Packing up everything that we have used for observation over the last 16 weeks.  I send this last report in with a heavy heart.  I have worked so closely these last few weeks with Omar Little.  We’ve had many late night interviews and I will do my best to honor his memory.  Omar wanted to […]

AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1524 (3 stars)  “The Sounds of Omar’s Life” In this assignment, Omar and I used Audacity to blend several sounds to make a typical day in the life of Omar.  I would like to give credit to the following from Freesound.org “Outside Night w/Sirens” by apotter1992 “Dog barking in the distance” by MAJ061785 “9mm […]

VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments439  (5 stars)  In this Video,  Omar and I worked on putting together a video essay that could help everyone develop a love for him.  He truly is an amazing character that I grew to love over the semester. Omar and I worked on extracting videos from Youtube to show his many faces.  There […]

The last two weeks have been so insanely busy.  Preparing for the finals of my classes.  Working on my final project for DS106, finished watching all episodes of The Wire, and completed the assignments due December 1.  I was so glad that I had time off from work.  Spent the entire time in front of […]

“Bumper Sticker” DesignAssignments, DesignAssignments961 (3.5 stars) Omar: Yo, yo, yo… Wassup.  I this here assignment, Melinda helped me design a bumper sticker for my main man, Renaldo’s cab.  Renaldo and I spend alot of time in this cab.  I want to tag it as ours.  This bumper sticker is marked with my favorite saying.  If […]

This is a tutorial for the Design Assignment 1445, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.” The requirements of the assignment are listed below: Imagine your favorite company whether it be food, clothing, or any other company. Now imagine their enemy or competitor in the business. Your goal for this assignment is to take your favorite company’s […]

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing  (3 stars) ( DesignAssignments, DesignAssignments1445 ) In this assignment, Omar wanted to mess wit yo head by designing a pack of Newports dressed in a Marlboro box.  Pretty tricky yo.  Ain’t nobody gonna get one over on Omar.  You gotta problem wit dat you better speak yo mind. Take over […]

In the Remix Assignment 1266, I was given the image from Ien Harris as shown below: The Remix Assignment was to take this originally created Window with a view of Mars and add to this a Dr. Seuss inspired character.  I saved a copy of this window to my computer and uploaded it into Pizap.com […]

I took the original assignment “mashup assignment 1241″ titled “Captain Kirk Watches” and changed it into a more fitting assignment for me…  “The Star Trek Crew Watches” for the same star count.  Four Stars.  In this movie, we witness the crew of the Enterprise, just riding through space picking up strange transmissions and then they […]

Mashup Assignment 1323 “Movie Mashup” for 4 stars: This was a very fun assignment to do.  This assignment was to mash different movies together and blend them into a Movie poster.  I chose to blend “Star Wars” and “The Wire”.  For this assignment, I downloaded the movie poster from the Star Wars.  I then went […]

This message comes back to you from my weary worn down self on the lookout.  As we draw nearer to the end of the semester, I find myself more tired and worn down.  Sleeping only 3-4 hours of sleep each night is wearing me down.  I thought is was just me but I saw the […]

For my Video Assignment 439, the assignment is to create a video essay describing an episode from The Wire. (5 stars)  I chose Season 4 Episode 3.  This episode is titled “Home Rooms”.  When you think of home room, you think of school.  Home room in school is always how you are identified for pictures, […]

Swede a Scene (4.5/5 stars) (Plus Extra Credit please? :)) Old Biddy Productions decided to get together and swede a few scenes from Season 4.  We sweded scenes from Episode 5 and Episode 6.  We first chatted a few times and tossed ideas around on google docs.  We decided that the scenes that we did […]

Video Assignment 393 (5 stars) is an assignment in which you make a tutorial for someone else to explain how to do something.  My father just received his first smartphone for his birthday.  He has had the phone now for over 2 months and is scared to even pick the phone up.  I thought I […]

