how old are you [Archive] - Sculpture Community

Tandigon

10-17-2006, 09:44 AM

It took me 61 years to get this young. I remember when I was older in my teens and twenties, life seemed so complicated. Rebellion and non conformism seemed the order of the day.
Now my 5 year old grandson looks up at me and asks "Tandigramp, when will I be ten?" and I tell him in another five years. He's like "But that's a lifetime!', sure because thats how long he's lived so far.

Tandigon

G. Murdoch

10-17-2006, 02:55 PM

38

Graham

cooljamesx1

10-17-2006, 04:53 PM

this is interesting. keep em comming!

Lunarburn

10-17-2006, 05:32 PM

41 on the outside - 5 on the inside :D

Nina Florence

10-17-2006, 05:36 PM

27yrs old, but on a Saturday night I am 18 :p
Nina

Alfred

10-17-2006, 10:58 PM

I'm 30 years old, but still as silly as I was when I was 14.

jim

10-18-2006, 10:40 PM

30 something..After I finished the Long beach marathon last Sunday I feel
99 years old....

KeithBentley

10-19-2006, 12:12 AM

33 going on 12.

Daniel

10-19-2006, 01:32 AM

about 2% of the time that's passed since the fall of the Roman Empire.

desertrock

10-19-2006, 10:35 AM

f-f-f-forty 9. No grey. The kid at the video store counter told me I looked 30 the other day. I pegged him as having a poor sense judging age but a better sense of judging maturity. I still act like a 13 year old most of the time.

Mark

Thatch

10-19-2006, 11:23 AM

I have survived over 50 years. No children so I never had to grow up. I am my wife's only child. Thankfully she grew up.

Thatch

GlennT

10-19-2006, 11:43 AM

48, 28 when playing soccer, and timeless while sculpting .

GlennT

sculptorsam

10-19-2006, 12:25 PM

Still only 28, probably more around 48 at heart.

ironman

10-22-2006, 10:38 AM

Hi, I'll answer this inquiry on TUESDAY!
Have a great day,
Jeff

Nina Florence

10-24-2006, 06:26 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IRONMAN JEFF :)
Party On!!
Nina :D

ironman

10-24-2006, 10:29 AM

Hi Nina, thanks for the birthday wishes.
Well, I'm 60 years YOUNG today! Still feel like I'm in my twenties. I just have a few more aches and pains and a lot less hair on my head. But, in the immortal words of my good friend John, although I'm not as good as I once was, I'm as good once as I ever was! LOL!
To all you kids out there I'd just like to say that if you're not doing what you want to do, not following your bliss (passion), putting it off for a later date, whatever, STOP!
You will be my age before you know what hit you and wonder where your life went. Now of course my life is certainly not over at 60, I'm fairly healthy, energetic and passionate about life and art, BUT, believe me, 60 gets here awfully quick and you only get ONE shot at this life. So follow your bliss (passion) NOW!
Happy Birthday to all the other birthday kids on this block!
Have a great day,
Jeff

Merlion

10-24-2006, 12:18 PM

Well ! You are all young. I'm also young when I am in my studio working on my sculptures. Otherwise I'm 66. ;)

fused

10-24-2006, 03:04 PM

Fifty-four will occur to me next month, I used to be taller.

inferno221

10-24-2006, 04:41 PM

i'm also kind of a baby here at 24, but my girlfriend of three and a half years would say 4.

mike

jynja

10-25-2006, 11:29 PM

I am only 54. Life can be as short as I think it, or as long as I can make it. I prefer the later part of that sentence.

Happy B Day Ironman

May the best of your past be the worst of your future! May your glass, your pocket, and your hearth be always full.

Jyn

cooljamesx1

10-25-2006, 11:49 PM

well said!

anotherdreamer

11-13-2006, 02:34 PM

Too young to not care yet but old enough to have regrets.

