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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I loved that western showdown scene between the police and the FBI. This part had GIF written all over it. I had the idea to put the three of them together, so I was careful to make all of them the...
View ArticleWire106 Week 7
We’re up to week 7 in Wire106. Jim is out on assignment and tailed a suspect up to NYC, so we don’t have a video for you this time. Here are the details for this week: Audio week 1 Everyone should be...
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Looking through past posts on the wire106 site, I found a bunch of ideas that people had posted, including Travis, Jeremy, Desa, Imran, Nicholas, Ien, Melinda, Danielle, and La Kisha. Most of them are...
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Set your poems to music
Melinda’s Wire poem is just awesome, both in the writing and the reading. The rhythm in the reading is so good that I thought I’d try to add a music track to it. Here’s what I came up with: I recorded...
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There’s never been a paper bag…
Inspired by the WaffleStomper, I thought I’d try remixing a song and some speech. Keeping with The Wire theme, I was also inspired by the speech that Major Colvin gave about the history of the paper...
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Inspires
Ien Harris’ ds106 emergency alert This was posted right around the beginning of the semester. It was an omen of things to come. I think it captures an intuitive understanding of the ds106 ethos....
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Wire106 – ep08 Moral Midgetry
I see Fredericksburg is in on the action. Colvin is getting ready to retire, to hang up the gloves. On the other hand, Cutty is getting ready to start a boxing gym. The Deacon, in the foreground, is...
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Busted on Wire106
Lamar: What happened to all them towers? Brother Mouzone: Slow train comin’. Reform, Lamar. Reform. (from The Wire Episode Scripts) On Friday, Jim, Desa and I had a good conversation about episode 10...
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Acting Commissioner Burrell
Earlier in his career, before he acted as Commissioner of the Baltimore Police, Ervin Burrell had a number of other jobs, including truck driver and apartment building superintendent. He also worked...
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Morning in Baltimore – notes on episode 11
The title of this episode is “A New Day.” In the script, it specifically refers to the new mayoral administration and to the New Day Co-op that Prop Joe runs with the other drug kingpins. The epigraph...
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