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2016/10/16 15:37:28
ØSkald
I have a canon camera and screens for bands photos and such. But i don't recognize that as hobby becaus its music related. I dont live of music, by the way. Its just as much a hobby in its right term. But its like a job. Everything goes into it. Tho I'm not structured and fast working.
2016/10/16 15:46:46
ØSkald
soens
You'll need some of these to round out your collection:
 

 


I know these people. Christian Viking group based of King Olav Den Hellige. As you see, they got a ship. http://www.olavsmenn.no/
2016/10/16 19:03:06
bjornpdx
Photography and video are my other hobbies.  
Kind of fun to combine these interests and make slide shows/videos with my music in the soundtrack.
2016/10/16 21:02:20
Mosvalve
sharke
I've just rediscovered the joys of cycling. I use public transport a lot in New York and between the whole inefficient slowness of it all and the stinking bums and weirdos you have to put up with, I'm pretty sick of it. I never wanted to own a bike in NYC because they take up valuable apartment space, you have to carry a big chain and lock around and even then they get stolen all the time. So I bought myself an annual pass for the bike sharing scheme. There's a docking station right by my building and I just insert my CitiBike key into a dock and away we go. You get 45 minutes per ride before you have to dock and take out a new bike, but that's more than enough for me to get around Manhattan. 
 
I know it sounds crazy but I'd forgotten how much fun city cycling can be. I don't mind the traffic, it feels good to weave in and out of stationary cars on a bike, it's very satisfying to leave those chumps behind in the jam. Of course you have to have your wits about you what with psychotic taxi drivers, dump truck maniacs and a general culture of outright looniness on New York roads, but as long as you remain focused it's OK. I love the general camaraderie of road users yelling abuse and insults at each other. There's nothing better than riding up alongside a taxi that's just cut you off and politely inquiring as to whether or not the operator of said vehicle even has a frigging drivers license, and if so, how drunk must his examiner had to have been on the day  


I gotta give you a lot of credit to brave the NY streets on a bike. I always laugh when I see bike riders and drivers yelling at each other. Bike riders also forget they have to yield to pedestrians. I've come close to being run over.  Weave in and out of that mess of tracffic, not me.
2016/10/17 09:35:33
bapu
My other hobby?
 
You're looking at it.
2016/10/17 09:39:01
Randy P
ampfixer
I've been into astronomy since I was a little kid. The same goes for photography. The only music credits I've ever had were for cover photo's. I wish I had the flight sim Randy is talking about. I could be all over that.




John, I'll PM you a link if you wish, but first a disclaimer. Your pc specs look healthy enough to run it. However, once you start down this rabbit hole you'll need a quality joystick, throttle and rudder pedal setup. You'll also need a head tracking setup and if you wish to fly online you'll need a headphone mic setup and related software, and a very healthy internet speed. The hardware alone gets into 4 figures quickly. If "She who must be obeyed" knew what I had into this little hobby, I might be rightly accused of being a grown ass man with the mentality of a 14 year old with more money than brains.
2016/10/17 09:52:14
BobF
ampfixer
I've been into astronomy since I was a little kid. The same goes for photography. The only music credits I've ever had were for cover photo's. I wish I had the flight sim Randy is talking about. I could be all over that.




My hobbies have changed over the years.  I usually do a really deep dive into something, then move on.  Music has been constant though.
 
I got into astronomy/astrophotography in a big way for a few years:
https://postimg.org/gallery/22zpneztw/
 
Winemaking, wildlife habitat/prairie restoration (small scale) and stock trading are current distractions
2016/10/17 11:34:42
Glyn Barnes
I retired last year. Music has been a hobby for along time, photography (particularly landscape photography) even longer. Photography, in theory gets me out, about and active but it also involves a lot of time on the computer messing around in Lightroom, which is the bit the wife can't understand.
 
I have also built two and a half electric mountain dulcimers. The half? well the build has been stalled for ages. I must get it finished.
 
 
2016/10/17 11:50:30
eph221
bapu
My other hobby?
 
You're looking at it.


I think the information age, while cutting the average income of musicians also provided some great opportunities for all of us.  Live playing, professional recording (I know that the big studios had to go, but really it was like a cyclical consolidation over about 10 years), streaming, and even terrestrial radio is coming  back (I hope).  What other opportunities are there...teaching has exploded in quantity and quality;  there are more GREAT musicians alive today than at any other time (maybe not as well known, unfortunately), of course there's software.  If streaming costs 99 cents a track, and every music lover on the planet streamed ONE of your tracks how much money is that?  Media is ubiquitous so there's a huge need for new, original material (although they pay $h*t).  There's always a profit margin in a *song* because it can't ever be commodified...they're each unique (well...that can be a stretch sometimes).
2016/10/17 14:14:20
bapu
bapu
My other hobby?
 
You're looking at it.


 
Either:
 
i) Mesh Getz It
2) Every Juan Else Is Ignoring It
c) It's always C
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