For today’s Daily Create, I was assigned to take a photograph of an animal that best represents my personality. I choose a wild cat. They are not much different from a domestic cat, however wild cats guard their independence. They are creative, curious, and always out and about or observing the world from a distance. During my stay in Africa, I’ve captured a photo of a wildcat. They are beautiful and free-spirited (not saying all that about myself, but I admire that about them). My tour guide told me that a wildcat would never take a conventional route and prefers to explore life from off the beaten track. They rely on their instincts and powers of observation to guide them through life (sounds familiar). They, however, love their privacy. 
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The Wildcat in me
Sunday, July 29th, 2012Wrapping Up Daily Creates for Camp
Sunday, July 29th, 2012I have enjoyed The Daily Creates of ds106 and will strive for continued participation in this creative outlet even after my educational enrollment in the ds106 curriculum comes to an end. Here are the 3 daily create assignments I completed for the last week of ds106 and Camp MacGuffin…
tdc198 – Draw a flower with your eyes closed.
Flower drawn on the inside of my eyelids
I’m not that great at drawing on a good day.Ask me to do it with my eyes closed ensures a disaster in the art department. Knowing this would be the case, I want to add a twist…to make it more interesting. So I used Flamepainter to blindly draw this flower. This made it look more abstract and colorful, standing out from the other pen and pencil renditions of this challenge!
tdc200 – Take a photograph of animal you think represents your personality.
I emerged from my cocoon…a Butterfly
“Just when the caterpillar thought its life was over, it became a butterfly.”
A butterfly is an accurate reflection of my life to this point, especially the last few years. I recently had this beautiful reminder tattooed on my ankle for my 35th birthday…to always remind me that change is ineviditable, so make it beautiful! I will blog separately about this in the near future, to give the the whole story, my story and why this holds such a powerful significance to me that I would tattoo on my body. Look for it, if you really want know what’s really Behind Blue Eyes.
tdc201 – Make a short audio of the sound of water pinging, flushing, splashing, roaring, tumbling…
Bathroom H2O by Chanda Sorrell Cowger
To create this sound clip, I recorded a few sounds of water in the bathroom. The shower running, toilet flushing, sick faucet flowing. Again, easy to do using the SoundCloud app on my iPhone to record a short bit.
A menagerie that represents my personality
Friday, July 27th, 2012
What animal represents my personality? My wife suggested a cat. “They’re generally intelligent, but somewhat aloof.” Buddy is friendly and apparently doesn’t mind spiders.
I wrote about the owl already. That it’s graffiti makes it kind of hoodlumish.
I liked this turtle that I found. It was by far the largest I’ve ever seen outside of a zoo. Something about tentatively coming out of a shell seems appropriate to the assignment.
I have been looking for a way to use my two headed snake picture, although I’m not sure how much it relates to my personality. Snakes like to keep warm, and ones with two heads are unusual.
I didn’t take this picture – my friend Crazy Joey posted it to Facebook, but I like the cats. They rock.
