In relation to figuring out grades...Whats your Obsession/ Passion??

[MalloryHartevelt]

Ok so for my Art/Photo and graphics exams we got put with the title "Passions and Obsessions". I basically studied others passions and obsessions...blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, I was wondering if any of you lot had your own passion or obsession.
For example my passion and obsession was actually painting live snails in pretty colours and setting them free after of course taking a polaroid and writing a background story about it in my book.

Overall, Whats your passion/obsession? Do you collect strange things? Do weird rituals?

 

[Marter]

Baseball really is my passion. I watch it every night, and I follow many different player's stats.

I also collect video games, as I enjoy having a lot to choose from when I bored.

 

[vivadelkitty]

Gaming is definitely my passion, and I have an obsession with old Jim Henson movies (Labyrinth, any Muppet film, The Dark Crystal, etc.)

 

[Kpt._Rob]

For example my passion and obsession was actually painting live snails in pretty colours and setting them free after of course taking a polaroid and writing a background story about it in my book.

That, if I may say so, is one of the most unique cool obsessions I've ever heard of. What a rediculously cool idea, to change nature itself as part of an artistic expression, something you then let go back into the world. Do you ever run into people who are like "man, I saw the weirdest snail today, with a rainbow shell..." and then quietly laugh to yourself knowing they saw one of your works? Well, whatever you do, let me reiterate once more, that is a rediculously cool idea.

As for me, I don't know if I would go so far as to say I've got a passion. I've never gone to the trouble of trying to get it diagnosed, but I'm relatively certain that I've got bipolar disorder, it means that I cycle through manic and depressive stages. At the start of the manic part of my cycle, I'll often get ideas for rediculously big projects and start passionately working on them. I'm a pretty good artist, I've taken lots of drawing and painting classes, so often it's an idea for a series of drawings or paintings, and I'll start working on them. Or sometimes it'll be some other random thing, like I decide to write a book, or try to shoot a movie, or try to design my own game, or learn how to cook, or become an expert in houseplants (an obsession which has left me caring for a variety of house plants), and that's just to mention a few of the various things I've pursued over the years. The one thing that lasted longer than anything else was a love of scary movies (like seriously, I have watched a rediculously huge number of scary movies). But when the manic part of the cycle ends, and the depressive part starts, I lose interest in my projects, so my whole life has been a series of projects that I started which could have become a passion, but which I never finished.

 

[Tinneh]

If there is something to be done, I make sure to do it in the most complicated way possible.

 

[Betancore]

Serial killers. It's getting unhealthy. It's not so much a passion as an obsession; I'm totally fascinated by the psychology behind serial murder. I can spend hours sitting and thinking about their motivations, their triggers. I'm into a lot of weird stuff, but I'm the most obsessive about serial killers.

 

[likalaruku]

I have obsessive compulsive disorder, does that count?

I have an "art rule" when drawing humans. Males must have long hair & be scrawny & cannot have any facial or body hair. Women must have short hair & be busty & cannot be as colorful as males (like in the animal kingdom where the only way you can tell males from females (outside of breast-having) is that the males are more colorful & flamboyant).

I also want to eat human, dog, snake, & horse before I die.

 

[Gralian]

Video games and anime are definite passions, but that is to be expected.

I have a strange little obsession with Nazi Germany. Not so much an obsession as fascination; i studied it in school and college. I also have a Sturmabteilung dagger that cost £600 and a 2nd class WW2 Iron Cross in the same display cabinet complete with the envelope it was issued in. That also cost me a lot of money. I just find the era fascinating, how they could get away with it in the eyes of the world and how they captured the hearts and minds of millions of Germans.

I have a slight obsession with violence, particularly in horror themed media, or movies like the Saw series. I am however not a violent person by nature.

I used to have a passion for shooting; i practiced weekly at a local shooting range and got quite good at it too, though the enthusiasm for that probably came from growing up playing a lot of shooting games.

I currently study English Literature and am aiming to become a writer / novelist. I never expected it to turn out this way; but i do indeed have a passion for Literature. I've read many of Shakespeare's works, all manner of poetry, even the hilarious Candide and controversial Lolita. I appreciate most forms of literature whether it's contemporary or classical. Writing is my definite passion and it's almost always an expression of my soul. When i write, the characters that come to life are different elements of my persona or of those i perceive around me. Interestingly, it has been noted my stories often carry a very dark tone. But i have always held the belief that conflict is the essence of drama; anything too light-hearted or whimsical becomes non-realistic and will not be taken seriously. I suppose it's also the cynical side of me seeping through into my work, though.

I know a fair few people with a passion for photography, but i never understood why. Photographs seems very basic to me - point at something and click, but i do understand my own ignorance here, like some people don't care to look at poetry as nothing more than a collection of words on paper.