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My Sweet Grandma
Well, this week has brought a whole new chapter to Noir106, as our agencies begin their investigations into a number of mysterious matters. Bond asked several of them to investigate the identity of some character named “Jack” and he pointed to an (accidentally recorded) phone call that I took early …
Read MoreKoinonia in DS106
<before I get going here, I hate the new editor. Tumblr sort it> So we were chatting at the……
Read MoreBurtis Files: Week Five
Below is my video for this week. I entreat everyone to watch and help me to understand the evidence that I unearthed this week.
I’m also sharing the photos I revealed in the video, in case anyone wants to download them and do any additional analysis.
First, these two pictures …
Read MoreCard Play
I decided to tackle a design assignment today: Create Your Own Business Card which was dreamed up by one Lauren Brumfield in a previous ds106 job.
I wanted to develop a calling card for Bond, Black, Groom and me — we’re getting more and more informal requests for our services …
Read More“Being A Music Producer” Assignment
This Audio Assignment may be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/being-a-music-producer/
This assignment basically asked to record multiple tracks of audio in order to produce a little diddly. I decided to approach this little project my covering the song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. I began by playing an ukulele to begin the base …
Read MoreThe Burtis Files: Week Four
I had to make this video pretty quickly in a secret locations at headquarters. I hope you can hear me okay. I responded to something that was released by one of my co-instructors today, but I also spent some time talking about how to improve your assignments posts, participation points, …
Read MoreCutting Noir Corners
When you have been in this game as long as I have you get a little slow. No way I can keep up with the young operatives without cutting some corners.
We were asked to keep an eye on Davey Gordon a pug without much of a chin. I looked …
Read MoreNoir Photo Safari
As an open course participant – (I like to think of it more as my personalized learning path) – I am not following the Noir section assignments, but am taking advantage of being able to create my own learning path based on interests and choice. Here are some Noir inspired …
Read MoreKiller’s Kiss: scenes of NYC, some classic noir shots, and a bit of animated giffery
Last night, I watched Killer’s Kiss which I had never seen before. I found the movie strangely compelling. It has a lot of flaws, and my reading/research after watching turned up that Stanley Kubrick was hardly proud of this effort and considered it basically on par with a student film. …
Read MoreHat Attack
Well, Groom inspired me to tackle this particular ds106 assignment: Graphic Gift, added to the Assignment Bank by the inimitable Michael Branson-Smith. A summary:
Find or scan an old advertisement (high resolution) and create a piece of cool clip art by extracting and cleaning up a particular element. …
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