Curation Part III

       This week for my curation I have mostly focused on the rules of hockey such as, offsides, icing, legal/illegal checks, and minor/major penalties. Upon doing my research, I found a few rules that I have never seen called or heard before. For example, there is a penalty for "refusing to start play." While further researching this penalty, I found that it happens pretty much every game. Most especially on icing calls when the players aren't allowed to the leave the ice and are tired. The purposely take their time skating the faceoff dot and directing teammates, so I would think that would count as a penalty. I guess I found that they only call that for extreme cases.

       Doing this type of research this week recquired lots of video watching and a lot of more visual explanations for my curation website. I think the rules of hockey is probably one of the most boring parts of hockey that you need to know in order to comprehend the game. A lot of people would rather watch the fancy plays and the goals, but the penalties and rules is what the whole game is played and based off of, therefore it's too important just to ignore. I pretty much have all the information I need to start working on all the graphics and visualizations for the website. My research first idea has paid off, I feel much less stressed out about it now than I did last week. Of course I had to save the most boring for last though, so this week has been a little bit of a drag.

       Like I mentioned above, the next steps I'm taking is to complete all the images and the actual layout of my curation. I've been waiting patiently to do this part of the project. I love messing around with photography and pictures to create designs. It was something I was really into before high school and stopped doing it after freshman year. I also still have to work on the story part of my curation. I've gotten a better idea for what I want to do, but there is still a few parts I'm not sure about. For example, I want to start off with the complete basics of hockey, and then move into the more stuff I call "the icing on the cake." This "icing" is stuff like captaincy, moves, jersey numbers, how each position is played, etc. Can't wait to see what it all looks like on Tuesday.