For my Video Essay I decided to do a show that we watched during these weeks of week 11&12, Season 3 Episode 11. I decided to do this show just because it was fresh in my mine so I wanted to an Video Essay on something that was fresh in my mine and I could […]

To do my video essay on the Wire, I utilized the scenes from episode 11 of season 3, where Carcetti questions Bunny’s motives behind Hamsterdam. While the most memorable moment of this episode would no doubt be Stringer’s death, I still thought there were plenty of meaningful and artistic moments throughout the episode. I used […]

For today’s daily create, we had to somehow change our pet. Since I always look for ways to show off my cat, I used snapchat to take a quick photo, and used the in app editor to dress him up as an old western sheriff. You can see the final results below: Drawing with a […]

For My Video Swede I worked with Meredith, Carmela, David, and Amy. For our video swede we decided to work with Season 3 Episode 11. As a group we decided which scenes we wanted to do and where we wanted to shoot them and then we went out at shoot them using the equipment from the […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/public-service-annoucement/ 5- Stars As always, the only tools needed to make this one was my laptop camera and a room with decent lighting. Now as for why I chose this one, this is a more interesting story. For the past 13 (soon to be 14) years of my life, teachers/professors have always been assigning work […]

So for my ds106 final project (sniff, sniff) I am using Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski, everyone’s favorite cop killer from The Wire. But seriously, I do have a weird soft spot for this character. He does awful stuff in seasons 1 and 3, but still seems to be a good guy that you pity. I decided […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/this-is-my-story/ 3 Stars This one was another fun one to make. All I needed was my trusty computer, some notecards, and my favorite writing utensil (in retrospect, I probably should have found a marker). Coming up with a story was almost a no brainer. This story will forever stick out to me because the odds […]

I chose scenes from season 4 episode 2 for my video essay. On Wednesday, Jim, Paul, Travis, and I discussed this episode and I really enjoyed the discussions we had. I decided to tie them into my video essay. The first scene is of Carcetti and his daughter playing Battleship. It then shows Prez in […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/i-am-me/ 4.5 Stars For this assignment, I decided to break out my laptop and grab some of my favorite items that described me around the room. Recording was fairly simple since my laptop has a built in microphone and camera. I just used the camera app that was installed and got to recording! Oh, and […]

For 4 1/2 to 5 stars and some change on the side if creating a swede as a group, the biddies and I were back at it! Although all three of us had SOL chasing us consistently for the last two weeks, we utilized technology more with prepping to combat some tough blows. You can […]

For my last TDC of weeks 11 and 12 I chose to do the ‘Pick a Pet and Change it’ challenge. Considering the holidays are quickly approaching I decided to play off of that by altering a typical squirrel into Santa. I found a pic of a white squirrel and copied the image which I […]

My final video assignment (yay) of the week was the “Video Essay” that we were all required to do. If i could describe this assignment in one word it would be “underestimated” because that’s how i looked at it. I figured, hey, i just have to talk about the episode! Um, yeah. That wasn’t just […]

For my Video Assignment 439, the assignment is to create a video essay describing an episode from The Wire. (5 stars)  I chose Season 4 Episode 3.  This episode is titled “Home Rooms”.  When you think of home room, you think of school.  Home room in school is always how you are identified for pictures, […]

For the Activity Time Lapse assignment, worth 3.5 stars, I chose to make a time lapse video of me braiding my hair in a basic side braid. I used the time lapse feature on my iPhone to record it. However, that made the time lapse 4.0 seconds long. So, on the Youtube video editing settings, […]

Ziggy gets a Digital Identity You can find the post with all the links to his social media presence here. The Wire Episode Analyses Season 3, Episode 11 Season 3, Episode 12 Season 4, Episode 1 Season 4, Episode 2 Season 4, Episode 3 Season 4, Episode 4 Video Assignments … Continue reading

This time we had two weeks to complete everything for week 11 and week 12. We are still focusing on videos as our assignments as well as preparing for the final assignment. Week 11 Daily Creates (2) The Wire- Season 3 Episodes 11 and 12. Season 4 Episode 1. Wow… I did not see that coming! Episode 11 was a very heartbreaking

I picked Herc for my character for our final assignment. Since season 1, I have always loved Herc, you can see him evolve throughout the season. For him I decided to create Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and a Linkedin account. Herc seems to be amazed by technology when he was using the face editing software with the kids. So he is new to the technology world,

Daily Creates November 7, 2014 – Make a Sound Map Last Friday was a cold windy day. I heard the howling winds shake the trees and in an effort to avoid the gloomy weather, I stayed in a friend’s apartment and listened to music as I watched him play Grand…

Frank Sobotka has officially entered the world of the Internet! He is not very good at navigating and often has Ziggy giving him advice on how to use it. Ziggy what the hell is this thing? — Frank S (@sobotka_frank1) November 16, 2014 When I chose the Avatar, I found the goofiest picture of Frank. […]

Ziggy was always the one on the docks who knew his way around technology. Maybe he didn’t use it for the best purposes when we saw him on The Wire, but now he’s ready to explore more of the internet and the people in it. Here’s how you can interact with … Continue reading

Swede a Scene (4.5/5 stars) (Plus Extra Credit please? :)) Old Biddy Productions decided to get together and swede a few scenes from Season 4.  We sweded scenes from Episode 5 and Episode 6.  We first chatted a few times and tossed ideas around on google docs.  We decided that the scenes that we did […]

Here is the video swede (worth 5 stars) that I worked on with Meredith, David, Demi, and Carmela. We decided to work with season 3 episode 11 and we were originally going to all act it out ourselves, but then we decided to use teddy bears from the Dollar Tree. We agreed on which scenes were […]

I decided to do my Video Essay on the first episode of Season 4 of The Wire. After watching this episode, I feel like the overall theme of the episode is learning. The street kids are learning who Marlo is and what the game is about. Prez is learning how…

Today’s Daily Create – Pick a pet and change it

Having my son is one of the greatest things to ever happen to my life and no words can express how much I love him. This video is for you my little man.

As I told my friend, Charbel. “We did it.” What I meant was that since we worked hard on making...

He’s a man of the people.  He’s also a man of few words.  Really.  VERY few words.  Here they are: Ha ha, loads of fun on this video assignment.  I hadn’t seen a supercut video before stumbling across this assignment and it was a lot of fun picking out scenes and trimming them down in order […]

Jonathan Swift once said, “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Man I already finished two...

I had a co-worker who told me the internet “was just a fad” and the fan fervor would die down soon.  That was in late 1995 when I was first venturing out and using things like telnet and Delphi and CompuServe chat rooms you could find by logging onto servers and surfing through lists of […]