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    Blog Blog Blog Badge Badge Badge

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    My friend, Sarah, shared her “badge” as part of an ongoing discussion about blogging (including Alan‘s blog blog post), and since her badge was at The Remixer Machine, I remixed it for myself. Peace (and blogging), Kevin PS — here is an original post about the Anonymous Blog concept but I am not sure I […]
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    Daily Create: Pixelation

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    This is from today’s DS106 Daily Create, which I suggested, and uses the Remixer Machine at Visual Thinkery. I took a screencast as I toggled the bar, and then converted that video into a GIF. Peace (and play), Kevin
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    NGram Viewsic

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    The other day, a prompt at DS106 Daily Create had us using the NGram data analysis site (which tracks terms across books across time) and I did a music instrument theme, and noticed some changes in when mentions happened. I mused about using the chart to create a piece of music, where the different instruments […]
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    Some Symmetry

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    Today’s DS106 Daily Create was about creating symmetry art with a Western theme from an image. I found myself (once again) perusing the Flickr files of Alan Levine, and worked with two of his Colorado images. One became a beautiful bit of sunset lighting and the other, with a variety of filters, became something other-worldy. […]
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    Hope

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    I shared this out for this morning’s DS106 Daily Create — the theme was “hope” — after finding it in my comic archives. Peace (and hope), Kevin
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    Write Out/Daily Create Collaborative Poem

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    Yesterday’s prompt for the DS106 Daily Create and Write Out poem was an invitation to collaborate on a tree-themed poem. We used Etherpad. Here is the full poem — thanks to all collaborators. A spark beneath the brittle soil, a seed awakes and stretches out towards the sun above Fibers thread their paths  burrow in […]
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    Write Out: Poem Burst

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    I wrote three poems in the last 12 hours, with prompts via Write Out and its theme of “Poetry for the Planet.” The poem above is via the DS106 Daily Create and the two below are from the National Writing Project Studio space, where Abigail is posting daily prompts for Write Out. Peace (and poems), […]
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    Write Out 2024 Kicks Off Today …

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    This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing […]
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    Morning Creative Bent

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    Just some sharing from the morning. Above is haiku with the one-word prompt of “frost” via Mastodon and below is an illustration from the morning prompt at DS106 Daily Create to use the last name of someone famous, connected to a common ob...
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    Making Art From The Public Domain

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    I submitted the prompt for this morning’s DS106 Daily Create, about exploring a visual search engine of Public Domain artwork. I created the art image above, which I like for its textural oddness, by first searching for “trombone” (believe it or not) in the search site (called Public Domain), and discovering a strange image of […]
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    Music Themes In Morning

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    It’s not unusual for me to use music as my theme for some morning creativity — either making it or using music to inspire writing or art. This morning was no different, with my morning poem (with prompt of “sunshine” off Mastodon) leading to a guitar haiku poem and the DS106 Daily Create (“complete this […]
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    A Room Becomes A Turntable

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    For today’s Daily Create, the prompt was to “remix your world” using an image. I had a photo of an empty basement, where my band used to practice, and when I did a little tinkering in LunaPic, the room became a turntable (by accident). And of course, a turntable requires some scratching. Peace (and sound), […]
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    Four Poems: Moth, Silence, Flower, Flood

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    Here are four poems from today and yesterday. The one above is from the Daily Haiku prompts off Mastodon, where today’s prompt was “moth.” This second is inspired by a poem shared by Terry, along with some explanations and possibilities and the concept of a “silence map” took hold in my mind. A third poem […]

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