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So this post will serve a dual purpose. One is about the assignment we were given, the other is a general update as to what’s happening on this here blog. First comes the assignment.
We are to make a Flickr account, follow @DailyShoot on Twitter, and complete the tasks tweeted to us for the next four days. Also we have to integrate some sort of Flickr plugin on our sites. Since I already had a Flickr account, I just started completing the Daily Shoot tasks, which you can see below (links to Flickr page)

So as to what’s going on here at the site? Well, quite a bit! First off, I’d like to thank everyone who’s commented on all my posts, though especially the comments about ideas pertaining to this upcoming LOST-themed project I’m doing. All of your texts, comments, and audible conversations have been great! I think I know what I’m going to be mainly doing for this project, though I’m still working out the kinks in the story (can’t reveal too much, this is LOST, after all!)

Speaking of LOST, you can subscribe to our weekly LOST podcast using whatever application you want from the RSS here. Alternatively if you have iTunes, you can simply subscribe to our podcast by clicking here (then ‘Subscribe’, of course). Thanks for the support, guys, and for taking this crazy ride with us through this final season of this great show! Of course, if you missed this last week’s episode check it out here.

Also you may notice the sidebar not only has a Twitter feed, but also my Flickr RSS showing a few of my latest photos. In other plugin news, I would urge ALL of you who haven’t already done so to go check out the plugin WPtouch from Brave New Code! It’s a great, easy-to-use plugin that turns your website/blog into a portable theme. Basically how it works is it recognizes if the viewer is accessing your page on a handheld device (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, etc) and if so, it shows a version of your site specially made for faster portable use. It shows your stories in an iPod-like fashion and even allows the reader to comment on or tweet your articles, email them, or even message you right from their device. And the best thing is: it’s super easy to customize! You can change the themes, decide what shows up, and more. If you can’t tell, I like it and highly suggest it to everyone.

As always, more to come!



Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes now, so be sure to subscribe! At the moment, though, I’m having some issues getting the ping service to update our feed in iTunes with the latest episodes, but we’ll keep you posted!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of the episode in general

ALT TIMELINE:

1. Seeing old characters again (eg. Helen, Rose, Hurley, Ben, etc.)
2. Why Ben is off island. Maybe the bomb didn’t cause the Island to sink?
3. At what point does history change after the Incident?
4. The significance of the mention of Locke’s dad (and it’s consequences for Locke)

ON ISLAND:

1. Flocke wanting Richard to come with him
2. The young boy with bloody arms Flocke/Sawyer see in the jungle, but Richard can’t
3. The climb down Jacob’s ladder
4. Jacob’s cave (the names with the numbers and what it all means)
5. And, of course, THEORIES!

I’ll be putting up more information on the upcoming school project I will be doing based on LOST. On a side note, those of you who have followed Will’s and/or my previous blogs or work will be happy to know that we have FINALLY decided on what our next project will be film-wise! And no. It’s not Island Wars 2 (thankfully!) More info on that later, too!

Happy Trails and Namaste,

Sam.

I’ve honestly been thinking quite a bit about what my digital story should be. I’ve gone through probably six different ideas over the past few days, everything from an idea based on a fictional story I wrote a while back to even videos having to do with certain events in my life. But then I got to thinking about what we were told last class and how much time I spent creating my site theme. Then I remembered how last class Jim Groom talked specifically about my site and podcast as being part of a sort of digital story of it’s own, and how my being an obsessed LOST-fanatic is one of those things that also keeps the internet great (thanks for making my addiction almost seem cool ). And it’s true, I’ve spent so much time over the last six years with my friends and family discussing and watching LOST.



So I came to the conclusion… why not make a digital story which is LOST-related?



I thought about what would be the best way to do this, and I eventually came to this idea. I could over the next nine to ten weeks be one of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 and communicate everything that I personally experience up until a certain point in the series. I would probably take on the persona of an unknown survivor who isn’t shown much on the show, so that I could put my own spin on how I see things. This would limit me to how far into the series’ story I could delve, as in Season Five episode two all the non-main-characters and extras were killed by flaming arrows. But I could sustain a full story for this long (heck, I’ve been following it for six years, why not!?).



My main thought on how I could do this would be through blog posts I write as this made-up character. Maybe I could have some updates on Twitter as to what’s happening on the Island at that moment. Or maybe, in true LOST fashion, I could make some short “Flashback” videos of this character and post them to my blog and/or YouTube to overview how the character got to the Island and other back story. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I like it, and the more it sounds almost like an interactive work of fan-fiction!



Of course, any comments or ideas would be great and very helpful!



Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). We hope to get the feed up on iTunes soon, so look out for that! And we kept the time of the episode down this time, too!



Sorry for the delay in putting this podcast up! In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Seeing old characters again. Yeah, Aldo/Ethan/Claire, we’re talking about you!
• How much we “hate” Kate and her constant love-triangle-creating antics
• The mysterious “darkness” and being “claimed”
• How “dead is dead” … or is it?
• Claire becoming the Island’s next Russo
• Sawyer’s possible death this season
• A NEW amazing theory (yes, the Christian with Locke’s knives one from last week)
• And MORE…

Honestly we talked about as much as we could with the episode we were given. We actually want to know your reaction: Do you think this week’s episode was more of a filler episode or are we just bigots? Comment below and let us know!




