In your long list of artistic accomplishments, what project are you most proud of and why? What was most meaningful to you personally? Was it a song, a performance, a drawing...? Tell us your success story!

I've taken a few pictures I'm pretty proud of, but if I have to select one thing then it's probably a short film that I wrote and directed and that ended up pretty damn close to what I had intended (which is amazing considering that we had almost no budget, no time and a million problems along the way).

I'm also quite proud of some of the long stories I wrote before my teenage years. I had an amazing creative discipline back then, way more than I have now.
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i made my son a bed. i could not afford to get him one at the time so i used 'fee cards' that were issued to us in art class, purchased some wood and made him a full size bed in the woodshop at school. i felt really good about that when i was finished. my baby has a place to lay his head
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brownsugar said:

Wow, I'm impressed! Carpentry is not a skill you can just pull out of your sleeve.

My work is creative, I find nothing in particular stands out really - it's all of a reasonable standard. I can't charge the same to everyone and some get a masterpiece and others get a piece of crap
I am not very creative outside of my work really braindead

retina said:

i enjoy it alot. i've only been into for about 4 years, i pick up how to make things along the way and do it in a way that i can understand and in my own style. its very satisfying to see the end result of an idea.

its not the best but its my first. okay here's a pic and i'll stop gloating.

brownsugar said:

Wow, not only is it a functioning bed, it has cool artwork too! I really am impressed...

My senior year I submitted a few poems to my school's creative writing/art magazine, and one ended up being put into our yearbook. That was pretty neat But more than that poem, I love the ones I hide away in notebooks that are too personal to ever share.

every morning when i wake up and go to the bathroom, even from that moment i have started creating... sometimes it feels like my head will explode, i just have so many ideas... if i didn't get it all out of my system regularly... well i don't know.. i might be even less normal than i am


but anyway... several of my songs i am quite proud of... certain gigs i have played... performing in front of thousands at disneyland when i was 15...


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That's awesome.

ZombieKitten said:

What kind of work do you do?

mrdespues said:

not that kind of creation!

heartbeatocean said:

graphic design

ZombieKitten said:

everything i do is art




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mrdespues said:

j/k

As I said on another thread (sorry if you've heard this), mine was a 17-minute quadraphonic radio play I wrote, directed, edited and produced called Dreaming Fire. It felt like me, so authentic to who I am, who I want to be. It was highly imaginative and everyone who heard it LOVED it! I don't think I've ever pleased an audience or myself more than with that piece.

brownsugar said:

Wow! You deserve to gloat. That's really something... I've never been good at building anything.

I once filled the teachers office with toilet paper. They couldn't get in to get rid of the stuff.

althom said:

I hope that was on the last day of your school life!

ZombieKitten said:

Ummmm.....yeah.

althom said:

you mean it wasn't and you got expelled?!

ZombieKitten said:

No. They didn't know it was me.

I created a user interface for a perfusionist system used in open heart surgery...it was the first UI I ever worked on. I had to come up with intuitive icons, color schemes, technical illustrations and alert systems that a perfusionist could understand and react to instantly. It hit me that my graphic design skills were being put to use to save lives...still proud of that fact.

brownsugar said:

That is one of the sweetest stories I have ever heard.

Byron said:

now that is our skill put to good use!! I have put mine to use in things that go against my principles and that I am not proud of

althom said:

you serious!!!! OMG you naughty thing!!

The goth fanzine my friends and I published back in the 90s. I was the art guy of course and I made that thing look good considering it was a crappy fanzine.

sextonseven said:

Oh you have reminded me!!! I designed the first 2 (maybe even 3? not sure) volumes of these babies!
http://www.housequake.com...091-1.html