Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht’s documentary Crip Camp follows the evolution of the Disability Rights Movement through archived footage and testimonials of the people who began it, many of whom, including LeBrecht, attended Camp Jened. A group of hippies created the camp so that people with disabilities were able to…
I had never watched Citizenfour before, but I had heard the stories of Snowden’s betrayal of his position in US national security. Maybe it was because of the bias that I grew up with, but I had prepared myself to dislike the documentary upon watching it for its glorification of…
Brian Fogel’s Icarus began as an independent project and exposure piece on the pitfalls of dope testing in amateur cycling competitions, but ended as a wild legal story beyond all expectations.
In Fogel’s attempt to prove the ineffectivity of athletic drug tests, he meets Russian scientist Grigory Rodchenkov, the head…
This past weekend, I watched Ava DuVernay’s Netflix documentary, “13th”. The film follows experts and advocates, such as professor and activist Melina Abdullah and civil rights leader Angela Davis, as they discuss the origins of the racial disparity in the American prison system, beginning with a loophole in the 13th…
Netflix’s true crime documentary, Amanda Knox, retrospectively follows the 8-year-long murder case of student Meredith Kercher through interviews with those involved. The documentary, which takes place in Perugia, Italy, is framed as a narrative, and each interviewee acts as an archetypal character: Knox and Sollecito, the young lovers, wrongfully accused…
Netflix’s documentary American Factory, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, explores a couple key themes in its narrative, which follows individuals’ stories throughout the process of an economic shift. …
Brian and I worked together on our final for Dgst 101 because it was a continuation of a project we began a few weeks ago, a video game called Doug Clever, a text-based murder mystery coded in Twine.
The game takes place in a museum and hotel that are connected…
Brian and I made a demo/prototype version of our game “Doug Clever” (the name may change later). It’s a murder mystery game that we made using Twine and we highly recommend you check it out! We plan to release the full version eventually.
If you’d like to read about our process, check out Brian’s article.
In order to play, click the link, download it to your computer, and unzip the file. Double-click the item labelled “Doug Clever.html”. It’s a very small file size, so no worries about it taking up space.
For the assignment “What’s Behind Door Number 10101?”, I began by taking a look at my project options. None of the three suggestions particularly appealed to me, but one of the recommendations under the section “Something Else, Almost Anything Else,” stood out: kinetic typography. I’d never tried it before, but…
Brian and I both became quite cynical about the internet following our viewing of “The Social Dilemma”. One thing we find to be particularly concerning, however, is the internet’s guise of usefulness, with which a person can be introduced to it through following their interests, but can become hooked when…
