Suprise homework

1. The only website i can currently find is www.boingboing.net/2006/02/22/transport-for-london, as nick told us the original website was closed down, but i have found some information regarding the map and how it originally was made which i thought would be useful to add.

The map was created by Harry Beck using a photoshopped Tube map and an online anagram generator, on 7 February, 2006. It was originally shown in a thread on the Thingbox chat forum and, after being submitted by one of the site owners, appeared on BoingBoing a couple of days later receiving 31,000 hits within the next six days.
(The idea came from The Great Bear, a 1992 artwork by UK artist Simon Patterson on display at Tate Modern in London, but it was not until Dorian Lynskey's music genre tube map appeared in a newspaper in 2006 that Barry Heck decided to make it.)

Transport for London claimed the image was a copyright infringement and had one of their lawyers ask for the map to be removed from the web. The site hosting it complied and it was removed on the 22 February, 2006 with the censorship being reported on BoingBoing again.

2. How do you get from Blind Boys of Alabama to Steve Earle in five steps? (put the linking factor up so we can hear it)

3. If 'The Grove Family' were to be at Ongar, what would you expect to find at West Ruislip?

4. Why do you think Omar is our favourite character from 'The Wire'?

From this video clip of The Wire, we can tell Omar is very upfront and open about what he says. When talking to what we can only establish as the police, he uses the expression 'i'd be much obliged to stick my gun straight in their mouth.' showing he is not afraid to voice his opinion. Omar is dressed in street clothing, suggesting he is part of a gang or hood. His phrases and speech during the clip shows he knows alot about other people , such as 'bird' who theyre looking for. His grammar is alot of slang and his shortening of words, such as 'ya'll' from 'you all' makes it is quite difficult to understand what he means, due to his 'cockney' accent. Omar suggests if people knew he was with the police, he wouldn't care and seems nonchalant as to what would happen if anyone found out - suggesting he is of high authority to everyone he knows. The cigarette he holds/smokes and the clothing of Omar helps us to establish his character.



5. Ash showed us a machinima video of 'House'. Find a lego one based on another TV drama and paste onto your blog, ready to talk about it.



This is a lego machinima of the poular tv drama 'LOST'. It was extremely hard to find one that was effective, but i eventually found it on youtube. I thought this was a very interesting video as Lost is very popular and making a machinima of it was a pretty good idea. If you have never watched Lost you need to know the original story before watching it as it is quite hard to understand. The effects are good, for example the sea and the ship etc, and the sound helps you establish the scene.