More than halfway through Daily Create a Day in July, and here we are at another writing challenge, really an easy peasy one: Write a limerick about someone famous. Like really famous. So who do you look up to more, who could be not more widely known, than your Daily Create Drill Sergeant? And He […]
Rather fitting for the idea of doing a Daily Create bootcamp this month, today’s was a video challenge (which means most people go hide under the bed): Make an Exercise Video for a Common Every Day Activity (e.g washing dishes) The point is to apply the genre of exercise videos, people overly enthusiastic doing something […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Claus Wolf Today’s ds106 Daily Create challenge is a writing one based on the brevity of twitter: Write a story dialogue in 5 half-twits (lines that are 70 characters each) The Urban Dictionary defines a Half-Twit as “A 70-character message, which is half of […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Leeky-Boy It is going to be hard to top this headline… but that is the goal of today’s ds106 Daily Create, a writing challenge: Write a tabloid headline for ds106 and the opening sensational paragraph Tabloids, oh yeah. My all time favorite headline was “Female […]
Maybe the best photographic advice I came across (forgetting the source) is to “Look for the light”. At first, this might seem the textbook kind of suggestion of always having the light come from behind. But this is different. Look for interesting light. This means looking for both the vivid light of sunrise/sunset, the diffuse […]
I’ve just got one week’s reading and discussion in, but I am enjoying the reading group that Ben Rimes has organized as Book CLub 106 (yes the connection to ds106 may be a thread, but it works for me!). I do not think I have ever been part of any kind of book club… oh […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create is a Drawing challenge, for which, as usual I reach for the Paper 53 app on my iPad. Make a detailed drawing of one of your own eyes. My plan was to take a self photo with my iPhone […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today marks 10 years since my grandmother passed away. I had always told her I expected her to live to be 100, and she came darn close at 98, so I will round it up, and call it achieved. I spent a chunk […]
Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge is a video one: Uh Oh, Today is the 13th. Make a video of you avoiding a superstition. It might not be majorly superstitious since its not Friday, which usually calls for insolent ignorant teenagers and a monster in the lake. I decided to find something other than the familiar […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one: I’ve Been Down So Long”¦ Take a Photo that represents the essence of Blues music I wrote this one in myself, metaphoric challenges are some of the more interesting ones to me. IMHO, this […]