Blacksun

11-14-2006, 07:04 AM

49 with an expected life span of 150 (with the current trend of medical / scientific advances, a good health insurance plan, and barring the end-of-time / second coming) :)

Daytripper

11-14-2006, 01:55 PM

I'll be joining Ironman in a few weeks. The big Six-OOOOOOOOOOOh. I'm so excited, NOT... Oh well, I guess it beats the alternative, but it seems like such a milestone... Times gettin' short, better sculpt something...

jsimms

11-14-2006, 02:05 PM

69, but still in very good shape. Still put in 10 hour days. Guided fly fishermen while rowing a small skiff through whitewater rapids 28 days in early fall. Discovered I had a large cancerous tumor on a kidney in early October and had it and kidney removed October 7th. Left on the 17th for Churchill Manitoba to look for polar bears, hiking 4 to 5 miles per day.

Now trying to catch up on a project rusting and clearcoating 5,000 sq ft of steel for a job. Someday I'll likely have to act my age, but I'm too busy in the foreseeable future.........
John

Crinkles

11-16-2006, 11:33 PM

I'm the ever-popular age of 21.

- Philip :D

Robert Mileha.

11-25-2006, 07:20 AM

They used to say life begins at 40. They now say is is more like 50. This means we are all getting younger!
Feel much the same as I was at 17. "She who must be obeyed" is not very knid when I say that!
Robert

MountainSong

11-25-2006, 08:39 AM

I'm an American woman, therefore I am not permitted to answer this question. ;)

iron ant

11-25-2006, 08:52 AM

John,
you sound like a tuff dude,and I know you must be because I saw your huge rolled steel in Shidoni...IA 44 and still get carded,life of the little people ;)

jvc stone

11-25-2006, 10:51 AM

I too will turn 60 before this year is out. Use to joke that if I knew I was going to live this long, I'd of taken better care of myself. Truth is that until 3 years ago the only health issues I had were those generic amongst people who work stone---cronic back, bad knees, hernia etc. No big deal for a hard working, healthy man. During the past 3 years, that has all changed, and I, like so many of my Vietnam veteran brothers, have found that the long term results of exposure to the chemical warfair (WMD's?) we covered that country with are many, cronic, and eventually life threatening.

I do not intend for this to bum anyone out, but I would like to make a request of anyone who reads this. Please through email, letter, phone call or what ever, encourage your representative to support full funding of the VA medical care system. There are hundred's of thousands aging vets --going back still to WWI--in the system, and what with current events, thousands of new troops coming in. Current resourses are streched beyound the breaking point, and if we as a nation truly believe in "supporting" the troops we need to insure their care.

JVC

Merlion

11-26-2006, 10:52 PM

I feel young, actually very young, when I am creating and working on my art. But of course when I have to lift, climb, see small things, and hear in a noisy room, my physical age of 66 comes in.

tapit123

01-14-2007, 02:17 PM

Thank god I'm 60.

evaldart

01-21-2007, 09:05 PM

43 real soon. When I realized that 70 years and eternity were not significantly different I kind of quit thinking about it. Besides, I've had plenty of fun, its my kids' turn now.

anne (bxl)

01-21-2007, 09:26 PM

getting creative keeps young

JasonGillespie

01-21-2007, 09:40 PM

I am 38, but with a new career in sculpture ahead of me I feel like a teenager again....the sky's the limit.

mrbanana101

02-04-2007, 11:13 PM

I'm also one of the younger ones here, I'm only 18... lol, but I'll be 19 very soon. But then again, art lives through any age. :cool:

Aaron Schroeder

02-06-2007, 02:24 AM

I'm 40. Born August 22, 1966. Every thing I've read in astrology books has been spooky and right on. Has DNA timed it's self to the cycles, the sun in particular or what? I get the sinking feeling that my character profile has been naturally selected just like my hair and eye color. I feel more predictable every day.

A note about veterans of war. I saw a program called, " they drew fire " about the artist of world war two, What I learned was that America had a policy that stated that no commanding officer could tell an american artist what to paint or how to paint it. I know it should be another thread butwhat are ya'lls thoughts on the military and the arts.

Baraka

02-08-2007, 09:01 AM

To all of you younger than me, do follow Ironman's advice. We throw away our time doing meaningless things, and wake up, years later, with the reality of all the things we could have accomplished.

