About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Monthly Archives: March 2024
AT Drops the BOMB!
Jim and I were having one of our usual ds106 discussions last week, looking over Aggressive Technologies’ website, when their chief legal counsel dropped in with threats and bluster. She expressed some rather strong opinions. I went through and cleaned … Continue reading
“Raise expectations to a new intention”
For the past few months, the local vintage clothing store has been hosting a mostly-weekly vinyl record night, where friends and neighbors are invited to bring records to play, or to just hang out and listen. Sometimes it even gets … Continue reading
Radio on a roll
With a few exceptions, it sounds like everyone’s ds106 radio groups are running smoothly, and everyone is on track. I look forward to hearing the finished projects this weekend. Dr. Oblivion’s advice here on sound quality and transitions is very … Continue reading
Here’s the windup, and here’s the pitch
You can see everyone’s AI pitches here: https://ds106.ai/category/aipitch/. I recommend looking them over because you may find a tool you can use in the upcoming weeks. I noticed some people didn’t link to the tools they promoted, which is surprising … Continue reading
“this mission is too important for me to allow that to jeopardize it.”
Making this week’s video was an experience. Being radio week, I had the idea to incorporate the DJ from The Warriors and wanted to use Wav2Lip to see how the syncing would work in a tight close-up. I used a … Continue reading
“I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem”
I spotted this the other day and noted all the generated imagery, like AI meets CGI or something. It occurred to me that the title is a bit of a sales pitch. We have a variety of AI pitches this … Continue reading
Failed!
I ran into this error message when trying to run Wav2Lip last week: I did file an appeal, asking what was suspected of being abusive, without expecting a response. Under their usage limitations they list deepfakes. Anything I’ve made is … Continue reading
Life imitating AI imitating Art
A few weeks ago we watched the Black Mirror episode, “Be Right Back“, in which a widow has an AI chatbot of her deceased husband. Yesterday I heard that performance artist Laurie Anderson actually has one of these. I guess … Continue reading