Even Silence Conveys Something

Reflecting on Jennifer Ralston’s Explanation of Sound Editing

Listen to the interview below:

Simply watching a show does not do the full design of the work (that is, the show) justice. When you put yourself into the role of a viewer, you tend to only view the outer layer of …

Introducing Wire 106 Radio

For this brainstorming activity, I decided to use GIMP to create a Wire 106 Radio “logo” (or “banner”) with a background of Baltimore cargo containers to accompany the ideas that came to me about what a Wire-themed show would include. For a show 20-30 minutes long, I came up with …

Week 3 Winding Down

Reflection on “Web 2.0 Storytelling” and “Shapes of Stories”

Bryan Alexander’s chapter on Web 2.0 Storytelling brought to light something I never knew blogging and other social media was used for. The Internet tends to become overloaded with news about the world, politics, celebrities, and more. It’s refreshing to see …

World of Wires

For my last DS106 assignment this week I decided to do the Visual assignment called The Wire Everywhere, in which we’d have to capture a prevalent image from The Wire and show a real world example.

In Week 1, I recall taking a screenshot of the beginning scene of …

What ever happened to Stringer Bell?

For my first DS106 assignment for The Wire this week, I chose to tell the story of who Stringer Bell became after The Wire using a GIF animation. The assignment can be found here.

Although we have just worked with creating GIF images, I was interested in this assignment …

Make a Flickr Lune Poem of an Ordinary Act

September 10, 2014

Today’s Daily Create was to create a Lune poem atop an image and to post it on Flickr. I had never before heard of a Lune. I’ve made plenty of Haiku poems, but it took me a while to remember a Lune is referring to the number …