This week started with a huge amount of fear and dread.  The beginning of videos…  I could feel a panic attack setting in just at the thought of it!  I am so thankful that Meredith Fierro talked me down off the edge of the roof. (just kidding :)) Meredith tutored me on how to make […]

This assignment is the video assignment 1036 for 2 stars. I chose to make a video of our 2013 vacation to the Outer Banks, NC.  I fell in love with the Outer Banks.  I loved it so much that I had to make a video of our vacation.  I felt that the Zac Brown Group’s […]

I decided to do the Video Assignment 1447 for 5 stars.  This assignment gives you the task of making a music video.  I decided that I would make a music video in Memory of my Cousin, Grant that recently passed away. The first step in constructing this project was very easy.  There is a song […]

***SPOILER ALERT***Attention:  If you have not seen Episode 11 in Season 3.  Don’t Watch my Video! *** This assignment is for “Return to the Silent Era”: Video Assignment 376 for 4.5 stars. Okay, you’ve been warned…  This is a silent movie made to display my favorite scene in Season Three’s Episode 11.  I titled this […]

Meredith Fierro has done an excellent job in creating a silent film.  Her post give such detail on her steps that it inspires me to try to do one myself.  I love the trailer that she picked, the music, and I could not get over how authentic the black screen with the white print and […]

“If Samuel L. Jackson were a Chipmunk” video project done by Maggie Stough has to be the funniest book reading that I have ever heard.  When I listened to this reading, all I could think of was all of the nights of being up all night with a child that will not go to sleep.  […]

This was also inspire week.  I was inspired by three great works. I was inspired by Alison Thoet’s complete write up on McNulty.  She had a sort of mashup on different characters that McNulty has played in other shows. http://www.athoet.com/assignments/the-many-faces-of-dominic-west/ This was a very interesting posting about many different roles that Dominic West has been […]

Here I sit, trying to record all of this week into one small blog.  This has been a long week.  There has been much activity here from my view on the roof.  I have been busy with daily creates. I drew with a light sabre, recorded a view of winter, and contemplated how I would […]

The Baltimore Wire Radio Show:  Broadcasting live on Thursday @ 9-10pm on ds106 radio. https://magic.piktochart.com/output/3132595-untitled-banner This was such a fun project.   Our group consisted of the members:  Lakisha Mahone, Desa Stone, and myself, Melinda Albrycht.  We each worked hard to put together a radio show as if it was a radio program broadcasted at the […]

I listened to the radio show done by Meredith, Demi, Amy, and David titled “DSTW 76.5 News Radio Show”.  This was such a good radio show.  I was holding my sides laughing.  I loved the Bubbles interview in which the description was so vivid describing the blood on the scene.  I loved also the push […]

Here are the words to my poem. The Wire Poem by Melinda Albrycht

This week has been a truly difficult week from my roof.  I lost my first cousin that was like a brother to me in a car accident.  This did not help with all of the other difficulties that we were facing trying to function as a team to get our radio show done.  We were […]

Today is a special day after I heard the possibility of positive news at my work.  Several benefits have been taken away and the possibility of their return was discussed today.  This left me really happy.  Yeah!  (Also my Halloween decorations at my desk make everyday a happy one! :))  

We are hard at work tossing around the ideas of a radio show designed as if it is a news broadcast that could have taken place during the time period of The Wire.  We will have several different snippets from each member of our team that will include political news, local news, traffic, etc all […]

This week we focused back on audio.  Audio seems to be harder for me than working with images.  It seems more personal listening to someone’s voice rather than just looking at a picture.  We are building up and getting ready for our radio show.  A radio show makes me really nervous. 20-30 minutes of just […]

I know that this was not a required blog but I just wanted to make a comment on how much I enjoyed watching the episode while Karen Thorson and editor Thom Zimny were commenting on the episode.  I had two functions going at once.  I watched the episode from the library but had the sound muted.  […]