RIP Jean-Luc

Posted on 30th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Enterprise over Earth
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Today’s TDC says

Honestly, we’re not sure what you can do with this one, but Ambient Earth is seven hours (plus) of footage from the International Space Station, looking at our beautiful planet. We hope it inspires you to write, or make art, or do something.

Last night we had the sad news that Patrick Stewart had died, so here’s my nod to him. I took a screen shot of the video and edited Entrprise into it.

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We’re All Changing

Posted on 29th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Mugdock June and October
Mugdock June and October flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

One hemisphere is entering Fall from Summer the other entering Spring from Winter… show us in a photo something that is changing (not necessarily nature).

Yesterday afernoon we found a gap in the rain clouds and walked around Mugdock Loch – a place we visit regularly, noticing as we walked around how many leaves had dropped since the last time we visited. Without knowing what the challenge would be today I stood and took a photo through the trees. So here’s Mugdock Loch in June and October – beautiful in all seasons.

We also saw a red squirrel while we were there, but didn’t get a photo.

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Heckethaler

Posted on 28th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Pot of Gold
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Today’s TDC says:

Check out this link to get a random German fairy tale.  Now make us some art based on whatever you get – maybe a picture or a poem.

I landed on The Heckethaler (Swinemünde), which I discovered is a magical self-replicating coin. I have nursery rhymes on my mind, so here’s the poem that wrote itself for me:

Heckethaler

What would I do with a magic coin?
Could I solve the problems of the world, a guinea at a time?
A penny for the match girl,
Another for your thoughts,
And one for the old man’s hat

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Snobby Nursery Rhymes

Posted on 27th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC says

Read a nursery rhyme aloud in a bad snobby accent.

Now, last week when we were out for a drink a pal told me I always sound posh, so here’s a nursery rhyme in my own acccent

This is a  rhyme mum said to us every time she dried our hair – I can’t find this exact version online. I still say it to myself every time I dry my own hair.

Rub a dub dub

Rub a dub dub
Three men in a tub
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
All wrapped up in a rotten potater
Green peas, tuppence a peck
A man fell down and broke his neck
Apples for the king and pears for the queen
And a jolly good dance on the old bowling green

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Flower Pie Chart Art

Posted on 26th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Flower pie chart
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Today’s TDC says

Pie charts. Bar graphs. Scatter plots. Can the representation of data be art too? Enjoy this scenic pie chart- what kind of data art can you make?

I asked for help from NightCafe.  First I asked it for a bird that looked like a pie chart, but I thought the image it gave me looked too corporate:

Pir chart bird
Pie chart bird flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Next I asked it for

a circle with segments like a pie chart, all in pinks so it looks like a flower

I downloaded the result and put a circle around the outside. The final image is at the top of this post.

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Pavement Talk

Posted on 25th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

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

Today’s TDC says

Imagine your sidewalk could talk — what would it say, in the form of a small poem or prose?

I wrote a poem about my pavement. We live on a busy road with a school over the road, so there are a lot of people walking up an down throughout the day.

Who’s that walking overhead?
Who’s that walking on my head?
Pounding, stamping on my head
Oh how I wish that you would stop

I took the photo at the top of this post a couple of months ago as I walked up the road to the bust stop.

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 25th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Heron
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Iquitos

Posted on 24th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Iquitos
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Today’s TDC says:

Research how a specific location has changed over time using historical photos online. One such tool is Google’s Timelapse Google Earth Engine. Write a poem that moves through time, reflecting on environmental changes.

I chose the meandering rivers in Iquitos, Peru. After watching the timelapse I found the Wikipedia page about Iquitos and pasted the climate section into a blackout poetry generator. The poem I made is at the top of this page.

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Haikomic

Posted on 23rd October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

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

Today’s TDC says

Comic creator Grant Snider has long used comics for expression and he periodically goes through periods where he turns his poetry into comics. He even has a book of Poetry Comics. For Write Out, Snider suggests a haikomic, or a haiku in the form of a three panel nature comic.

Grant has even provided a template, if you need one.

Read more about Grant’s idea at the Write Out site.

Here’s the haiku

I sit on a branch
As I sing a happy tune
And my friends sing too

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Outside Writing/Inside You

Posted on 22nd October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Thesis writing
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Today’s TDC asks

What ways does writing outside inspire the writer inside of you and/or inside of other writers in your place?

I do a lot of writing in my garden – away from the distractions of the internet. Here’s a couple from when I was writing up my thesis a few years ago. I got really good at doodling as a different type of procrastination. Cat was NOT a help!

Doodling
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