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Call me Jack

Posted on February 20, 2015 by phb256

We had another great ds106radio listen and tweet session last night, this time with The Adventures of Philip Marlowe – Red Wind and a Mystery Playhouse tale of Jack the Ripper. I didn’t really preview either of these before I … Continue reading →

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Big Mama

Posted on February 19, 2015 by phb256

For our third listen-along session this week, we heard the Lux Radio Theater production of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious. This was a little different from our earlier shows. Except for Moon Grafitti, all the others originated in written literature, although The … Continue reading →

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No wire hangers

Posted on February 18, 2015 by phb256

We had a great live tweeting session last night with Mildred Pierce on DS106radio. Everyone seemed to be involved and enjoying it. A few things stood out to me. The first, as we have seen (heard actually) consistently in these … Continue reading →

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Dispatch from the Dark: Design

Posted on February 13, 2015 by phb256

Wow, the sound came out bad on that one! I should have done it over, but I ran out of time. I mention The Non-Designer’s Design Book as another source for learning about design. Vignelli was writing to designers in … Continue reading →

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Ready set design

Posted on February 12, 2015 by phb256

Blade Runner has some fascinating set design. It seems like most science fiction up to that time either presented a clean futuristic utopia or a primitive post-apocalyptic dystopia. In Blade Runner, it’s dirty, chaotic, run-down and overcrowded. The shiny and … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Kidnapper

Posted on February 10, 2015 by phb256

Someone’s gotta get this guy. Someone who knows the true value of a dutch oven. I grabbed his picture from the video with MPEG Streamclip and trimmed out the background in Photoshop. I googled for the border and the background … Continue reading →

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Evil editing

Posted on February 8, 2015 by phb256

The story on Touch of Evil is that the movie studio took Welles’ film, re-edited it and re-shot some scenes. When Welles saw what they had done, he wrote a letter, 58 pages long, explaining what needed to be done to … Continue reading →

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Case file: The Cat Conundrum

Posted on February 7, 2015 by phb256

In this file I will collate some of the evidence that has developed over the past few weeks, and list some of the questions that it raises. The cat appeared early on, but went unnoticed: I reported on the outsized … Continue reading →

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Killer’s Moon

Posted on February 6, 2015 by phb256

For our final live tweet-along, we had a double feature of The Killers and Moon Grafitti. Some of the participants had read Hemingway’s story, and were caught off guard by how much Siodmak’s version differs. The filmed versions just use … Continue reading →

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Dispatch from the dark: Audio layering

Posted on February 5, 2015 by phb256

For this week’s dispatch, I made a video out of my Audacity window so you can see audio layering in action. Just like in Photoshop or GIMP, layering is where it’s at in Audacity. You can mute them and move … Continue reading →

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