When I was a kid I collected pokemon and yugioh cards. Why? They were shiny, had cool designs, my friends had them, and I liked watching the shows. Same deal with the bakugan spherical action figure things I loved collecting those they were so cool.
I was also a book nerd. I liked science and math so I collected and read a lot of books on different subjects Why? I like touching physical books and learning about/developing a greater understanding of STEM concepts makes me feel smart which is a small confidence boost.
When I got a little older I got into comic books +manga and collected some physical copies. It all started when I went to a mall with my friend as a teenager and picked up 'The Infinity Gauntlet' (This was before any of the MCU movie stuff based on it). I loved the psychadellic art, thanos was a baller villain and the cosmic entities were a cool concept. I enjoyed my time reading through a lot of good fiction contained within graphic novels. Unfortunately im a jaded older man now and cant really enjoy YA based stuff like I once did.
Im a minimalist now, so at this point in my life its more about letting go of the useless crap I accumulated like all those books and learning to live with less. However, I recently picked back up the hobby of metal detecting, so i've been pulling a bunch of nick nacks out of the ground. I opened a metaldetecting community on .world if youd like to see what i've dug up so far. Id like to get a little display case to put the finds in, and build a little metal detecting collection instead of just tossing our finds. Why? I started metal detecting back up to have some outdoor stuff to do with the foster children I help take care of. My toddler nephew LOVES digging holes with TOOLS to find metal artifacts BUGS AND ROCKS!!!
It depends on what you define as interesting, I suppose. Every find thats not pulltabs or aluminum can scraps count as interesting to me.
Jewlery and coins, car parts, old tool heads, toys, wierd little nuts and bolts parts that resist identification. Every object that found its way into the ground lived a 'life' at some point. Just speculating on the life it might have lived and ponder how it ended up in that patch of soil is an interesting thing in itself.
I found one half of a gold plated broach with a flowery stencil, in my parents hometown on a piece of public land that got some decent foot traffic over a few centuries.
I found an old iron axe head buried in a riverside walking trail, I am confident it came from the park makers who first carved out the brush for the trail.
Just this week I found an old 1970s muscle car part with the stock numbers and green paint job still intact, a still legible metal paint can, and a chrome plated car handle, right in my backyard.
Depending on the person you ask those kind of things and the stories of what they once were are either irrelevant trash or valuable historical artifacts. Being there in person feeling the excitement and rush of pinpointing as you pull the thing out makes me more biased to see them as the latter.
When I was a kid I liked to collect Panini trading cards of Dragon Ball and other mainstream TV shows from the time. To me, the form factor of a card is amazing:
in a small piece of paper, the artist needs to convey a picture shot which is significant and visible enough, as well as some text or description
they are usually standard size of 63x88, which makes it easy and cheap to find sleeves and all kind of goodies like binders
because of the previous points they are easy to store everywhere without occupying too much space
This fascination for cards made me get into card-related hobbies as a growing adult, like cardistry, card magic tricks, Magic the Gathering, LOTR LCG, as well as collecting. I was motivated to intensively play card-related games (nowadays my favorite card games are Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages and Slay the Spire, and keep collecting valuable cards from TCG games (until prices started to skyrocket, the point where I decided to leave).
For a long time, I stopped collecting, but about two years ago I wanted to collect cards again, which coincided with the apparition of Lorcana (which has beautiful cards of my favorite Disney characters). The problem? I was not willing to sink in an enormous amount money. Still, I wanted to have something special and meaningful to me.
What did I do? Easy, I created my own cards! I created a krita template (which I will share when it is polished), grabbed fanart and screenshots of my favorite movies, shows and videogames, and designed cards for them and printed them into my local printer shop. And the result was amazing, I learnt a lot in the process and it's given me a lot of ideas on other kinds of cards I could print.
If you've reached this far, thank you very much for reading my story!
Your story unlocked some memories for me, I used those card template makers to print my own cards based on stupid mid 2000s internet memes I saw as a child.
Ah, memories. Horribly cringey but nostalgic memories.
