I loved this assignment! It ended up correlating really well with my summary of episode 13. The colors the characters wear are very strategically thought out. In the scene I picked from episode 13 was right after Avon and Stringer...
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For my second assignment bank task this week I chose to do the Been There assignment that involves creating an animated GIF. We were asked to “take a moment from a movie that you can relate too and make a… Continue Reading →

For my final Bank Assignment Assignment, I wanted to do a design. The one assignment to catch my attention was John’s. I really thought this was a great one. Everyone loves to google/look up their favorite child star actors, etc. I decided to come up with really intense backgrounds for the most important characters from […]

This is the last episode of season 1, “The Sentencing.” Paul and I were joined by UMW internaut Amy Wallace, who has been doing a great job thus far this semester. Paul blogged about color in this episode, and I just finished an … Continue reading →

Maybe it was the conversation that Jim & a couple #ds106 classmates and I had over lunch at Brother’s Pizza today that sparked this observation, I don’t know. We had talked a lot about how all the frames in the… Continue Reading →

September 11, 2014 For today’s Daily Create I created an image of my favorite mathematical equation/expression using images of numbers and symbols found on the internet. Being a Business major and having recently sold my soul to Principles of Finance (it was a challenging class), a formula that I had…

  For some odd reason, when I think of pie-r-squared, I think of Pie and a railroad crossing sign. I probably think of this because r r is the same as r^2. Just a random thought on it; I know it probably is not too original. Hope you enjoy it!

It’s time to do some assignments for #wire106, so I dreamed up a new one called “Wiring Mirror Scenes.” One of the things that came up again and again during our discussions of The Wire over the last month is … Continue reading →

I did the mathematical expression daily create today! I decided to do y=mx+b because I am in statistics this semester and we are working with that formula now. I hate math and therefore had no favorite expression, so this equation was my best choice. I looked around all day to find things around school to […]

In the Design category, I chose to do the Lyric Typography Poster assignment. The song I picked was “Cheap Sunglasses” feat. Matthew Koma by RAC. You can listen to the song here. The lyrics I chose are at the end of the chorus and are “You’re cheap sunglasses. And they’ll see right through you.” To create this poster, I used Adobe Photoshop. I… Read more →

A favorite math expression? I can do that. I decided to choose something that is relevant to the class I’m taking this semester:       The time-independent Schrodinger Equation in three dimensions, in Cartesian space. Both beautiful and terrifying to see.

The theme of my blog is one of my favorite rappers. His given name is Jamal Dewar but he went by Capital STEEZ. Dewar took his own life on December

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

Yet again, it was time to choose an assignment from the Assignment Bank. Season 2, episode 1 of The Wire changed dramatically. Unlike the first season, the show takes place on the Harbor where McNulty has been reassigned. Since I haven’t watched the rest of the season, i’m not too sure where it will take us. […]

For my daily create, I actually enjoyed thinking about formulas I could use. Since I am a Chem minor, I just had to do something involving Chem! So I picked a gas law, PV=nRT. I searched logos and for some...
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This weekend, I am not going to be able to do any work for the ds106 class, so I made sure to get as much done early in the week as I could. So to start of, I organized my posts into categories, and then made a menu with different pages for the different categories. […]

I found the Web 2.0 chapter to be very interesting, but reading it was very strange. I don’t know quite how to explain it, but I think what he was trying to explain and then prove through examples was a argument that anyone who has ever used the internet understands on some level, even if […]

So today’s daily create was interesting, Finding a math expression/equation/whatever is probably easy for everyone, except me. Math is not my jam. I’m better at poly sci, english, or basically anything that isn’t math. So of course, one equation that was drilled in my head since I was in middle school was the simple “y=mx+b”. […]

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

A new season begins, and right away we’re warned about where following the money might go. One place it goes is into the church, apparently. Why are people tripping over each other to give thousands to a church? I guess … 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

V = IR So simple.  This is Ohm’s Law.   The passing of an electrical current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across the two points. So, voltage equals amperes multiplied by resistance. Today’s Daily Create assignment was to use “found” letters to depict our favorite math expression. I […]

DAILY CREATE: What is your favorite mathematical expression? Since math is not my forte, my ‘mathematical expression’ is inspired from none other than a quote. Are you surprised? Yes, I realize the assignment was supposed to be digital. But I… Continue Reading →

For my third assignment of the week, I decided to take the Rock ‘n Roll ‘n GIF assignment and apply it to the season 2 episode 1 of The Wire. I  decided that the bar scene was perfect for this assignment because not only is there a band playing (The Nighthawks) but the crew from […]

Today’s Daily Create – because it’s very hard to stop something with momentum

I really enjoyed episode 13. The thing that stood out to me the most was the conversation between D’Angelo and his mother. It was really interesting to see D’Angelo talk

So for my final assignment, I went with the “Minimalize your Philosophy” design assignment. I actually did two of them. The first one I made and then I realized that it wasn’t something that pertained to the final episode that I have left to do an assignment for, so I’ll do that one after this […]

So for today’s daily create I had to look up what a Lune Poem was so I could learn more. This semester, I have a chemistry class everyday but Thursday. Chemistry is in my daily routine, without a doubt! Every...
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So, for my second assignment, I chose a writing assignment. I was scrolling through them and none of them caught my eye. But then I saw the 10 seconds of thanks one. I liked the fact that I could do it from Jimmy’s point of view, especially since in episode 13 he had a lot […]