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<\/a><\/p>\nThese are good questions and I don’t have the answers but I have seen a few clues that I can share.<\/p>\n
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- Take a look at Google Maps Pro.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 With it you can embed an old map on a current map, attach a current or an old photo and make annotations.\u00a0 I’m working on a project that digs deep into a historic map of Pasadena. Is it a craft? For sure it is a hobby.<\/li>\n
- My friend Steven Erler has created Auto-Visuals<\/strong><\/a> from his craft\/hobby.\u00a0 He takes ordinary car photographs and pixel by pixel rebuilds them into stunning graphics that show the essence of the vehicles.\u00a0 See photo above.\u00a0 Creating and improving digital images can be a hobby and certainly is a craft.<\/li>\n
- The Smithsonian Transcription Project<\/strong><\/a> is a wiki type project where volunteer transcribe written documents, like diaries, into digital format.\u00a0 It is more fun, challenging and much more interesting than computer games.\u00a0 It definitely can be a hobby and it requires some skill and a learning curve but is transcription a craft?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Today entertainment and games are carrying the day against traditional hobbies and crafts but there is hope for handicrafts as the examples above show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will there still be crafts and hobbies in this new digital age?\u00a0 What will they be like?\u00a0 Are handicrafts dead.\u00a0 Do children still build with Popsicle sticks? Is tinkering dead? These are good questions and I don’t have the answers but I have seen a few clues that I can share. Take a look at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2E7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10177,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions\/10177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- My friend Steven Erler has created Auto-Visuals<\/strong><\/a> from his craft\/hobby.\u00a0 He takes ordinary car photographs and pixel by pixel rebuilds them into stunning graphics that show the essence of the vehicles.\u00a0 See photo above.\u00a0 Creating and improving digital images can be a hobby and certainly is a craft.<\/li>\n