A father lets his son get kidnaped and put in a prison colony in Australia. After tricking a girl with memory loss into befriending him, she finds out the father’s really just a selfish prick.

The person that I chose to write about is my dad. My dad inspires me in so many ways. He is my best friends, my role model, and my hero. I know that most people doing this assignment probably chose a celebrity or a person of higher power, but to me the first and pretty much …

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For the writing assignment, “A Haiku Poem About a Haiku Poem” (http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-haiku-poem-about-a-haiku-poem/), I was supposed to writing a three-stanza haiku poem about the Haiku poem itself. I first decided that my topic would be on my interest in attempting to translate any given haiku into another language. I noted that this seemed to pose quite … Continue reading "Haiku on the Haiku"

This week was the writing week where we got to create our characters that we will be using throughout the semester.   Daily Creates I was a little slow on the Daily Creates this week and went down to the wire completing the last one today. But they are always an adventure. #ds106 #tdc1851 It’s […]

Watching the Kurt Vonnegut video on the Shapes of Stories was super interesting to me. It brought me back to those middle school and early high school exercises where we had to drawn out the plot of the story explaining the key points. (Although that was more plot based then the universal ideas that Vonnegut […]

Mac was one of the best. When she was 17, she got recruited to be part of the Brazilian special forces. She was honest, hard-working, and a team player. When she wasn’t out on a mission, she was walking around the office with a legal pad in one hand, a glass of red wine in … Continue reading "Special Agent Mac"

I was so excited when I saw Kingsman on the list of movies to blog about. I can honestly say it was the first spy movie that I was fully invested it. I’ve referenced it already a few times in my blog posts, but haven’t gone too in depth on the movie itself. What sets …

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We got to watch films and tv shows for storytelling for class. That is a great way to start off a week of writing. To try to get the best feel for the genre we are exploring I tried to consume the most of the films and media we were presented with that I could. […]

I obviously chose Spy Kids to start this off because I absolutely loved the movies when I was child and it definitely made me want to be a spy myself too.  Then fast forward to a couple years after, I was watching Jack Bauer with my whole family.  The difference between these two is obviously […]

Archives For me, these got a little harder this week. It was a busy week for me so it was tough time-wise but they also seemed to take a bit more thought than last week. I managed 4 though! @ds106dc #tdc1846 I wish the rest of the gang was here, Zoinks! pic.twitter.com/JaMTEcKt3i — Krystal Heflin (@k_heflin) January 28, 2017 This was probably my favorite as I am huge Scooby Doo fan! My family still calls me a child because of the cartoons I watch. @ds106dc #tdc1848 #ds106 my secret creative weapon is this kid. My niece has the greatest imagination […]

Archives Everyone has someone they admire. I recently had to opportunity to hear Tony Nicely, the CEO of GEICO speak and he really inspired me. “Life is too short to work in any company where you cannot be happy”-Tony Nicely Mr. Nicely is from a small town in West Virginia and despite his struggles early in life, he considers himself “the luckiest man alive”. He was down on his luck and struggling financially when he first got the job at GEICO at the age of 18. It was only supposed to be a temporary job. After a year, he was […]

@ds106dc #tdc1853 #supersquirrel Well. Here is a squirrel. Off to save the day. pic.twitter.com/xGzuoOZltu — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 3, 2017

The thing about spy movies is that they are all kind of the same. They follow the same storyline that everyone loves and enjoys. Vonnegut explains this in the youtube clip about the shape of stories. Spy movies follow the same arch like many others do. An up, down, up story, or down, up, down, and … Continue reading "The Thing about Spy Movies"

This week’s mission improved a side of being a secret agent that most people don’t consider: the writing! I did not expect to write so much this week, but it led to some exciting developments. Also, I was able to use my CSS plugin to change some of the page settings. Namely, I changed it […]

Nancy Drew February 3, 2017 Dear Diary, Today was a great day! I solved what seemed to be an extremely hard case. I got to work with some special K-9 friends to help me. You see, what had happened was the one of the local farmers market stand owners went missing after last weeks market. …

