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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Meta-noir
One of our examples of noir from week 1 was Sin City. The film is built directly from stories from Frank Miller’s series of Sin City graphic novels. Miller had been bringing a noir style to his work for a … Continue reading
Bump ‘em off
OK, so I jumped the gun with this one, but we need radio bumpers for noir106 radio. I wanted to work with the cat theme, so I downloaded John Johnston’s Postman’s Cat supercut (YT) and also that scene from Chinatown where … Continue reading
A quick take on Killer’s
I managed to get through about the first twenty minutes of Killer’s Kiss during my lunch break this afternoon. This shot jumped out at me right off the bat. Is he trying to tell himself something? Subtle, Stanley. I like … Continue reading
Dispatch from the dark: Noir photography
A little bit about what’s going on this week. Something I forgot to mention – if anyone has questions or concerns and wants to meet with me over Google Hangouts or Skype, we can set up a time. Evenings are … Continue reading
The Easter egg sky
This is the city – dark, gray, shadows and light – and the sky, like a sci-fi nuclear explosion of easter egg colors. It was the colors of the sunrise that caught my attention. My iPhone didn’t do them justice, … Continue reading
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2048: Dirty Dozen edition
What you have done here is an abomination. @dkernohan @cogdog @RMoeJo — George Siemens (@gsiemens) January 20, 2015 I had seen these 2048 things, but it wasn’t until @dkernohan’s abomination that I attempted to play one. My first thought was … Continue reading
The Shadow Rhymes
There’s a writing assignment to do a Poem Made With Twilight Zone Episode Titles which comes from the ds106zone days. Since we’re doing Noir106 these days, I decided to give it a different twist and use episode titles from The Shadow. That’s … Continue reading
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A little about #ds106 assignments
One of the readings we assigned this week was How To Write Up Assignments Like a Blogging Champ, in which blogmaster Alan Levine describes in detail how to write up assignment posts. Everyone should read it. Click the links The … Continue reading
TV Guide remix: Noir106 style
Do they still have TV Guides? I haven’t looked at one since the 90s. The cable people I know all use the on-screen guides, and the rest of us out here in the wilderness are lucky if we can get … Continue reading
Party on, Garth
Her mouth was a crimson velvet petal, Her hair was beaten from gun-metal. That couplet from The Wild Party always stuck with me. The contrast makes it striking, but the gun-metal metaphor is something else. Primarily it’s meant to describe color, … Continue reading