For example, I spent a whole April Fool’s Day once larping as someone from the first century, which wouldn’t be outside a mobile form of performance art.

  • yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 months ago

    I used to work in landscape installation building water features. I designed and built fish ponds.

  • LordGimp@lemm.ee
    4·
    3 months ago

    As a welder, much of my work straddles the line between art and mass production. I’ve made many, many beautiful welds that will never been seen by another person for at least the next 20 years, if ever. Some of the best that come to mind are stainless steel welds on industrial equipment that get buried under paint or insulation. I spent 3 years welding parts for US battleships and Navy cruisers as well as the occasional weird airforce part. Most of those welds will never been seen by living people after leaving my old shop.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    3 months ago

    Automated a copywriting gig on an extremely locked down terminal entirely in Excel VBA.

    It would open my email, download the list of tasks, open a browser, extract the official product copy, RegEx it into bullets, I would add a few verbs and conjunctions, hit a button it would upload it to the CMS. Turned an 8 hour day into 30 mins.

  • Mac@mander.xyz
    2·
    3 months ago

    I was bored one day and cut the head off of a shoulder bolt, welded it on the other end, and chamfered the shoulder like a thread lead-in. This made it so the shoulder of the bolt was exposed and the threads were unusable due to being on the wrong end.
    It was a bolt with all the features of any other bolt but was ultimately useless. For whatever reason it just spoke to me and gave me art display vibes.

    I might still have it somewhere…
    Nope, can’t find it.