Category Archives: #CLMOOC

Piles of tyres

Posted on 14th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

According to the CLMOOC week 4 Make Cycle 4 email a pile of tyres is just a pile of tyres and nothing more. Really?   This is a pile of tyres waiting to be recycled. The mountain in the background … Continue reading →

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Wittgenstein and games

Posted on 12th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

rubber duck 016 flickr photo by dyhchan shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license I haven’t even been lurking in #clmooc this week – I’ve been away on a cruise to the Faroes and some Scottish Islands on a ship … Continue reading →

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Knitting for friends

Posted on 12th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

At some point during rhizo15 I decided it would to start knitting for online friends. I started with a hat for Kevin (@dogtrax). This is a Klein bottle hat based on a pattern from here.       Susan(@EatcherVeggies) liked … Continue reading →

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Remediation

Posted on 3rd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many … Continue reading →

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My poem as a book

Posted on 3rd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m still playing, in odd moments, with my little poems written as a response to Sheri’s Identity Shattering challenge. Today Kevin used Storybird to make a story about his poem so I thought I’d try it as well. I think that … Continue reading →

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Breaking poems

Posted on 2nd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday I broke Kevin’s poem for him. I didn’t mean to, but I put it through QuotesCover which uglified it and broke the line spacing. Kevin responded with this. I’d already been playing with Susan’s challenge, so I thought I’d break … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2nd July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Susan threw down the gauntlet. I’m rushing off to meetings and the like today, but as I was doing this it occurred to me that someone with skilz could put this tache and beard onto the Captain there. Any takers? … Continue reading →

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Who is Simon?

Posted on 1st July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Earlier I wondered what it would sound like if I played all of the embeds in this blog post of Simon’s at once by clicking play on each of them, so I tried. Interesting, I thought. So I recorded my … Continue reading →

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ReMEDIAte my poem again

Posted on 30th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Another attempt to manipulate my poem into an image. This time I’ve used Tagxedo – another tool I’d never used before (note: uses Silverlight, so I had to use Firefox, not my beloved Chrome – hmmm, I wonder if folk will be … Continue reading →

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ReMEDIAte my poem

Posted on 30th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s #clmooc challenge is to take something done in one media and convert it to another. My first attempt uses one of the poems written for Sheri’s challenge. First I copied and pasted the text of one of them into … Continue reading →

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