Editor talk:What do your friends/family think of your hobby?

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:34 pm

I'm glad to see so many other families supportive of the hobby, but also like Beo am upset to see that so many are indifferent or even adamantly against it

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Anyway, the best part is when I tell my mom I went to some convention that weekend and she asks if I won anything :-/ and when I don't, she gets all angry and thinks I should've won (even though she didn't see the other entries)

. The best was trying to explain AWA Masters. Yeah because I'm gonna win Masters my first year and on a video I didn't put that much effort into...oops, I guess I shouldn't have admitted that last part

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Not to say my mom thinks awards mean anything, but like any parent, they like seeing their kid win and always think they're "the best." *shrug*

Tsukasa-San · Post by **Tsukasa-San** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:02 pm

family wishs I would drop anime all together. Friends are just as addictedto it as i am.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:28 pm

dwchang wrote:I'm glad to see so many other families supportive of the hobby, but also like Beo am upset to see that so many are indifferent or even adamantly against it .

I know my family wouldn't like it if they knew how much time I put into these things, but I also understand why.

AMV editing is a dead end and a massive time sink for someone planning to do research in some CS-related field. What is learning how to butcher -- er sorry edit[/I[ -- someone else's work going to do for me? Nothing.

I'm still going to do it, though. I guess I'm self-destructive like that. *shrug*

Back to theorem proving...

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:38 pm

trythil wrote:
dwchang wrote:I'm glad to see so many other families supportive of the hobby, but also like Beo am upset to see that so many are indifferent or even adamantly against it .
I know my family wouldn't like it if they knew how much time I put into these things, but I also understand why.

AMV editing is a dead end and a massive time sink for someone planning to do research in some CS-related field. What is learning how to butcher -- er sorry edit[/I[ -- someone else's work going to do for me? Nothing.

I'm still going to do it, though. I guess I'm self-destructive like that. *shrug*

Back to theorem proving...

'tis a hobby. Not everything has to "further your career" and so on. Some things are just outlets for creativitya nd so forth.

Wow, you're five times more angsty then usual. Is it that time of month?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:46 am

*sigh*

Well, I'm certainly glad for people who are supported in what they do. As for me... I just had a (verbal) fight over AMV's with my dad

And he not only rejected my hobby as anything good, but he called it illegal (not unreasonably?) and furthermore, rejected (!) hobbies in general as a luxury for the 'idle rich'.

My saving grace is that I'm almost 20, not 12; so it's not so easy to stop me, and now (in a somewhat immature fashion), I think I'll be editing more, partially out of spite.

/pityful

Rinny · Post by **Rinny** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:07 pm

I just get, "Wow. Did you draw all that?"

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:11 pm

Rinny wrote:I just get, "Wow. Did you draw all that?"

LOL! x2

the amount of times people have asked me if I actually CREATED the anime itself...I have said yes at least twice.

SSJVegita0609 · Post by **SSJVegita0609** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:03 pm

)v(ajin Koji wrote:
Rinny wrote:I just get, "Wow. Did you draw all that?"
LOL! x2

the amount of times people have asked me if I actually CREATED the anime itself...I have said yes at least twice.

Heh, same here

hyperchica11 · Post by **hyperchica11** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:31 am

even though i haven't actually FINISHED any of my vids (I;m a perfectionist--if i don't like where a vid is going, and i feel the concept's dead, i trash the entire thing, mostly, and restart it) I DO edit. My mom.... doesn't know enough about computers to care. My dad knows I know how to edit videos. Neither of them have ever seen an amv though. they're rather conservative. )They flipped out when i wanted to wear a bikini at age 12. Friends is porn. Nudity is satan. Swearing is evil.) Yeah.... so I don't show them amvs. They'd flip out at some of the more conservative outfits.

My baby sister on the other hand, has seen some of the amvs. I "accidentally minimize" them at some points, because she's so little.... ok, maybe not that little... but she's my baby sister! What else am I supposed to do? Anyway, but her and her little friends like watching amvs. I think the only one I've ever shown them all the way through is the "hamster dance" one. This is for two reasons: 1) they don't have a long enough attention span for anything else, and 2) they all are obsessed with hamtaro.

Bottom line: parents-don't know, and i plan to keep it that way
sister- loves the hamster video, could care less about editing.

:-\ so i'm basically on my own when it comes to video making. SOunds like i'm not the only one.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:28 am

My parent doesn't know, they never saw me editing and I never showed them any of my work.

My friends think it's cool. Most often they ask me to make video as present for their gf or something using their fav song, a few had me to teach them to make one. So far, two of my friends had accomplished their own video, which makes me feel proud ^^