Mind Map

Awhile ago we used a mindmapping software and i have often thought of interesting ways to use it. One way would be to map out the plot of a digital distributed video game series. The plot of this video game would become as convoluted as most tv shows plotwise, but would also suffer from the hundreds of variables that the player can make. A mind map showing all the possibilites for story progression availabe to the player would be very, very huge. But this kind of stuff needs to get done right?

Digital Essay

The theme of my digital essay was 'great villians in history, how humanity always gets it wrong.' Basically the argument was that humanity is always mistakenly labelling people and monsters throughout history. The five arguments I used were the Smokers (waterworld), Alien (alien), The romans (real life), Wookies (star wars, real life?) and Vikings (IRL). Using a combination of video clips, images and a chart I set out to prove that these people/monsters were often looked at as being inappropriately evil. I also threw in some book quotes to prove my point.

I enjoyed arguing something in this style, the ability to use videos and images to prove my point is something that appeals to me. It made me feel at points like I was writing an article for Cracked.com or maybe the Onion, which felt excellent. It was also a welcome departure from the regular essays that I write constantly (it's all the history monster wants to eat).

Some difficulties encountered would be trying to keep everything concise, this is a common essay writing problem for me. I can often slip into tangents that don't serve the overall purpose of the essay.

Meme

Made a meme, the theme was delicious moments in history. Cut together some images of hamburgers with various scenes from history, Civil war moments, Napoleon, a spartan warror, julius caesars assassination. Some of them have puns attached, like Julius Caesars being the 'sides of march' as a reference to the ides of march. The biggest difficulty is in just selecting a theme to begin with, there are always limitless possibilities when approaching something like this.