Paul Bond and I discussed “The Buys” last Thursday, and above is the video. We range in our discussion and I just did a pretty extensive post on it that I lost in Known (sometimes I am spoiled by WordPress). … Continue reading →
While walking around the new building I now work in at UMW—I realized I was seeing The Wire everywhere. Specifically, in the carpet.
The carpet is a constant reminder, at least for me, of the iconic image that is associated with … Continue reading →
While not a distinguished Triple Troll Wire Epigraph, I couldn’t resist doing an old gold Troll Quote assignment—and this quote from D’Angelo‘s treatise on power, capital and reward was hard to get out of my head. Interestingly enough, Rawls very well could … Continue reading →
While writing my last post about The Wire, It struck me that the epigraphs for each episode might make for an awesome twist on the Troll Quotes assignment. So, be the badass that I am, I created a new assignment called titled … Continue reading →
In preparation for this semester’s #wire106, Paul Bond and I started having discussions about the various elements of storytelling in the first 3 episodes of Season 1 of The Wire. Paul has already blogged his reflections on the visual elements … Continue reading →
Images of surveillance from the first episode of season 1 of The Wire, “The Target.” I mentioned the prevalence of surveillance camera shots in the first episode of The Wire in my previous post. Above are six GIFs capturing what I believe is every surveillance … Continue reading →
In preparation for this semester’s wire106, Paul and I started having discussions about the various elements of storytelling in the first three episodes of The Wire. Paul has already blogged his reflections on the first episode of season 1, “The … Continue reading →
@jimgroom re: wire106. To help get in the rhythm i suggest group whistling like this: http://t.co/rFctNxBu0S
— George Veletsianos (@veletsianos) August 8, 2014
The video George Velestianos linked to in the above tweet gets at what #wire106 could be far better than my … Continue reading →
