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: February 2021
There is unrest in the forest
For our third ds106radio live tweeting session, we listened to a Radiolab episode From Tree to Shining Tree which did a great job of making science topics entertaining and relatable. In doing so, it used sound in subtly effective ways … Continue reading
Evolutionary evol
Friend of ds106 @dogtrax mentioned Ani Difranco’s latest album earlier today: Ani DiFranco’s new album Revolutionary Love is exquisite listening … rich with compositional texture (music and lyrics and voice) … https://t.co/f8l8B4KFdR pic.twitter.com/KlqjrmO48s — KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) February 24, 2021 And … Continue reading
Revenge of the Ancient Ones
For our second evening of live-tweeting with #ds106radio, we listened to some of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward from BBC Radio 4’s The Lovecraft Investigations. The story is framed as a podcast, The Mystery Machine (not that Mystery Machine), … Continue reading
Well don’t you know about the bird?
Today’s Daily Create was a competition for the title of Best Bird. Since Big Bird was already in the prompt, I had to think of something else. I thought of Charlie Parker, but I’m not much of a bebop fan. … Continue reading
The sounds of dreams
For our Monday night #ds106radio tweet-along, we listened to Episode Nine: I Saw Myself Running of ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene. The series is a work of experimental audio-based scholarship combining sound studies, radio history, and environmental criticism. This … Continue reading
The Wright stuff
Biography in Sound. 53 episodes of a 1-hour NBC radio show from the '50s https://t.co/L03BMiF6uU pic.twitter.com/YhTG0CsqY7 — Century Past History (@lienhart85) February 9, 2021 This conveniently showed up at the beginning of audio week in ds106. Old-time radio is great … Continue reading
Whistler’s painting
For today’s Daily Create we had to put ourselves in a famous painting. Part of my story is that I used to try to be an artist/painter, so I wanted to play with a “painting within a painting” idea. I’m … Continue reading
Gone to the dogs
I’ve been invited to do a presentation of Copyright the Card Game for another college. This came about as a result of a presentation Chris and Jane gave for Creative Commons’ 24 x Open Education Lightning Talks. Other people are … Continue reading
Funky Broadway Boogie Woogie
https://phb256.tumblr.com/post/642947986452873216 For today’s Daily Create we had give a picture a soundtrack. The first thing I thought of was Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie. But I wanted to get GIF-fy with it, naturally, so I downloaded the image from Wikimedia and … Continue reading
Reading Guernica
I wondered how the story analysis assignment might apply to an image, so I thought I’s give it a shot with Picasso’s Guernica. There are a few different stories here: the story the painting depicts, the story of Picasso making … Continue reading