Name: Jam Buckley
Course: Ethical Hacking
Year: 2nd Year
What made you choose to join the society?
I wanted to pick up some new skills and clear my head.
What’s your favorite crafting activity and what do you enjoy most about it?
I am enamored with woodwork, now also crochet and I quite enjoy drawing. Wood work makes me feel closer to my great grandad who would talk to me about what he had been making every time we met, crochet is just a nice past time to keep my hands busy and make plushies for my cousins and drawing lets me expose the world to the eldritch horrors I conjure in my head.
What is your preferred crafting environment?
Something relaxed and mellow, somewhere comfortable.
Can you recall a particularly memorable or transformative creative project or experience? What made it so impactful for you?
I had lost faith in myself always comparing myself to others and over quarantine I was able to reignite my passion for crafts without the burden of peer pressure letting me get back into drawing and be more willing to express myself in more vibrant ways.
If you could live in any fictional world, which one would it be and why?
Terry Pratchett's Diskworld, the sheer volume of oddities, whimsy and shenanigans is too enticing.
What's your favorite board game or video game, and what makes it so enjoyable for you?
I am a huge fan of the soul's series the world building is amazing the fights often make you think on your feet and reward players who interact with their surroundings and can adapt to best overcome, and I love this kind of game play that rewards exploration and has such a rich lore. Stardew and Pokémon were close runners up.
If you could have any animal as a pet, regardless of practicality or legality, what would you choose and why?
It would be a Hasst's eagle, a giant bird that is now extinct that was the size of an emu but fully capable of flight. So great it inspired Hakawai, one of the eleven tapu and is itself believed to be the pouākai a great man-eating eagle. Would this be sensible in any way? No. Would it be a giant living fossil that is one of the greatest raptors to live? Yes.
