Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!
This has been the most interesting week of ds106. Let’s not break tradition, and let me get this show rolling.
The Wire
The Wire keeps getting more and more interesting with each passing episode. For starters, the story behind the homicide rate in Baltimore keeps getting more interesting. First, the fact that they had to relieve one of the officers in charge of reducing the murder rate was an interesting move. The person they got to replace him seems to have a lot of work in his hands. I don’t really like his solution for trying to solve the problem by getting the gang members to move further down so they are out of their jurisdiction; it just seems, underhanded. Speaking of underhanded, I really don’t like that one guy who is trying to run for mayor (can’t remember his name, but he is new this season). He is the definition of a weasly character, and that puts him on my $#!% list already! Lastly, this entire predicament just rings of bad news going forward.
Speaking of bad news, what’s up between the Lieutenant and the lawyer? I completely did not see that coming. More importantly, if I’m not mistaken, Daniels is married, which to me, makes this more despicable. It just gives more dirt on his name (which he has a lot of dirt on his name already). Furthermore, with McNulty knowing about it, I smell trouble ahead. Then again, that is just me.
Continuing with family business, I’m beginning to notice that Kima is not adjusting greatly to the family thing. I was surprised to see her by the train tracks, hanging out with McNulty. Furthermore, she seems to be gathering some of his bad habits. It is interesting to see her and her partner’s interactions at home; based off of those actions, I have the feeling they won’t exactly be together for a long period of time. Speaking of which, I caught her giving that one lady a rather “McNulty” look while she was at the bar. I foresee even more trouble.
Even more trouble has arisen between the Barksdale Organization and Omar and his crew. First, I felt bad that Omar’s crew is now short a character; you could see that the entire group felt the pain of losing her. I know they are going to get some revenge for this. The Barksdale Organization also is getting more involved with the plot I see, especially Stringer. McNulty seems to be going after him again. I’m curious to know how long Stringer will last without Avon being there. Between gang members that can’t hold their own, “40 degree days,” and issues with finding territory. I am very curious to see whether or not everything will still be together when Avon finally gets out. I am surprised that he is getting probabtion; the guards really did not want to give it to him.
I am finding this season to get more and more interesting.
Still Doin’ My Dailies
Carl Cattler now sees nothing, but the eyes of the tiger. The tiger lunged forward and ripped his head clean off. What happened next was a bizarre feat that no tiger has ever accomplished. The tiger then mounted his head on a wall and stairs into his eyes; the tiger looks deeply into them, almost as though it is attempting to see into the life of its recent victim. The eye of the tiger is all Carl can see (if he could see at all really), and it is the thing that peers back into his very soul.
What was once Carl Cattler is now Carl the Deceased.
This was for today’s TDC!
I know it is really grim, but that was the first thing that came to mind. I decided to get slightly creative with the head mounting, but that still is quite creepy. Maybe I’m feeling inspired by the upcoming Halloween… I don’t know.
Further Thoughts – This one was really just done in the Halloween spirit. Or perhaps I have a truly twisted mind (cue evil laughing). Nah, but really it was done in the Halloween spirit.
Radio Show
Now this was truly interesting. Throughout the past couple of weeks, I worked in a group to develop a radio show. The development was pretty good! We used Audacity to fully record our conversations, and create the commercials that were in the show.
I was responsible for editing the final question, and I was responsible for creating the rehab commercial. The music in the commercial was the song from FFX: Besaid Island (I have no idea why I chose this one in particular; it sounded rather peaceful). The sound effects in the last question came from freesound.org, the specific mentions for those effects can actually be found in the last question segment. Here are the credits to those sounds:
ngphil22- www.freesound.org/people/ngphil22/sounds/233318/
MentalSanityOff – www.freesound.org/people/MentalSan…f/sounds/218318/
I personally think everything came out well, and we put a lot of work into this. It was very fun meeting some of the people in this class as well. On a random note, Jim Groom showed up on the first day that we met as a group; what a coincidence!
My final thoughts – MY TEAM IS AWESOME!
Conclusion
Most of this week has been devoted to making the Radio Show, so I hope you all give it a listen and some feedback.
Thank you all for taking the time to read!
