I’m a Patient Mother F@#$%^

I’m a Patient Mother F@#$%^

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September 30, 2014

This is going to be a combination post: talking about Season 2, Episode 9 of The Wire and explaining my first visual assignment for the week. First, a discussion on Episode 9: Honestly, when I was watching the opening scene I thought it was funny how they were all just throwing up their guns and […]
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Worth a Thousand Words

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September 28, 2014

This week has been fun and interesting. I have always enjoyed taking pictures of things (just ask my boyfriend). I stop to take pictures of anything I find interesting. But this week has allowed me to grow in my photography skills. I learned about the rule of thirds this week–something that I may have known […]
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Roberts…To the Endzone…Touchdown Redskins!

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September 25, 2014

I did today’s daily create and rather than just doing music that I like to listen to, I did the Redskins game that I am currently listening to. How I did it: I recorded it with Audacity (hence the poor quality) but I couldn’t think of a better way to do it to get better […]
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All-out (Photo)Blitz

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September 24, 2014

I did the photoblitz earlier today but didn’t have time to blog it so here is the blog post for it. First, here is my assignment: The first one is something with the number three–rather than using the actual number, I took a picture of three of something: Redd’s Apple Ale: For this one, […]
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Take Me Back to (8-bit) Paradise: Take Two

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September 24, 2014

After Groom said that my other 8-bit post was too small, I tried it again with the same picture hoping to make it easier to make out. I did it the same way, imported the picture into GIMP, resized it–this time to 1000×1333–then pixelized it (20×20 pixels) and voila. Here is the first try: Here […]
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Take Me Back to (8-bit) Paradise

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September 24, 2014

Another Visual Assignment that I did was “Real Life 8-Bit Art.” From what I read and saw of Groom’s assignment description, I figured we were supposed to find an 8-bit picture in real life. Well, this picture was real life but I edited it to be an “8-bit” picture. I took some liberties the way […]
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Size Matters

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September 24, 2014

For my next Visual Assignment (I have lost count at this point haha) I decided to do “Larger than Life.” I chose it because I was like oh this will be easy, I like taking pictures in different perspectives to see how they turn out. Yeah, well I was wrong. It wasn’t as easy as […]
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She Thinks We’re Just Fishin’

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September 23, 2014

For my third Visual Assignment for this week I did “My Favorite Lyric.” This isn’t exactly my favorite lyric but it is a memorable one and since I am in my final year of undergrad, I am feeling a little nostalgic. Missing childhood and all of the memories that I have, as well as feeling […]
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Should Google Change to Courier New?

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September 23, 2014

For my second Visual Assignment this week, I did “What a Crappy Font Will Do.” I decided to go with Google because their font is so well-known. I wanted to change it to Courier New because everyone always makes fun of how ugly it is. How I did it: I saved a picture of the […]
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Keep Your Eye on the Ball

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September 23, 2014

For my first Visual Assignment this week, I had a lot that I was choosing from but this one really caught my eye. Then I was going through my pictures from another assignment when I saw this one and I knew I had to do this assignment for this picture. Unfortunately I didn’t take the […]
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I’ll tell your wife if you tell mine

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September 20, 2014

This week was actually pretty fun and relatively easy for me. Luckily, like I have said before, I have a little prior experience with Audacity. I also have a resource to help me with Audacity should I need it. I didn’t need any this week though (WOO WOO). I actually did one extra assignment this […]
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To Infinity, and Beyond!

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September 19, 2014

Well, since I did the rest of my stuff for the week and was bored today, I decided to come up with another assignment and complete it so I can add it to the assignment bank. I recreated a nursery rhyme using lyrics out of songs. Here is what I uploaded to Audacity (hopefully it […]
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“Coming to you live from…”

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September 19, 2014

So my idea for the radio show is something that goes not only across many of the episodes and both seasons so far, but across the different character groups as well. It is something that I have been following closely since the second episode. Corruption. Since it is something that comes up so often–and is […]
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My Life in Books

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September 18, 2014

I did today’s daily create because I thought it would be easy and fun. Then I realized that I don’t have that many books at school with me which complicated things. I have one library book, one book that my boyfriend’s grandma gave me, my Bible, and my textbooks. So that is what I took […]
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The Riff Off!

