Week 10 was a fun week of video assignments, inspirations, daily creates, and three more episodes of the Wire. I had to complete 10 stars worth of assignments for videos which ended up being three projects. My first project was a music video I created for an Ace of Base song. I put my own spin on the video by making it a collection of street signs. My second video is the Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal music video in which I removed the audio track and replaced it with scary sound effects. This is dedicated to Omar because he is a smooth criminal who happens to scare drug dealers in the show. My third video is a collection of vacation photos that I took while visiting Germany and France, and I included some classical music in the background that I think matches the atmosphere of the photos. Throughout the week I also completed two daily creates, which is still fun to complete. One was a photo of an object in the dark, and the other was a drawing of a clothing line. I also found two more creative works that I found inspiring. I ended the week with finishing the three episodes 8, 9, 10.

I like in this season how they are focusing on different ways to bust the drug dealers, this time by tracking the cell phones that the dealers use and then toss. These “burners” help keep the police from tracking their activities, but even after being as cautious and possible, there are still ways to mess up and get caught. The Hamsterdam drug zone is starting to unravel which is something I have been waiting to see unfold. This, of course, doesn’t detract the leaders of the community because it has actually reduced crime in the city by centralizing all the drug activity. Eventually Hamsterdam will all have to crumble, but I like seeing how long it will survive.