When I was a kid I collected pokemon and yugioh cards. Why? They were shiny, had cool designs, my friends had them, and I liked watching the shows. Same deal with the bakugan spherical action figure things I loved collecting those they were so cool.
I was also a book nerd. I liked science and math so I collected and read a lot of books on different subjects Why? I like touching physical books and learning about/developing a greater understanding of STEM concepts makes me feel smart which is a small confidence boost.
When I got a little older I got into comic books +manga and collected some physical copies. It all started when I went to a mall with my friend as a teenager and picked up 'The Infinity Gauntlet' (This was before any of the MCU movie stuff based on it). I loved the psychadellic art, thanos was a baller villain and the cosmic entities were a cool concept. I enjoyed my time reading through a lot of good fiction contained within graphic novels. Unfortunately im a jaded older man now and cant really enjoy YA based stuff like I once did.
Im a minimalist now, so at this point in my life its more about letting go of the useless crap I accumulated like all those books and learning to live with less. However, I recently picked back up the hobby of metal detecting, so i've been pulling a bunch of nick nacks out of the ground. I opened a metaldetecting community on .world if youd like to see what i've dug up so far. Id like to get a little display case to put the finds in, and build a little metal detecting collection instead of just tossing our finds. Why? I started metal detecting back up to have some outdoor stuff to do with the foster children I help take care of. My toddler nephew LOVES digging holes with TOOLS to find
metal artifactsBUGS AND ROCKS!!!I'm curious, did you ever find anything interesting with a metal detector? If so, what it was and where did you find it?
It depends on what you define as interesting, I suppose. Every find thats not pulltabs or aluminum can scraps count as interesting to me.
Jewlery and coins, car parts, old tool heads, toys, wierd little nuts and bolts parts that resist identification. Every object that found its way into the ground lived a 'life' at some point. Just speculating on the life it might have lived and ponder how it ended up in that patch of soil is an interesting thing in itself.
I found one half of a gold plated broach with a flowery stencil, in my parents hometown on a piece of public land that got some decent foot traffic over a few centuries.
I found an old iron axe head buried in a riverside walking trail, I am confident it came from the park makers who first carved out the brush for the trail.
Just this week I found an old 1970s muscle car part with the stock numbers and green paint job still intact, a still legible metal paint can, and a chrome plated car handle, right in my backyard.
Depending on the person you ask those kind of things and the stories of what they once were are either irrelevant trash or valuable historical artifacts. Being there in person feeling the excitement and rush of pinpointing as you pull the thing out makes me more biased to see them as the latter.
Well explained, I could feel right away the adrenaline rush of finding something unexpected and trying to come up with a story for it!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
When I was a kid I liked to collect Panini trading cards of Dragon Ball and other mainstream TV shows from the time. To me, the form factor of a card is amazing:
This fascination for cards made me get into card-related hobbies as a growing adult, like cardistry, card magic tricks, Magic the Gathering, LOTR LCG, as well as collecting. I was motivated to intensively play card-related games (nowadays my favorite card games are Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages and Slay the Spire, and keep collecting valuable cards from TCG games (until prices started to skyrocket, the point where I decided to leave).
For a long time, I stopped collecting, but about two years ago I wanted to collect cards again, which coincided with the apparition of Lorcana (which has beautiful cards of my favorite Disney characters). The problem? I was not willing to sink in an enormous amount money. Still, I wanted to have something special and meaningful to me.
What did I do? Easy, I created my own cards! I created a krita template (which I will share when it is polished), grabbed fanart and screenshots of my favorite movies, shows and videogames, and designed cards for them and printed them into my local printer shop. And the result was amazing, I learnt a lot in the process and it's given me a lot of ideas on other kinds of cards I could print.
If you've reached this far, thank you very much for reading my story!
Your story unlocked some memories for me, I used those card template makers to print my own cards based on stupid mid 2000s internet memes I saw as a child.
Ah, memories. Horribly cringey but nostalgic memories.
Thank god it says "Fake card" at the bottom. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to ascertain if it was a real playable card :joy: