NomadWarMachine

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 to Lunapic to see what filters I could use. I chose…

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to: Place the word Madagascar somewhere in the response in a way that makes no sense As I web searched for Madagascar I noticed that images of lemurs featured heavily in the results, and that gave me an idea. I stole an image from this web page and edited it slightly. I am sure nobody will notice that I added a little cat to it. Madagascar flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared…

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC is this: Today is Summer, make summer art today Well, this week Glasgow is back to dreich rainy days, so instead of heading outside with my camera I searched my Flickr archives for a sunny image and chose this one: 189/365 Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I downloaded it and cropped it, then headed over to Lunapic to play…

Image from the Blaugust Discord channel and community During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Last year I wrote a post about my blogging journey as part of the Reclaim Hosting #blogging4life initiative. and I also wrote a guest post for them about my beloved Daily Create. I don’t want to repeat any of that again, so suffice it to say that this IS my very first blog, though I have moved it from being a WordPress.com hosted site in 2012 to…

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to Make a silly solage A silly solage is a happy poem of three lines, two of them as long as you dare, the third is one word. The third word is surprising and silly. As far as I can tell this is a form of poetry just made up by Kathryn Apel as I can’t find it elsewhere in an internet search. She describes them as a type of joke, but mine’s more of a definition than a joke: I like…

BlToday’s TDC is from one of those wonderful random web pages one finds while browsing through the web. Play around with this rolling stone and share a screenshot or a video of what you create. I played around with the sounds and chose chimes for this experiment, then used the MS snipping tool to record my screen as I ‘released’ the stone. Finally I uploaded to YouTube and added the video here. If i’d had time I’d have snipped the video to start with the sound (there’s a delay between me…

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. HapGPT flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license modified with File:AI-Check.svg wikimedia commons image by Subilan shared under CC0 and additional text Today’s TDC asks us to: Look around and find an everyday object that could use some AI added to it. Create an advertisement image that extols its virtues in the new age. I chose a photo of a Shetland…

Kelvin and Glasgow Uni Tower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC asks us to depict a lurker. Here’s a couple of our cats. Lovely Juve cat, the first cat resident with us in this house, lurking in my doorway while I was ill in bed: juve lurk flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license And little Cagney cat, hiding under the rhubarb, stalking the birds in the garden: Lurker flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license

And just like that July is over. Here’s my seven months of photos, one for each day. As I was a way for some of the month it was quite hard to only pic one image to represent my holiday adventures.

The ugly underside of knitting flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says that: ‘Like an evil twin or a twisted pair, happy places can have an ugly underside’. Is your happy place always happy? What is its underside. On my knitting chest there is a bag containing a jacket half knitted by my MiL many years ago. I have plans to finish it and gift it to her daughter, my SiL, but have not got around to it yet. It’s a thing of beauty –…

A great TDC today – to write or change a poem so it contains instructions about how to do it. I don’t think I quite did that, but I had a lot of fun changing the words to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43. Here it is: How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.…

Image from here As today is the last day of my holidays I’ve been trying to suck every last minute of my freedom – but the heavy rain this afternoon thwarted my plans for one last walk and confined me to the house. As I mooched around my various social media haunts I remembered that I’d seen a link to sign up for Blaugust 2026, so here’s my intro post. In case you don’t know: Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to…

A quick doodle for today’s TDC. We were given a doodle to complete. Here’s mine. Porcupine and flowers flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC asks us to make a hat for a sea urchin. I found a sea urchin on Flickr and added a hat via powerpoint online images. Sea Urchin Cowboy flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC sends us to the Wikipedia Seismograph and asks us to share what we do there. I cgose to compare graphs for pages of 4 sea birds. Sea birds flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC asks us to: Tell, show, what a culture of belonging looks like Since about 2016, when I was looking at CLMOOC for my PhD, I’ve had this sketch on my wall HOMAGO flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licenseo This takes the HOMAGO from Mimi Ito and maps it onto the 3Cs model from sociology of religion – Community, or who we are; Cultus, or what we do; Creed, or what we believe. I talk a bit more about it here. DS106 and the TDC exemplify…

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

Mum loved ducks, and they still remind me of her. I take pics of them and smile as I remember her. Yesterday we stopped on the way home at Tebay for a cuppa and watched the duckings. Happy moments for today’s TDC. Ducklings at Tebay flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

A cinquain is a five-line poem. Line one has one word and is the title. Line two describes the title in two words. Line three uses three words to express action. Line four uses four words to express a feeling. Line five uses one word that restates the title. Here’s mine for TDC5305 Hot So hot Very, very hot This is too hot Melting! Sunset flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

TDC5304 Art Face flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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TDC5301 says: Austin Kleon weighs his notebooks before and after finishing them. What silly rituals do you have to make your work seem more like play? Here’s mine – I make pretty icons for my To Do lists and colour them in as I complete each task To do list flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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

For today’s TDC I created this poster. Apparently it’s HAL, but the reference is lost to me as I haven’t seen the film. (Not even my beloved Daily Create is going to make me start watching films! Look, I get it – you all think I am missing lots of cultural references, but I have tried, and I just don’t watch after the first few minutes.) You can do it poster flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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

July weather is unpredictable, from sweltering heatwaves to torrential rain. I take my chances where I can and step outside to enjoy my garden. At the moment my geraniums are glorious – shaded from the worst of the heat by the forsythia above, spreading out across the garden. Today they are shining in the sun. On a sunny day Flowwers turn their faces up Basking in the light 189/365 Geraniums flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC asked us to use digital erasing to remove a phone from an image. Now, once upon a time this took skilz, but with the new tools in my Android phone it’s far too easy. I took a pic of myself holding my phone and automatically loaded up GIMP to edit it out. But then I remembered the Android ‘magic eraser’ so I used that instead. I will say that it sort of upsets me that it is so easy to do – but it consoles me that it’s not perfect – the corner of the picture it’s filled in doesn’t…

For today’s TDC we were directed to the Random Animal Generator to see what we could generate. I got a phoenix, random-animal-phoenix flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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