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.
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MOOCs & studios
This morning, AK’s post about MOOCs and the Art Studio caught my attention. He discusses a chapter of the same name from Macro-Level Learning through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Strategies and Predictions for the Future. I have some experience … Continue reading
Song analysis
I thought it might be interesting to try to apply some of the ideas from the songwriting course to some songs outside of the selected listening list. For example, if we look at the classic song of my youth, War … Continue reading
Stay the course
I signed up for a Berklee/Coursera songwriting course by Pat Pattison, mainly because I’m trying to figure out how to make music. That, and because it’s free. But it also gives me an opportunity to examine a so-called “xMOOC” first … Continue reading
Further FAWMing
A few days ago Grant Potter tweeted something about Lee Marvin’s Irish Ballads which I naturally had to investigate further. Artist Cris Shapan had photoshopped together a collection of classic imaginary LPs. I was likewise fascinated by the album Lee Marvin’s … Continue reading
The addictive power of feedback
They all asked about you Down on the FAWM The cows asked, the pigs asked, the horses asked too. (Barrère) Down on the Farm Somewhere in the Twitter stream about #ds106 there was a mention of The RPM Challenge: “write … Continue reading