Because Sometimes You Win Without Actually Winning

 

This is the Sports Mashup video (worth 3 1/2 points) I created by taking video clips of some of my favorite moments in sports and splicing them together in iMovie. These aren’t the “typical” sports clips showing professional athletes making incredible catches, dunks, or touchdowns. Instead, these clips show …

That Bleeping Crime Scene

One of the more memorable scenes from early on in The Wire is of Bunk and McNulty at the cold crime scene in the apartment where they only say “fuck.” I love it, and think it’s a great, humorous scene. When I saw the That Bleeping Censor assignment, I thought …

Camera Halo

This daily create was a bit vague, so I borrowed a small mirror, and played around with a light ring and my phone’s camera lens.  This is a picture of my phone’s camera lens, from a mirror reflection, under my LED halo lamp.  The light ring of the lamp looks …

Two DC for Week 11

Abraham Lincoln once said, “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” That’s actually relatable to me because that’s how my religion is basically. This week I felt good doing my two daily creates. I was all like:

So my two …

The Wire Video Essay

For my video essay, I decided to look at The Wire as a primary source. I am Dr. McClurken’s U.S. History in Film class, and one of the things we do is look at the movies we watch as primary sources. We discuss what a movie can tell us …

Hardcore Bear Fight

The Idea

A couple of weeks ago, one of my professors showed us a video of two bears fighting in a neighborhood in New Jersey. It’s a pretty tense thing to watch, and you can tell from their body language that this fight is a matter of dominance.

When I …

My Safe Haven

For my Second Daily Create I decided to do the Safe Haven assignment. I really liked this assignment. I have to say that this week has had the best Daily Create this week. For this assignment I decided to do three different safe havens, the first one I decided to …