The Life and Times of Joe McSleazy: What Kind of Character is He? American Hero, Visionary, or Just a Huckster? You all know the type. Wicked smart and clever, sometimes too clever for his own good. He always has an angle on everything – how to get ahead in life, how to make tons of … Continue reading Final Project

My Aquatic Life My Favorite Thing to Do Assignment– 3.5 Stars Swimming has always been my favorite activity to partake in during free time. Throughout my swimming career I have swum competitively for CYAC Swim Team a local year round club team, which is based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, the JSL summer league team Boar’s Head, … Continue reading My Favorite Thing to Do

Reading: Angles and Cuts The first video I watched was the video on the match cut. When I researched this further I realized it was also known as a “match on action.” A match on action is an editing strategy in which a singular action is seen from multiple different points of view or angles. … Continue reading How to Read a Movie

How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes Video Reflection on a Scene from The Matrix. Visual This “Red Pill Blue Pill” Scene from Wachowski’s The Matrix focuses on the conversation between Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Neo (Keanu Reeves). In the clip, Neo has become aware of the matrix, an artificial reality used to keep the human mind occupied … Continue reading Look, Listen, Analyze

Juggling: Literally and Figuratively How to Video Project– 4.5 Stars What is juggling exactly? According to the dictionary, to juggle is “to continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others, typically for the entertainment of others.” While this is the … Continue reading How to Video Project

I chose to write my audio reflection on Season 10 Episode 9 of RadioLab entitled Ghost Stories. Overall, how effective do you think audio was for telling the story(ies)? Overall I think audio storytelling can be as powerful or even more powerful than a story with visual aids. In a way, the lack of sight … Continue reading Ghost Stories Audio Reflection

Tyler Gimple Has Come Unstuck in Time Reverse Audio Quiz: 3.5 Stars I have always been fascinated by TIME. Does Time really matter? Speaking of time… What is it exactly? In modern physics time is no more than a spatial dimension that is no different from up or left. It is explained as numbers and some … Continue reading Reverse Audio Quiz

Words of Wisdom It is interesting to hear Ira Glass describing how good stories are not like high school term papers or essays. He observes that high school papers are structured in a certain that include a topic sentence followed by a set of supporting arguments. In contrast, he tells us that an “anecdote” is … Continue reading Ira Glass Reflection

Come See my Laptop, Live! Assignment: Play DJ & Make a Song: 4 Stars Music has gone from being created by instruments making natural air vibrations that sooth the ears to living entirely inside the world of a computer. Music in today’s day and age is primarily produced in music production applications on a computer. Lyrics have … Continue reading Play DJ & Make a Song

Fingers of Fire 🔥 Favorite Musician Animated Gif Assignment via GIPHY Who remembers the first time they heard what is now their favorite band. A lot of people recall the first time they heard The Beatles. For me, my favorite band is Metallica. I wanted to make a gif of the lead guitarist playing a solo. … Continue reading Favorite Musician

Cleveland Back on Top Best Sports Play Animated Gif Assignment For the first time in 52 years, a major sports championship was back in Cleveland. For half of a century Cleveland was the home to sports heartbreak. via GIPHY The Drive, The Fumble, The Shot, The Move, The Decision: All nicknames of the last time … Continue reading Best Sports Play Gif

How to Bother Three Fandoms with One Image Triple Rocktroll design assignment 2 Stars What’s the easiest way to troll any metal fan? Well one of the major ways is to credit a song to the wrong band. However, that only trolls the fans of two bands. In this project we hit three different fandoms hearts … Continue reading Triple Rocktroll Lyrics

Guns, Guns, & More Guns Old Fashioned Letter Exchange Design Assignment : 4.5 Stars One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin For my old fashioned letter exchange project I decided to have a letter from Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States to James Madison, the fourth president of the … Continue reading Old Fashioned Letter Exchange

The Iconoclast’s Favorite Shirt Create a t-shirt design assignment : 2.5 Stars What is a contrarian exactly? To me a contrarian means someone or something that defies common beliefs or practices. The official definition according to Google is “a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion, especially in stock exchange dealings.” The term originates from the … Continue reading Create a T-Shirt

Expect Us Favorite Movie Quote Design Assignment : 2 Stars “People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.”-Anonymous Throughout history humankind has struggled with power and especially the corruption of power. Estimations show that in the last century there have been 262 million deaths due to “democide,” a term … Continue reading Favorite Movie Quote

Shredding the Gnar Are we there yet? Design Assignment : 3 Stars A cutout of me surfing pasted onto a spider web. I am literally surfing the web another phrase for browsing the internet. It’s a bad joke I know, but it tells a pretty good story. I wonder what a person born before the Internet Age … Continue reading Are We There Yet?

Color: This is a photo of an advertisement of a local Italian Restaurant.According to Visual Impact Systems, the color red and yellow enhance appetite. It is no accident that this advertisement, which is located on the outside window so it is visible to everyone passing by, is primarily red and yellow. In fact, the entire … Continue reading Design Blitz

One of the points that I thought was significant was the discipline category. I think it is especially important in web design. For a website to be clear and effective it has to be carefully planned and implemented. Organization is a big part of discipline. If a website is unorganized there is no way it can … Continue reading Viginelli Reflection

Introduction on Twitter: Just starting Digital Storytelling today. Good to see you all #ds106 #FirstTweet — Tyler Gimple (@tyler_gimple) June 20, 2016 Introduction flickr:

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Visual Assignment – 9 Lives In this assignment we were prompted to compile 9 photos of ourselves that displayed different stages of life. In my 9 lives assignment, I chose to use primarily pictures from my summer vacations over the years. I always had such great memories during summer break and they were definitely my favorite time … Continue reading 9 Lives

I chose to do my photo safari primarily in the office, but also in the surrounding areas at my home in Charlottesville. The office is a room with dimensions about 15X20 feet. It has 4 computers, 5 desks, 10 windows, and lots and lots of books. It is relatively organized for an office, but has an assortment … Continue reading Photo Safari

For my Spubble Assignment I chose to use a photo from the Running of the Bulls in Spain. The picture captures my reaction as well as the reaction of two Spanish children as we notice something happening on the streets. To be honest, I don’t remember exactly what we were looking at that caused me and … Continue reading Spubble

For the Story Map Visual Assignment I chose to chronicle my journey through Spain. I went to Spain two summers in a row and have highlighted the places I explored while in the Story Map Below. One of my new found passions is learning to speak Spanish. I recently discovered my love for the language … Continue reading Story Map

This visual assignment is the “Color Changer” assignment. It consists of changing the hue of a photo in order to change its appearance. I decided to use a photo I took of my house at my university with an incredible double rainbow in the background. I chose this photo because I had never seen such … Continue reading Color Changer

Hello Everyone! Welcome to Tyler’s Corner! My name is Tyler Gimple. I currently attend the University of Mary Washington and am a rising senior there. This is my Digital Story Telling blog for the Summer of 2016. About Tyler