Historical Selfies

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Selfies are pretty terrible and associated with massive amounts of ego. Take the hubris and arrogance exemplified by Selfies at Funerals and Rich Kids of Instagram and apply them to a historical or literary figure on the eve of an impending disaster.

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Submissions So Far

This assignment is to take a historical figure and make a selfie of them before a tragedy. This is Harry Houdini in front of the

I decided to get started early on the visual assignments for week 3 of noir106. I took some time this evening to work on the

The most of the pictures in my phone are the pictures those were taken from the trip in Florida. Among those pictures, it was


I took the opportunity of teaching ds106 again to finally take a stab at Tom Woodward‘s historical selfies assignment. If I hadn’t waited until

My three visual assignments this week took me a LONG time, but they were so worth it! I’m very happy with the results.

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Visual Assignment 2! This one was great. Just the assignment itself was hilarious because i love both historical figures and disasters. What mostly attracted

When I saw that DS106 had an Historical Selfie option, I was so excited. I knew I had to use one of my favorite historical

For my blog post, I chose to do a Historical Selfie under the visual assignments category. It seems that there’s a lot of recent talk

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Submissions So Far

To start the selfie off, you need to pick a political figure.

 

Using google images, try and find a picture of the person where you can