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Tag Archives: visualassignments2
Free for All GIFs
I had some downtime while traveling today, so I did my Prisoner106 homework and went on a watching spree. I got through the first five episodes, and I am totally locked in. I might finish the whole season my week’s end, … Continue reading
Omar’s Tie Fly By
Omar Little rules. You pretty much realize that by the first season’s end, but by the second season he starts to take on legendary status because his knowledge of greek mythology, his brilliant courtroom apparel, and his ability to shutdown … Continue reading
Surveillance Society
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
Criss Cross: Sharpening Her Nails
I think the noir animated GIFs this semester are going to be fun! This GIF features Anna Dundee (played by Yvonne DeCarlo) sharpening her nails in Robert Siodomak’s 1948 noir Criss Cross, a film wherein Burt Lancaster reprises his role … Continue reading
The Killers Animated GIF: Headlights
This is the opening scene from Robert Siodomak’s 1946 noir classic The Killers, which is an extrapolation of Ernest Hemingway’s short story by the same name. That’s part of why Hemingway starts off the hardboiled course, and this film is … Continue reading
Dawn of the Dead and Road Warrior Animated GIFs
I’ve been working on a presentation for TEDxNYED that is all animated GIFs—25 in all. I’ll be publishing an annotated version of the presentation here sometime time for feedback, but before I did I wanted to get the GIFs I … Continue reading
The Conversation
Here’s an animated GIF that kinda says it all about this 1974 classic.
Dog Man
All the Cat Breading and Dog Swapping shenanigans that has been going on around ds106 as of late reminded me of that crazy scene in the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers when the dog man comes running … Continue reading
ds106 come out and play!
It was only a matter of time before I did an animated GIF assignment from the 1979 classic The Warriors, a film that seems to be an integral part of the ds106 fabric. This one was actually pretty easy to … Continue reading