I do a lot of what you seem to describe as Creative programming.

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1) Film Special Effects - Someone has to animate 10K orcs in battle

2) Video Titling / Sweep FX - Someone has to write cool fade in effects

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3) Straight up hacker style art:

See the inspirational Jürg Lehni:

. http://www.scratchdisk.com/Work/Hektor/Will-Morris.jpg/ - a motorized realtime graffiti plotter, based on robotics and his scriptographer coding

. http://www.scratchdisk.com/Work/ - awesome examples

. http://scriptographer.org/gallery/ - more awesome examples with Jürg's scriptographer plugin

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There are many more avenues to code with graphics and get paid