Memorable Scenes from The Wire The most recent assignment which was worth 4.5 starts required us to create  a Video Essay based on some scenes from The Wire.   The scenes which I chooses were related to the earlier Season 1 episodes because I thought that recording my most earliest impressions of the Wire as an introduction …

For this assignment, we had to create a swede video of a scene from The Wire. This was actually so much fun! Luckily, some of my LLC members enjoy acting, so they volunteered to be in the video! We all sat together and I showed them some of my favorite scenes from The Wire. They picked Bubbles stealing drugs, which I

For this last daily create which I enjoyed over the last couple of days.   I answered the most recent daily create where we were asked to produce a blurb about our first official experience with the internet in one of the more involved capacities.  In the excerpt below:   1 Throwback…Sega Dreamcast November 15, 2014 …

November 12th Mouse Meme Such an accurate meme of my life! November 15-  When did your open web life start? Can you remember what you typed first? Tell us the story.   The first time when i entered the web world I made my first social account with Facebook. It was a long time ago. All of my friends had it

For this assignment we had to do a video essay, commentary. I picked the scene before the incident that happened in the classroom. Here is the original video without any commentary. I decided to focus on the camera angles, this was actually a little more difficult assignment. I mentioned how the camera angles can tell the story and show who is

I decided to create my own video assignment for my last video assignment of the week. As i mentioned in my previous post, i spent my Saturday afternoon hanging around Fredericksburg. It really made me realize how beautiful Downtown is. The leaves falling and the holiday decorations hanging around made the whole atmosphere great. I […]

Just like how I had a previous assignment where you had to guess a song played backwards, this time you have to guess the title of a book! As for clues, I used a Vine clip that illustrates the main components. I’ll also give one last hint: it’s a popular fantasy series. Inspired by the […]

Maybe it’s because this was a two-week long week, but I felt like I accomplished a lot. I did some really great assignments and packed so much Wire into my life. It was great to work with video and fine tune some skills in that department, as well as do an individual project on Bunk. […]

I decided to create my own assignment, so I was thinking of something that would be fun to do. I thought about what it would be life if I spent a day as an animal. Of course, I did a day in the life of a Niepokoj dog. I thought about what I would like to do as a dog.

My next video assignment was super fun to make. Yeah, SUPER fun. I decided to spend my Saturday afternoon in the lovely Downtown Fredericksburg at The Griffin Bookshop and Coffee place. Not sure if that’s the full name but that’s what i call it! I realized i was behind on some of my assignments so […]

For the Swede a Scene assignment, i joined a group consisting of me, Meredith, Sam, David, and Demi We began working on November 6th at the ITTC. Since this was our first meeting we just discussed what we wanted to do. We obviously weren’t going to swede an entire episode so we had to choose […]

Hi! So these weeks were a lot of fun! Although this week was really cold, I found that editing was the perfect thing to keep the time from passing slowly! This is how I feel since the temperature dropped! I really like video editing so I loved that we had to create the Swede! That […]

Hiya! For my final project I decided to use Beatrice Russell as my main focus. I created 4 social media sites for her: Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram. I decided to use these social media sites because I thought she would want to focus on things outside of work. I thought Facebook and Instagram would […]

This assignment was perfect! Someone special to me is my niece, Colbie Joy. She just entered our lives in August, but has already made such an impact in this world. Since she lives so close to UMW, I get to see her often, which can only mean a million pictures will be taken of her! I created this video montage

Turns out the most popular video in youtube history is still entertaining to watch just for the weird visuals and funky dance moves.

For one of two daily creates during week 12 I tried my hand at rhyming as possibly one of the most hated public service workers, parking enforcement. Yea, I said it. What every American has thought at one time or another; that stealthy, unforgiving, invisible son-of-a-motherbiscuit eater that managed to place that overpriced slip in […]

Assignments Total Stars: 18 1. Swede (4.5 stars) worked with Maggie: Much Swede. 2. Video Essay (5 stars): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1BqPCZJNI  3. Movie Scenes That Changed Your Life (5 stars): TV Scenes That Changed My Life Tv scenes that have changed my life-VideoAssignments442 from Jessica Reingold on Vimeo. 4. Activity Time Lapse (3.5 stars): Basic Braid Time Lapse Live […]

Week ten crushed me! With a daughter graduating from Great Lakes boot camp the same week, it was impossible to work ahead in completing audio even while working ahead. In part, this was because I had no idea of the amount of tutorial I would need in just navigating the software necessary to complete the […]

In this Wire 106 video discussion, Paul Bond and I were joined by Brittany Scites to look at season 4, episode 4 of the The Wire: “Refugees.”  Brittany came very prepared with four clips she want to talk about, all of which are included … Continue reading →

In this Wire 106 video discussion, Paul Bond and I were joined by Nick Randall to look at season 4, episode 3 of the The Wire: “Home Rooms.”  This is yet another opening sequence for the ages—there are so many amazing beginnings in this series. … Continue reading →

Oh boy, I actually got to cuss in a school assignment! For the Swede a scene video assignment, me and fellow ds106’er John recreated the iconic scene from season 1, episode 4. Of course, we decided to add our own spin to it using the resources we had available, as we lacked the items necessary […]

In this Wire 106 video discussion, Paul Bond and I were joined by Syd Bauman and Travis Peed to look at season 4, episode 2 of the The Wire: “Soft Eyes.” The episode title references a discussion when the teachers are giving Prez advice, and … Continue reading →

For the assignment I first watched the film 300: This is Sparta without sound seen here. With what I learned from Ebert’s article I noticed that while Leonitus remained on the strong axis, the person speaking to him seemed at first more dominant. Righteously so as this character is placed to the top right of […]

For today’s daily create, I found out the pen is mightier then the sword. There is a poet in all of us…apparently. I created the following poem: Towed, Towed Away So you got Towed, Towed Away because I told you not to park that way way so today you’re gonna pay pay. Don’t cry it’s …

Maggie and I decided to so our swede on Season 3, Episode 11 of The Wire. We wanted to try to include as much as  the plot as we could, so we broke the episode down into 13 main scenes. Next, we planned out the days we’d shoot, the times, and the locations. We even […]

For the Swede assignment, Jessica Reingold and I decided to do The Wire  Season 3, Episode 11. In a Google Doc, we planned out the scenes we wanted to cover, what props we’d need, a simplified script, and when & where we’d film it. This past week, we met up to … Continue reading

Product Evolution put me just short of 10 stars for week 10 but I think the time I spent to make it half decent warrants that extra 1/2 star. Research of cameras in the motion picture industry took just as long as producing it. Cameras have an extensive history in the movie industry; I could […]

My final daily create of the week really made me think. I chose to do the “If poets wrote parking tickets”. Poetry isn’t really my thing. Don’t get me wrong, i love to read it! I enjoy reading poetry. It’s the creating poetry i dislike. I can just never seem to find the rights words, […]

Don’t debate. Because you’re late. No coins in the meter. Just make me meaner. You pushed your luck. But your just a dumb fuck. Now you get a ticket. Don’t raise your picket. So have a nice day. And you better pay. — Hope you enjoyed my little poem. It was rather fun.

Hey everyone, for my final project I am doing Rawls. The sites I decided to make him can be found here: Twitter Facebook Flickr Pinterest Bio: I am William Rawls, the Deputy Commissioner for Operations in the Baltimore City Police Department. I am a major a$$ and don’t care what you think about me. I […]