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.
Tag Archives: AI
Play the hand you’re dealt
Today I had the opportunity to present about Copyright the Card Game through the Media Education Lab’s Leading from the Library series. I hadn’t talked about it in a few years, and with recent developments it seemed like a good … Continue reading
The politeness of psychetecture
A friend of mine expressed willingness to display some of my artwork in his shop/event space, so I’ve been contemplating what I might have to say about the works. This has always challenged me. The work is strictly nonrepresentational, so … Continue reading
“How can we recognize and resist these patterns of manipulation and control?”
So I had the unfortunate idea of having our Deep Dive podcast hosts take a look at Motörhead (Lemmy forgive me). My thought was that I might dissect their analyses and stitch them together with the songs and throw it … Continue reading
“We’re all in the mood for a malady”
I had been hearing about this NotebookLM thing for a few days. Someone at the Open Ed conference said it was impressive. Then CogDog gave us a challenge to listen to a nearly two hour recording. While I only made … Continue reading
Poeta ex machina
A question that’s always interested me, and perhaps only interested me, is “What do we mean by digital storytelling?” I don’t buy the storytelling with digital tools definition because that encompasses pretty much all storytelling these days. I’ve long thought … Continue reading
There is only the dance
With AI art in the news in recent months, I decided to re-read Count Zero. I had read this decades ago, and it introduced me to the assemblage art of Joseph Cornell. One of the plots of the novel involves … Continue reading