Today I did my first audio assignment where I had to reverse a song. It was not so simple as I had imagined and it actually took the better part of my day and sanity. I started with trying to figure it out myself, obviously no luck there. I moved on to find a video […]

It is really interesting to see someone working behind the scenes. When you watch a show or movie, you don’t necessarily think about what you hear, but it is so important. It is nice to hear someone like Jennifer Ralston talking about how this job started just as an interest and she worked more and […]

Today I did the daily create of taking a photo of a stranger. This is my stranger that I found at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I did actually have this photo from yesterday, but it was too perfect not to use. Every weekend the town cryer gets the crowd going with his lovely sign at […]

I just finished my daily create for a self-help tip! I think it really speaks to all of the seniors out there and I hope it helps someone!

I did the mathematical expression daily create today! I decided to do y=mx+b because I am in statistics this semester and we are working with that formula now. I hate math and therefore had no favorite expression, so this equation was my best choice. I looked around all day to find things around school to […]

I decided to do a visual assignment for my third assignment this week. I chose to do a troll quote and confuse some people. I wanted to highlight the notion of “the game” in the show and did so with this, as every aspect of my troll quote deals with someone in the drug dealing […]

The Wire (9-10 p.m., HBO) R-Two gangs wage war on a chessboard set in the streets of a post-apocalyptic city where it constantly snows, and the kings sit unharmed in their thrones atop mountains. This writing assignment was to “Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a […]

According to Alexander in The New Digital Storytelling chapter we read for this week, there are many different outlets for webs storytelling. My personal favorite, and the most simplistic, is blogging. Alexander goes into great detail about blogging and discusses the notion of blogs as internet diaries, which I found very thought-provoking; you can tell own […]

This morning I did the Flickr Lune daily create. It was so easy and fun because I could vent a little about the millions of emails I get every day and just want to ignore. I found the perfect picture to go with my poem, too!

I thought the juxtaposition of the phrases “drugs” and “family business” highlighted a major theme in the Wire. In my post about episode 13 of the Wire that will be up later this week, I discuss D’Angelo’s outcry at how this is his family business. He grew up in this, the dealing, the money, the killing. “Ya’ll don’t […]

The spectrum Vonnegut creates is so simple yet so applicable to so many different stories. The curve spectrum is a newer and simpler version of the story plot we learn in grade school (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion), but the curve somehow easily represents an entire story in itself. Vonnegut breaks a story […]

Blog: This week I customized my blog with different categories in order to organize my posts throughout the semester. I was a bit confused at first and made pages, only to realize my mistake and make categories, which was much easier. I also added a header photo logo that I thought showed my interests and […]

This was a very big week for me because I accomplished a lot, while also understanding more of what I was doing. I have a feel for more sites than I did before and I am delving deeper into my blog. I posted this picture of a painting with a bunch of other paintings within […]

Today I did a daily create for a game mashup and decided to use two board games that did not work at all together. I chose Risk because it is the most complicated board game I have ever come across, and Checkers because it is the easiest. Risk reminded me of the Wire as well […]

The last few episodes were absolutely crazy and they definitely secured my attention where it may have lacked in the first few episodes. I became fond of certain characters and was very interested to see their stories. Episode 10: I think the discussion video about “The Cost” and the name of this episode really cover […]

I drew a map of how I see the Internet and my place in it today for a daily create. My house is on top of the rolling blog hills because blogging is the one things I really feel comfortable with. I feel like I am in the country of social media, while everything else […]

Earlier today I found an article by The Telegraph which reported that the Wire will be digitally remastered and replayed on HBO. The episodes will start to replay on September 8, which is perfect timing for all of us in ds106. I fully intend to watch, but to watch with a critical eye as I think […]

Today I did a daily create where I made a transit map out of the story of the Hobbit. I grew up with Tolkien and studied his works in Bath, England last summer. Needless to say, I’m a bit of a nerd. This map is not perfect, but I hope it does Bilbo’s journey justice! […]

I created this logo because I think it reflects my love of books and literature. There is nothing like an old book with worn pages for me. Books are a sort of connection not only to the world or time they represent, but also to anyone who has read or held that book before you. […]

For our first assignments this week I was actually forced to think about technology and work on social media. Twitter and Facebook were the extent of my technological reach; needless to say, I definitely struggled a bit this week. I did manage to get myself on all the different media outlets in the end and […]

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