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One of the things that I noticed in the movie Spy Kids as well as other well known spy movies is the peaks and falls of action tied in with the plot. I noticed that with a lot of spy movies there are many rises and falls. I think that this is what makes movies …

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Considering these and other works in the genre you know of, what themes, patterns and commonalities do you see? What defines a secret agent, or a secret agent story? Spy movies these days are a dime a dozen. A good spy movie however, is a little more difficult to pull off. Think about how many …

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Day 2:  I woke up with a stomach ache. I had a bit too much chicken lo-mein last night, and it wasn’t pretty. Before I left for work, I saw Betty’s fortune cookie on the kitchen table. I forgot, Betty hates fortune cookies. I ate the cardboard tasting delight, and the fortune read : Do […]

I chose to related this theory to the movie Spy Kids. If you were to create a similar line to Spy Kids, it would probably start off rising upwards once the children found out that their parents are spys (I’d be pretty excited myself). The descending moment would be when Juni and Carmen learn that …

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  The primary inspiration for Agent Bongo was not necessarily one specific character, but Archer as a whole series. I also drew from one of my favorite shows, The Office. I wanted to incorporate elements of a human resources department into the background of the character. It wouldn’t be too difficult to illustrate how those might be […]

It’s easy to dehumanize secret agents. Are we pathological liars? Yeah. Are we obsessive? Sure. But we’re all just human beings (until singularity). One of my favorite past times is listening to music, especially when I’m filling out a mission satisfaction survey or mission information file. They tend to be tedious and boring, so I […]

Day 1:  They had no idea that I’m a double agent from the ISCRPA (I never did find out what that acronym stands for). The interview was easier than expected, and I didn’t expect to get the job. The guy who was interviewing me was a complete moron. Betty is gonna be angry, because I […]

This was based on the assignment found here (http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/poem-parody/). Last night I dreamed of Russians, there were Soviets everywhere, they were standing on my stomach, they were scratching through my hair, they were prodding through my baggage, they were hoping for my head, they were scuffling up clothing as they paced around my head. They were on the chairs and tables, they were on the chandeliers, they were roosting in the corners, they were spitting in my ears, there were Russians, Soviets, Comrades for as far as I could see… when I woke today, I noticed Luckily it was a

Spaghetti Haiku Boil the pasta Don’t forget to cook some sauce! Simple yet so good    

This was based on the assignment found here (http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/that-bucket-list-though/). The five things that would be on my bucket list would probably be: 1: Go to Wisconsin- I enjoy cheese far more than I should and the mere concept of a state known for their cheese is incentive enough to go. 2: Own a brick bread making oven- I really want to make “authentic” bread and that always felt like a crazy goal to me to own the kind of oven I would need to make something that interesting. 3: Visit the Gundam museum- I am a massive fan of Gundam

Margaret Francis Delatour was born in the coastal French town of La Rochelle. Her father was a high-up international business man who also inherited quite a bit of money from his family and her mother was fairly well known wedding dress designer. She had no siblings and only a pet cat Ruby to keep her ... Read more

This is based on the assignment found here (http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-haiku-poem-about-a-haiku-poem/). Over boundless sky Stars fall, piercing the surface Tears of the cosmos. Screams call out in fear A man was struck by night fall Trag...

This week, we were in a bit of a tough position. Our public relations expert left for the CIA (they took another one!). After dozens of interviews, we finally found the right man for the job. He wasn’t able to tell us much about his history (which was actually a plus in this field). Here’s a […]

My main inspiration for the silly gimick of my character (that he disguises as a milk man) was a character in a video game called Psychonaughts. The character’s name was Lloyd. Lloyd was a conspiracy theorist looking for “the milk man.” The concept was so original that is always stuck with me. It also turned out that Lloyd was “the milk man” he was searching for the whole time, a psychotic mad man with moletof cocktails of milk. However, psychotic explosions are not fitting for a spy, so subterfuge would be needed. I guess the thing I wanted to avoid