, it’d probably mean upwards of a thousand bucks for a single sweater, but they have no concept of that.
Anyway, I hear you on the learning new stitch patterns and then getting bored. I mostly knit while in meetings or watching TV these days, because it got easy. I had to learn something new (sewing) to stretch my brain because knitting wasn’t doing it anymore.
Most people wouldn’t be willing to even cover the cost of the yarn. Good yarn can be crazy expensive!
Tabletop roleplaying
Sigh, I wish I could get paid for it. I absolutely love building a compelling story, but I’m far too nervous with strangers.
Decorating my house
Making small games
Writing poetry
Cooking
I do other creative things, but I’ve been paid for most of them at one point or another.
I’m so bad at decorating!! I’ve lived in my house for 20 years and it’s mostly a collection of “i guess i don’t hate that.” I actually hired someone once to help me choose paint colors. Ended up with three different shades of tan.
Make skirts!
Cool. Want to share a pic?
Build stuff for burning man
I try to make electronic music, mostly with a laptop but I also have some equipment. It’s really just to scratch my engineering itch.
Photography. I mostly use my phone but I have a proper camera which is for my very specific use case.
I’ve been doing both of these most of my life, my father gave me my first camera around 10yo and I got into electronic music at about the same age.
My son is using my old camera a lot now, and he’s making music on his PC. Which is very pleasing to me.
My brother is really into making electronic music too. Last Christmas, he said he really wanted a Stylophone. I got him one, but first had him open a gag gift that was a child’s toy Xylophone and was like “I heard you really wanted one of these”
Admining a Lemmy instance isn’t especially creative but at least I don’t get paid for it.
