Creative Prompt #169: Name

Domain name

Baby name

Family name

Nom de plume

legally change your name

National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts promoting the hobby.

Holy Names

Definition: A systematic name is a name given in a systematic way to one unique group, organism, object or chemical substance, out of a specific population or collection. Systematic names are usually part of a nomenclature.

A Horse with no Name

Chemical name

Code name

Name and shame

What’s in a Name?

Name That Tune (game show)

Name-Calling

sort by name

name tag

profile name

name attribute

In the Name of the Father

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a structured vocabulary of geographic names for indexing art and architecture.

U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Domestic Names, Foreign Names, Antarctic Names, and Undersea Features.

Definition: A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A personal name identifies a specific unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a middle name. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical meaning also) and is a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes, more loosely, called names; an older term for them, now obsolete, is “general names“.

Hello! My Name is….

The Name of the Rose

business name availability

What’s in a name?

pen name

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Sketching #164

imageThis drawing was ready weeks ago and I don’t know why I didn’t post it.

I don’t need my computer for a few days so I took it to be repaired….then I remembered I wanted to post tonight. Murphy’s Law, I suppose, bit I am making due. I may replace the photos in the future.

I used scarlet and a more turquoisey, but not quite, blue rathwr than the traditional colors. I like how this drawing came out.

Creative Prompt #168: Imagine

BBC One: Imagine: The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob.

Imagine

Imagine a place
Where everything is calm and clear
Decisions between wrong and right are simple
And you`d never have a second thought
Imagine a place
Where everyone belongs with someone
A soul mate for a soul mate
Everyone is happy
Forget the heartache
Forget the pain
Breathe deeply in love
And never exhale
There would never be a moment of doubt
But this isn`t a fairy tale
This is real life
There is heartache and pain
And not everything is clear
People make mistakes
People make good choices
But in the end
There will always be something wrong
And maybe you`ll forget it
Maybe you won`t
There`s not always a soul mate
Not always someone to love
But it`s always nice
To imagine
Because you`re never too old
To create a block in your mind
And shut out reality
So, take a deep breath
And close your eyes
Imagine a place
Where their are happily ever afters
And dreams that can come true

Jessica Robert

Imagine is a newsletter for precollege students who want to take an active role in their own education.

Imagine Children’s Museum in Everett, Washington

Site intended for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe.

Imagine” is a song written and performed by English musician John Lennon. It was released as a single from his album Imagine in 1971.

Definition: (third-person singular simple present imagines, present participle imagining, simple past and past participle imagined)

  1. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or createsomething in one’s mind.
    Try to imagine a pink elephant.
  2. (transitive) To believein something created by one’s own mind.
    She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
  3. (transitive) To assume.
    I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
  4. (transitive) To conjectureor guess.
    I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
  5. (intransitive) To use one’s imagination.
    Imagine that we were siblings
  6. (intransitive) To guessor conjecture.
    Let me imagine – it’s a ring!
    The board imagines the merger should increase profits about a quarter

Imagine: How Creativity Works, a 2012 book by Jonah Lehrer

Imagine Foods

Imagine… A Fantasy in the Sky, a fireworks show at the Disneyland Resort in California, U.S.

Ikarus Imagine, a German hang glider design

Imagine (AD&D magazine), an adventure-games magazine

Imagine (educational magazine), an educational periodical for 7th-12th graders

 

Imagine Publishing, a UK-based magazine publisher

Imagine, a 1970s comics magazine published by Star Reach

Imagine, official journal of the Socialist Party of Canada

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Creative Prompt #167: Solitaire

card game

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Solitaire is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Solitaire is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1973 by Columbia Records.

 

Solitaire, A Rose

The morning rose you touched still stands.
And see how sweet, how sweet this one,
this single one it smells when in the sun?

And each petal falls,
once full when open is now gone.
Each single one by they are young,
like all the rest now gone.

Rare such flowers once were loved,
when blind are cast aside.
To see each loved each every one.
But one not loved by any one.

And loved is this a single one.
Solitaire,
is played by hand then picked,
by wind and gone.

Jane Seymour played Solitaire in Live and Let Die

Definition: Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people. In the USA, it may refer to any card game played by oneself; the British use the term Patience to refer to solitaire with cards. The term “solitaire” is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout of tiles, pegs or stones rather than cards. These games include Peg solitaire and Mahjong solitaire. Most solitaire games function as a puzzle which, due to a different starting position, may (or may not) be solved in a different fashion each time.

kind of diamond ring

Neil Sedaka album

Ski movie

“The Way”/”Solitaire” is the second commercial double A-side CD single by Clay Aiken released on March 16, 2004, on the RCA label.

a pipelaying vessel

a superhero comic book created by Gerard Jones and Jeff Johnson in 1993 for Malibu Comics.

Solitaire Unraveling” is a song by the American industrial metal band Mushroomhead and the lead single from their first major label album XX, released in 2001

 

Solitaire

Silently I stepped around
not to disturb anyone with a sound.
Just to enjoy the morning silence
where my mind could wander around.

Enjoy the peace in the air
without intruding voices everywhere
and enjoy the solitaire
that the morning held there.

17 September 2010

David Harris

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Creative Prompt #166: Growth

plant growth

period of rapid growth

economic growth

Definition: Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time. The quantity can be:

  • Physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money)
  • Abstract (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature).

