How I found the Daily Create

Creative Bomb
Creative Bomb flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license

I found out about the Daily Create because I became part of an online community. As I’ve written before, in 2014 I signed up for an online experience organised by Dave Cormier called  Rhizomatic Learning – The community is the curriculum which I thought was going to be about Deleuze and Guattari, and even though it wasn’t I met a bunch of great people and am still collaborating with some of them in various ways a decade later. I was also introduced to CLMOOC and found many like-minded remixers and bricoleurs there.

As a result of meeting these people, and particularly thanks to my friend Ron Leunissen, I was introduced to #DS106 and the Daily Create. I dipped in and out of participation at first, only responding if a prompt really piqued my interest, but since November 22nd 2017 I have completed the daily challenge every day, without fail. I’ve also written about how important it is to me on a guest reclaim blog post, and I won’t repeat all I said there about the influence that this daily activity has had for me – but it’s a hugely important part of my daily life. Well, after 2894 days of participation it’s not surprising that it’s very much for me.

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Reclaim your voice

Today’s TDC asks us to talk about creativity and openness.  Here’s my response.

One thing I really appreciate about the Daily Create is that, because it is in the open, I have added motivation to complete it.  Left to my own devices I would sacrifice my creative urges to the need to do admin, or one of the other multiple tasks that invade my head and push out my creative musings.

Small acts of creativity keep me going through the drudgery of paid work.

DS106

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Feed the create machine

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

Today’s TDC asks us to find the least popular challenge and respond to it. I chose this one:

Some of Salvador Dali’s surrealist paintings combined two or more kinds of animals. In the example The Temptation of St. Anthony, we see horses and elephants sporting some gangly insect legs. Tap into your inner-surrealist today and create a critter mash-up with two or more different creature parts. TDC2655

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Silent Sunday

Mugdock
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a Poster for An ‘Add a New Daily Create’ Campaign

Your daily create needs you
Your daily create needs you flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Write a Halloween Story

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

Mum in law’s funeral today, so just a quick cautionary poem:

Those who do not behave
Might end up here, or in a grave

TDC5040

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Back to the Dailyshoot

303/365 Fuchsia
303/365 Fuchsia flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Christmas Pudding

302/365 Christmas Pudding
302/365 Christmas Pudding flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Christmas is coming, the [vegetarian] goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man’s hat
If you haven’t got a penny, then a ha’penny will do
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God bless you!

Stir-Up Sunday is not till Nov 23rd this year, but it’s a dreich day and I’m off work with a cold so I thought it was time to get the Christmas pudding made this year. This is Mrs Beeton’s ‘rich’ pudding recipe. I omitted the milk and just used brandy and beer as liquid along with the eggs. It smells good already!

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Missing

Have you seen my True Friend?

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

Created with PhotoFunia. TDC5038

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Love Poem

Thanks
Thanks flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license

Roses are red
Violets are blue
But you, my dearest darlingest Daily Create
Are multifaceted, multimedia and multidimensional
And that’s why I LOVE YOU

TDC5037

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