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Dictating to a baby elephant

NomadWarMachine on October 5, 2026

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

NomadWarMachine on October 4, 2026

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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Silent Sunday

NomadWarMachine on October 4, 2026

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

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Paper plane

NomadWarMachine on October 3, 2026

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

NomadWarMachine on October 2, 2026

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

NomadWarMachine on October 1, 2026

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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9 months of photos 2026

NomadWarMachine on September 30, 2026

273 days of photos, one every day

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Haunting at the Willington Mill

NomadWarMachine on September 30, 2026

Today’s TDC says The Strange Company blog describes a series of reports of ghost action in the early 1800s at an old mill. Talking ghosts? Eerie. Lacking any recently reports create some art – generated imagery, drawing or write a story that describes what modern haunting is happening there (real ghosts don’t just post other images found in google). I downloaded the image, drew a ghost and added it to make this gif:

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A random word poem

NomadWarMachine on September 29, 2026

Autumn Morning flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Use this random word generator and write a haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables) about the first word you generate! The word I got was drift: A crisp autumn day Clouds drift across the skyline Trees dance in the breeze I took a photo through my study window, it’s at the top of this post

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The Last Museum

NomadWarMachine on September 28, 2026

Today’s TDC says The Last Museum says it is “the largest search engine for museum art. It uses semantic search, allowing you to search for artworks by theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine”. Visit the Last Museum and have a look around – pretty amazing, huh? Share something that you found with us, or make some art based on what you find and share that. I spent ages looking around, first at Scottish culture and then […]

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Ladybird Book

NomadWarMachine on September 27, 2026

Today’s TDC says: Search for an image of the old Lady Bird books and add your own caption. Read more about this here I searched and found this generator, so here’s what I made Ladybird DS106 flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Silent Sunday

NomadWarMachine on September 27, 2026

268/365 Findhorn Beach flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Into the Sun

NomadWarMachine on September 26, 2026

Today’s TDC says: Make a dramatic photo at sunrise or sunset. I was in the car driving down the A9 at 10am today, so I grabbed this one from Flickr and tooted it. Findhorn Bay earlier this week, as we were walking home. Findhorn Bay flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Air Theramin

NomadWarMachine on September 25, 2026

Today’s TDC says We love this Air Theremin a lot. Do something, play with it, record yourself making sounds and share it with us. Have fun! Here’s mine

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A Track for Olive to Play Rhythm

NomadWarMachine on September 24, 2026

Today’s TDC says Here’s an image of actress Olive Thomas likely pretending to be a jazz drummer. Share an unlikely song you can imagine her laying down the drum beats too. Olive Thomas (LOC) flickr photo by The Library of Congress shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I think this track by AC/DC would be a good one for her to try, actually.