I crochet little animals for friends and family.
Unasked, most of the time :)
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I do calligraphy!
This is visually beautiful but makes me long for a few days ago when the weekend was ahead of me.
I used to write Wikipedia articles and blog posts about music if that counts.
I populate Google Maps. Fill in business names, opening hours, take photos etc. At the start, I was vociferous about it, putting thousands of photos on there. These days, just about everything is there and I only correct stuff and add/remove businesses as they come and go. Oh, and food/menu photos.
Some of my photos have tens of millions of views. Which means people have to see them many times I think. Otherwise every single Australian would have seen the most popular ones, which doesn't make sense.
I'm used to Google just trusting me and immediately doing what I say. But I really had to convince them that Toys R Us really were closing down. That one took three attempts. The more prominent a place, the higher the rank you need to do major edits to it.
I did the same of you. I reached a high level as a google guide, was invited to google map meetings and everything.
And then I suddenly realized all my efforts were just helping this company get bigger and achieve more monopoly. The terms of use of google maps state that everything you add becomes property of google.
And then I Found OpenStreetMap.org a lovely community in which you really are building a community effort in which there is no company monopolizing and all data is open. Sadly, you can't import all the work you've done on google maps, because now it is copyright protected by Google. So we have to start again, but it is worth it.
OSM is the future if we are to hope for a fair future in online maps.
I've contributed plenty to OSM, but not so much as a creative thing. I rarely upload photos to it. The question was about creative things we do.
While I agree my contributions help Google, I don't do it for them. I do it for the community. And frankly, they're mostly using Google maps.
They're only using Google maps because volunteers like you keep it up to date. Slack on Google and only help out OSM, an eventually the people will come.
I agree. You are helping in the short term, but in the long term, you are not. In the long term, you are empowering a monopoly that steals their freedom.
Please, discover OpenStreetMap.org and stop being an unpaid Google employee, and make your work truly public and free.
On Sunday mornings I fix bicycles at the local community center for free, we just charge the price of materials.
For me is like Zen meditation, it makes my mind focus on one simple task in these crazy times where our attention span is all over the place. And it's good for our community since most of the people that come there are broke college students, families having a hard time and in general people who want to spend time together. Our group is always growing, I'm expecially proud of two kids, children of immigrants, who came to learn from us two years ago and now managed to save enough money to open their own bike repair shop.
I play music at home, sometimes recording it. I have zero interest in monetizing it. The most Iβd 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.
Apart from the YouTube stuff, I'm similar. Writing, arranging, recording, mixing, etc. Simply because I enjoy it.
It's been a while, though. First came kids and other life-related things to take up most of my time. Plus I migrated to linux fully (as opposed to dual booting) in 2014 or thereabouts. But I recently found a DAW that I like, which also works great on linux, so as soon as I find a decent drum and piano synth I'm back in (not doing) business.
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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.
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I make instrumental music. I write, record, produce, and upload everything myself; but barely earn anything from it. 50k+ streams and I think I've only earned $170 so far.
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!
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"
Creating memes...
Tabletop roleplaying
Build stuff for burning man
I bake for my families and friends, and i sometime do wood working too.
Cook, bake, crochet, cross-stitch, oil paint, watercolor, party planning etc I hoard hobbies but don't do any of them professionally since I already have a job. They are all hobbies I enjoy
Make skirts!
Cool. Want to share a pic?
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.
Admining a Lemmy instance isnβt especially creative but at least I donβt get paid for it.
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 thereβs no way in hell Iβd 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 Iβve mostly been pretty disciplined about that, and itβs 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 Iβm wearing, and the answer is often βyes.β The ones who are also crafters just admire the work, but the ones who arenβt start telling me I should sell (big lol) or that theyβd pay me to make them one. If I charged an hourly rate, itβd 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 wasnβt doing it anymore.
Most people wouldn't be willing to even cover the cost of the yarn. Good yarn can be crazy expensive!
I paint. I sold through a gallery for awhile but it just wasn't worth it when I could make ten times more for far less work doing my original job, so now it's back to just for fun. Also I hate painting portraits of rich people but if you don't do that it's really hard to make money. I also hated the mandatory social media removed. Engaging in that ecosystem disgusts me.
Performance art is a passion project. There's absolutely no money in it. I'm lucky to get $100 a gig. I also absolutely HATE that I have to use Instagram while constantly facing an uphill battle of PG-13 censors.
What I do get is a shit ton of really cool photos, skills, and props, as well as a loving community
One might say photo art. Am registered with every group on the net.
I enjoy photgraphy, mostly buildings and infrastructure, I have a gallery on a personal webhost, and never really share the link to it except to friends and family, but I have tyeblink to it on my CV.
I play the violin and harmonica.
I brew beer, been at it a while to where I'm getting a lot more creative and wandering far off from recipes.
Lacto-fermented hot sauces too, I don't stick to a recipe, just ratio guidelines to make sure it ferments as desired.
I just had a lacto-fermented sauce recently. The guy at the shop tried to explain it to me but i didn't really get it. He just said they put stuff in a bag, wait awhile, and then turn it over. Would you like to share what it is and how it's made?
I started with Joshua Weissman's recipe on YouTube and then went from there, mixing different fruits and veggies and adjusting the brine.
Basically, the bad bacteria doesn't like salt and the healthy bacteria does. So dump your peppers and whatever else for flavor in a brine, let it hang out for a while, add some garlic and vinegar and any secondary adds then blend the shit out of and enjoy. It gets even better as it ages in my fridge for a couple months. I made one with habanero, carrot, and mango that was delicious.
You want everything submerged so it doesn't mold. Ferment it in a jar that is covered but not sealed.
How To Ferment And Make Your Own Hot Sauce, Easily - YouTube Fermented Hot Sauce (joshuaweissman.com)
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