Nina Katchadourian pioneered this idea of of Sorted Books— creating short stories by stacking books. Create your own Book Spine Story. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc835

Take a photograph at noon that is beautiful, is not beautiful, represents that time of day, or doesn’t represent that time of day. For inspiration check out thehours.org. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc831

Matching socks are so over-rated. Go through your draw, and find ones that go together least, put them on, and get a photo of your mis-matchedness in a public place. If you are short on socks, ask Dean Shareski for a pair. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc828

Create an image that comes to mind. Need raw material? Try http://bavatuesdays.com or @jimgroom or Jim Groom Art Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc827

Make a picture of the light of the sun. Do not picture the sun itself. Capture the light. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc826

Do you have a word for the year? Make a piece of art to celebrate it and help remind you of it for the rest of the year. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc824

Create an image of Very Small Object that is suitable for a new exhibit at the Museum of Very Small Objects. (I did think of Piglet, did you?) Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc823

Cows are intelligent and artistic bovine creatures. Make a picture of a bovine product, artefact or anything related to cows. Do not forget to make it holy. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc822

Via Neotarama… We’re all used to seeing pizzas, but generally only in restaurants and our homes. We may even occasionally see them at pizza farms. But it’s not often that we get to view elusive wild pizzas before they are harvested by hunters. Thankfully, Jonpaul Douglass, a photographer in Los Angeles, gives us a glimpse into this mysterious world through his series Pizza in the Wild. Douglass uses real pizzas, but for this Daily Create, you are welcome to photoshop a pepperoni pizza into an unexpected wild place… Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc819

Transform your most colorful recent photo into on that is black and white, yet manages to not lose any of its intensity. Link to the original so we can compare. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc815

See if you can re-create this photo cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Stephen Downes Make sure you tweet a link to @davecormier your photo so Dave feels popular. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc809

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Humans are pattern recognition machines. If there is no pattern to recognize we make it up if we are expecting to find it. Go for a wonder and find a face in an everyday object. Photograph it. See http://facesinplaces.blogspot.co.uk for lots of examples. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc801

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Today is a major US holiday – National Potato Chip Day. Did you know that Americans consume 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips each year? It’s the nation’s favorite snack food! An Irish chef named George Crum invented potato chips in Saratoga Springs in 1853. One day, a picky customer kept sending his fried potatoes back to the kitchen, complaining that they were too thick and soggy. Crum responded by slicing the potatoes so thin that they couldn’t be eaten with a fork. The customer was so pleased with Crum’s crispy creation that they became a regular item on the restaurant’s menu! Break out a bag, munch a few, and make some art out of the rest. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc796

What comes to mind? The book? A breeze? Take a photo of whatever this phrase inspires you to do. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc793

This is the title of a new book, and you are in charge of illustrating the book in a photo. What do you submit as a final version? Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc792

Not just for men, but The Manly Tradition of the Pocket Notebook has good ideas and reasons for carrying a pocket notebook. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc790

Think of a place you never notice, that you night never pay attention to (e.g. an empty lot, a dull office building). Give it close attention and find a way to make in interesting photo in that space. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc786

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You see them many places to leave blog comments, fill out forms, etc. Take a screen shot of interesting CAPTCHA, SPAMBOT thwarter. Create an image inspired by the two random words (example). Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc783

See Awesome Miniature Movie Stills Shot Using LEGO and Baking Powder (Petapixel) more from the artist’s flickr stream. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc778

Use the Pixel Spreadsheet tools from Think Maths to convert a photo or image into an Excel Spreadsheet– it puts a red, green, blue value in a cell, and zoomed out you can see how that forms a photo. Making one is simple. A monkey can do that. How can you transform the image using Excel tools? For the example above, multiple columns were sorted to make it more “glitch” like. How else might you manipulate the numbers to make something different? Or make it change appearance at different zoom levels. Hat tip to Doug Belshaw Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc770

