About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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Morning in Baltimore – notes on episode 11
The title of this episode is “A New Day.” In the script, it specifically refers to the new mayoral administration and to the New Day Co-op that Prop Joe runs with the other drug kingpins. The epigraph is “You play … Continue reading
Acting Commissioner Burrell
Earlier in his career, before he acted as Commissioner of the Baltimore Police, Ervin Burrell had a number of other jobs, including truck driver and apartment building superintendent. He also worked for the New Orleans PD. Here we see him in Cat … Continue reading
Busted on Wire106
Lamar: What happened to all them towers? Brother Mouzone: Slow train comin’. Reform, Lamar. Reform. (from The Wire Episode Scripts) On Friday, Jim, Desa and I had a good conversation about episode 10 of season 3 of The Wire. We … Continue reading
Wire106 – ep08 Moral Midgetry
I see Fredericksburg is in on the action. Colvin is getting ready to retire, to hang up the gloves. On the other hand, Cutty is getting ready to start a boxing gym. The Deacon, in the foreground, is connected to … Continue reading
Inspires
Ien Harris’ ds106 emergency alert This was posted right around the beginning of the semester. It was an omen of things to come. I think it captures an intuitive understanding of the ds106 ethos. Melinda Albrycht’s poem “The Wire” Melinda’s … Continue reading
There’s never been a paper bag…
Inspired by the WaffleStomper, I thought I’d try remixing a song and some speech. Keeping with The Wire theme, I was also inspired by the speech that Major Colvin gave about the history of the paper bag. I decided to … Continue reading
Set your poems to music
Melinda’s Wire poem is just awesome, both in the writing and the reading. The rhythm in the reading is so good that I thought I’d try to add a music track to it. Here’s what I came up with: I … Continue reading
Wire106 audio ideas
Looking through past posts on the wire106 site, I found a bunch of ideas that people had posted, including Travis, Jeremy, Desa, Imran, Nicholas, Ien, Melinda, Danielle, and La Kisha. Most of them are already in groups. If you’re looking … Continue reading
Wire106 Week 7
We’re up to week 7 in Wire106. Jim is out on assignment and tailed a suspect up to NYC, so we don’t have a video for you this time. Here are the details for this week: Audio week 1 Everyone … Continue reading
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I loved that western showdown scene between the police and the FBI. This part had GIF written all over it. I had the idea to put the three of them together, so I was careful to make all of them … Continue reading