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How to tell a story⤴

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How to tell a story
How to tell a story flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

How to tell a story

Who am I to tell you how to tell your story?

You might start at the beginning
Or in the middle, or at the end

If the story wants to be told, it will leap from your mind onto the page

And then, from those pages, it will jump into mine.

 

A poem for today’s Daily Create.

Castle in the Sky⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to:

Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”)

I found a doodle I had done of a castle

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

and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter

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

Then I used the ‘bubbles’ animation:

Doodle of castle with 'bubbles' animation

And posted it.

Castle in the Sky⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to:

Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”)

I found a doodle I had done of a castle

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

and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter

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

Then I used the ‘bubbles’ animation:

Doodle of castle with 'bubbles' animation

And posted it.

Turner and the Dragon⤴

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Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

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

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon
Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.

Turner and the Dragon⤴

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Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

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

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon
Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.

Turner and the Dragon⤴

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Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

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

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon
Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.

Eliza⤴

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Eliza

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

I first came across Eliza in 1980, when an uncle gave my dad Gödel, Escher, Bach for Christmas. Dad loved it, and so did I when I read it (my father was a very slow reader, so I took to sneaking the book away when he was busy and reading as much as I could before putting it back by his chair ready for him to read a page or two in the evening). It’s a wonderful book about maths, music and art, with a deeper meaning about how cognition emerges. Dad gave me his copy when I went to university, and it’s still on my shelves now.

Happy Xmas

Happy Xmas flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

So I was delighted when I saw that today’s Daily Create was to go and have a ‘conversation’ with Eliza.

She’s still just as annoying as I remember her being. You can see my conversation in the image above, copied here below. Her responses are in caps.

HOW DO YOU DO. PLEASE TELL ME YOUR PROBLEM

Why do you ask?

WHY DO YOU ASK

I asked first!

YOU SAY YOU ASKED FIRST

Well, I did!

CAN YOU ELABORATE ON THAT

I can …

DO YOU SAY YOU CAN FOR SOME SPECIAL REASON

Yes, grammar

YOU SEEM QUITE POSITIVE

And you can try it out for yourself if you like: Eliza

Twisting the Kaleidoscope⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to

Imagine you find a kaleidoscope. You put it up to your eye, and point it to the sky. You twist it into the light.

What do you see?

Use either story or poem or words or image or art to bring us into the colorful world of your tumbling tube.

I knew I wanted to use a flower to create an image, so I found this one of an iris I took some years ago

sybil


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

Cropped it to a square and then uploaded it to a Kaleidoscope maker to create this image.

Kaleidoscope iris

Kaleidoscope iris flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I saw Kevin’s create, and nipped over to Lunapic to see what my image would look like as a gif. Here’s two – the first from the kaleidoscope image and the second from the original.

Anti Spam Poem⤴

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to visit Kevin’s blog and make a poem out of the anti-spam words that you need to enter in order to post a comment.

Amusingly, Kevin has moved his blog to a new home over the last few days, and the new blog doesn’t ask for these words. So I stayed with the old one and refreshed the page a few times to get this:

Felt chop?
Pleats do.
Bidder ha?
Shrews mew

Well, that’s better than some of my own attempts to rhyme!

13 years of the Daily Create⤴

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Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Daily Create I’ve been participating in this since around 2016, often uploading my responses to a Flickr album. Here they are as a slideshow. Here’s to the next 13 years!  You can participate as well – just visit the web page at 5am UTC or follow the @creating@daily.ds106.us on Mastodon.

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