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What creative projects have you been working on?
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Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
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A coworker recently joined and is rather enthusiastic. I’ve been checked out of late, but their vibe is kind of infectious. AND one day said coworker was telling me their must do ideas for marketing stuff. One of these ideas was Magic the Gathering cards for our company as giveaways and leave behinds.
Welp, I did the three founders (we work at a startup and everyone knows everyone), brought it to a work event, and turns out the CMO was a Magic nerd. They asked for a full set. For a tournament. At our company yearly event for customers.
So I’m 130 some odd finished cards deep now with a team of 6 and we start play testing soon. It’s absolutely wild. Nearly every employee is gushing over them and suggesting it as a yearly theme for all our events.
I’m super excited for it, it’s helped me lean into my job again but in a different way.
I'm not sure if this counts as a "project" but I've been focusing on trying to decorate my apartment a bit better. I moved into this apartment a year ago and outside furnishing it, I haven't really done anything to make it feel like home. I put some posters on a wall and Lego builds on a shelf but it's still missing something.
I'm doing a few things to remedy this:
Good idea, makes it look more intentional, and gives refined vibes.
Have you considered any plants?
I've actually got a fake bamboo plant at the moment and am thinking of getting some others. I'm hesitant to get real plants because my apartment really doesn't get a lot of light, it faces an alleyway between my building and the neighboring building. I'm not sure how well plants would survive without much light haha. I did do some research on plants that don't need much light but I'm still unsure.
I designed some 3D Printable anti-ICE whistles based off Maarva's Funerary Stone from the Star Wars series Andor and released them for free online.
I also started printing hundreds of these to distribute to local rapid response organizations.
I think Andor is a very important piece of media, beyond just the fandom and pop culture value. Tony Gilroy crafted a brilliant look into the mechanisms of fascism and the realities of rebellion, something that is sorely needed at this particular moment in time.
And if you've seen the scene that the Funerary Stone is featured in and listened to Maarva's speech, it very much rhymes with what's currently happening here in America.
Also I consider it a small form of tactical frivolity as well.
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I've been casually taking pictures since I was a kid, and started taking a lot more when I got my first interchangeable lens camera a few years ago.
I do mostly landscapes and architecture, some astrophotography (moon and milky way, not deep space stuff), pet pics, and some cadids / photojournalistic / street photography stuff.
My big gap has been portraits, but I'm taking a portrait class and it's crossing my mind to try to build a side business around my photography.