Inspired by Old Hollywood Moviestars Made from Layers of Packing Tape (My Modern Met) Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc769

Started in 2012 by ds106 alumni Sara K, it’s an assignment AND a Daily Create! See the previous examples for inspiration/perspiration. I was in Urban Outfitters the other day and stumbled across a postcard pack labeled “Unbridled Passion” by Franco Accornero. It’s a collection of 30 different postcards from an artist who has painted more than 5,000 romance novel covers (as well as westerns, thrillers and sci-fi books). The postcards are really ridiculous on their own, but I thought for this Valentine’s day I would make them even funnier but adding my own captions. That’s where the ds106 Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge for #ds106 comes into play: I challenge you to make your own captions for these postcards! Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate, ds106valentine, and tdc768

This is TDC number 767, a number the same forward as backwards. Create a photo that represents in a visual interpretation of a palindrome. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc767

Albert Watson famously photographed the back of Mike Tyson’s head. You cannot see his face, yet the thickness of his neck and his overall stature comunicate his identity. Can you capture a person’s essence by only showing a part of the individual? Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc765

But make it say something. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc764

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Replicate a work another photographer’s photos– Try Gregory Crewdson or Vincent Dixon. (Hi Sandy, it’s your TDC editor tweaking your idea again). Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc758

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The Daily Create is more than two years old! Let’s get nostalgic… Try the one from two years ago today (TDC24). Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc755 (plus for fun add tdc24).

Have fun, especially if NFL football is of little interest… Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc752

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On January 23, 2011, Grant Potter announced the birth of ds106 Radio. Design a card for its 3rd Birthday. Learn more about ds106 Radio or tune in live! Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc745

A quote from The Chronicle of Education’s flattering profile of George Siemens. @bonstewart @gsiemens @dougclow here's a marginally prettier picture of Julia/George pic.twitter.com/FCz3R4LlTz — ժǻƲïժ κēŗɳoңȺɳ (@dkernohan) January 13, 2014 Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc743

Did you know Art was born more than 1,000,000 years ago? According to The Internetz “Art’s Birthday” is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners – working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art. Create a piece of art to celebrate this important day! Take a picture of what you made. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc740

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Find out your character name with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Name Generator, and use that to create a poster for your fantasmic self. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc736

Looking at this love! Select an appropriate band name and album title fitting this photo, and design the cover art. Bonus! In your caption include the list of song titles… Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc733

As reported in My Modern Metropolis: Russian photographer Murad Osmann continues to be led around the world by his girlfriend Nataly Zakharova in his ongoing Follow Me project. With her back facing the camera, Zakharova eagerly holds the hand of her photographer boyfriend, guiding him through various locales across the globe. The traveling duo manage to creatively display a variety of exotic and culturally rich landscapes and architecture through their clever set of images. See if you can replicate a similar image with someone else leading you! Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc732

Yes, the Daily Create started January 8, 2012 with TDC1 “Create a Photograph that features a repeating pattern”. Celebrate by repeating this challenge with a new photo. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc731 (and for fun add tdc1)

Cubomania is a surrealist method of making collages in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the squares are then reassembled without regard for the image— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubomania In response to this Daily Create, John Johnston was inspired to build a tool to create cubomanic images. That’s they way ds106 rolls! Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc729

“App up” means to use post production tricks such as photo apps or PhotoShop to take your photo into a strange world. This is NOT about photorealism! Try these examples Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc727

This technique was coined by beat poet Ted Joans; see some examples from Believe the Impossible Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc725

Literal is easy. Can you go metaphorical? Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc721

We don’t know what it will be. Make it a good photo! Check out today’s Word of the Day. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc718

Santa not only delivered all those presents last night, he had time to pose for artists! Based on Ed Wheeler’s Santa Classics and in the spirit of the Fat Cats Make Art Better assignment, create an image of a well known art piece where Santa Claus is part of the scenery. Upload your photo to flickr and tag it dailycreate and tdc717