Today’s TDC says: Seriously, pointing people are always better with budgies. From our friends at Boing Boing Pick your pointing person and put a bird on it! Enjoy. I decided to take a poster I’d already remixed and added the budgie to it: Your country needs you with added bird flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says: You have one creative task today. Do not stray from the instructions. Do not pass Go. Do not spit on the sidewalk. Do not disobey. Ready? Go to the Creative Prompt Machine and Turn the Machine On. The prompt it gave me is: Make a comic strip for that time Puff the Magic Dragon went to Machu Piccu only to discover to get home they had to enjoy a picnic of cheese and crackers. I cheated – it’s a busy […]
Today’s TDC says: Today, show your favorite time of the year! You can draw us a picture, share a photo you’ve taken, or even write us a poem about it. No Googling though. This is DS106 I love all of the seasons, but the autumn colours are spectacular. Here’s a picture I took at Ross Priory at the weekend Acer in Autumn colours flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says: ‘Make Art, Dammit!’ a la Karel Appell Want to see some of his real stuff? Check Artnet for Inspiration. We used a lovely abstract art generator for our masterpiece here, but feel free to use other media and get messy with real paint! I took a close up picture of part of an oil painting we have on our walls and played around with filters. Here’s the original: Abstract Art flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons […]
Today’s TDC says: 13th September is Roald Dahl Day. Make some art to celebrate this day – maybe a gif from one of his films, or a poster made from a quote from one of his books. I chose a quote from the MinPins “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl and found a gif I did a few years ago of a horse turning into a unicorn.
249/365 Red Admiral flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Shark Pens flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Fountain Pens flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Show us the old school office supplies you regularly use for school or the office. (Digital devices need not apply.) Yuo don’t get much more old school than a fountain pen, and I use mine for all my writing. You can see some of them at the top of […]
We are open flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Think of a local store in your neighborhood. You’ve been hired to come up with a hand-drawn “We’re Open” sign for them to hang on the front door. Your design should speak to the spirit of the store, and entice passersby to take a peek inside.Tell us about the store. Show us your ‘We’re open’ sign. I asked NightCafe to make […]
Today’s TDC says: Alphistia is a geofictional country, you can read about it on its web pages. Tell us where you think it would be, if it had a location. Who lives there? What do they do? I cheated and asked ChatGPT: I think Alphistia would be somewhere in northern Europe – perhaps tucked away between Scotland and Scandinavia, in a place that exists in the geographical equivalent of a gap in the map. It would have a temperate climate, plenty […]
Today’s TDC says Go back in time and get on the old QMO&OR railway. The Canadian province of Quebec formed the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway (QMO&OR) in 1874 to link those cities since private companies, without the usual subsidies from the Federal Government of Canada, could not get financing, mainly because the Grand Trunk Railway was lobbying against it Show us your adventures on that train. Do some research and write a story or modify the image to give is […]
Today’s TDC says Words are music, right? Or is it, music is words? JazzKeys brings words and music together in an interesting way. As you type, it makes music. Then you can share your words/music. Write a message to the DS106 Community with JazzKeys and share the link with us. Together, we can create a collaborative performance. Try JazzKeys I chose a quote from Brian Eno: people do much better when they don’t think they’re being artists … if […]
Today’s TDC says: Birds love to perch on statues. but how about adding an unlikely bird to a statue? Use your digital skilz today to add a bird to a statue, or show us a photo you have taken. https://social.ds106.us/@johnjohnston/11718405530249199 I wandered outside with a couple of toy puffins and took some photos Fair Flora with Puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Flora the Puffin and Lacey the Statue Cat flickr photo […]
Howelyple flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Dan Hon wrote a clever script (and recipe) to train an A.I. to generate British placenames. There just could be places such as “Chorkwheal”, “Storton of Brook”, and “Kinindworthorpe Marmile”, right? I chose Howelyple, and headed over to NightCafe. I asked for: In a village called Howelyple, A lone cow stands in a field in front of a cow barn. There is a village […]
242/365 Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Berry Heron poem flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died at age 92 Make some art in his memory – maybe illustrate one of his poems or write one inspired by his words. I love The Peace of Wild Things, so I looked through my Flickr albums and found a photo of a heron, taken last year – probably at Mugdock. When despair for the world grows in […]
