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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“Straight down the line.”
We had another great live tweet session with James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity last night. Lead actors Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck also played the leads in the classic 1944 film. The number three actor in the film, Edward G. … Continue reading
The NoirBird
Tuesday night we had our second live tweet-along with ds106radio. The story was Dashiell Hammett’s classic, The Maltese Falcon, produced for Lux Radio Theater in 1943. I wondered how people would react to old time radio, with its 70 year … Continue reading
Bullets and butterfly wings
http://youtu.be/LfKnkDJ44hs We had a great live tweeting session listening to James M. Cain’s The Butterfly on Monday evening. The participating listeners enjoyed and/or were shocked by the story, but I think everyone appreciated the strength of the audio production. I … Continue reading
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
http://youtu.be/Cox0XbQL1S8 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 … 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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