Author: mstough
Poem Made with The Wire Episode Titles
For my second assignment, I decided to do this writing assignment, but use episode titles from The Wire instead. I looked up all the titles on IMDB, wrote them down on pieces of paper, and then organized the pieces of paper to make the poem. The only thing I …
Emoji IRL Reactions to The Wire
I decided to do this visual assignment, which asks to take pictures of yourself making the expressions of 3 emojis and then use those emojis to tell a story. I added a little twist to it, and framed the emojis & my recreation of them as my most common …
It’s the Circle of Strife: The Wire Season 1, Episode 13 Analysis
Female Characters
While it is pretty common knowledge that there aren’t a whole lot of female characters in this show, the three female characters that stand out to me this season seem to be behaving each in a different way and heading down a different path than the others.
Kima …
Wine Will Only Make This Easier: Week 2 Recap
I hope my blog title is exciting enough to have gotten you to want to read this post. It was inspired from an exchange of tweets about Mondays:
@teamtightpants Me too. I’m fixing the problem by having a glass of red wine. I’m sure that will boost productivity. Any minute …
Daily Create: Make Your Own CalvinBall
Today’s Daily Create was to take a picture of your own version of CalvinBall (combing two sports or games into one).
I dubbing the combining of Apples to Apple and Banagrams “Fruit Salad.” I don’t know exactly how it would be played, but I think it’s interesting that there are …
Lessons in GIFs
For this week’s assignment to tell an episode of The Wire using only 6 GIFs, I decided to do Episode 8, “Lessons,” from the first season.
Process
Despite having made GIFs before in Intro to Digital Studies, I needed a refresher and found this tutorial to be helpful. However, …
Daily Create: Map of the Internet
Today’s Daily Create was to draw a map of the internet:
I know my drawing is VERY simplified, but I wanted to draw it from the perspective of my main modes of engaging with the internet, which are YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. To me, Twitter is a very urban …
Daily Create: Transit Map of Betrayal, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus
I did the Daily Create for September 3, 2014.
Despite the fact that I’ve moved away from the church in recent years, I felt compelled to make this Biblical story into a transit map. I know it’s a pretty simplified version of what occurred as there probably could have …
Closing In: The Wire Season 1, Episode 12 Analysis
Character Development
It was never about Avon Barksdale. It was about me.
I’m glad McNulty finally admitted this and then put his heart right back into the investigation. I’ve seen other shows where the characters continue to try and make it about them and it gets very annoying to watch. …
