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What is your greatest artistic achievement that doesn't fall under what most people would think of when they hear the word "art"?

For example, I spent a whole April Fool's Day once larping as someone from the first century, which wouldn't be outside a mobile form of performance art.

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I used to work in landscape installation building water features. I designed and built fish ponds.
As a welder, much of my work straddles the line between art and mass production. I've made many, many beautiful welds that will never been seen by another person for at least the next 20 years, if ever. Some of the best that come to mind are stainless steel welds on industrial equipment that get buried under paint or insulation. I spent 3 years welding parts for US battleships and Navy cruisers as well as the occasional weird airforce part. Most of those welds will never been seen by living people after leaving my old shop.
Automated a copywriting gig on an extremely locked down terminal entirely in Excel VBA.
It would open my email, download the list of tasks, open a browser, extract the official product copy, RegEx it into bullets, I would add a few verbs and conjunctions, hit a button it would upload it to the CMS. Turned an 8 hour day into 30 mins.
I once made a pair of whiskey sours so beautiful it made the gods themselves cry. The foam, the color, and of course the taste were so good I can never repeat my success.
Actually come to think of it, most of my first times making a new fancy cocktail seem to be the best, with diminishing results in future cocktails.
I was bored one day and cut the head off of a shoulder bolt, welded it on the other end, and chamfered the shoulder like a thread lead-in. This made it so the shoulder of the bolt was exposed and the threads were unusable due to being on the wrong end.
It was a bolt with all the features of any other bolt but was ultimately useless. For whatever reason it just spoke to me and gave me art display vibes.
I might still have it somewhere...
Nope, can't find it.
- Wouldn't that just make it a left hand thread? You just gotta find the right hole to screw.
  
  No, for two reasons:
  It was a shoulder bolt—meaning the section of the shaft near the head has no threads.
  An upside down bolt has the same thread pitch as the right-side-up bolt. Reverse threads have to be cut in reverse.
  Shoulder bolt example:
  https://www.bolts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/2378740c1547d8e0150767e1a99152d2/S/S/SSSMCSC08080-0.jpg
I once had a tractor-feed-paper-foldy-thing that was over 25 feet long, without stretching. There was some tape in there to combine pieces, but it was mostly just paper.
Kids in the 80's did weird shit with no Internet...
I made a weave of plastic tubings during a slow day at work
Made about 110 dollars playing a riff from Ozzy Osbourne's "Mama I'm coming home" in an impromptu lick while asking for change in Colorado.
0 effort and yet alive.
i steamed the twitch building on twitch one time

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