291/365 Frost flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Take a moment to observe nature and write a haiku inspired by your experience. Here’s mine Frost on the garden Like icing on a cupcake Shining in the sun
RSPB Lochwinnoch flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Rain flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license Today’s TDC says Where do YOU stand? Share a six-word story about your place or location (and maybe we can even guess where it is?!) Feel free to add art or be creative with your six word story. I wrote one about the city I call home: Rain always near: dear green place The image at the top is taken through my study window looking out at […]
World Food Day flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Today is World Food Day The UN have a challenge for people aged 5-19. We might not be, ahem, quite that young, but we can still participate here: Create a poster that shows what “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.” means to you. Show us how innovation – big or small, old or new – can help feed the world, protect the planet, […]
350/365 Lemon Meyer flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Write a three line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour. I wrote a haiku: Sunlight on a branch Zesty tingles on the tongue Summer in a glass
Today’s TDC says Draw “nonsense upon stilts” I asked NightCafe to help me capture this phrase from Bentham Nonsense upon stilts flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Frogs in advertising flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says The History of Advertising Trust is an archive of 50 years of British adverts. Visit and revel in video and audio commercials, print advertising and ghost signs (no idea what these are, me neither, but they sound intriguing!). Make some art based on what you find there – maybe a mashup image, a gif or a poem. Also see this Grauniad […]
Harebells flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license Today’s TDC says I don’t know if you have ever read the old versions of fairy tales or not, but some of these familiar stories are pretty gruesome. Walt Disney became famous for taking these very old tales and sanitizing them for modern youngsters. One of my favorite examples comes from the tale of Cinderella when the prince comes looking for the owner of the lost slipper […]
Mondrian flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Mondrian art is all geometry and color. What design can you make with Paint Mondrian Art? Mine’s at the top of the post.
Lochwinnoch flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says Celebrate the season wherever you live (Autumn in the northern Hemisphere, Spring in the southern) by getting out in the streets today and photographing the beauty that is the moment. If you’re housebound, turn your camera to the window. Compose your shot. Make it beautiful. It’s very changeable weather here today – one minute bule sky, the next drizzly rain. Here’s my favourite orner of our garden, with Fair Flora (needing repainting!) in front of our ‘orchard […]
Today’s TDC says A suggestion linked by Austin Kleon in his newsletter “Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you’ll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you’ll be ready.” (Or, in the words of Wendell Berry, “Every day do something that won’t compute.”) What trivial law will you break today? Well, this is […]
Leopard print jacket flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Show us a photo of something you recently fixed or made better. When my SiL was clearing out my MiL’s flat she came across a bag of knitting. Inside was a jacket, half finished. We both remembered it as a project we’d seen a few years ago, quietly cleared away. Shona asked if I’d like it, and I said I would. […]
Today’s TDC says What do you think would happen if the earth was flat? Tell us, or show us. Be original! I immediately thought of what a cat would do … so here’s a pic of a cat, sitting on the earth, having pushed all the countries off onto the floor. Flat earth, with cat flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says Type in cube does just what it says – it puts your words into a cube. Write something inspirational* and share it with us. * or write anything you like, inspirational or not.
