How and when did you develop your hobbies/interests?
Apr 15, 2018 21:50:39 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 15, 2018 21:50:39 GMT 10
I thought this would be an interesting idea for a topic. It's only natural that we all have different interests and hobbies. How did you develop your hobbies and at what age did you become interested in them? For instance, how did you become interested in the media or discussing pop culture?
My interests/hobbies developed at a pretty early age. I'd say that my current interests/hobbies were firmly established by the time I was 10 years old.
I have had an interest in Australian media since a very young age. One of my earliest memories is of seeing the 2001-02 Channel Nine Endboard and WIN Ident on my loungeroom TV sometime in Early 2002. As shown in the picture above, I started to make my own mock TV Guides when I was 6 years old and I continued making them up until the age of ten. In January 2009, I started to record Australian TV content via VHS and although I have since stopped recording on VHS, I have continued to record Australian TV content ever since then. My first ever recording was of the 2008 Channel Nine endboard and NBN Ident on the 24th January 2009...through the use of my digital camera. Understandably, the quality of the recording isn't too good.
It was through watching @zampakid 's and WATvPresentation's videos, that I was inspired to create my own Australian-TV based YouTube channel in Early 2011, known as TheCjm75. However, with not knowing how to convert my VHS tapes to digital and having several difficulties with my USB TV Tuner (which I had bought around the same time), the channel was doomed for failure; it only lasted for a month. On the 30th January 2013, I decided to create another YouTube channel. This YouTube channel would be based on comedy, as well as the one or two uploads of TV content. After a few months of having very little success with the channel, I decided to upload a 60 Minutes interview.
To my surprise, the upload was a massive success. It received 2,000 views within the first 24 hours and it increased the exposure of my channel. I then decided to drop the "comedy" aspect of the channel and focus solely on uploading/recording Australian TV content. As a result, CX7 News was born. In early January 2016, I decided to rename the channel as South Coast TV. The channel now has 1,975 videos, 1,429 subscribers and 2.6 million video views!
In February 2014, I registered for an account on Media Spy, a forum based on discussing the media. For a short while, it was one of my favourite websites, because it allowed me to go into greater depth about something that I had been interested in for so long. My interest in the forum would eventually wane, however, due to the admins/moderators of the site. They continue to treat their members poorly and dismiss any ideas/suggestions that members have for the forum. I stopped posting regularly on the site in December 2015.
Media aside, music has always been one of my strongest interests. It wasn't until Late 2002 that I started to become truly aware of music and contemporary Top-40 songs. It was at that time I started to like Linkin Park. My Mum had owned a copy of Hybrid Theory and she would regularly listen to it in the car. As my perception and taste in music was developing, I began to take an interest in the songs off the album. Meteora was released just two weeks after my 4th birthday and that's when my interest in Linkin Park was truly consolidated. My 4-year old self loved every song off that album, and I would regard it as being my "childhood album".
My love of alternative-rock/grunge formed when I was 5 years old. My parents were in their 20s/early 30s during the 1990s and they were both really into the alternative-rock scene. Collective Soul is actually my Mum's favourite band. By the Early 2000s, my parents had fell out of touch with new music, so they mostly resorted to listening to their CDs. As a result, I was heavily exposed to the artists/bands my parents liked and listened to. Bands/artists that I regularly listened to a child were Live, Garbage, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Collective Soul and The Beatles.
Pearl Jam were the band that introduced me to alternative-rock. "Alive" quickly became one of my favourite songs and I really enjoyed listening to Ten, which remains one of my all time favourite albums. I also started to write and record my own songs when I was 5. I had a small, toy drum kit and with my portable cassette recorder, I would record myself singing and playing songs. To be honest, I actually still own the portable cassette recorder and the cassette tapes that I used to record myself singing/playing. It's embarrassing to listen to now.
When I was 7 years old, I developed a strong interest in astronomy and biology. Astronomy has always interested me, because there's so much about the Universe that we still don't know about and there are new discoveries being made all the time. I actually wrote the information (in the drawing book) above in my own words, even though I retrieved the information from one of my astronomy books. My interest in astronomy peaked around September 2006, when Pluto was re-classified as a "dwarf planet". I can still vividly remember the amount of media coverage it received at the time, as well as how I responded when I first heard about the announcement. I've never agreed with the decision to re-classify Pluto as a dwarf planet.
I've always had a strong interest in history. A lot of the decisions I have made, are with the intention of preserving history, so I can look back on it one day and see what the era was truly like. When I was 9, I deliberately used to cut things out of newspapers and paste them into scrap books, for that exact purpose. I have a whole scrap book full of newspaper cuttings from 2008.
As a child, I used to regularly watch cartoons from the Early-Mid 20th Century, such as Mighty Mouse, Looney Tunes, Disney shorts from the 1930s/1940s and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. I actually stopped watching new/current cartoons when I was 9, because I believed Nickelodeon had declined in overall quality.
