The same kind of split exists with the things that I have the most personal experience with (book conservation, sculpture, blahbity blah.). I'm thinking it's probably near-universal.

So, if I were adding your blog to my feedreader, would it be better categorized as 'art,' 'diy' or 'people'?

One of the things that kept me from wanting to draw comics was I hate drawing the same thing twice, so I can relate to that. I get bored with almost any process that is a set of static steps.

i think it might mean craft vs. challenge or even muscle memory vs. active thinking or compulsion vs. creation.
Tactile arts are in part always about the process and the use of your materials, whether it's a means to an end, the point of the experience or one's odd personal balance of the two.

I'm more of an electronics hobbyist myself, but "process vs. product" is an interesting thing to think about.

I constantly push myself with more complicated projects, but every once in a while I'll bang out a 555 timer-based noisemaker just for fun or crack open an old Casio keyboard and circuit bend it. Complicated or no, each goes into an ever-growing arsenal of strange musical instruments. So I guess it's a balance of process and product.

I'm definitely process in everything I write. Sometimes a story burns in your veins, and you just gotta get it out, though.

I'm definitely process in everything I write. Sometimes a story burns in your veins, and you just gotta get it out, though.

box - I am in my own feedreader under "People I Know" :)

Definitely "process", with a smidgen of product thrown in. I'm mostly a one trick pony when it comes to crochet, but I like to mix it up with making a new product out of it.

Hubby calls me "the woman of 1,000 hobbies" because I'll buy some craft stuff, make some things with them, usually gifts. Then I'm done with it. I've done origami flowers, leatherwork, macramé, stone carving, stained glass, and a dozen other things I can't remember now.

If I'm trying to zone out and meditate I'll go for the comfort stuff, like origami lilacs or crochet scarfs.

Product, mostly. I like having things that I made personally, but I'm not so keen on the actual making. When I knit, I have a really hard time sticking to the pattern and not amodifying it for features that I personally want, and I just can't get aboard with the "mindless entertainment" aspect of it that so many people seem to enjoy. This is probably a big part of why I don't really knit regularly.

I do like being able to figure out a process for something, but then it's as if the process itself becomes the product.