It can also refer to the mode of growth, i.e. numeric models for describing how much a particular quantity grows over time. (Wikipedia)

tumor

development from a simpler to more complex form (freedictionary.com)

growth of a city

trade growth

personal growth

growth economy

exponential growth

cell growth

smart growth

growth hormone

Growth chart

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Creativity and Fun

image

I saw these in a shop today and they made me smile. Of course, they were in the kids section. Kids get all the fun stuff. If I ever have that sort of shop, I’ll designate a section labeled “creative people”. Could be fabulous or a disaster. Would you be more creative if you had these crayons? I might be tempted to just look at them and not use rhem. Note to self: get over that!!! 🙂

Creative Prompt #165: Ferry

Golden Gate Ferry

Ferry Island, in British Columbia

ferry children

Definition: A ferry (or ferryboat) is a boat or ship (a merchant ship) used to carry (or ferry) primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi.

Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels. However, ship connections of much larger distances (such as over long distances in water bodies like the Mediterranean Sea) may also be called ferry services, especially if they carry vehicles. (Wikipedia)

Ferry Building

Ferry Farm, the childhood home of George Washington

East River Ferry, NY

Washington State Ferry fight

Staten Island Ferry

ferry crossings

excursion ferries

Ferry Carondelet (1473–1528), a Habsburg diplomat

ferry across the River Styx to Hades.

Ferry Field, a stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Harper’s Ferry

Captain Fell’s Historic Ferries, Tasmania

cable ferry

On A Ferry Boat

THE RIVER widens to a pathless sea
Beneath the rain and mist and sullen skies.
Look out the window; ’t is a gray emprise,
This piloting of massed humanity
On such a day, from shore to busy shore,
And breeds the thought that beauty is no more.

But see yon woman in the cabin seat,
The Southland in her face and foreign dress;
She bends above a babe, with tenderness
That mothers use; her mouth grows soft and sweet.
Then, lifting eyes, ye saints in heaven, what pain
In that strange look of hers into the rain!

There lies a vivid band of scarlet red
With careless grace across her raven hair;
Her cheek burns brown; and ’t is her way to wear
A gown where colors stand in satin’s stead.
Her eye gleams dark as any you may see
Along the winding roads of Italy.

What dreamings must be hers of sunny climes,
This beggar woman midst the draggled throng!
How must she pine for solaces of song,
For warmth and love to furnish laughing-times!
Her every glance upon the waters gray
Is piteous with some lost yesterday.

I’ve seen a dove, storm-beaten, far at sea;
And once a flower growing stark alone
From out a rock; I’ve heard a hound make moan,
Left masterless: but never came to me
Ere this such sense of creatures torn apart
From all that fondles life and feeds the heart.

Richard Francis Burton (Poetry Hunter)

Ferry flying, transportation of aircraft

Ferry railway station in Norfolk, England

Ferry schedule

ferryman

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Sketching #118

CPP Response #118: North
CPP Response #118: North

Sometimes, I know a part of what I want to draw in my response, but can’t quite figure out how to fit it into a cohesive whole. Helping some visitors review maps and plan a trip gave me the answer I needed for this prompt.

I have always liked compasses (compaii??) and am particularly fond of Mariner’s Compasses in quiltmaking. I have made one or two in my quilting career and have plans for more.

I also like this drawing because it reflects back on some previous drawings.

Take a look at the original prompt and create your own response.

Sketching #117

CPP Response #117 #2: Numbers
CPP Response #117 #2: Numbers

This is also a redo, if an inadvertent one. I really like the photo I took for the first response, but it didn’t come out very well and it is always embarrassing to post a less than stellar photo.

Frankly, I had forgotten that I had responded (another good reason to keep up!) and hadn’t crossed that one off my list. It is always good to draw, so we’ll go with that.

Do you like my busses? Can you tell it is a bus? I think they are funny, but cute also.

Check out the original prompt and see what you can come up with.

Sketching #163

CPP Response #163: Bridge
CPP Response #163: Bridge

I saw a bridge like this loom up in front of the rental car I was driving. It was in Massachusetts and a friend and I were leaving Boston to attend a meeting.

In my drawing the supports of the bridge are foreshortened a bit more than the real things, but, hopefully, you have seen a bridge like this and know what I am getting at.

Look at the original prompt and create your own response.

Creative Prompt #164: Sparkle

Sparkle (movie)

Sparkle Plenty, a character in the Dick Tracy comic strip

sparkling water

Sparkletts

Definition: 1. To give off or reflect flashes of light; glitter. 2. To be brilliant in performance. 3. A small spark or gleaming particle. 4. A glittering quality. 5. Brilliant animation; vivacity. 4. Emission of gas bubbles; effervescence.

sparkle in his eye

sparkling conversation

Sparkle Punch quilt by Elizabeth Hartman

Sparkle game

type of catamaran

drink

Sparkle, California, in Contra Costa County

Sparkles From The Wheel

WHERE the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day,
Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching–I pause aside with
them.By the curb, toward the edge of the flagging,
A knife-grinder works at his wheel, sharpening a great knife;
Bending over, he carefully holds it to the stone–by foot and knee,
With measur’d tread, he turns rapidly–As he presses with light but
firm hand,
Forth issue, then, in copious golden jets,
Sparkles from the wheel.The scene, and all its belongings–how they seize and affect me!
The sad, sharp-chinn’d old man, with worn clothes, and broad
shoulder-band of leather; 10
Myself, effusing and fluid–a phantom curiously floating–now here
absorb’d and arrested;The group, (an unminded point, set in a vast surrounding;)
The attentive, quiet children–the loud, proud, restive base of the
streets;
The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone–the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

Walt Whitman

Make your response simple. It doesn’t need to be a masterpiece. Take 5 minutes. Just respond and create a creative habit. Please post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog, and how your work relates to the other responses.

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