Category Archives: DS106

Poor Yorick

Posted on 18th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Back from a day away, so rushed for time, but wanting to do something with this from today’s Daily Create: “Alas, poor Yorick, for I knew him well…” Creatively interpret this famous line with something involving a skull. Never read/seen … Continue reading →

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VanGo yourself

Posted on 17th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create is to re-enact a famous painting. As soon as I saw a lute I knew what I wanted to do. This is my great grandma’s mandolin and I love that it hangs on my walls next to my … Continue reading →

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Grids and Gestures 3

Posted on 16th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Feeling better today, so was out in the garden for a while and not needing to lie down so much (though I did not enjoy Cagney and Lacey’s attempts to wake me up from 6am this morning). I experimented with … Continue reading →

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Grids and Gestures 2

Posted on 14th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

More on the Grids and Gestures activity by Nick Sousanis – behind on this coz I was at a conference on Tuesday then in bed all day yesterday with a temperature and stuff.  

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Grids and Gestures

Posted on 11th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today Nick Sousanis has teamed up with the Daily Create folk to introduce his Grids and Gestures activity. In this, he asks us to: … take a single sheet of paper (any size, shape will do) and drawing with a pencil … Continue reading →

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Calligrams

Posted on 26th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s daily create is  to make a calligram: “to to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word.” as Ji Lee says. Here’s a couple I created by changing the transparency of letters … Continue reading →

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Rhizome: 7 word story

Posted on 25th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s daily create is to: Explain something technical in 24 seconds and summarize in 7 words as a video. I wanted to try something new, so I Googled for animated text and found FlashVortex and quickly made these to – ahem … Continue reading →

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Never Throw Tapioca Down a Mine Shaft

Posted on 18th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Create or write something to explain the origins of this aphorism: “Never throw tapioca down a mine shaft.” I don’t think it’s a well known aphorism, at least not in English, so I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Burying my demons

Posted on 16th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s DS106 Daily Create is to create a tombstone. It’s hard to know what to choose – so many worthy candidates – but we’ve had a rough few days of it in the office so the first one I chose was … Continue reading →

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Faces around me

Posted on 15th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve never done the #DS106 Daily Create before, but today it caught my eye: Have you ever looked around … really “looked” around … and suddenly noticed faces everywhere? Ok, so it was talking about seeing faces that were not … Continue reading →

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