Category: Syndicated
Party on, Garth
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 …
Dispatch from the dark: We’re all in this together
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……
Cat scratch fever
Driving rain and noir
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…
Thoughts on Noir106, week one
Noir-fu
I like the examples of noir that people are coming up with. Some of it is what I expected, and some are off the wall (which I also expected). Paul Schrader, in his Notes on Film Noir, describes noir as a style more than a genre. So I thought …
Noir-fu
I like the examples of noir that people are coming up with. Some of it is what I expected, and some are off the wall (which I also expected). Paul Schrader, in his Notes on Film Noir, describes noir as a style more than a genre. So I thought …
Life gets easier
So CogDog informed me that auto-embedding has been a feature of WordPress for a while. I just accidentally discovered this while doing my last post. I guess there’s no excuse for not embedding now.
Soundcloud offers two different embed codes, so you have some control over the appearance. I can …
Listing, linking, and embedding
Burtis talked about this. I thought I’d spell it out with pictures.
There are a number of ways to get media into WordPress. One that you DON’T want to do is just list the URL, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_k7CxlvZ8
Readers could get to the video I posted with that, but …
