21 Posts from October 2026

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Dictating to a baby elephant

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Todays TDC says “Imagine how you might feel about your writing if instead of typing it on a computer or writing it longhand you were dictating it to a baby elephant holding a stylus in his trunk.” This provocation comes from Stephen Nachmanovitch Free Play: Improvisation in life and art, p37-8.  The suggestion is that inspiration comes straight from the heart, but sometimes needs to be explained or translated. Our Muse is the vehicle of that translation. What would you dictate […]

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World Animal Day

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Today’s TDC says 4th October is World Animal Day. Make some art to celebrate your favourite animal I decided to celebrate the puffin, so I headed over to Flickr and searched my images there. Here’s a picture I took in 2018 when we took a boat from Mull to Lunga. Puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I also put an arty filter over it Artified puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a […]

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Paper plane

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Today’s TDC says Make a paper plane and show it to us. Either make a photo of it, or film it in full flight (extra applause for a plane that flies well). Straight away I heard the Quo singing in my head, so I found it on YouTube (see bottom of post). Now, I know how to make a paper plane, but I wondered about making a fancy one. I found instructions from the Glasgow Science Centre and followed them […]

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War Pigs

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Today’s TDC says Audrey Watters‏ said, “repetition of the word ‘masses’ in the first 2 lines of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs is the most disappointing failure of imagination in the history of rhyme.” So let’s give Geezer some help. What else could he have used for the second line? Rhyme on. Well, actually I don’t mind the repetition – as it reminds me that there is more than one meaning of ‘masses’, but here goes. I tried a couple of […]

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Canyon Groove

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Today’s TDC says Canyon Groove is a site that allows you to create songs out of mountains, by imagining those lines as grooves in a vinyl record. The download button didn’t work for us but there is a share button. See what songs are singing in one of the mountains. I played around with the settinga and recorded my tune using the built in Windows snipping tool and uploaded it to Youtube – it’s a bit quiet, so apologies for […]

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