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15 analog or antiquated things I'd be curious to try

Original prompt: What’s something analog or antiquated you’ve been wanting to practice just for the sake of doing it? Book-binding? Knife sharpening? Memorizing a poem?

  1. Blacksmithery: I mean...if I could make a sword? How cool!
  2. Bowyery: I mean...I could also learn to make bow...
  3. Ceramic: When I was a kid, I made ceramics at art camp and I enjoyed it--maybe I could make something less ugly now
  4. Cloud watching: I wouldn't want to to this alone, but how lovely would it be to lie in warm grass and just talk about shapes with friends?
  5. Falconry: I truly just think this is badass
  6. Letterlocking: Truth be told, I have seen photos of locked letters and cannot understand how they are done--perhaps I could learn!
  7. Long exposure pinhole photography: I remember doing this back in high school and it was pretty cool!
  8. Morse code: Always fun to be able to communicate without speaking
  9. Pealing: It'd be badass and beautiful to to play a series of church bells and make a joyous song
  10. Performing epic poetry: Have you ever heard Beowulf sung in its original old English? It's quite powerful
  11. Pressing plants: At various times in my life, I have pressed flowers or leaves. It could be lovely to do so again and then make art out of it.
  12. Pyrography: Art burned into wood has always look so cool to me and I also enjoy the smell of wood burning.
  13. Seal-making: Closing letters with a wax seal is just a whole other level of epic
  14. Time capsule making: I believe I did this once as a kid, but truly not sure. What if I got some friends to make a time capsule and we open it in 5 or 10 or even 25 years?
  15. Woodturning: I first looked up if there was a specific verb for making nutcrackers, but there isn't one. However, the internet told me that woodturning is using a wood lathe and hand-held tools to cut rotation-symmetrical shapes in wood--this is the process used to make nutcrackers! There is just something I find so charming, warm, and festive about them that I think it'd be lovely to make them and give them as gifts

(Prompt provided by Kimisha Cassidy)

Photo by Hannah Gibbs on Unsplash


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