Lastly you may remember a terrible theory that me and Will jokingly thought up during last week’s episode. The theory pointlessly tried to link the fact that in the ALT both Christian’s coffin and Locke’s knives were missing. And possibly that Christian cut the plane in half with the knives in the normal timeline. Yeah, it’s stupid. Well I wrote up a full-page theory and sent it in to the LOST Theory section at DarkUFO and, beyond all reason or logic, they put it on the official theory section!  In fact, not only did they put up up, but it was also one of the most-discussed theories of the day! It is entitled “The Mysterious Missing Knives of Mr. Locke by ChasingLilly”







But that’s not all. Later that day I got on my handy-dandy iPod Touch, only to notice that our theory was also one of the popular theories on the LOST Theories App on the iPhone! At least if you check the comments on the originally posted theory over at DarkUFO you will see that nobody really took it that seriously. In fact, the comments are pretty amusing, my personal favorite being “Exactly. Worst theory ever. What the f, man?” Of course Will and I got on to try to defend the theory. Go read it for yourself and comment your thoughts! Oh, and don’t forget to leave a comment here on any LOST-related ideas… or just life in general.







Happy Trails and Namaste,

Sam.

As the post name states, the assignment is to take one of your favorite movies and display the entire films within a series of six pictures without any words. I juggled around some ideas before deciding on the film below. My favorite film, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, would be almost impossible to condense into six frames, especially without the back story of the other two films. I also almost chose the Pixar movie Up, but eventually decided on a different film. But this isn’t just any film! This film is “Air Force One” with Harrison Ford, one of the best action films ever made, in my humble opinion.

So there you go! I hope you completely understand all the intricacies of the plot! If you don’t then you are dense.

Happy Trails and Namaste,

Sam.

The Dark Territory LOST Podcast Recap/Theories for Episodes 6.01 and 6.02 LA X.



Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). We hope to get the feed up on iTunes soon, so look out for that! This being the first of the season, there are no show notes for this episode. We kinda threw it together quickly. Sorry Lastly this episode is almost 30 minutes long, and that is because it was a two hour premiere. Expect them to normally be around 15 minutes. Now then, for information about WHAT this is…



Oh, LOST, look how far you’ve come. I’ve watched you since your pilot episode aired on September 22, 2004 and now here we are six years later! I’ve followed you through your ups and downs an… oh yeah so anyways, moving on…
For those of you living under a sound-proof, culture-proof rock, the premiere episode for the final season of LOST was aired Tuesday night on ABC. Those of you who didn’t know that had might as well quit reading here, because you obviously do not follow the show [yet]. So quit wasting time and start catching up on the 105 hours of your life you have been missing! (I’d start with the entire series free on abc.com) That being said, let us move onto the reason for this post.

Some of you who have followed my previous blogs may remember something me and my friend Will setup called “The Dark Territory“. This was a blog and podcast we updated with LOST theories, information, recaps, and more. Somewhere last season we got sidetracked and quit updating it. However, with this being the last season, we have decided to start it up again [woohoo]!



So this is the first of the podcast recaps for LOST season six. We hope to get our feed on iTunes soon so you all can subscribe more easily, but for now enjoy or download it! This first episode is a little long and not as well organized in terms of what we wanted to cover (aka we left a few things out) but we will discuss them next week for sure! Also we are working with Feedburner at the moment, so we should have a direct feed for you to subscribe to soon.



Thanks and Namaste,

Sam.

I am to post five images to my blog and sequence them so they tell a story.

According to the guidelines on the Flickr group “Tell a story in 5 frames” I cannot use words in the story, only pictures. However, I CAN name the story. Alright, here goes…

The title of this story is… No One Can Resist Ice Cream

I based the above off some pictures of my very good friend who goes to VMI. It is meant to track his deep emotions over a period of time (could be minutes, could be years) until he is finally introduced to ice cream. As you can tell, it appears as though he likes helado. That is all.



Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.

Our assignment is to find an example of digital storytelling and blog about it. That’s not too hard, digital storytelling is everywhere. Almost everyone who will read this is currently writing a digital story of their own! Even things such as our Facebook photo albums can be considered a “digital story” of kinds.

The specific example of digital storytelling I’m going to present today is a clip I found a while back on YouTube which really stuck with me. It’s from the film When the Wind Blows from 1986. The scene depicts the Bloggs’ couple as a nuclear bomb strikes near their house. It’s a very interesting scene which combines hand-drawn animation, computer graphics, and (from what I can tell) about a second of real footage. Perhaps most moving is a short, hand-drawn, dreamlike mini-scene which goes through much of the couple’s life. In my opinion it’s a very different and interesting example of digital storytelling.

Now then. All that stuff I just said and you saw is certainly interesting. I mean, HEY it’s homework, of COURSE it interesting! But honestly, it pales in comparison to the importance of the next statement that I am about to make: As of this moment, there is exactly 24 hours left until the final season of LOST premieres on ABC. Yes, laugh at me if ya want, but I am totally stoked!

Yeah I’m a loser. So anyways In honor of the beginning of the end of the world, I decided I’d put up what can be considered yet ANOTHER example of digital storytelling. I know, I can tell you’re supa’ excited! This example is actually of a normal Italian family which is brought together to reenact the entire story of LOST in under five minutes… So enjoy:

That is all.
Namaste and Happy Trails,
Sam.