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Vonnegut and The Shape of Stories: Gladiator

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

So after watching the short clip I decided to make my own graph of the movie Gladiator (if you have not seen it don’t read this post, I don’t want to ruin it for you!). I chose this movie because it is one of my favorites and I have seen it countless times. So the movie starts out on a high note with Maximus winning a battle and then told he will be the caretaker of Rome when the Caesar dies. Then as represented by the graph below there is a terrible drop where he is betrayed by Caesar son from this his wife and son are murdered and he is eventually sold into slavery. Once a slave he becomes a gladiator which accounts for the rise in fortune but there is a small drop when his plan to take down the new Caesar is foiled and he is caught. At the end of the movie he gets to fight Caesar and although he does die it is good fortune for him because he believes he is joining his family.

 

Here is my version of Vonnegut Graphs.

Letter Home for Week 2

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Dear Mom/Dad,

It was in interesting week in camp full of activities and learning. First off I had to get settled which included setting up my blog and downloading some other fun stuff. My favorite part about setting up the blog was customizing it, I got to set the background to one of my favorite soccer teams the Celtic and I set up a couple starter categories to organize it. I found the counselors instructional videos to be really helpful while setting up my blog. The next thing I did to set up was I joined and downloaded MInecraft, I had never heard of it before but it seems like a good was to have camp meetings and I’m interested to see how well it works.

Some other activities I did this week were the Daily Creates the first one I did was I had to record a video of myself saying I Love DS106 ten times. This assignment was pretty fun I had a hard time suppressing laughing because of how focused I was on not messing up and saying the wrong thing as people often do when they have to say the same thing over and over. The next TDC I did was to draw bugs bunny, I am not a talented artist at all usually my artwork would be below par in an elementary school art class so I took some time on this Daily Create. I found a picture I found interesting and I free sketched it and after multiple attempts I had a picture I was really happy with. The final one was to take a picture that represented destruction, about an hour before I saw the daily create my parents were yelling at my brother about how his room looked like a war zone so when I was the prompt I knew what I was going to use a s a picture of destruction. Later when I told him what I did he thought it was funny and I was relieved he was a good sport about it.

Earlier in the week I watched a video of a lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories. Before I watched this video it had never occurred to me that you could use a graph to describe a story. I though Vonnegut did a good job of keeping it interesting and using humor to keep the viewer interested and I really enjoyed the short clip. So I had another good week at camp Magic MacGuffin hope the next one is just as good.

Raging Rappahannock River

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
Raging Rappahannock River by chanda0703
Raging Rappahannock River, a photo by chanda0703 on Flickr.

TDC Stone, Water, & Clouds. The Rappahannock River was rushing fast this morning from all the recent rain. Great spot at “the Rock” that shows the bend in the river. Beautiful day, angry river.

Letter Home: Week 1

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Dear Mom,

Good morning! at least it is over here at Camp Magic MacGuffin :)

This first week has been so interesting, I really ventured into new territory and began to grasp the purpose and philosophy behind camp. I created accounts with SoundCloud, YouTube, Flickr, and many other sites. Other than twitter and YouTube I was completely unfamiliar with the rest, so I really got to explore them. It is so interesting the amount of tools and social networks online that serve different purposes!

Watching the video with Dr. Michael Wesch really opened up my eyes to a lot of things, and a new way of approaching not only the general issue of lack of passion between education and students. But my own personal case with my schooling. It really made me think about how I was really forming an identity online, hence I decided to ‘brand’ myself. Everything from my twitter account, email, website… everything is now “mindofamasri”! I think it is so cool actually haha. I can tell this camp will be a creative challenge and am really excited for it. Being in this camp as well as taking my Web Application Development course is really giving me a holistic perspective of things. In my class I’m learning the behind-the-scenes aspects of a website – scripting languages, database tools. And at Camp I’m developing the creative sense of web development, I’m glad that I am doing both at once. Hopefully by the end of the summer I’ll be an expert at both to some degree.

Okay well, I’ll write you again soon!

Sincerely,

mindofamasri

Week 2 at Camp

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

I was a little behind at camp this week:(

But I promise to do better next week because I want to win camper of the week! I learned more about digital storytelling and how to make my website my own! We also read from a book that was written by one of our very own campers, and I got to learn about how stories can be shapes. I also created some pictures, and an annoying sound, and a video. The annoying sound was fun, I choose the backpack material rubbing against something. Talk to you soon familia!

 

The Shape of 50 Shades

Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

From beginning to end, the shape of the first book in the 50 Shades trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a roller coaster ride. Typical girl meets boy story that doesn’t have a happy ending…yet. I’m currently reading the second book is the series “Fifty Shades Darker” so I’ll report back on if Ana and Christian get there happy ending.

50 Shades of Grey

 

Snowy Duke in a Snowflake

Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
Snowy Duke in a Snowflake by chanda0703
Snowy Duke in a Snowflake, a photo by chanda0703 on Flickr.

Redesigning Duke. With snowflakes falling on his head, I put him in a snowflake.

Real Destruction TDC 146

Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

First thing I thought of when I saw the new Daily Create was my brothers room and how that was the definition of destruction

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Trouble In Paradise

Friday, June 1st, 2012

After a great week of blogging and learning, I had a rough patch these past few days.

I moved into my brand new house that had belonged to a UMW sports team for 8 years. The house took a beating and now we have a hoard of construction workers, plumbers, painters and electricians banging away at all hours. My room is unlivable, but I’m still living here. They’re fixing the entire main floor, basement and renovating the bathrooms, so long story short: I’m high on paint fumes and can’t shower very effectively.

Also, I just got internet today. Thank you, Cox internet service for sending me an installation kit with nothing in it to install. Also, thank you Verizon for taking 2 hours and still, I walked out without internet. Now I’m on a limited internet service for 2 weeks, which is when I will return the device and get all of my money back, and hopefully have a real system set up. Aye, carumba.

So, my apologies to my lack of interaction this week, I’ll make up for it tomorrow with some fabulous posts and responses to the work I did.

KG

The Daily Create 145

Friday, June 1st, 2012

My drawing of Bugs Bunny it took a long time but I was actually able to draw a pretty decent one which is not easy considering my extreme lack of talent in the art department

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