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Darryl Parker's avatar

Making has always been the way I've sorted through my own issues. Challenges deploying a team to meet demand? I took a semester long ceramics class. By the end of the semester I had it all largely figured out to go to the next level. When I get stuck, I back up and tinker. And in the sawdust and shavings, I usually whittle out of my rut.

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Nye Mechworks's avatar

When making things, a critical theory approach rarely works: within the confines of an endeavour, certain things simply will not work, such as cutting down a tree with a herring. I guess that is why many purported intellectuals avoid creativity and simulate it via imitation.

Building a giant robot certainly does get ya thinking, that's for sure ...

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Patrick E McLean's avatar

A giant robot! That's awesome!

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Nye Mechworks's avatar

If your interested you can search "Giant robot marduk" on YouTube/Google and I'm the first result.

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Patrick E McLean's avatar

Already did. Subscribed on YouTube. Keep building them, man. In fact, go full Colin Furze on them! https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/marduk-and-me-joshua-nye-and-his-giant-robot/Content?oid=30753492

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Nye Mechworks's avatar

Thanks. I'm thinking more like "Real Steel" (but bigger).

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Gillsing's avatar

I used to be creative, but then I got the internet to supply me with so much escapism that there wasn't enough need for me to create my own.

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Patrick E McLean's avatar

Well, I certainly hope I am contributing to that problem. But my point is that making things isn't an escape, it's a more fundamental connection to reality.

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Gillsing's avatar

I agree that making things isn't an escape. If it was I'd still be creative. But my goal has always been to escape reality, and back in the day before the internet I was forced to be creative so I could use the result to escape reality. Not so anymore! Necessity is the mother of invention. And creation too, I guess?

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