Digital Storyteller’s Kit

Posted on 18th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Camera
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Today’s TDC asks us to say what’s in our digital story teller’s kit, so here’s mine:

  • GIMP, for serious photo editing
  • Giphy for quick gifs (add stickers to a photo for quick effect)
  • Lunapic, for a whole range of filters and effects
  • PPT, for a quick way of adding text to an image (I get this free through work, other slide packages would work just as well)
  • Clipchamp, for quick video editing (as above, I use this as I get it through work, there are alternatives)
  • Flickr, to upload my images and easily insert them into web pages
  • WordPress, to write my blog posts

And a whole load of other stuff: like my light box to draw over images; my pens, pencils and crayons to doodle; my cameras, to take pics as I wander around; my scanner, printer and PC …

Digital storytelling is , and I think the Argos kit for toddlers is great.

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Unicorns

Posted on 17th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Unicorn
Unicorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TCC has an image of the unicorn from the Lion and Unicorn staircase at UofG (no surprise, as I set this TDC). As ever, I have this poem in my head:

The lion and the unicorn
Were fighting for the crown
The lion beat the unicorn
All around the town.
Some gave them white bread,
And some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum cake
and drummed them out of town.

So what skills would a unicorn have? The patience to wait till the perfect time to oust a pretender, maybe? And charm, of course, to appear sweetness and light. But watch out for that horn – it can do serious damage!

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Booking Bands

Posted on 16th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to mash up a book and a band. After some deliberation I settled on “of mice and men at work” (from Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” and the band “Men at Work”.  I then headed over to Night Cafe and asked:

An image for a book cover called ‘of mice and men at work’. It should have features of the ‘men at work’ album covers

The image it generated was great, but of course the caption was misspelt. After two attempts at asking it to spell correctly I asked it to remove the caption. I then opened up PPT and edited it myself.

Of Mice and Men at Work
Of Mice and Men at Work flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Then I remembered the Penguin Classics Cover Generator so I made a version using that.

Of Mice and Men at Work
Of Mice and Men at Work flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

As I was doing all of this I also fed my prompt into Your AI Slop Bores Me and asked for a ‘human AI’ version, which I then added a caption to.

Mice and Men
Mice and Men flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

I love them all!

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 12th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

RSPB Lochwinnoch
RSPB Lochwinnoch flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Poem Portrait

Posted on 7th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

For todays TDC I headed over to Google’s Poem Portraits, as the prompt suggested, and gave it the word breakfast. I let it take my photo while it generated this poem.

Our breakfast stems were drowned with the stars,
My fancy wastes the sun. The fire is formed.

poem-portrait
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Frog Music

Posted on 6th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

For today’s TDC I screenshot the image then headed over to Giphy to add some animation

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 5th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

89/365 Alexander Elder Memorial Chapel, seen from JMS
89/365 Alexander Elder Memorial Chapel, seen from JMS flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Irrelevance

Posted on 4th April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

For today’s Daily Create, as I sit watching the rain and waiting for Storm Dave, I added rain and snow effects to the image.

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Text Weave

Posted on 3rd April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

For today’s TDC, as it is Good Friday, I chose a passage from Nietzsche:

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”  Nietzsche Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft, 125

 

Text weave
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Suffragette Umbrella

Posted on 2nd April 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC. After ‘help’ from Lacey I made this.

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