Map Quest
This was probably one of the most fun, but also exhausting projects I have ever done. From the first day it seemed like our group was destined for hardships. All […]
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Small Group Communication
Interestingly enough, I am enrolled in COMM 206: Small Group Communication, this semester. Throughout the development of the current semester we have been studying all of the components essential to […] -
Slavery to Modern Technology
In class, my group was on the opposition side of the argument, which was to stop using technology that was produced through slavery. I personally chimed in with a thought […] -
Labor Behind the Labor Module
To be honest, going into Module 2, I had no idea what to expect. My mind was all over the place coming out of the animated GIFs Module and starting […] -
Explaining Neuromancer
For the Explaining Neuromancer assignment, my group decided to do a power point presentation that would be a story through gifs. We made a google doc and each made our […] -
Relevance With Today (Neuromancer Response)
The theme that was the most prevalent to me in Neuromancer was technology and freedom. The thought of cyberspace has a connotation with a space that is wide open and […] -
How Did We Get Here??
How in the world did we get to where we are now?! Going into the Animated GIF module I had no idea what to expect. What I think threw me […] -
New Year, New Me!
Hello World! As of now my website is under reconstruction. My home page is still the place where I have my about me section, which I will be changing. I’m […] -
dsnumber6
@Prisoner106 has proposed a Prisoner themed summer ds106 experience. I’m trying to think of how it might go. There are so many potential angles… The basic story, as I recall, is about a secret agent who resigns, angrily, and is … Continue reading → -
Noir-view mirror
I’m not sure where the knight fits into D’Angelo’s worldview, but that’s the part I’m going to play as I attempt to sidestep my recent lack of blogging and jump forward a couple steps. ds106 is always an adventure, and … Continue reading → -
Caution: Crawford
The Black Widow Agency has identified a connection between NoirCat and noir icon Joan Crawford. Caution is advised. No wonder NoirCat is in hiding. -
The Night Driving Killers
When I saw a screen shot of Night Driver it immediately made me think of the driving scene in The Killers that Jim giffed a while back. I started thinking about how to combine the two. You could use the … Continue reading → -
Commie?
I think some left-coast reporter has been casting aspersions on my character: #StirrupJack @phb256 Has a commie hoodie. Can’t even trust his briefing on Jack. #noir106 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/4uj4fE9Bvd — Stirrup Trouble (@StirrupTrouble) April 7, 2015 I suspect this is a … Continue reading → -
In memory of…
I have no idea what this all means… Help me figure it out. -
Report from the field
As you know, I was away on a mission over the past week. My investigations took me to Portland, a town crawling with dirty hippies, people sleeping in the streets, and beggars with pit bulls. I could totally see myself … Continue reading → -
Haves vs Wants
One of our ds106 Noirsters regrets missing last night’s broadcast: Gah, apparently I chose the wrong night to skip on the radio shows. Sorry, creators #ds106radio — Spencer Scott (@spencer_cscott) March 12, 2015 and it was a night not to … Continue reading → -
Home of Elvis and the Ancient Greeks
University of Memphis writing professor Sonja Livingston sent me this clip the other day, asking for my thoughts. She was actually interested in the singer, Valaida Snow, while I was curious about the movie, Pieges, also known as Personal Column, which … Continue reading → -
The mark of Cain
Inspired by Jim’s post from the other week, I picked up the EC Archives Crime SuspenStories Vol. 1. This volume contains the first six issues of the series, four of which feature stories indebted to James M. Cain. Road to … Continue reading → -
Guardian of the galaxy
Groom wrote about his favorite Groom art, which included Sharla’s revisioning of I Am Legend. But since I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend, I had to interpret it differently. At first I was going to use the … Continue reading → -
Tales from DS106
Jim wrote a bit about sharing comic books with his kids and talked about making an animated GIF out of one of the covers I want to have the dude who is buried alive slamming on the coffin, need to talk … Continue reading → -
Call me Jack
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 → -
Big Mama
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 → -
No wire hangers
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 → -
Dispatch from the Dark: Design
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 → -
Ready set design
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 → -
Wanted: Kidnapper
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 → -
Evil editing
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 → -
Case file: The Cat Conundrum
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 → -
Killer’s Moon
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 → -
Dispatch from the dark: Audio layering
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 →