Although it's hard to admit, Merlion and I are the same age. Like many of you, I was born in August - 30th to be exact. BTW, I'm also left handed. Are you? In art school, the majority of the students were lefties.

Like Merlion, I am very active, but my activity centers around caring for and breeding horses, with no help, and a growing dose of arthritis. Now I am trying to figure out a way to relieve myself of some of my daily responsibilities to make time for sculpture.

My passion for sculpture has just begun, and I am amazed that the problems in my hands is not a problem when I sculpt. Believe it or not, painting was more physically taxing.

I also have a family - an artist (landscape painter) husband, two grown children, 4 grandchildren, one who has lived with us since birth. I spend a LOT of time helping my husband promote his art. The rest of the family, home, and animals take up most of my time. I also stand a very fine Arabian stallion at stud, so spring is busy "collecting and shipping," and I do all that myself, as well.

I never feel my age, except, as Ironman (I think it was he) said, when I do a lot of physical activity(like cleaning the barn) and the body gives me a taste of reality. Each year it is noticeably harder.

I also like to travel, and have done a lot of it until the past couple of years. I've been to the middle east, particularly Egypt, more times than I can count, Europe, UK, and all over this continent.

As busy as I am, I would hate to slow down. I'd just like to be busier with sculpture instead of doing dishes. My most unfavorite word is "bored" as IMO, there is no reason to ever use that word.

My Website (http://www.barakafarm.com)

_Misty

02-14-2007, 01:04 PM

Hi,

I am going 30 on march 1st.

Misty

grommet

02-14-2007, 01:47 PM

45, with most of the original parts.
"Bored" has always been a dirty word in our house, never to be uttered. If you're bored, you're not trying. I keep trying, and things keep filling my head. Now where's that cork?

dilida

02-14-2007, 05:57 PM

46 next month. I'm a picses-ox Jesus-freak, and I've never been bored in my life!

circeart

02-25-2007, 07:38 AM

20x3-30+65-15-40-1+10, and still young enough to play! ;)

benbrook

02-28-2007, 02:44 AM

59 --But only notice it when I first wake up.

jssculptor

02-28-2007, 08:44 AM

Hi all..Im 54, 55 at end of May. Body is starting to fall apart..too much wine and smokes. Making sculpture and having younger friends makes me feel much younger until I see myself in a shop window and think who is that old b.stard looking at!!! My friends say I look like a greek God...but in a ruin with all the bits broken off! Spinal Stenosis has been a big prob, specially for a stone carver, but when that cut goes just right I feel like I have just been born, for a little while at least.

I need to move somewhere warm and less damp than southern England...any offers for a grumpy old carver?

PTsideshow

02-28-2007, 12:12 PM

Any day that your feet hit the floor first, before your face! when you are getting out of bed in the morning is a GREAT DAY ! 57 and only feel it in the morning or when the cats sleep on top of parts of my body all night.
Mind works at about a 16 year olds level so much to do and so many books, and so many things to try.
Recently told that I have Type II diabettes and made the lifestyle/eating and cooking changes. But I have retired, and look foreward to a couple good years left.

StevenW

05-16-2007, 03:47 PM

Older than the head of lettuce in my fridge and younger than the mountain I'm carving. ;)

40, single, no kids, not even a cat or dog or crummy divorce. I am the ultimate bore. :)

Arcticarts

05-17-2007, 02:35 AM

53
Life is good! I have made my living with my hands carving for the last 27 years in the process I have been able to allow my wife to raise our 6 daughters. We now have 9 grandchildren (all but one of them are boys).
As satisfying as my art career is it pails in comparison to watching these little guys grow and being part of thier development.

Merlion

05-17-2007, 10:35 PM

I am 66. But when I am creating my sculptures I feel young. This is a genuine feeling (unless I have to lift heavy things of course.)

