A little bit about what’s going on this week.
Something I forgot to mention – if anyone has questions or concerns and wants to meet with me over Google Hangouts or Skype, we can set up a time. Evenings are best for me, but I’m willing to work with you. …
This is the city – dark, gray, shadows and light – and the sky, like a sci-fi nuclear explosion of easter egg colors. It was the colors of the sunrise that caught my attention. My iPhone didn’t do them justice, but it never does. I thought I’d try the Splash …
What you have done here is an abomination. @dkernohan @cogdog @RMoeJo
— George Siemens (@gsiemens) January 20, 2015
I had seen these 2048 things, but it wasn’t until @dkernohan’s abomination that I attempted to play one. My first thought was to make Noir2048, but that would have meant doing …
There’s a writing assignment to do a Poem Made With Twilight Zone Episode Titles which comes from the ds106zone days. Since we’re doing Noir106 these days, I decided to give it a different twist and use episode titles from The Shadow. That’s a thing about these assignments: They’re more about …
One of the readings we assigned this week was How To Write Up Assignments Like a Blogging Champ, in which blogmaster Alan Levine describes in detail how to write up assignment posts. Everyone should read it. Click the links The Three Parts of a Great ds106 Blog Post, Telling …
Her mouth was a crimson velvet petal,
Her hair was beaten from gun-metal.
That couplet from The Wild Party always stuck with me. The contrast makes it striking, but the gun-metal metaphor is something else. Primarily it’s meant to describe color, but it brings so many other connotations – something …
Some thoughts on the mysterious email we received this week, and a couple thoughts on the character dossier assignment. Take a look at Amanda’s post, she came up with a good one. I also make reference to Out of the Past, I think……
http://brianmichaelbendis.tumblr.com/post/108623696007/brianbendis-powers-volume-3-script-by-brian
I found this from Brian Michael Bendis my Tumblr this morning. Before he started doing all his superhero stuff, he used to do crime/noir tales using the same color scheme as Sin City. Some might remember that we used his book, Torso, in our True Crime class…
