Today’s TDC says
Type in cube does just what it says – it puts your words into a cube. Write something inspirational* and share it with us.
* or write anything you like, inspirational or not.
Todays TDC says
“Imagine how you might feel about your writing if instead of typing it on a computer or writing it longhand you were dictating it to a baby elephant holding a stylus in his trunk.” This provocation comes from Stephen Nachmanovitch Free Play: Improvisation in life and art, p37-8. The suggestion is that inspiration comes straight from the heart, but sometimes needs to be explained or translated. Our Muse is the vehicle of that translation.
What would you dictate to that baby elephant?
I felt like doing some drawing today, so here’s my doodle of an elephant holding a crayon
Elephant with stylus flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
4th October is World Animal Day. Make some art to celebrate your favourite animal
I decided to celebrate the puffin, so I headed over to Flickr and searched my images there. Here’s a picture I took in 2018 when we took a boat from Mull to Lunga.
Puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license
I also put an arty filter over it, but I think I prefer puffins as they are in nature.
Artified puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Lochwinnoch flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Make a paper plane and show it to us.
Either make a photo of it, or film it in full flight (extra applause for a plane that flies well).
Straight away I heard the Quo singing in my head, so I found it on YouTube (see bottom of post). Now, I know how to make a paper plane, but I wondered about making a fancy one. I found instructions from the Glasgow Science Centre and followed them … to discover it’s just the basic design I usually make. Oh, well.
Paper plane flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
I decorated it anyway
Paper plane flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Paper plane flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Audrey Watters said, “repetition of the word ‘masses’ in the first 2 lines of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs is the most disappointing failure of imagination in the history of rhyme.”
So let’s give Geezer some help. What else could he have used for the second line? Rhyme on.
Well, actually I don’t mind the repetition – as it reminds me that there is more than one meaning of ‘masses’, but here goes. I tried a couple of my own:
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches in dark glassesor
Generals gathered in dark glasses
Just like witches at black masses
And they I asked ChatGPT, which was- um – not great. I asked
can you please rewrite the first two lines of this song so there is no repetition of the word ‘masses’. It gave me:
Option 1 – closest to the original:
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at midnight gatheringsOption 2 – darker:
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at darkened massesOption 3 – more natural:
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at their blackest ritesOption 4 – keeps the “black” imagery:
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at blackened rites
So I said:
please ensure the first two lines still rhyme
And got:
Generals gathered in their massesJust like witches at their darkened passes
Generals gathered in their massesJust like witches casting blackened glasses (more surreal)
Generals gathered in their massesJust like witches practising their classes (less sinister)
Generals gathered in their massesJust like witches in their shadowed passes
Generals gathered in their massesJust like witches at their midnight passes
I think mine are better.
Today’s TDC says
Canyon Groove is a site that allows you to create songs out of mountains, by imagining those lines as grooves in a vinyl record. The download button didn’t work for us but there is a share button. See what songs are singing in one of the mountains.
I played around with the settinga and recorded my tune using the built in Windows snipping tool and uploaded it to Youtube – it’s a bit quiet, so apologies for that!
Today’s TDC says
The Strange Company blog describes a series of reports of ghost action in the early 1800s at an old mill.
Talking ghosts? Eerie. Lacking any recently reports create some art – generated imagery, drawing or write a story that describes what modern haunting is happening there (real ghosts don’t just post other images found in google).
I downloaded the image, drew a ghost and added it to make this gif:
Autumn Morning flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says:
Use this random word generator and write a haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables) about the first word you generate!
The word I got was drift:
A crisp autumn day
Clouds drift across the skyline
Trees dance in the breeze
I took a photo through my study window, it’s at the top of this post
NomadWarMachine
