jampot wrote:For me, brickfilming is an extremely lonely hobby. I mean, I'm grateful that I can talk to all of you, but you have to admit that an internet forum is nothing like talking to someone in person, no offence.
My experience is much the same. I've never been bullied about it (that sounds horrible, jampot), but nobody outside my family (who are very supportive, with perhaps the exception of me buying more LEGO ) or family friends takes much of an interest in my brickfilming.
I've mentioned it to people in my class before but beyond getting the odd "like" on Facebook they haven't given any indication of what they think of it (or at least they haven't talked to me about it). Then again I don't really have many "friends" who are my own age to begin with, since I was home-schooled and only recently started going to school/college. My class is very small and it seems that most of the other people in it seem mainly to be interested in getting drunk, partying, and talking about movies I've never seen, none of which appeals to me; either which way they mostly ignore me. And the way my classes are structured I don't get much of an opportunity or time to meet other people in my school who might be interested in my brickfilming (and my schoolwork consumes so much of my time I basically have zero time to brickfilm, which is why I've done almost nothing since last summer).
A long time ago a friend of mine and I did plan to start making brickfilms but nothing really came of it (and to be honest they probably would have been pretty awful to look at if we did make them), but I haven't had proper contact with him in years and I very much doubt he'd be interested in that sort of thing anymore.
Basically I've never met anyone in real life who does brickfilming, or even is an AFOL/TFOL. It's really nice to be able to communicate via the internet. It would be really cool to actually meet brickfilmers in person and I'd love being able to talk in real life, but every single convention/meeting-up-thingy takes place in the US and I don't have the time/money to visit. So I guess I'll be floating in the internet for the foreseeable future.
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