2445 Posts Categorized "The Network"

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Where in the universe is @dogtrax now?

NomadWarMachine on August 17, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us Our Daily Creator Kevin aka @dogtrax has been an award worthy participant and contributor (hundreds of ’em) to the Daily Create. We received word that he would be travelling and away from the TDC for a few weeks, let’s treat him to some wildly creating art about where he is now. Create a story describing what adventures @dogtrax is up to or speculate […]

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Sestetle

NomadWarMachine on August 16, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Sestetle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC is a familiar one, though not a remix. The last time the prompt was to write a sestetle, which is more appealing than today’s suggestion: Give Mark Sample’s Sestetle generator a spin for a 6 line poetic stanza made of 5 letter words, generated Wordle style, then wrote a lofty sophisticated […]

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Silent Sunday

NomadWarMachine on August 16, 2026

Bingham’s Pond flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Bernard Pivot Questionnaire

NomadWarMachine on August 15, 2026

Question postcards flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. This post is an answer to Roger’s Blaugust post. I also like quizzes and questionnaires, so here’s my answers to the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire (the post byRoger omits question 4, but I’ve answered all 10 here). Q1: What is your favourite word? There’s lots of Scots words that I like – […]

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

NomadWarMachine on August 15, 2026August 15, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a huge treasure trove for fans of the natural world (not my words, the Guardian told me so). Visit its web pages and look around. Make some art about what you find, or look through the Flickr library for something to inspire you. I headed over to its Flickr library and chose a pic of a tsetse fly. I cropped it into a […]

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Mandala Madness

NomadWarMachine on August 14, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. A lovely TDC today: Mandala designs — a sort of mirrored gathering of lines in circular patterns — are interesting and rather relaxing to create and to view. Use the Mandala Maker (or some other site or draw one on paper) and share out your artwork. Here’s mine mandala flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Inner monologue

NomadWarMachine on August 13, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to: Tell us about your inner monologue. Bonus points for recording it. 224/365 Non Eclipse flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Work’s tricky at the moment, so a lot of my inner monologue is best kept to myself, but there’s one thing on my mind today. Yesterday was the day of a solar eclipse, […]

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Summoning Words

NomadWarMachine on August 12, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Magic Wand flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC links to a toot to ask us Which words make you prick your ears up and get your attention? What do others know to call out to make you respond? Tell us what your real name is, and why. For a long time we only called Cagney by […]

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Make (expensive) art yourself

NomadWarMachine on August 11, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to Since we know 1 taped banana can be sold for lots of US $, let’s make some money by making our own masterpieces. Ron tapes some bananas to his wall and takes a pic of it for us. I was just about to pack my saandwich lunch into my bag, so here’s part of it. Feel free to make me an […]

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My super power

NomadWarMachine on August 10, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. There’s two apps on my phone that I really like, and use a lot. The first is Merlin, the app from Cornell that helps people to identify birds. The second is Pl@ntNet, a free app that helps people to identify plants. They are both great, and thanks to Merlin I am getting better at guessing which bird I am hearing as I am out walking […]

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Image the Alt Text

NomadWarMachine on August 10, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to: For this Daily Create, you are tasked with imagining the image that is described by the alternative text below. Close-up of a chain-link fence with metal wires, set against a cloudy blue sky and distant green fields. What do you “see” in these words and given context? Create it as an photo you might find, draw as a sketch, as […]

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3-30-300 rule

NomadWarMachine on August 9, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Glasgow is called Dear Green Place, and looking around where I live in the suburbs you can see why. Today’s TDC says that: 3-30-300 is an urban forestry concept which states that every resident should be able to see at least 3 mature trees from their home, live in a neighbourhood with at least 30% tree canopy cover, and be within 300 metres of a high-quality […]

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Silent Sunday

NomadWarMachine on August 9, 2026

214/365 Heron flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Right Angled Doodle

NomadWarMachine on August 8, 2026

A fun activity for today’s TDC. I chose the digital option and doodled away before clearing the page and making a clean spiral. Spiradoodle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Stranger things

NomadWarMachine on August 7, 2026

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks: Have you watched Stranger Things on Netflix? Even if you haven’t, imagine just how strange the world can get. Then write a story or create an image, or a soundtrack, or a video, of the Stranger Things you imagine. We won’t judge. Too much. The worlds is strange in ways I don’t really want to imagine at the moment, so I jumped over […]