My interests/hobbies developed at a pretty early age. I'd say that my current interests/hobbies were firmly established by the time I was 10 years old.
I have had an interest in Australian media since a very young age. One of my earliest memories is of seeing the 2001-02 Channel Nine Endboard and WIN Ident on my loungeroom TV sometime in Early 2002. As shown in the picture above, I started to make my own mock TV Guides when I was 6 years old and I continued making them up until the age of ten. In January 2009, I started to record Australian TV content via VHS and although I have since stopped recording on VHS, I have continued to record Australian TV content ever since then. My first ever recording was of the 2008 Channel Nine endboard and NBN Ident on the 24th January 2009...through the use of my digital camera. Understandably, the quality of the recording isn't too good.
It was through watching @zampakid 's and WATvPresentation's videos, that I was inspired to create my own Australian-TV based YouTube channel in Early 2011, known as TheCjm75. However, with not knowing how to convert my VHS tapes to digital and having several difficulties with my USB TV Tuner (which I had bought around the same time), the channel was doomed for failure; it only lasted for a month. On the 30th January 2013, I decided to create another YouTube channel. This YouTube channel would be based on comedy, as well as the one or two uploads of TV content. After a few months of having very little success with the channel, I decided to upload a 60 Minutes interview.
To my surprise, the upload was a massive success. It received 2,000 views within the first 24 hours and it increased the exposure of my channel. I then decided to drop the "comedy" aspect of the channel and focus solely on uploading/recording Australian TV content. As a result, CX7 News was born. In early January 2016, I decided to rename the channel as South Coast TV. The channel now has 1,975 videos, 1,429 subscribers and 2.6 million video views!
In February 2014, I registered for an account on Media Spy, a forum based on discussing the media. For a short while, it was one of my favourite websites, because it allowed me to go into greater depth about something that I had been interested in for so long. My interest in the forum would eventually wane, however, due to the admins/moderators of the site. They continue to treat their members poorly and dismiss any ideas/suggestions that members have for the forum. I stopped posting regularly on the site in December 2015.
Media aside, music has always been one of my strongest interests. It wasn't until Late 2002 that I started to become truly aware of music and contemporary Top-40 songs. It was at that time I started to like Linkin Park. My Mum had owned a copy of Hybrid Theory and she would regularly listen to it in the car. As my perception and taste in music was developing, I began to take an interest in the songs off the album. Meteora was released just two weeks after my 4th birthday and that's when my interest in Linkin Park was truly consolidated. My 4-year old self loved every song off that album, and I would regard it as being my "childhood album".
My love of alternative-rock/grunge formed when I was 5 years old. My parents were in their 20s/early 30s during the 1990s and they were both really into the alternative-rock scene. Collective Soul is actually my Mum's favourite band. By the Early 2000s, my parents had fell out of touch with new music, so they mostly resorted to listening to their CDs. As a result, I was heavily exposed to the artists/bands my parents liked and listened to. Bands/artists that I regularly listened to a child were Live, Garbage, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Collective Soul and The Beatles.
Pearl Jam were the band that introduced me to alternative-rock. "Alive" quickly became one of my favourite songs and I really enjoyed listening to Ten, which remains one of my all time favourite albums. I also started to write and record my own songs when I was 5. I had a small, toy drum kit and with my portable cassette recorder, I would record myself singing and playing songs. To be honest, I actually still own the portable cassette recorder and the cassette tapes that I used to record myself singing/playing. It's embarrassing to listen to now.
When I was 7 years old, I developed a strong interest in astronomy and biology. Astronomy has always interested me, because there's so much about the Universe that we still don't know about and there are new discoveries being made all the time. I actually wrote the information (in the drawing book) above in my own words, even though I retrieved the information from one of my astronomy books. My interest in astronomy peaked around September 2006, when Pluto was re-classified as a "dwarf planet". I can still vividly remember the amount of media coverage it received at the time, as well as how I responded when I first heard about the announcement. I've never agreed with the decision to re-classify Pluto as a dwarf planet.
I've always had a strong interest in history. A lot of the decisions I have made, are with the intention of preserving history, so I can look back on it one day and see what the era was truly like. When I was 9, I deliberately used to cut things out of newspapers and paste them into scrap books, for that exact purpose. I have a whole scrap book full of newspaper cuttings from 2008.
As a child, I used to regularly watch cartoons from the Early-Mid 20th Century, such as Mighty Mouse, Looney Tunes, Disney shorts from the 1930s/1940s and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. I actually stopped watching new/current cartoons when I was 9, because I believed Nickelodeon had declined in overall quality. AussieTV likes this
You wouldn't want to hear my singing from when I was 5. 
