Seeing gifted people doing their thing

[SamePendo]

I love watching people doing whatever they're good at.

And speaking to them, looking at their views on different subjects (related to their work). Even kids that totally kick ass in a xbox game... but not the average punk, those ****ers that kick EVERYBODY's ass.

For example, on tv rolleyes, I saw this interior design program. Anyways, they asked this dude to do some tribal drawing on the wall. They fastforwaded him doing it, I was like !!! Awesome!

Another example, myself haha on both my jobs, I kick ass. David Blaine, that guy is incredible! Another one, I know this music producer/writer, awesome stuff, how he creates music. Ronaldinho.. I saw this clip on him juggling with the ball.. striking the post at will. Kickass doctors, car mechanics... etc. Even people who are INCREDIBLE in washing cars. I'm talking about the type of people you just want to stand there and watch them do their thing, in awe.

Some guys are naturally gifted to whatever they do (bodybuilders), but most, even being naturally gifted, would be nothing without the dedication they put into it. What are you AWESOME at? Or what do you look forward to being INCREDIBLE at? Have you witnessed some guy do his thing?

 

[Brian20o2]

I know what your talking about, its the people who put so much passion into what they do.

 

[Rovalier]

David Blaine helped bring street stuff to the mainstream. He has this cool image going for him. But that man has nothing on some of the real talents in the magic scene check out www.penguinmagic.com

Just to give you a taste of real card handling I present to you Brian Tudor's card mechanic. http://www.penguinmagic.com/watchmoviehigh.php?productID=7315

This guy could eat him for breakfast.

 

[spider_007]

every person has that one thing that they just love to do....

-my big boss (owner)- loves old cars, he and his brother have close to a 100 of them.
- his son- loves dirt bikes, races every week
-my other boss (eng. menager)- is curently into hunting, and has been all about guns for the las few months....


I have yat to find my thing.....

 

[LowPlainsDrifter]

Drywall taping as an art form

Was waiting at a local mall for my turn to come up at a dentists office.
A&S had recently closed, and a workman was prepping a huge piece of
drywall that covered the whole internal entrance to that store, leaving a blank
wall until the space was re-tenanted.
My fellow tooth-sufferers and I watched transfixed as this guy
did an elegant dance of cutting pieces of tape, laying on the
"mud" applying the tape and laying on more mud.

He stood on a tall mobile scaffold, and after taping up each area,
simply rocked his body to get it to move to the next
part of the wall that needed patching, never dismounting
the metal frame until the work was done.

 

[VegasGuy56]

Heh, David Blaine's got nothing on my friends:

http://decknique.net/content/192.html

The cool part starts about 20 seconds into the video. I'm the guy in the black jacket, but my stuff in the video isn't as good as some of my friends. We're working on putting together a new one which is better.

Rovalier, I've got some footage of Brian Tudor in that video too. He's amazing (And the stuff he did in that video was at 3AM when everyone was drunk. lol).

 

[flippinfreak]

I've worked in Kitchen's all of my life, well more catering kitchens. Let me tell you this, there are some people in that business that don't even think about what they're doing. Not in the bad way either, it's all second nature to them.

Seeing them walk out of a Fridge with everything they need on one cart to make dinner for 400 people takes no time at all. 50Kg of carrots peeled chopped, simmered, and sugared in less than 30 minutes. All the while it's like their eyes don't break contact with you. They can talk and talk, and joke, and tell stories, and b!tch, hell they can even talk on the phone and it doesn't stop their job.

 

[Visceral]

There's nothing more inspiring than someone who's good at what they do and enjoys it. It doesn't matter what it is - from Classical music to UFC fighting - after a few minutes, I'm ready to drop what I'm doing and sign myself up for whatever it is I'm seeing. It doesn't take much to get me pumped up; I'm feeling it just thinking about it.

Then Reality rears its ugly head...

I remember that as a beginner, it will be as hard for me as it is easy for them. I remember that I'm not guaranteed to enjoy it as much as they do, if it's not so difficult and/or painful that I don't enjoy it at all. Faced with this, my motivation disappears as quickly as it came.