I decided to do the How To _______ design assignment and create a book cover for a book on how to be a certain character. I decided to do make one for Ziggy as his quirks and “skills” would be easy to come-up with. I used a screenshot I took from … Continue reading

For my second design assignment I decided to do a typography poster (3.5 stars). I decided to use lyrics from one of my favorite artists Joey Bada$$. The song title

SiO2, or silicon dioxide is the major component in most glass, in case anyone was curious. So, my vidya (yep, I’m a King of the Hill fan) of water and glass moving around for today’s Daily Create is here:   I took flattened glass pellets, put them into a glass vase and recorded it being […]

I did my daily create today with water and glass moving. I was not sure how exactly to do this, but I thought it would be cool to pour water from one container to another. I had a glass decanter and filled it with water and had someone tape me as I poured the water […]

Hi there! Since this week is Design, I thought I would go ahead and make my own assignment. I was looking through other assignments and saw one called Where are They Now? This assignment takes the cast of the Wire and looks to see what other works they did before/after their time on the Wire.…

This assignment was to take someone’s head and put it on an animal or vise-versa. Since we all know when it comes to Jimmy McNulty and women he’s a dog. We also have seen the common theme of dogs howling during scenes with him. I decided to take a picture of a dogs head and… Read More

I did today’s Daily Create, which was to film water and glass moving around.

For the bumper sticker assignment (3.5 stars) I used the pixlr editor which is online. It took me forever to come up with my simple slogan. I was trying to

Massimo Vignelli’s The Vignelli Canon was a cool study. I really like the idea of semantics out into the context of art. I always thought of it in terms of language, but Vignelli is right in saying that art must have some sort of meaning; it cannot be arbitrary. Art is made for a purpose, […]

Guess my song! I decided to do the “guess my song” assignment as my last assignment and have some fun with it. I uploaded a photo from my birthday to Photoshop. It was the perfect photo for what I had in mind because I was holding something. I got a photo of a tea infuser […]

  After watching the scene with McNulty drunk driving and then drunk crashing, I thought it would be funny to do an ironic bumper sticker pertaining to McNulty for the bumper sticker assignment. I used canva.com to make this and it was pretty easy. Coming up with the tagline was a little more difficult though. […]

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 […]

Weird Book Room | Your assignment is to design the cover of a book title so weird that it will look like it will fit right in to the Weird Book Room. Be sure to include a little bit of jacket… Continue Reading →

Pictures into Words | Take pictures in your surroundings that look like letters and turn them into a word! Try not to use pictures of actual letters, but I understand that some letters are hard to get! Worth 2 stars. For this… Continue Reading →

The Creative Mashup was an assignment to mix up a classical painting with a scene from The Wire. Since McNulty and Lester always go to the railroad tracks at night, I stitched together a scene of them at the tracks with Van Gough’s “The Starry Night.” I just used paint to crop together the pictures… Read More

Since this week is focused on the elements of design, I decided to make a The Wire inspired cover of an Atari 2600 game. Utilizing the provided fonts from the Atari Age forums, and a template from here, I was able to have a basis to design this:   It was nice having the provided […]

I love minimalistic designs for basically everything. From posters, to jewelry, minimalism is just really cool to me, so naturally I was drawn to the assignment, Minimalist TV/Movie Poster which is worth 3.5 stars. This assignment presented the perfect opportunity to make my design Wire related and that is exactly what I did. I made my poster […]

For this Design Assignment I decided to use “Jimmy McNulty”. In the picture shows a “Baltimore Badge and a Detective because that is who McNulty works for. I also but pictures of McNulty working in the Marine Unit which he just recently started in Season 2, so I concluded them as well. I also included […]

I don’t know how you can watch Brother Mouzone and not want to make a READ poster. I know I’m not the first one to do it. But since I’m all about the GIFs, I had to animate it. I … Continue reading →

The assignment was to create an image of a popular song while also including a picture of myself. This assignment was worth 3 stars, but it took me forever since I figured I’d start using GIMP instead of just sticking to paint and making sloppy pictures. Here’s a little on my process and how it… Read More

Last week “we took a closer look at visual” in ds106, and we returned to video for the discussions of Season 2, episodes 6, 7, and 8 of The Wire. We used a similar logic to organize these discussions as we did … Continue reading →

This episode reminded me a lot of episode 11 from season 1, as we also saw the raids and press coverage in that episode. Valchek waited until there was press coverage to bring Frank out, which really speaks volumes to his motives as well as a lot of the motives … Continue reading

I decided to do the designblitz in my living room, mainly because I didn’t feel like leaving my apartment, but also because I thought it would make for a more interesting challenge, which it did because all we have in our apartment is Harry Potter posters and books. This is the first photo that I […]

Upon reading and looking at The Vignelli Canon, I see that a lot of his ideas and principles are still relevant today despite modern technology’s influence on the ease of design. He seems to put a lot of emphasis on thought and planning the creation. It’s not just about how it’s … Continue reading

I did the What They Did After The Wire design assignment. After things went sour on the docks for Nick, he ran off to New York and assumed a new identity of George Mendez. He became a prison warden in a women’s prison and was able to unleash the fury … Continue reading

I decided to do the Collage with Symbolism design assignment. This was a really easy assignment, as I just had to gather the pictures, put them into the collage using Frametastic, and upload to Flickr. While the assignment said to make a collage that reflects an important relationship in a … Continue reading

Below are the discussions of the The Wire episodes we had during week 4 of ds106. They were all done on ds106radio given we were introducing audio and focusing on listening. Turns out it was also very useful for me because it forced me to get back … Continue reading →

I decided to create a READ poster for one of my design assignments. I just recently watched The Wire season 2, episode 10 and wandered upon the perfect reading related quote said by Brother Mouzone: You know what the most dangerous thing in the nation is? A nigga with a library card. … Continue reading

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