To Walk of Life and Die in LA
It’s been a while since I contributed to the Walk of Life Project, and an even longer while since I watched To Live and Die in LA, so why not kill two birds with one mashup? As far as Walk … Continue reading
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Indecpherability and unintelligibility go hand-in-hand
Today’s Daily Create asked us to creatively decipher the Voynich manuscript, which I may or may not have heard of before. And since indecpherability and unintelligibility go hand-in-hand, I thought I would pair a page of the text with Adriano … Continue reading -
“Who has angered the volcano god?”
Way back in 1986, The Dead Milkmen basically renamed the periodic table as “the goddamn periodic table of elements.” At least for me. So when I saw Bryan Mathers’ latest remix challenge, I had to do something. Unfortunately I didn’t … Continue reading -
Props to propaganda
Propaganda was a big hit this week, which is perhaps predictable given the nature of the assignments. Even so, there was some great work, and it’s all worth checking out. One I’d like to highlight comes from Cinder’s Wonderland. Note … Continue reading -
“…like choosing your favorite snack”
https://oblivion.university/audio/d332fae6-acb1-4668-9b52-130084c56985.mp3 Hmm, that’s an interesting question. In ds106, voting for post of the week is like choosing your favorite snack. It helps showcase great work and encourages participation. While consequences might seem harsh, maybe gentle reminders could help encourage more … Continue reading -
Tech Noir Connections
Wouldn’t Want to Hear This on the Radio! is an excellently done PSA that hints at a larger story. How would other course characters react to the announcement? Would some of them be forces behind the issue? Or – maybe … Continue reading -
Today in death race news…
Jim suggested the idea of doing a news report on an event from a tech-noir film, which sounded fun to me so I ran with it. I watched Death Race 2000 recently so I decided to work with that, even … Continue reading -
Week Six ds106 top picks
We had seventeen posts picked for the best of week six, and they’re all winners. I especially like the variety of tools and approaches to video that people used. I hope everyone looks them over, because you can get a … Continue reading -
How I made the news
Since Jim came up with the news assignment idea, I thought I’d try to mimic a newscast. I Googled “free news background animation” and “free news background music” to find suitable content. Then I recorded myself with a green screen … Continue reading -
Hated in the nation, loved in the class
It’s not really surprising that so many video essays made the Best Of list, given the week’s assignment load. Even so, they are great efforts, demonstrating the fun that can be had through the close reading of media. You can … Continue reading -
Super sounds of cyberpunk
Only eight people voted. They are awesome and #4life for doing so, but really, we’re doomed. Do you want a tech noir dystopia? Because this is how you get a tech noir dystopia. But once again we have a wide … Continue reading -
How was that Tech-Noir?
That’s a question we could ask of Limetown. There is a mystery element to it, in the disappearance of a small town’s entire population. And there is the intrepid reporter acting as a bit of a detective and a bit … Continue reading -
Do you see what I hear
We had our first night of collaborative listening on ds106radio tonight with a small but active group. We listened to the tale of Limetown, and heard voices and background music used to great effect. What I find more interesting though … Continue reading -
Tech Noir Talk
I fed our tech noir cast of characters to the two annoying podcast hosts from Notebook LM so that they could discuss how groups of them might work together. https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/01615d4d-37f2-4789-9bb1-43374db0b787/audio They spitball several ideas, none exceptionally creative, but maybe it … Continue reading -
Top of the Tech Noir: week 3
Discoball GIFfrom Discoball GIFs The good: The votes are in, and here are the top posts of the past week in ds106:Tech Noir as selected by the class. Beyond the works themselves, what is impressive is the distribution of the … Continue reading -
I suck at Photoshop
We had to to the worst photoshop job ever for today’s Daily Create. It occurred to me that the worst thing I could do would be to ask an AI to give me a bad photoshop job. But using that … Continue reading -
Getting creative with the Daily Create
See other TDC responses at https://mastodon.social/tags/tdc4765 and https://social.ds106.us/tags/tdc4765 Wednesday’s Daily Create was an exemplary challenge. As I understood it, it said “I don’t know what to do with this thing. Make something and figure it out.” It would be cool … Continue reading -
Our Cast of Characters
We have quite the Cast of Characters for TechNoir106. The lineup includes: anti-hero corporate samurai femme fatale gangster hacker hard-boiled detective innocent bystander powerful millionaire or politician from across time and space. Many people enjoyed the assignment, although there was … Continue reading -
Living in AI Oblivion
by Reverend January 24, 2025It’s a ds106 world and I’m justing living in it. One of the many tasks for week 2 of ds106 is availing yourself to the wisdom of ds106’s AI bot the venerable Dr. Oblivion. So, given I have been thinking … Continue reading -
Always Be Commenting
Jim and I had a discussion on the wonders of blog commenting earlier, and the recording is above. Commenting really is the glue of ds106, what makes a collection of bloggers into a community of creativity. It’s how we inspire … Continue reading -
Gettin’ Medieval
Friend of #ds106 Tom Woodward shared his discovery of an AI-generated rap based on The Canterbury Tales. That inspired me to ask Dr. Oblivion: and his response: Dr. O seems to think “We don’t need Skynet records taking over the … Continue reading -
Collect the whole set!
I saw Bryan Mathers’ Trading Card Remix on Mastodon: Post by @bryanmmathers View on Mastodon and I thought, “This could be a cool way to visualize course characters.” Is there a trading card assignment though? If there wasn’t … Continue reading -
Collateral coincidences
by paul bond January 20, 2025I watched the Michael Mann neo-noir classic Collateral last night. I was thinking about the idea of noir characters, and how this film shows a great example of the Innocent Bystander, a cab driver, a man with a plan, whose … Continue reading -
Revving Up the ds106 Engine
by Reverend January 20, 2025The tech noir edition of ds106 is in full swing this spring, and I’m feeling locked-in. It’s been a while since I have felt energized like this, and so much of that is rooted in commenting. Not only has ds106 … Continue reading -
You Can’t Go Holm Again
by ReverendAI, alien, Alien: Romulus, digital storytelling, ds106, films, movies, Syndicated, tech-noir, technoirJanuary 19, 2025This weekend I finally watched Alien: Romulus (2024) given I thought it might give me something to talk about for Tech Noir, I was right. I enjoyed the return to the original Alien (1979), which in many ways is one … Continue reading -
Show us the Tech Noir
The point of the film review assignment was to get people thinking about the Tech Noir concept, how it has been portrayed in media, and what it means to us. It’s not meant to be a generic or conventional film … Continue reading -
“Ever get the feeling you was being watched?”
The other day friend of ds106 Grant Potter noted that the tech noir adjacent theme of surveillance is a theme on the Criterion Channel this month. One of the films on their list is The Anderson Tapes, which conveniently happens … Continue reading -
Noir Chopper
by Reverend January 16, 2025I am creating a course aggregation site for the current Tech Noir ds106 course, and it’s been a while. Thankfully Alan Levine and Tom Woodward have been kind enough to help me hack the old gold TwentyTwelve WordPress theme to … Continue reading -
The Automated Dark Side of ds106: Tech Noir
I tried to make a ds106 comeback last year with the AI 106 course, but it turns out I wasn’t even up to getting off the couch. It was a long winter, and quite a few of my responsibilities were … Continue reading -
Down by GIF
Today’s Daily Create instructions were to visualize The Scream, but since I saw Down by Law way back when, “scream” suggests a different image. If I were smart I would have realized that someone must have made this GIF before, … Continue reading
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