I’m off to the Australian capital Canberra tomorrow to work with Libraries ACT on their annual training day.
We’ll be looking at creative approaches to community engagement, and sharing some neat little tools from my team, including the WELCOME Toolkit for programme design.
If you’re reading this at a computer and want to join in the fun, here’s an easy way to get creative with digital materials.
Choose a JPEG image file which you like.
Rename it as a .TXT file instead of .JPG.
Copy, paste, delete, or mess around with some of the code in the .TXT file you have created.
Now save it and rename it once more as a .JPG.
With a bit of trial and error, you’ll get some awesome results.
Just to sum up:
If you can’t make it to Canberra, you can still be part of the fun.
Thanks to the great Sean Justice for switching me on to this neat digital image activity.
matt finch / mechanical dolphin 
I cannot get the new jpg to open… any hints?
It’s just trial and error, you can cut and paste elements which make the file unusable but it didn’t happen to me all that often. Try to leave the very opening lines of the code alone maybe? (I saw that as a tip on an online discussion).