Author: athoet

Emailed Lune

This morning I did the Flickr Lune daily create. It was so easy and fun because I could vent a little about the millions of emails I get every day and just want to ignore. I found the perfect picture to go with my poem, too!…

Contradictory Tones

I thought the juxtaposition of the phrases “drugs” and “family business” highlighted a major theme in the Wire. In my post about episode 13 of the Wire that will be up later this week, I discuss D’Angelo’s outcry at how this is his family business. He grew up in this, …

Shapes of the Wire

The spectrum Vonnegut creates is so simple yet so applicable to so many different stories. The curve spectrum is a newer and simpler version of the story plot we learn in grade school (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion), but the curve somehow easily represents an entire story in …

Spreading out and getting comfortable

Blog:

This week I customized my blog with different categories in order to organize my posts throughout the semester. I was a bit confused at first and made pages, only to realize my mistake and make categories, which was much easier. I also added a header photo logo that I …

Apps and blogs and wires, oh my!

This was a very big week for me because I accomplished a lot, while also understanding more of what I was doing. I have a feel for more sites than I did before and I am delving deeper into my blog. I posted this picture of a painting with a …

Risk checkers!

Today I did a daily create for a game mashup and decided to use two board games that did not work at all together. I chose Risk because it is the most complicated board game I have ever come across, and Checkers because it is the easiest. Risk reminded me …

The cutting end of the Wire

The last few episodes were absolutely crazy and they definitely secured my attention where it may have lacked in the first few episodes. I became fond of certain characters and was very interested to see their stories.

Episode 10:

I think the discussion video about “The Cost” and the name …

Stuck in the web

I drew a map of how I see the Internet and my place in it today for a daily create. My house is on top of the rolling blog hills because blogging is the one things I really feel comfortable with. I feel like I am in the country of …

A hobbit’s transit map by alison thoet

Today I did a daily create where I made a transit map out of the story of the Hobbit. I grew up with Tolkien and studied his works in Bath, England last summer. Needless to say, I’m a bit of a nerd. This map is not perfect, but I hope …