Random Thoughts About This Episode Nick is definitely the new D’Angelo. He even has a baby mama and kid to worry about. The scene with the terrier and the rat as well as how the terrier was in the bar felt slightly out of place to me. I assume it’s … Continue reading

Maybe it’s just me, but this week felt like things had really leveled up in this class. There seems to be more work of a higher caliber that’s asking us to really get creative. While the list of things to do this week seemed daunting at first, as I began … Continue reading

I did today’s Daily Create, which was to upload a self-help audio recording to SoundCloud. This morning, while having brunch at Foode with my friend and I was lamenting how much work I have to do this weekend and how it’s only going to get crazier, she told me to … Continue reading

A lot of what was discussed in “Web 2.0 Storytelling” reminded me of what I learned about and implemented in Professor Whalen’s Transmedia Fiction class last fall. However, the discussion of these web-based formats for story telling in this reading seems more like the building blocks for transmedia or an … Continue reading

I decided to do the design assignment where I make a lyric typography poster. Last week, I ran across the brilliant K. Flay and especially fell in love with “The Cops.” My brain, now hardwired to relate things to The Wire, instantly thought of Omar and Brandon. I found their relationship … Continue reading

I did today’s daily create, which was to recreate a mathematical expression made of found numbers and symbols. I decided to use the logos for Facebook, Citroen, McDonald’s, and Amazon to represent F=MA (force equals mass times acceleration), which is a formula that was drilled into my head in my … Continue reading

      One of the main themes I noticed in this episode was the idea of using the power given to you by an institution, such as the police department, to carry out a personal vendetta. There were several plot lines in this episode that showed this. Valchek using … Continue reading

I did today’s Daily Create, which was to create a Flickr Lune Poem of an Ordinary Act. While visiting McDonald’s and ordering fries & a milkshake isn’t something I do everyday, it is certainly something I do quite often, especially while at school. Last year, my friends and I took … Continue reading

    The quote for this episode seems to be the going argument for why the second season of The Wire is still The Wire, when so much of what the audience was used to from the first season isn’t present. The season has changed to winter. The police officers … Continue reading

For my second assignment, I decided to do this writing assignment, but use episode titles from The Wire instead. I looked up all the titles on IMDB, wrote them down on pieces of paper, and then organized the pieces of paper to make the poem. The only thing I added was punctuation … Continue reading

I decided to do this visual assignment, which asks to take pictures of yourself making the expressions of 3 emojis and then use those emojis to tell a story. I added a little twist to it, and framed the emojis & my recreation of them as my most common reactions … Continue reading

Female Characters While it is pretty common knowledge that there aren’t a whole lot of female characters in this show, the three female characters that stand out to me this season seem to be behaving each in a different way and heading down a different path than the others. Kima … Continue reading

I hope my blog title is exciting enough to have gotten you to want to read this post. It was inspired from an exchange of tweets about Mondays: @teamtightpants Me too. I'm fixing the problem by having a glass of red wine. I'm sure that will boost productivity. Any minute … Continue reading

Today’s Daily Create was to take a picture of your own version of CalvinBall (combing two sports or games into one). I dubbing the combining of Apples to Apple and Banagrams “Fruit Salad.” I don’t know exactly how it would be played, but I think it’s interesting that there are … Continue reading

For this week’s assignment to tell an episode of The Wire using only 6 GIFs, I decided to do Episode 8, “Lessons,” from the first season. Process Despite having made GIFs before in Intro to Digital Studies, I needed a refresher and found this tutorial to be helpful. However, there … Continue reading

Today’s Daily Create was to draw a map of the internet: I know my drawing is VERY simplified, but I wanted to draw it from the perspective of my main modes of engaging with the internet, which are YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. To me, Twitter is a very urban area. … Continue reading

I did the Daily Create for September 3, 2014. Despite the fact that I’ve moved away from the church in recent years, I felt compelled to make this Biblical story into a transit map. I know it’s a pretty simplified version of what occurred as there probably could have been … Continue reading

Character Development It was never about Avon Barksdale. It was about me. I’m glad McNulty finally admitted this and then put his heart right back into the investigation. I’ve seen other shows where the characters continue to try and make it about them and it gets very annoying to watch. … Continue reading

Well this episode was a doozy. Not in the same way that the previous episode was. This episode was rough because of the police department’s reaction to Kima’s shooting. While the increased effort to find the shooters was a good move on their part, they ran into kinks (like arresting … Continue reading

I did the Daily Create for September 2: I wrote my father’s name in the NASA worm style as my father, although not necessarily a famous scientist, did work at NASA Langley Research Center for over thirty years and does have a patent as well as has done some important … Continue reading

Notable Shots   This opening scene immediately caught my attention. It’s eerily quiet and still. Bubbles is dressed nicer than we’ve seen him all season. He’s contemplative. I especially love the shot of the bubbles drifting in front of Bubbles. It’s as if he’s contemplating this childish nickname he’s acquired, … Continue reading

Getting Things Set Up This week, I got all my social media accounts in order. As a digital studies minor and avid user of the internet, I had many of the required platforms set up. My domain was already up and running and with WordPress installed (and a whole slew … Continue reading

Hey! Hi! Hello! My name is Maggie and I am very stoked for the forthcoming DS106 adventures. Below you can watch/ listen / look at my other greetings: Twitter (@teamtightpants) Hi #ds106! I'm so stoked for this class! — Maggie Stough (@teamtightpants) August 25, 2014 Flickr (maggiestough) SoundCloud (teamtightpants) YouTube … Continue reading