Frank Beard flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Frank Beard was the only member of ZZ Top without a beard. RIP Frank. Let’s give Frank a beard.
So I did
Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
12 Doctor Who Adversaries flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Make a photo of 12 interesting things. Or tasty things.
Lined up on my bookshelves are 7 lego daleks and 5 lego cybermen facing each other off. Having them in front of a row of poetry books amuses me.
Magpie in a telescope flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Is it possible to contribute to the present moment in any meaningful way while being wholly engulfed by it? Perhaps, it is only by stepping out of it, by taking a telescopic perspective, that we can then dip back in and do the work which our time asks of us.
Show the view in your telescope.
This morning, when I opened the curtains, I stood for a few moments watching the birds in the trees at the end of the garden. I watched this magpie fly from the rowan tree to perch on the top of this pole, and opened the window to take a picture.
Later, as I sat at my desk and found that my email would not load because of an MS Outage, I chatted to colleagues over Teams message (sadly that is still working) about the suitability of different birds to carry messages. We settled on flamingoes, but I do wonder about using a magpie.
Today’s TDC says
This is wild that it can be done in a web browser. Visit gesture.live where you can create music simply by moving your hands in front of the web cam. Do not be like me and just make noise, read the guides and understand how to change the chords. Or just make noise. Use it to record your 30 second opus to DS106.
I admit, I just made noise – the instructions were far too detailed and I am having a stressful day at work. Also my PC was refusing to acknowledge my camera so I had to get out my tablet and wait for it to run a zillion updates. Cool site though, worth spending time on.
Forty Two flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
As Douglas Adams tells us in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the answer to the question is 42. But what’s the question? Tell us, in a toot or a blog post, using exactly 42 words.
Here’s my version of the question:
How many different ways can we respond to a Daily Create? How many possibilities emerge when we remix, reinterpret, reinvent, collaborate, experiment, play and borrow? Is there a limit to creativity? If you had to give a number, what would it be?
Literary Clock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
This is very fun- go now to the Literary Clock which every minute gives a different literary quote where your current time is mentioned.
Fun, eh? Watch it change every minute.
Save the text of one and find some way to depict what the passage suggests. Maybe with a photo, a drawing, or even resort to tossing a phrase in one of those generators…
I was distracted with work emails as I was doing this, so I didn’t manage to grab the text from the first couple of responses. But here’s the one from 10:38:
There must be a solution, there must be. Frantically I scan the cans of products stacked on the shelves. Stain Away. Vanish. There has to be a remedy. … I just need to think. … 10:38 OK, I have the answer. It may not totally work—but it’s my best shot. ― Sophie Kinsella in The Undomestic Goddess
I gave NightCafe the text, and you can see the image it gave me at the top of this post. I was amazed to see that it has got the spelling right!
Batwoman flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Austin Kleon loves drawing Batman. He says:
Drawing Batman, it turns out, is a great comfort to me!
You don’t even have to draw Batman from a movie or from scratch: If you have a black pen and a magazine or a newspaper in front of you, you can turn anybody into Batman.
Take inspiration from Kleon and turn somebody into Batman
I took today’s page from my daily calendar and attacked it with a Sharpie. The original was “Portrait of a lady, previously identified as Lady Jane Grey”
Frog eyes flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
The Moving Image Archive is chock full of interesting videos. See what you can find, then share or make something new.
From the site:
The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the past, preserving verifiable history matters more than ever before.
I didn’t really know what to do with this, so after looking at lots of clips I settled for screen grabbing the image above.
Great White Egret flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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