Miteri,Manjul

05-18-2007, 09:23 AM

I am 26 years old and an intrested child for Art.

mark pilato

06-13-2007, 11:30 AM

38, sometimes 12, sometimes 17, what a great age 17 is to sculpt, the world is at your fingertips, and new ideas always flow in,
All the best,
Mark

Merlion

06-13-2007, 11:59 AM

what a great age 17 is to sculpt, the world is at your fingertips, and new ideas always flow in,
I notice from my experience, new ideas flow in irrespective of age.

iowasculptor

06-13-2007, 02:57 PM

32 chronologically but I really don't feel any older than I did when I was 19. My back tells me that I need to get some young studio assistants to do my heavy work. Bad disks crooked spine not good.
Matt

Merlion

06-13-2007, 07:49 PM

At 32, you are still young Iowasculptor.

What you said means you have young studio assistants conveniently available to help you with heavy lifting. Perhaps you know that injury to the back and spine means wrong posture when lifting. This can occur at any age, 19 or 32.

iowasculptor

06-13-2007, 08:22 PM

I was born with an extra half of a vertebre, so it sits in on the side like a wedge. Instead of having the vertebre sit nicely flat on each other, mine sit at an angle, discovered it in high school, it has gotten a little worse each year. The disks are getting pinched and worn out. I am very careful to make sure I lift with my legs, always have been, cause I know what happens if I don't, but I keep thinking that mabie this year I will go see a specialist, but then I get busy and it never happens??? I suppose sometime it will force me to stop and get it taken care of.
Matt

Merlion

06-14-2007, 01:16 AM

Do you mean IowaS you have not seen a specialist about your spine for sometime? I think you should. Perhaps you know the spinal cord carrying all the motor nerves to the lower part of your body goes through the spine. Thus spinal cord injury can be nasty.

BoatBird

06-14-2007, 10:56 AM

31 TODAY 31 TODAY!!!!!

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

gschnapp

06-14-2007, 04:07 PM

42 in another 15 days but who's counting, my 2 boys (5-7) make me feel like I am 20 and 80 all at the same time.

Greg

P.S. I haven't gotten a Porsche yet.

Stevem

06-14-2007, 10:26 PM

I am 43! I too live in Marietta, Greg and I know what you mean about the two boys keeping you young and old at the same time. I have a 5-10 yr. old. Wher bouts in Marietta you live? I'm west of the square.

gschnapp

06-14-2007, 11:17 PM

I live across the street from Pope High school in East Cobb. We have been there for about 8 years in this circa 1979 fixxer upper.

Greg

My mother in law is watching our kids tonight and the house is eeriely quiet.

AKady

06-15-2007, 01:07 AM

I am 20, but many days feel like I am 80

Randa350

06-17-2007, 02:54 PM

"Never...never...never ask a southern woman her age...and expect an honest answer" that was always my grams reply. I am 35

kellimaier

09-28-2007, 11:23 AM

Hmm...I am 40...

I think it really blows my Mom's mind...the little baby she held is now 40 and has babies of her own! ( Well...6 and 7 year old big babies!) :D

CroftonGraphics

09-29-2007, 08:38 PM

I am 31,

I actually thought I was 32 the other day just for a moment then realised this was not the case.

It is so great to see that a lot of people here are of older ages.
It is wonderful that sculpture is one of those things that seems is with you for life to progress rather than other disciplines that are meant to peak in your 20s such as a sportsperson.

ZeeBee

09-30-2007, 06:48 AM

36.....and it took me that long to realise I could actually reach for the creative stars!

suburbanartists

10-02-2007, 12:34 PM

42 i think.

Have to recalculate everytime i think about it, What year are we in?

Stephen

10-02-2007, 12:55 PM

I'll be 28 in november.

Bentiron

10-03-2007, 08:37 PM

When making art about 26, when feeling pain about 98. In sixth decade.

outdoorgrl_3

12-19-2007, 03:28 PM

I think I'm the second youngest on here... and a newbie.. 19!!!

crosseyedreamer

01-06-2008, 02:02 AM

52, old enough to tell the difference between a snail and a lump of coal with out my bifocal as long as neither is too far away or too small...............

