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| | Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them? | | 98 points by peterlk on Dec 29, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 80 comments | | Phones seem optimized purely for content consumption. One of the reasons I prefer using my laptop/desktop is that they are where I can create things. Music (DAW/VST ecosystem), code (compilers, editors, etc.), visuals (illustrator/photoshop/Final Cut). I would like a way to casually create things on my phone rather than consume them. For example, rather than compulsively checking my email or looking at HN, I'd like to update one of the synths in a song I'm working on. I'm open to the idea that desktop workflows will not translate directly to mobile workflows, and that the media I play with might be different (maybe I have to become a connoisseur of TikTok videos?) That's fine. I just want to create rather than consume. How can I do this on my mobile device? |
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If you want to 'create' with your phone, why not use the feature it has which is actually as good as [and in some aspects better than] the equivalent 'proper' equipment. ie. the camera.
I'm a keen amateur photographer and have actually sold my SLR and compact cameras and now use my phone for 100% of my photography. It may lack some of the capabilities of my proper cameras, but [like most modern phone cameras] it's very good indeed and light years ahead of the equipment many of history's greatest photographers had access to, in their time. And, as the famous quote says; "The best camera is the one you have with you"
[and who of us leaves the house without our phones, these days?]
Next time you're thumb-twiddling somewhere, why not set yourself a photography project to kill the time:
* Find and photograph 'faces' in everyday objects
* Pick a random word [for example off a billboard] and take photos on that 'theme'
* Pretend you're a news photographer and record 'stories' on your journey to wherever you're going
* Photograph some everyday objects from weird angles and see if your mates can recognise them
* Try and find some 'beauty' in decay; dilapidated buildings, rubbish, grafitti, etc.
....and so on.