Well, I will admit it. I ran out of time plain and simple. One part underestimating how easy it would be to procure a camera and two (or three) parts procrastination. Still, the week wasn’t a full waste. I obtained a good amount of knowledge if not a large amount of experience. I enjoyed analyzing […]

Paranormal…hmmmmm. Dark and scary? unnatural? It is a very broad topic, so I settled with dark. Being extremely low tech, I eventually realized I could add some darkness to a photo by putting a tuft of hair (i.e. from a comb or brush) up against the lens. I wanted to see what it would look […]

This was a particularly difficult assignment for me, largely due to the circumstances. As mentioned earlier, I have very little photography experience, and no portable photography device. To compound difficulties, my work+school keeps me busy during the day, so I had to complete the challenge at night with a borrowed smartphone. This limited somewhat my […]

The Bride of Frankenstein has several good examples of lighting throughout. The bride of Frankenstein does a fairly good job at deliberately utilizing depth, light, and the lack thereof for keeping the scenes engaging. To complement the deliberate choices, the relatively poor quality of the black and white cinematography contributes to the eerie connotations of […]

I have theoretical knowledge of a lot of random things in life. Photography however, is not one of them. I can explain how light interacts with the chemicals on camera film, but not what specific ordering makes the image appealing to the average viewer. I do not take photos. I do not own any handheld […]

This week featured the subtle, whether it be horror hosts (http://ds106.emorelleum.com/uncategorized/morliums-storied-mausoleum/) or old stories (http://ds106.emorelleum.com/uncategorized/wand-the-enemy-is-us/). We are what we consume, and when we consume this material over a length of time, sometimes we surprise ourselves. Despite the horror theme, I must always go to my roots when doing free form assignments, which means I often […]

Vonnegut’s story curves all share one thing in common, by the time the story reaches “electricity” the character is in high heaven. That is where horror often deviates from the typical story. Shadows on the wall starts with a Cinderella beginning, that is,  life is horrible for the main characters, but things get steadily worse […]

For this post, I read Last Respects and the Lottery, figuring I could not simply ride my way through the week with my preference of old thrillers. Both stories share a lot of similarities.  Neither one really brings the supernatural to play, only bona-fide just slightly over the edge human. The fact that these stories […]

As I have mentioned before, I am a fan of old media. What I remember from Rod Sirling and Alfred Hitchcock are hosts who let the show do the thrilling. They would dramatically give the same style of introduction, and you might not see them again for the rest of the movie. Granted, some you […]

I am not a fan of instagram. I AM a fan of assignments poking fun at instagram. I am not a fan of people describing food. I AM a fan of food in general though, so I figured I would have to compromise. Besides, the ol’ vocabulary could always use a workout, and this assignment […]

As will be a theme in my posts, I feel that authenticity is a hallmark of good stories (Seriously, I read non-fiction for fun when I was in elementary school). As a result, I jump at opportunities to explain my actions. As a weird personality quirk, I don’t like talking about who I am, but […]

For this assignment, I wanted to do the opposite of what was implied in the description. Rather than describe someone who shouldn’t be teaching because they are incompetent or inappropriate, I wanted to put someone in who was overqualified for the position, and simply couldn’t tone down for the audience. What topi could be more […]

I never had much experience with a large body of water. Palmer Alaska only sees so much precipitation a year, and it will not be liquid for much of the year. Enter my youth in Chesterfield VA. It turns out our lot, specifically the backyard is the lowest point in the neighborhood. What did that […]

Another week, another day of barely hanging on. between school, a part time job, and severe anxiety attacks when having to use social media interfaces (only exaggerating a little, maybe one day I will rant on this), it is a miracle that I am still lucid. Contrary to what the timestamps seem at first glance, […]

Though I may be a computer science major, I have a split opinion about the uses and value of technology in our lives. I spent several years in my youth living in Palmer Alaska, a small town halfway between Anchorage and Wasilla (the starting point of the Iditarod Race). The place is known only because […]

I feel the articles gloss over the losses of horror stories enabled by web 2.0. Certainly the web makes story creation more accessible to people, but the cost in story quality is just too high. I will admit I am not exactly immersed in the horror genre or on social media, but I know plenty […]

I may not be a fan of horror, or of social media, but I am a fan of classics. The twilight zone, the outer limits, and night gallery are all names I am moderately to intimately familiar with. I was not familiar with the trilogy of terror, and after watching this clip, I can see […]

Below is my challenge and response for what is bound to be the worst fanfiction on this page of the internet   Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining King of the Hill and Lost in Space. The story should use a secret government plot as a plot device! Scene: The Jupiter 2, careening […]

Bucket List: Successfully complete a “Eat the whole thing and your meal is free” challenge. – You never have to pay for a meal again, because you won’t feel like eating ever again. Go Skydiving – Weightlessness? Screaming? Sounds good Get struck by lightning – only so many people can claim they have done this […]

I realized this should probably be on my blog as well as my twitter feed. When someone leaves you a dire warning in your bed, I think about breakfast…     #ds106 #tdc1334

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Well, here we are 1 week in to ds106. Prodding around twitter and blogs (very clumsily, I might add), it would appear that there is a decent amount of flexing media muscles among the other ds106 accounts. As for my own endeavors,  obtaining quality youtube footage will definitely be a difficulty coming up. As someone … Continue reading Week 1

Hello, I am Jerome Mueller, a computer science and math major at UMW! I have no idea what makes an effective wordpress introduction, and am of the opinion that introductions are best made face to face, but I suppose given the circumstances that this will have to do… We shall see how effective selecting one … Continue reading Introductory Post

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