John M

01-07-2008, 05:14 PM

45 1/2 years young ;)

AKady

01-07-2008, 06:46 PM

21. but my body says different

Mollie

01-09-2008, 04:28 PM

I'm 17 as well.

sfp

01-12-2008, 12:30 AM

:rolleyes: 27 - mold maker for 7 years, love it, life is good. :)

Parker

01-25-2008, 10:41 PM

29 here

MadGrrl

01-28-2008, 09:18 PM

36 & still kickin' it! Whatever 'it' is has yet to be determined...

zazie

02-01-2008, 12:51 AM

I am 5 years younger than those $#%%% websites such as Private Eyes and others make me out to be and I am really annoyed about it and the worse is I can't figure out where they are pulling their data from.

Of course, I would not be so annoyed if they made me 5 years younger ...

If any of you has any idea where to trace the mistake I would be very grateful.

Cheers, Z

jOe~

02-01-2008, 09:07 PM

In dog years, tomorrow I will be at least 399. And, I'm still learning new tricks. I think my longevity is due to my not being neutered and getting plenty of exercise. arf, arf.

robertpulley

02-01-2008, 11:00 PM

I'm 59. I think. Wait; no...yes.

racine

02-02-2008, 10:09 AM

i am neither 99 72 56 4 13 55 87 78 8 26 75 64 22 10 35 69 70 2015 77 37 19 62 95 21 85 3 27 81 60 1 11 18 71 51 46 12 52 23 6 68 90 14 5 31 61 45 44 67 84 43 2 89 59 16 38 71 100 9 82 30 42 88 94 50 101 91 96 29 74 36 49 17 34 73 66 28 83 57 48 7 53 93 63 41 79 54 39 24 65 3225 86 98 33 80 92 97 58 or anything over 101

StevenW

02-02-2008, 10:34 AM

That means you're either 47 or 40. :)

tonyreynolds

02-02-2008, 10:50 AM

I took an early retirement three years ago at 59 after being a bean counter in one shape or another for 38 years. I now do what I always wanted to do and that's make art. As the song says, ..."I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

tonofelephant

02-02-2008, 07:38 PM

Happy Birthday Joe

Carl

racine

02-06-2008, 03:18 AM

that means i cross my sevens..oops. now we know who the other obsessives are.....

fused

02-06-2008, 06:45 AM

Maybe you should leave that mistaken chronology alone zazie and people will always say,
Wow... she looks so young for her age.

whisperingangel

06-08-2008, 11:44 PM

just turned 50 this year. But I feel 29! I proablly act about 19

Ironlady

06-10-2008, 08:50 AM

hey! i cross my sevens too! (otherwise they look like ones) i'm 23 but feel much older most days.

Firnafth

06-10-2008, 09:40 PM

I'm 20. Soon to enter my senior year in college, I'm starting to think (=worry) about graduate school.

AKady

06-11-2008, 12:36 AM

cheesepaws

06-11-2008, 06:29 AM

21, feel much older then that on most days. Senior in college, have the grad school search narrowed down to I hope like 5 schools. Now to some how afford to visit them and then afford to go there and still have money for materials.

Milk your college resources! Contact your alumni service office with your list of schools and see if there are any alumni who will house you while you visit the different areas, see if your department will float an application fee or two, write the school dean (in a formal letter) to see if any modest travel money could be arranged to help defer your travel costs. Your academic successes are the schools academic sucesses. Sometimes all it takes is asking!

Once you are in somewhere you can worry about tuition, relocation, housing and materials. The right school will help you make it happen.

Sorry for going off-topic. How old am I?
It ain't the years that matter - it's the mileage. :p

dilida

06-11-2008, 07:44 AM

Why do the young people feel old, and the old people feel young?

lisa

grommet

06-11-2008, 08:43 AM

It's the perception of weight-- older people have more muscles to carry the years, making them less cumbersome/ easier to shuck off.

evaldart

06-11-2008, 08:54 AM

Its because the young ones want to be perceived as wise beyond their years, more knowledgable than they should be; the naivete and obliviousness that accompanies youth, is not, to them, an assett. The old ones will not admit to decline and deterioration; do not want to be perceived as has-been or past their prime - will boast imagined vitalities in denial. They are both healthy self-deceptions, if you ask me; exhibiting desires and ambitions that are not quite attainable...and working on the edges of attainability will produce good Art...thresholded aspects of the self at a given moment, yes.