Last week, things were going pretty well for Prez, until the fire nation attacked the unfortunate shooting happened. This week, Prez has changed jobs! As happens in season 4, Prez gets a job as an 8th grade math teacher. He updated his facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, and blog to announce his new job. He also tweeted a few […]

For my third week of my final project, I have decided to focus on the events of Season 3 of The Wire. In season 3, things are going pretty well for Pryzblewski, until he shoots and kills plain-clothed cop. In my narrative of these events, Prez comes under fire in the newspaper for the shooting. […]

I’m really enjoying Prez’s storyline on The Wire right now (which I am paying closer attention to because of my final project). I am really interested in the school kids and how they are connected to the game. The class for kids with behavioral problems is really sad but realistic, especially when they are talking […]

For this week, Prez is continuing to promote his book, this week with a radio advert, and promoting his Goodreads page. Here is the link to the post that Prez made on his blog about the radio advert (he also linked to the blog post through Twitter and Facebook).  I made this advert by recording […]

For my second assignment for the two weeks (and my assignment that involves The Wire), I did the Inappropriate Laughter assignment (worth 3 stars). I used this clip from youtube of Stringer’s death in The Wire and this laugh track from freesound.org. I then used iMovie to put the laugh track in the most inappropriate […]

For the Your Favorite Teams Mashup (worth 3 stars), I used  Pittsburgh teams, because I was born and raised a Pittsburgh fan. I used the Steelers, Pirates, and Penguins logos, and this font and of course Photoshop.

Today’s Daily Create – My day in icons (I decided to use emojis instead) This is me getting up for work, taking the train into DC, getting to my office, researching space history, drinking coffee, going home, doing homework, and then the day is over

Today’s Daily Create – Worst DS106 Album This is an edit I made of this lovely album feat. Jim Groom

The Wire got super intense these two weeks. I honestly thought that the season 3 finale set the series up to be over (even though I knew it wasn’t because I was already assigned to work on the next season). If the show had ended there though, it would have been wrapped up nicely. I […]

So for my ds106 final project (sniff, sniff) I am using Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski, everyone’s favorite cop killer from The Wire. But seriously, I do have a weird soft spot for this character. He does awful stuff in seasons 1 and 3, but still seems to be a good guy that you pity. I decided […]

Here is the video swede (worth 5 stars) that I worked on with Meredith, David, Demi, and Carmela. We decided to work with season 3 episode 11 and we were originally going to all act it out ourselves, but then we decided to use teddy bears from the Dollar Tree. We agreed on which scenes were […]

Today’s Daily Create – Pick a pet and change it

Today’s Daily Create – My Flag I took inspiration from my favorite flag (the Welsh flag), and my lifelong love of fiction with dragons. Also, purple is just my favorite color. I got the dragon here.

For my video essay, I decided to look at The Wire as a primary source. I am Dr. McClurken’s U.S. History in Film class, and one of the things we do is look at the movies we watch as primary sources. We discuss what a movie can tell us about when it was made. For […]

Today’s Daily Create – my safe haven is my favorite reading chair and my favorite fantasy books

Original Scene from The Wire I found the That Bleeping Censor Assignment, and I really wanted to do it. I of course immediately thought of the scene from season 1 of The Wire, where McNulty and Bunk are investigating an old crime scene, and the only phrases they say the whole scene are “fuck,” “mother fucker,” […]

I was very interested by the Ken Burns video, and the How to Read a Movie article. They will obviously help me with the video unit in this class, but I am also in the US History in Film class and we are working on our projects right now. Everything that Ken Burns was saying […]

I decided to do the Look, Listen, Analyze assignment on a scene from The Wire season 3, episode 9, when Prez shoots another cop. I thought it was a great scene because it is really intense, but doesn’t actually show him shooting the cop, so as a viewer you are not quite sure what happened, […]

Today’s Daily Create – clothes line

For my third assignment of the week, I decided to do the Play it Backwards assignment, worth 2 stars. I decided to do a scene from The Wire, and I wanted to take a sad scene and make it happy. I used the shootout scene from season 2 episode 9, where the little boy is […]

For my second video assignment, I decided to do the Chipmunk Style assignment [worth 2.5 stars] because it just seemed like so much fun. I decided to use the most serious show I could think of, which was of course Game of Thrones. I really love to cringe through this scene so I figured it […]

For my first assignment this week, I made a silent film trailer [worth 4.5 stars] for the first Lord of the Rings movie. I got the trailer from here on youtube. I downloaded it, and imported it into  iMovie, along with one of the songs from the soundtrack. I muted the movie clip, and added in the […]

Today’s Daily Create – What is it?

In The Wire this week, I am really enjoying the relocation of the drug dealers. I think the way they are going about it, by forcing the midlevel people to order the move, it really smart. I am way more interested in this way of dealing with drug dealers than the ways the show has […]

Today’s Daily Create – Emoji Come Alive! My geeky NASA family has this lovely lego space shuttle set

Today’s Daily Create- Make a Winter Drawing

Yesterday, I participated in the live streaming of the TDSN Radio Show. I thought live streaming it and tweeting it was a really cool idea for a way to engage more of the class together. Instead of picking a show and listening to it on my own, I got to respond in real time with […]

The second assignment that I added to the inspire page was Carmela’s Classical Rap mashup. I really loved this mashup because I thought the combination of Mozart and 99 problems was hilarious and somehow worked. Before hearing this, I never would have thought that these two songs could go together but apparently they do. This […]

The third assignment that I submitted to the inspiration page was the London Bridge Techno mashup.  I again was inspired by this because of the combination of two songs that seemingly would not go together. I am always amazed by the kind of combinations people come up with for work like this. This one is […]

The first post that I remembered being inspired by was Lauren’s Sketch a Screenshot assignment. I really like this post because the sketch was so well done. If I had done this I would automatically done the sketch by hand because that’s what I think of a sketch. Lauren did hers on the computer though, and […]