The story took place on October 13th, 2011, when four students, Alex, Erik, Evan and He, were walking around the haunted campus. They should have noticed that there was much less people on campus than usual, but they did not. The group dropped He at the grill since he felt extremely hungry. On the same evening, in front of the Science Hall, one student found a bike that was violently smashed to the ground. It was clear that the person who was riding the bike was missing in an unnatural manner.
Suddenly, everything was dark for just one second. A student who was accidentally observing the moon saw a huge dark shadow. It looked enormous, and we never know where that student went.
Alex, Erik and Evan were laughing loudly, until they saw a huge shadow charging towards them. Panic and fear, confusion and worry, shock and awe, dead or alive. The three guys ran for their lives, but unfortunately, Evan was caught by the monster.
He, not knowing what had happened, was walked down to Main Hall, hoping to make some copies of his worksheet. He accidentally picked up a wand, and realized that the Purple Dragon was sitting on top of Main Hall and glancing at him. His wizardry finally helped him and, after a deadly battle, He defeated the dragon. Purple Dragon silently yet violently flew around the sky and disappeared in the night sky.
Next day, the Lawrentian reported He’s action as “heroic” and Lawrence was saved from the threat of Purple Dragon. Whether it is still planning to come out of Twitter again is unclear.
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In her article “Flickr changes lives, launches photog careers”, Jennifer W. Maderazo states that Flickr is “a sandbox for experimentation”. Some describe Flickr as a new “toy”, probably due to its flexibility. Flickr, in this sense, is a conventional signal since it allows everyone to make a story by simply uploading few pictures.
Descriptions were used to facilitate the viewers’ understanding about the storyline. Tagging was also thought-provoking since it challenged our creativity in making connection between our pictures and words that we encounter in daily life. For instance, we tagged the fighting scene with the word “Lawrence Vikings”, just to make a connection that it was a fight for the entire College, not for self-interest. Also, we tagged Evan’s “cast”, which explicitly shows the sacrifice and the absurdity that a belonging becomes ones’ identity after their death.
Although it took a little time to figure out how to organize the sets, the use of Flickr was straight forward. However, what caught my attention was that it does not provide any editing tools or filters that allow the uploaders to manipulate their images. All editing had to be done before uploading the image. It sounds a little illogical that a tool that evokes the concept of public journalism has no editing tool in it.
Not only for photo footage, Flickr can be used as a photo ‘bank’, since the pictures uploaded can be only shown to the uploader. In this way, people who think their camera already has too many pictures in it can store their pictures online. Similarly, description section can transform photos into visual diaries. On the other hand, the tagging tool enables some to become trolls because they can tag some irrelevant images with widely used tags. Thus, just like any online tool, Flickr should be used with etiquette and consciousness.
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