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How to tell a story flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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.
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Percolating ideas flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
I’ve been enjoying dipping in and out of the “On Writing” series that Jim Groom’s been hosting on Reclaim TV, although I’ve not been able to watch them live as they usually stream at 5pm on a Friday, by which time I am off line and off to the pub to meet friends. However, luckily they are also recorded, so I can catch up at my leisure, and this week I finally got around to watching the episode with Lee Skallerup Bessette, or ReadyWriting, as she’s known on ALL the socials.
Lee and Jim talk about many of the facets of Lee’s life – such as her growing up in Quebec but not being a francophone (watch the episode to hear why she asserts this), but – of course – it’s what Lee says about blogging that really resonates with me. Like Lee I’ve always been a voracious reader and a prolific writer, though I don’t write nearly as much as Lee, I don’t think. And, also like Lee, I do find it pretty easy nowadays. So when I heard Lee saying (at about 53 mins into the video) that her habit of blogging has helped her to be able to consistently push out a lot of decent quality words quickly, as long as the subject is one that’s familiar to her, I was nodding vigorously at the screen. And then she connects this type of writing to learning a musical instrument:
you don’t have to be great at it right but you just keep practicing it because it makes sense and it brings you joy and it helps you make sense of your life and it connects you to other people (at about 54:44 mins in)
Yes, absolutely yes. I’ve had a pretty shit week this week, for one reason and another, but I’ve still managed to churn out lots of words – because I can. Well, when Lacey lets me! Thanks Lee, and thanks Jim, for a great episode.
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Today’s Daily Create asks us to reflect on what make a community. That’s quite a big question for an an activity that typically takes 15-20 minutes to complete. I didn’t check before replying to it today, but last time this challenge was set I put together a quick video and shared it to the playlist.
This time I looked up at my notice board and took a picture of an image that’s been there since I was writing my PhD and learning about affinity spaces.
Homago flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
The concept of HOMAGO – Hanging Around, Messing About, Geeking Out – comes from the work of Mimi Ito, and was fundamental to my understanding of connected learning and affinity spaces. It describes the practices that I enjoy when I complete the daily create and see what others have created. When I was thinking about all of this and trying to understand what makes a successful community, network or affinity group I remembered the work of Emile Durkheim that I has learnt way back as an undergraduate, and his theory of society as being composed of Community, Cultus and Creed (who we are, what we do and what we believe).
I still think that’s right.
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Today’s Daily Create asks us to
Try this site that gives you a bit of control over world maps. It allows you to re-orientate the world map to specific countries (so you change the common perspective found in so many maps).
You have a few different map types to play with, too. Maybe you make a political statement? Or maybe you just make some art!
I clicked on the UK, and the resulting map reminded me of two big, friendly dogs saying hello to each other. so I loaded up SmoothDraw and did a tiny bit of doodling:
Dogs of war – or peace? flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Dogs of war, or dogs or peace? Who decides?
from NomadWarMachine
Today’s Daily Create asks us to
Try this site that gives you a bit of control over world maps. It allows you to re-orientate the world map to specific countries (so you change the common perspective found in so many maps).
You have a few different map types to play with, too. Maybe you make a political statement? Or maybe you just make some art!
I clicked on the UK, and the resulting map reminded me of two big, friendly dogs saying hello to each other. so I loaded up SmoothDraw and did a tiny bit of doodling:
Dogs of war – or peace? flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Dogs of war, or dogs or peace? Who decides?
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Out in the garden after breakfast today – losing the cats under the long grass, marveling at all of the fruit on our apple and plum trees. It was hard to find a place to take a photo of only three apples in one frame, but I managed to zoom in on these three for today’s Daily Create. HT to Alan for the Monty Python reference in today’s challenge.
Three in the Wild – Bramley Apples flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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Out in the garden after breakfast today – losing the cats under the long grass, marveling at all of the fruit on our apple and plum trees. It was hard to find a place to take a photo of only three apples in one frame, but I managed to zoom in on these three for today’s Daily Create. HT to Alan for the Monty Python reference in today’s challenge.
Three in the Wild – Bramley Apples flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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An excellent Daily Create today:
Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Did you see what we did there in the title of today’s Daily Create?
Ricki Heicklen has the market cornered on this, but put your own creativity to work and generate (old style brain powered) your own. Create one and then use it in authoritative message.
e.g. Making an unparalleled misalignment for that hot new two letter acronym:
artificial intelligence // ersatz sagacity
“I am of the opinion that Erastz Sagacity. can already do all of the jobs that we, as humans, do.”
I chose ‘virtual reality’ for my pair, and checked an online thesaurus for synonyms of virtual and reality. The phrase I decided on was ‘implicit truth’, though I swithered over whether ‘tacit’ was a better phrase.
“I am of the opinion that implicit truth is the future for meaningful collaboration”
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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 flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter
Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Then I used the ‘bubbles’ animation:
And posted it.
from NomadWarMachine
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 flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter
Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Then I used the ‘bubbles’ animation:
And posted it.