For my second assignment, I decided to do this writing assignment, but use episode titles from The Wire instead. I looked up all the titles on IMDB, wrote them down on pieces of paper, and then organized the pieces of paper to make the poem. The only thing I added was punctuation … Continue reading

I decided to do this visual assignment, which asks to take pictures of yourself making the expressions of 3 emojis and then use those emojis to tell a story. I added a little twist to it, and framed the emojis & my recreation of them as my most common reactions … Continue reading

For the finale of the first season of The Wire, I decided to make my own creative assignment here. One thing i noticed while watching this amazing episode was the wide variety of color use throughout the various scenes. Actually, if one looks closely, one can see important use of all the colors of the […]

YAY KIMA IS AWAKE!! I am very excited about that. Not so excited, though, about how Bunk was pushing her as soon as she woke up. I know she was up for it because that is what she asked about and she really cares about the case. But really? To push her to sign off […]

For  my second assignment of the week, I created a new logo for the top image for my blog. This was an assignment that I had wanted to do anyways because I was using one of the wordpress pictures, which was boring. I picked one of my favorite colors, but hopefully kept it with the […]

So this week wasn’t too great, as far as Wire106 is concerned. I really fell behind on my work. I have no excuse for why I fell behind but all I can say is that I am definitely learning from this mistake and I will try my hardest to get my stuff together throughout the…

http://tdc.ds106.us/writings/the-end/ Today’s Daily Create – My take on a very real story

What a fun daily create! Tell the story of what happened before this image was taken: I went with a haiku: A train trip with friends. Clackety track reminder. Forgot your flash drive. That famous Big Bang Theory episode popped into my head when I saw the image of the train light in the tunnel. […]

The Wire Season 1, Episode 13: Sentencing Finally the day has come when Avon Barksdale gets put away in jail. About a dozen or so of Avon’s men also get sentenced and put away. However many of the dealer’s sentences are not nearly what they should be. Avon has a really good (and annoying) lawyer who really does not care… Read more →

After reading chapter 4: Web 2.0 Storytelling, it made me rethink the way I look at social media. How he said that each person’s Facebook account or Twitter account can be seen as the story of their lives, it kind of blew my mind a little. I hadn’t thought about it in that way, per […]

John Johnston, hearing my call, created an automated supercut video of all the mentions of “the game” in Season 1 of The Wire. The VideoGrep script provides a quick, easy, and exacting way to analyze a show like The Wire around … Continue reading →

Blog: This week I customized my blog with different categories in order to organize my posts throughout the semester. I was a bit confused at first and made pages, only to realize my mistake and make categories, which was much easier. I also added a header photo logo that I thought showed my interests and […]

A group of my friends and I decided to take a trip out to an abandoned sanitarium. The main entrance to is blocked off and patrolled by the local park rangers. The only way to get to it is about a 1/2 mile walk on train tracks. We started out journey along the tracks until […]

John Johnston’s post yesterday about Videogrep really piqued my imagination. Videogrep is a python script that searches through dialog in videos and then cuts together a new video based on what it finds. Basically, it’s a command-line “supercut” generator. In other words, if … Continue reading →

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Female Characters While it is pretty common knowledge that there aren’t a whole lot of female characters in this show, the three female characters that stand out to me this season seem to be behaving each in a different way and heading down a different path than the others. Kima … Continue reading

The GIF assignment proved to be VERY challenging to create. I still haven’t mastered the skill of bringing the animation of it to life directly on my page, underestimating the time it would take to understand the process limited my ability to do this in a manner satisfying to me. It is something that will […]

This week was a little better. The intensity of the course picked up but I was able to handle it this time. I was captivated by each episode of the wire

So this week, we were assigned to make 6 gifs to summarize an episode from The Wire. I decided to make gifs from Episode 9 “Gameday.” The episode starts off where Stringer and Barksdale are talking about Omar. They know he’s been starting his own little drug ring in their territory. But they also know…

I thought the week started off easy enough. Installed Askimet, set up my subdomain and set up Known on it. I watched 3 episodes of The Wire (and will totally talk about it later in the blog) and then started … Continue reading →

Well well well…Week two has come and gone already.  At this rate, the semester will be over in, what, 13 weeks?  Jeez… For this weeks assignment, I decided to focus on breaking down episode 12 of The Wire: “Cleaning Up.”  This episode sets so many plot elements in play that are crucial for the end […]

Getting locked into the warp speed that is ds106 quickly reminded me why this the best class in the world. Ever We are starting to ramp up the course by getting more familiar with we post and connect across various social media … Continue reading →

The second week of Digital Storytelling is about up already? Wow I’m surprised. Time really goes fast. Well to sum up what I did this week: – I made 5 GIFS and it wasn’t that bad. I liked it. Here’s the link to my blog post about the GIFS: http://www.iahmed16celtics.net/uncategorized/did-i-just-really-made-a-gif-5-gif/ -I made a known account and […]

Just finished Episode 12 of The Wire and i’m still stunned by Wallace’s death. He was a very likable character and it just shows how hard drug life can be, especially if you don’t fit into what the bosses look for. Wallace just wanted a home and he thought he had it with his childhood […]

This week was quite interesting when making my daily creates and posting it on flickr. My last two wouldn’t post on flickr but I did indeed post it on twitter. Here are my first four: If I had a logo, it would be like this below because for many reasons such as one I love […]