The tweet along between commentators George Pelecanos and Joe Chappelle from S03E11 of The Wire.
This episode was climactic for several reasons. This was one of the major climactic episodes where one of The Wire’s major characters Stringer Bell is killed. However, not only for this climactic moment was I …
We will be treating weeks 11 and 12 as a single unit, so there will be only one weekly summary due for the work over the next two weeks by Sunday 11/16 at 11:59 PM.
Wire Episodes
Season 3, episodes 11 & 12, Season 4, episode 1 (week 11)
Season …
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John Johnston’s command line art has been blowing my mind this semester, and I really need to stop procrastinating and make time to dig into this stuff. Hence, why I inspired his The Wire Scrolls. What you will see if you …
In this Wire 106 video discussion, Paul Bond and I were joined by David Mercer, Maggie Stough and Melinda Albrycht to look at season 3, episode 9 of the The Wire: “Slapstick.” This episode is a comedy of tragic errors between the Barsdale crew breaking the Sunday …
In this Wire 106 video discussion, Paul Bond and I were joined by Ien Harris, Maggie Stough and Melinda Albrycht to look at season 3, episode 8 of the The Wire: “Moral Midgetry.” This episode stands out for many reasons, but none more than the fact that …
I made a music video for the song Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People that features scenes with Omar Little from The Wire. This assignment was worth 5 stars. I found a compilation of scenes of Omar on Youtube that was originally fourteen minutes long. I downloaded it as …
This video is a supercut of all the mentions of “the game” from season 1 of The Wire. It’s pretty amazing what John Johnston is doing with the software he found that automatically creates supercuts from video files based on … Continue reading →
I was inspired by so many of the student radio programs, they were amazing. But that’s fodder for a whole ‘nother series of posts. For now I want to focus on one commercial from the brilliantly conceived and executed WireBuyers … Continue reading →
Yet another inspired work from ds106 this week, this one from Mariana Funes. What I like about this work is that it was itself inspired by Kris Hooks’s suggestion that I looked like I was doing the Vulcan Mindmeld in … Continue reading →
This marks the 32nd episode we’ve watched and discussed so far this semester. We’re not playing games here.
In this Wire 106 video discussion, Paul Bond and I looked at season 3, episode 7 of the The Wire: “Back Burners.” There are … Continue reading →
