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  1. John Johnston

    By: The village Shrink

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    I love this! and also with a backstory....claiming credits units seems a little cheeky though ;) I am interested in your choice of moment. I thought about this gloved hand moment as comic too and yet did not make the link to turn it into a comic. Clever!
  2. John Johnston

    Behind the Cupboard, a Comic

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    After finding some old photos I dug around the apartment some more and found a page of an old comic: Something told me this was no ordinary comic, I sneaked into the General’s room and, with shaking fingers feed it into the machine:   As the paper emerged I grabbed it and turned it over: Despite the […]
  3. John Johnston

    The Resignment Village

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    I’ve settled down in my apartment now. Poking around in different corners I found some old photos of the Village, I’ve put them on the corkboard in the kitchen. I suspect they were taken by a previous resident, the photos look quite old, maybe 40 or 50 years I’d guess, quite instagram. Some information: If […]
  4. John Johnston

    By: Andrew Forgrave

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    While certain aspects of The General seemed familiar on my first watching this week, I recall being surprised when David Kernohan tweeted out about this poster and the education-themed episode back in June. I'd certainly not remembered there was an education-focused episode at the time, and am ready to go back for my second new viewing, now that the Danger Meter is out of the way.
  5. John Johnston

    By: The village Shrink

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    All the dreaming and reflection is paying off! This new glitch poster making will help influence residents sub-consciusly. Hmmm....sometimes the quiet ones are the most dangerous ones. I will be reporting to the hospital that you are just in your bungalow watching TV. Or will I?
  6. John Johnston

    We don’t need no general education

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      Interesting happenings in the village this week, there seem to be a lot of ‘learning’ going on. As I watch number six get into trouble I am thinking my decision to be less confronting was a good idea. However this episode is taking the committee well inside my wheelhouse. Although I’ve not got number […]
  7. John Johnston

    Making some Adjustments

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    As I had to get up early this morning I though I might make good use of my time. I popped into the Village shop and bought a screwdriver. I wanted to have a closer look at the TV in my accommodation after last night’s blip. I also need to get some more credits and […]
  8. John Johnston

    Croaking a Good Morning

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    For week two of  prisoner106, one of the job we were asked to do was to take over the morning announcement for the Village for a day. Amid the recent disruptions I hope I can calm things down a bit. Here is mine: download good-morning Announcement trumpet ripped from video file with MPEGStreamclip Raven croaking recorded by […]
  9. John Johnston

    Adjusting the Set

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    As I’ve mentioned I’ve been mostly  keeping to my lodgings in The Village, not going out, thinking and dreaming. Sometimes when I am half awake, watch tv, strange things happen.   There might be a clue in this ds106 Assignments as to what is going on, and I guess that the RSS feed might need: […]
  10. John Johnston

    Repetition, Repetition, Repetition

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    As we move into Week 2 and get more information, it appears that a major theme in The Prisoner is repetition (a long with reflection and recursion I hope). Before I start thinking about the audio assignments, I knocked up a few gifs from The Chimes of Big Ben: I repeat a well trod playflow. […]
  11. John Johnston

    Watch Repeat, Don’t Repeat

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    Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana I’ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. ― Kurt Vonnegut I though I was hitting week one in the village running, I’ve already, settled in, done a […]
  12. John Johnston

    Gifinformation

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    Here is the village there is a constant battle to avoid giving any information away. From a ds106 Assignments should come with information, a prisoner106 dilemma? To start making good the many assignments with a lack of supporting information here, I’ve made a few brief tests on exporting gifs and the dither and loss settings. […]
  13. John Johnston

    A Visit to the Office

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    Since I arrived at the village, I’ve done little but stayed in my room dreaming and listening to the radio. Today I visited the office for the first time, picking up my badge, rather hynotic, and essential supplies (fonts and the like). I filled out my information card too (click to expand), taking the time […]
  14. John Johnston