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September 18, 2014

Welllll, here is my final audio creation for this week. The assignment description is found here. But when I read it I knew I had to do it. It is exactly like my favorite scene from Pitch Perfect, the Riff Off! How they could think that stuff up on the fly was beyond me. It […]
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I’m not Lucky, I’m Blessed

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September 18, 2014

So I did the daily create yesterday “Show us a feeling.” At first I was like oh, this will be easy. Then I started thinking about how exactly one would draw a feeling and I realized it was a lot harder than I thought. I thought about drawing “happy” but I was like eh, that […]
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Jen Ralston: Sound Person Extraordinaire

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September 17, 2014

First of all, I thought it was super cool that she did the sound on O Brother Where Art Thou because I like that movie a lot. Just had to get that out of the way. I agree that sound is under-appreciated but definitely necessary. Movies and TV wouldn’t be what they are without background […]
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Bass-ackwards

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September 16, 2014

For my second audio assignment, I did the Reverse Audio Quiz. So first I’ll tell you how I did it and then I’ll let you listen and guess what the song is. How I did it: I didn’t have the song I wanted downloaded on my computer yet so I pulled it up on Youtube and […]
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Mash-up Time!

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September 16, 2014

So, for my first audio assignment this week, I was going through the assignment bank and I found two assignments that I liked. One was “So and So’s Greatest Hits” and the other was “Storytime! SongTag Style.” So I started doing “So and So’s Greatest Hits” for Brad Paisley. When I was choosing my favorite […]
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Growing as a Digital Storyteller

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September 14, 2014

Well, here we are at the end of week 3. I feel a lot more proficient in a lot of things than I did at the beginning of this week. I figured out how to easily screen shot and save things as pictures, something that I figured out this week. I also figured out that […]
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A word of advice…

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September 14, 2014

Don’t ever, ever take upper level Economics classes unless you are an economics major. It is a bad idea. And that was the topic of my daily create today. You can listen to the whole thing here: This was easy to put together. All I did was record it via SoundCloud and that was it. […]
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Pythagoras is The Man

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September 11, 2014

I did the daily create again today. My favorite mathematical expression are y=mx+b and a2+b2=c2 . When I looked at twitter, it seemed that y=mx+b was overly done, so I went with the second one. I got my a from here, my 2 from here, my b from here, my c from here, my […]
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Minimalism, two for the price of one

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September 10, 2014

So for my final assignment, I went with the “Minimalize your Philosophy” design assignment. I actually did two of them. The first one I made and then I realized that it wasn’t something that pertained to the final episode that I have left to do an assignment for, so I’ll do that one after this […]
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Ten Seconds of Thanks: Jimmy McNulty Style

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September 10, 2014

So, for my second assignment, I chose a writing assignment. I was scrolling through them and none of them caught my eye. But then I saw the 10 seconds of thanks one. I liked the fact that I could do it from Jimmy’s point of view, especially since in episode 13 he had a lot […]
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Triple Troll Epigraph

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September 10, 2014

From the time I saw this assignment on the Visual page, I knew I had to do it. And then I thought about this quote and I knew it would be perfect because there were so many people who could have said it. I chose the quote from Season 2, Episode 2 when Bunk is […]
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Shameless Plug or Visual Assignment?

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September 10, 2014

Well, I may or may not use this as one of my visual assignments because for one, I kind of feel like I’m copying Groom’s idea, and for two this scene isn’t specific to any of the particular episodes, but it looked fun and I saw something that made me think of The Wire anyway. […]
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Loony Lunes?

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September 10, 2014

I did today’s daily create. I expected it to be harder when I first looked at some other people’s but when I saw that there was a lune-maker that made my decision to do it easy. When it said think about what you’ve done today I was like, “Hmm, well I’ve watched two wire episodes […]
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“It’s all about self-preservation, Jimmy. Something you never learned.”

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September 10, 2014

This post is about episodes 1 and 2 of season 2! Woohoo, we finally finished season one. And though it was good, I looked forward to seeing what would happen after the Barksdale case was over. I guess it is what I expected with them being disbanded and all. Did I think Jimmy would take […]
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Real Police

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September 9, 2014

YAY KIMA IS AWAKE!! I am very excited about that. Not so excited, though, about how Bunk was pushing her as soon as she woke up. I know she was up for it because that is what she asked about and she really cares about the case. But really? To push her to sign off […]
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Combining Sequence with Meaning and Engagement

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September 8, 2014

After reading chapter 4: Web 2.0 Storytelling, it made me rethink the way I look at social media. How he said that each person’s Facebook account or Twitter account can be seen as the story of their lives, it kind of blew my mind a little. I hadn’t thought about it in that way, per […]
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