Playing Hard to Get: The Wire Season 2, Episode 4 Analysis

Avon and the Bad Drugs

“It ain’t about what happened. It’s about using what happened to our advantage. Play or get played.”–Avon

Avon is incredibly intelligent to know how to orchestrate such a thing so as to work to his advantage. It’s very frightening how much power he maintains and …

Level Up: Week 3 Summary

Maybe it’s just me, but this week felt like things had really leveled up in this class. There seems to be more work of a higher caliber that’s asking us to really get creative. While the list of things to do this week seemed daunting at first, as I began …

Response to “Web 2.0 Storytelling”

A lot of what was discussed in “Web 2.0 Storytelling” reminded me of what I learned about and implemented in Professor Whalen’s Transmedia Fiction class last fall. However, the discussion of these web-based formats for story telling in this reading seems more like the building blocks for transmedia or an …

K. Flay’s “The Cops” Lyric Typography Poster

I decided to do the design assignment where I make a lyric typography poster.

Last week, I ran across the brilliant K. Flay and especially fell in love with “The Cops.”

My brain, now hardwired to relate things to The Wire, instantly thought of Omar and Brandon. I found their …