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Virus poem⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

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

Today’s TDC  says:

Write a poem on a nice virus, and add some images.

Bonus points if you make it go viral

Here’s mine:

VIRUS

Viciously lurking,
Invisible till it strikes,
Rapidly spreading,
Unwelcome everywhere,
Sneakily multiplying.

Bad Logo⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

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

Today’s TDC says:

We aim to learn good design principles; can you take what you know or have learned to do the complete opposite?

Design a logo for a real or imagined business, and make it really bad.

I decided to take the name of sister community CLMOOC and make a logo for us. I asked Nightcafe for:

A logo for a course called Connected Learning Mooc. It has a cow in the middle of the picture with a speech bubble saying “MooC” and the words “Connected Learning” at the bottom of the picture

You can see the result above. I’m not sure it’s bad, but it’s not good.

Butterfly⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC is from long time friend Sheri and asks us to:

Create a butterfly of your own in whichever medium works for you.

I really want to do this one later on with pencils and crayons, but it’s a busy day at work so for the time being here’s a version createdby NightCafe. The prompt I gave it was:

A butterfly with patterns made of fuchsias, strawberries and blackberry leaves

Well, what it gave me was lovely, but not quite right.

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

Sestetle⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Sestetle
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 title for its appearance in some snobby journal.

Meh, TDC rules are made to be broken, and I really don’t feel like writing jokey titles for academic journals, given the news this weekend. So here’s the poem, as it was given to me

Those
Wiser
Dares
Curry
By the
Proof

And a version by ChatGPT, with me asking it to write a poem with these words in each line:

Those who wander wonder where the answers lie,
Wiser hearts can read the secrets of the sky.
Dares taken boldly lead where dreams may hurry,
Curry-scented evenings warm away all worry.
By the moonlit river, shadows softly move,
Proof enough that life is stranger than we prove.

And the image that NightCafe gave me from the original words:

Those Wiser Dares Curry By the Proof
Those Wiser Dares Curry By the Proof flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Then I asked ChatGPT:

Can you write me a title for an academic paper with thee words in the title? Those Wiser Dares Curry By the Proof

Here’s the response:

Those Wiser Dares: Curry by the Proof

That’s made me laugh!

Image the Alt Text⤴

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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 a short poem, or just write a longer narrative description. If this is your jam, use it in a prompt to feed a GenAI image creator, maybe add a few more elements to go beyond the literal.

I like to use my own images for stuff like this where I can, but a quick search through my Flickr albums didn’t bring up anything that matched. So I headed over to NightCafe and dropped in the prompt. The result was pretty good:

Close-up of a chain-link fence with metal wires, set against a cloudy blue sky and distant green fields
Close-up of a chain-link fence with metal wires, set against a cloudy blue sky and distant green fields flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

However, as I am not working today and therefore have a bit of time to play, I decided to search through some of my photos for partial matches. Here’s some fences from Strontian and Ross Priory, with added birds.

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

 

Terrible Venn Diagram⤴

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I admit, I asked ChatGPT to help me with today’s TDC. I asked it to give me ideas for “two nonsensical but logical sets” to use for a Venn Diagram and then refined it to ask for one with “funny overlaps”.  I then asked it to draw the result. Here’s what it gave me:

Terrible but funny Venn Diagram
Terrible but funny Venn Diagram flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license