From the time I saw this assignment on the Visual page, I knew I had to do it. And then I thought about this quote and I knew it would be perfect because there were so many people who could have said it. I chose the quote from Season 2, Episode 2 when Bunk is […]

Well, I may or may not use this as one of my visual assignments because for one, I kind of feel like I’m copying Groom’s idea, and for two this scene isn’t specific to any of the particular episodes, but it looked fun and I saw something that made me think of The Wire anyway. […]

I decided to do a visual assignment for my third assignment this week. I chose to do a troll quote and confuse some people. I wanted to highlight the notion of “the game” in the show and did so with this, as every aspect of my troll quote deals with someone in the drug dealing […]

September 10, 2014 Today’s Daily Create was to create a Lune poem atop an image and to post it on Flickr. I had never before heard of a Lune. I’ve made plenty of Haiku poems, but it took me a while to remember a Lune is referring to the number…

September 8, 2014 The assignment was to tell a story of what happened just before seeing the light of the oncoming train. My first idea was to write about a person who woke up tied to the train tracks and trying to remember how they got there, but I felt…

I did today’s daily create. I expected it to be harder when I first looked at some other people’s but when I saw that there was a lune-maker that made my decision to do it easy. When it said think about what you’ve done today I was like, “Hmm, well I’ve watched two wire episodes […]

So today’s daily create was interesting. I wasn’t aware what a Lune was so after reading the instructions, i gave it a shot. One thing I always do in the morning is put my pearl earrings on. I find them to be the one accessary to match EVERYTHING. So here’s my Lune! Enjoy!

The Wire (9-10 p.m., HBO) R-Two gangs wage war on a chessboard set in the streets of a post-apocalyptic city where it constantly snows, and the kings sit unharmed in their thrones atop mountains. This writing assignment was to “Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a […]

Decided to make a biology inspired lune, despite physics being my major. I almost consider it a crime though that the generator used white Comic Sans as the font.  

I did today’s Daily Create, which was to create a Flickr Lune Poem of an Ordinary Act. While visiting McDonald’s and ordering fries & a milkshake isn’t something I do everyday, it is certainly something I do quite often, especially while at school. Last year, my friends and I took … Continue reading

                      The picture below is a Mashup of a Classical Painting and a painting depicting a scene in “The Wire”.  “The Wire” Season Ep. 2 . I made this Assignment from the Submit an Assignment link on the #ds106 page.  

This post is about episodes 1 and 2 of season 2! Woohoo, we finally finished season one. And though it was good, I looked forward to seeing what would happen after the Barksdale case was over. I guess it is what I expected with them being disbanded and all. Did I think Jimmy would take […]

  My normal daily routine is to wake up to a blaring alarm, and then sleep for another 20 minutes or so.  After that, I slowly get up, check my emails, and resentfully take a shower.  This morning, I saw the daily create email and instantly knew this is what I would be submitting.  I […]

Daily Create This is my Monday and Wednesday morning routine after lifting practice.

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    The quote for this episode seems to be the going argument for why the second season of The Wire is still The Wire, when so much of what the audience was used to from the first season isn’t present. The season has changed to winter. The police officers … Continue reading

According to Alexander in The New Digital Storytelling chapter we read for this week, there are many different outlets for webs storytelling. My personal favorite, and the most simplistic, is blogging. Alexander goes into great detail about blogging and discusses the notion of blogs as internet diaries, which I found very thought-provoking; you can tell own […]

What’s in a Name? Your name is with you forever. Whether it’s your first or last. It is what people hear first when you introduce yourself. It is on all of your papers, projects, assignments, mail, accounts, job application, and much more. Some people may not like theirs and want to change it others wear […]

Before The Wire, Omar was a biology professor at a small community college in Colorado.  He had spent some time in prison for an undisclosed white-collar crime, and had gotten his teaching license in the clink.  Unfortunately, Omar couldn’t support himself on the measly salary of a professor.  Thus, he was forced to turn to […]

This morning I did the Flickr Lune daily create. It was so easy and fun because I could vent a little about the millions of emails I get every day and just want to ignore. I found the perfect picture to go with my poem, too!

Today’s Daily Create: A Lune poem about running late for the train

For about 2 years I have been using this image editor called Pixlr, and so I thought I’d share it with you all that way you can keep it in mind throughout the semester. Right off the bat there are pros and cons to Pixlr. Pros: Free to use even without an account You can save images to your Google Drive… Read more →

I thought the juxtaposition of the phrases “drugs” and “family business” highlighted a major theme in the Wire. In my post about episode 13 of the Wire that will be up later this week, I discuss D’Angelo’s outcry at how this is his family business. He grew up in this, the dealing, the money, the killing. “Ya’ll don’t […]

Wow. That is the only word that is appropriate for this assignment. So I was eager to start on these assignment through the assignment bank! I always like pictures, who doesn’t? I was looking through the visual assignments and stumbled upon the word “Bae”. I was a little sad, yes. Only because I find it […]

…I have MANY dream vacations.     I’ve grown rather fond of Pinterest over the years.. judge if you must, but I find the whole process as a way to gain inspiration and ideas for executing this thing called capital… Continue Reading →

 

Mashup Children’s Book: Mashup a children’s book based on another cultural artifact. I really wanted to do something with If You Give a Mouse a Cookie since it was one of my favorite books growing up. Since the author made numerous sequels about pigs and pancakes and moose and muffins, I knew I had to keep the pattern of having sweet food… Read more →

When I saw the assignment “What Wanders Outside Your Window?” it was right after I watched Episode 13 of season 1. I immediately thought of D’Angelo telling the detectives about how Deirdre Kresson was killed. I thought it was only appropriate to put Wee-Bey in the window like he was when he shot Deirdre Kresson. […]

The spectrum Vonnegut creates is so simple yet so applicable to so many different stories. The curve spectrum is a newer and simpler version of the story plot we learn in grade school (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion), but the curve somehow easily represents an entire story in itself. Vonnegut breaks a story […]

DAILY CREATE: Write a little story and read it out loud…in the dark. Use only your voice to make it come alive for your audience. Simultaneously writing a short story for a creative writing fiction course. This is a little… Continue Reading →