    Dreaming of Tina

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    Last night Tina put an idea in my head. We escaped Then have a radio road trip: Rocking along to #DS106Radio When I woke up I rubbed my eyes and went to the window: No information, this assignment is not a number. (I miss the opportunity to change the car number plate…)
  15. John Johnston

    Prisoner 106 in a spin

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    I guess this is ds106 Assignments: Say It Like the Peanut Butter. I am not going to describe my methods, as I’ve done that before. Tools: Handbrake, MPEGStreamclip, Fireworks. I’ve not really touched base with others in the village, I am now 4 episodes in, head in a spin: Wondering if I am going to […]
  16. John Johnston

    Prisoner106 Supercuts by numbers

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    In a continued attempted to find meaning in Prisoner106 I am continuing to analyse the first reel of the surveillance footage by various means. I had previously downloaded Videogrep a tool for making supercut videos from video and subtitle (.srt) files. First I had to find a subtitle file for the video. As usual with […]
  17. John Johnston

    The Village 106

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    I’ve resigned myself to Prisoner106, this looks so far like an interesting twitter account and lovely webpage. No schedule or anything else I’ve seen which give us free range to explore the village. I decided to go all in for £17.90! Given I want to watch this on my commute I am afraid the first […]
  18. John Johnston

    A Touch of Don

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    The offshoot of ds106 that is #giffight has given me a lot of fun. Every so often the giffight tumble posts an image with the invite for anyone to use it to create an animated gif from. You post it to tumblr tagged giffight or tweet and it is added to the gifight tumblr. The […]
  19. John Johnston

    A #DS106 DailyCreate Twitter Bot

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    The DailyCreate Bot I’ve always liked random and automated random things. While these are not strictly part of storytelling I’ve managed to bring them into DS106 whenever I can. A while back I set up @DailyCreateBot for some reason or other. Obviously a Twitter bot of some kind to do with the Daily Create. I […]
  20. John Johnston

    Free the Groom

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    Now this is weird. Given we can’t waste time I dug out a processing script I’d used before. I can’t recall where I got the original, or what changes I made, but it looks like I simplified it a lot and exported a series of frames to gifs. Stitched these together in FireWorks.
  21. John Johnston

    Cutting Noir Corners

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    When you have been in this game as long as I have you get a little slow. No way I can keep up with the young operatives without cutting some corners. We were asked to keep an eye on Davey Gordon a pug without much of a chin. I looked over some surveillance footage and […]
  22. John Johnston

    The Postman’s Noir Cat

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    Not got much time for typing. Just finished working through this week’s demands. Strange things afoot. I am no sure how seriously to take cats in a story. But you have to do some research in this business no matter how strange. I’m not making the right connections but some things are aligning up….   […]
  23. John Johnston

    By: Mariana Funes

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    You better watch your step. Those guys over the pond are pretty dangerous, not just demanding! Make sure you get that dame Tina to watch your back. I am watching closely and on the trail of this Frank guy...
  24. John Johnston

    Character Cutting

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    So Burtus was on my case pretty fast last week, trying to get a fix on me. I guess I didn’t drop enough clues. The deal was I should reveal some history, some of my favorite places, that might have given her a clue. For the folk less agile that Burtus, I’ll spell it out. […]
  25. John Johnston

    It’s Late, it’s Noir

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    It’s Late, it’s Noir I flew in from a week south of the border the other night and took the long drive home. Waiting in my messages were a couple of odd ones. Burtis, Bond and Groom making unreasonabled demands. I was going to ignore it, not let these three jokers push me around. I […]
  26. John Johnston

    #noir106 Supercutting

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    Just a quick test of my supercutting. Logo added with Quicktime pro. The Big Steal describe by Wikipedia as: a 1949 American black-and-white film noir/comedy reteaming Out of the Past stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer. The film was directed by Don Siegel, based on the short story “The Road to Carmichael’s” by Richard Wormser.

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