37 Posts from November 2025

#TDC5045, Open Participants 2021, The Network, World

Autumn Kigo

Today’s TDC asks us to make some autumn kigo. I really wanted to get out my pencils and crayons for this one, but I am trying to compress a day’s work into a morning so that I can enjoy the Reclaim conference this afternoon, so I quickly grabbed one of my recent pics of autumn leaves and used LunaPic to add some filters to it. I then dumped these into powerpoint, screenshot the slide and uploaded it to Flickr. Kigo […]

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combobulating, Open Participants 2021, The Network

Feeling Combobulated

WildDS106 flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC was written to fit in with the first day of the Reclaim Hosting conference, and in particular to celebrate our new website: Combobulating. When Mark first offered us the domain name we didn’t think it was a word, but of course others before us had come up with a definition: To compose (one’s self); to compose, organize, design, or arrange; to reverse the effect […]

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Open Participants 2021, The Network

How I found the Daily Create

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 […]

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#TDC5043, Open Participants 2021, openness, The Network, voice

Reclaim your voice

Today’s TDC asks us to talk about creativity and openness.  Here’s my response. https://nomadwarmachine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Recording-3.mp3 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 […]

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#tdc2655, #tdc5042, Open Participants 2021, The Network

Feed the create machine

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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