Hello everyone.  This week was an eventful week.  I learned so much this week while making the six gifs.  This is a skill that I never thought that I would need or learn. :)  My kids are highly impressed since so many of the youtube videos that they watch have gifs in them or the […]

This week I decided to summarize episode 6 called “The Wire.” I feel like this episode is extremely important to the series. Creating the GIF’s this week was a first for me. I have always seen these on websites and what not but I never had any idea of how they were made. At first […]

Episode 2 sets the standard for the way of life on the street. “Fuck right. It’s ain’t about right, it’s about money.”        

It’s quite amazing how I made a GIF. I’ve always seen on facebook and other social media websites of people making GIF and I always thought like when will I be able to make one. I didn’t know making a GIF would be that hard. All I did was to follow the steps from this […]

GIFS GIFS GIFS So after initially spending about 3 hours trying to figure out how to make my first gif, I finally got it down and I am a gif-making pro now. Our assignment was to make 6 gifs from an episode of The Wire to summarize what that episode was about. I chose Episode… Read More

Weekly Assignment: Summarize an episode using animated .GIFs I spent a couple of hours fiddling around with various programs trying to figure out how to make animated .GIFs with the software I already have.  Although I still believe it’s possible, I finally got serious about time and used MPEG Streamclip to grab the pieces I […]

Known: Installing and using Known was probably the easiest thing I have done this far! It was very clean cut and simple. I like how it gives you the option of posting to multiple sites all at the same time,...
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This weeks assignment for DS106 was to create GIFs to summarize an episode of The Wire. When I first read this I was both nervous and excited. I had never made a GIF, didn’t know where they came from, and had no idea how I could summarize an hour-long episode in six or less GIFs. […]

Colors When I saw this shot, I thought of The Manchurian Candidate. It’s probably something I’m reading into it rather than something the makers of The Wire intended, but there is a parallel in that they both feature a mother … Continue reading →

WEEK 2: Whoa. How do I describe week 2? I thought week 2 would be a lot easier (HA!). I now understand that initial email sent from Groom and Bond about this class being real work, not a filler course. Week 2 kicked my butt. Here’s what I did! My Blog, My Problem: So when […]

This is my attempt at the “Summarize A Wire Episode In GIFs.” I chose to pull six (actually seven) animated GIFs from episode 5 of Season 1 of The Wire: “The Pager.” It’s one of my favorite episodes because the theme … Continue reading →

   I loved this assignment! If you all could have seen the happy dance I did when I made my first gif. I find this class very rewarding when I’m able to create things I never knew how. I chose episode 3, The Buys for this assignment. I feel like these 6 gifs are able… Read More

This week was crazy busy, and I started using ds106 assignments as a break from my other work, because right now it’s my most fun class. First of all – the show. I really got into The Wire for the first time this week. Before this, I have only been mildly interested in the overall […]

I’m coming back tomorrow, the next day and the next day.

At the beginning of Week 2, I read our assignment list and immediately made my own to-do list. Throughout the week I’ve been checking things off, taking note of my daily reminders to make sure I didn’t forget anything. So… Continue Reading →

Well…. Gifs….. We all know and love them, especially on Tumblr. I never thought I would be the one making them until i discovered Ds106. Yay! Well, they’re not as easy as everyone thinks. To summarize an episode of The Wire with Gifs, I chose my favorite episode which was episode 2 “The Detail”. The title […]

Well, here we are at the end of another week! Let’s have a quick recap of what has been going on (in case you missed it)! I just got Known up! Woohoo! — nick (@Nrandall13) September 3, 2014 Known is now 100% up and is now in use! It was easy to install, and it […]

Creating Known: Well to start off I clicked on the Known link and subscribed because I thought that was what I was supposed to do…I was wrong. Oh well, you live and you learn. I learned to keep scrolling to watch the video that was there about how to set up my known. When I […]

DAILY CREATE: What is your most hilarious tech confession? You can find some examples here. I’m fairly positive that if I did not have an iPhone, I would be unable to get from point A to point B behind the… Continue Reading →

From S1E04 This really summed up the episode for me as this was possibly one of my favorite scenes. It really showed some hardcore detective work going on, and to me, this also seemed to be one of the most realistic scenes as they were trying to figure out how/where the victim was murdered. I’m […]

Ah, now this week was a lot easier to manage. With only 3 episodes of The Wire to watch, I felt a lot less pressed for time. Ironically, in the end I ended up watching 4 episodes and finishing the first season, and I’m currently starting the second. Man what an ending. Very bittersweet, and […]

My first Daily Create was creating my very own logo. I decided to stick to mostly one color which is my favorite color PINK. My logo consisted of my name D.E.M.I each letter in a different font and different shade of pink, but together it was really cute and I liked it. I got the […]

GIF  Tutorial Hi everyone!  This is going to be my tutorial on how to create a gif.  I don’t have any illustrations but I hope you can follow along. The most important things to remember before starting this project: If you don’t have the software to create the .gifs I recommend downloading two programs: MPEG […]

My PC gets regular clean up, both on the hardware and software side.    

Feeling tired i’ll lay in my bed ready to sleep. Then i’ll go onto StumbleUpon and read a few articles online. Hours later i’m still awake and now I have insomnia. http://tdc.ds106.us/writings/accidental-insomnia/

The assignment was to summarize an episode in 6 gifs, but part of ds106 is making assignments your own. If you just follow the rules of the Game, you’ll be stuck playing the part of a pawn. You got to … Continue reading →

After a great deal of trial and error, I can now say after creating six gifs that I am now a gif pro!  They take a great deal of work but it was fun creating this assignment. My episode is number 9 in season 1.  The title is “Game Day” and the quote for this […]

After just finishing the first of The Wire, there’s one lesson that sticks out in the back of my mind. A very important lesson given by Freamon, one of my favorite characters.   This scene, from episode 8, resonates so well for me because of its multiple meanings. The obvious is his message to Prez. […]

Today’s daily create: A book bloc shield. This is my take on a protest shield with a strong, albeit very idealistic message. Everyday people might not have too much power on their own, but we still are the foundations of society.   View it here.

Making animated .GIFs for the first time was a big time sink, so I’m glad I started earlier in the week on the learning process.  At this point in the season, the development of characters is still new and under development, so I focused on their personalities as I summarized The Wire: Season 1 Episode 3 […]