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.
Author Archives: phb256
Outlander!
The other day I found the Couch to 4Y podcast about Outland which I think I have never seen, even though it’s the sort of thing I would have watched on cable in the 80s. I did recall that it … Continue reading
“his wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy”
I added some earth tones, which may make the image look more dirty than aged, but perhaps it will work either way. I also worked in the Statue of Liberty silhouette, taken from the closing scene of The Planet of … Continue reading
Working towards the Quarter Millennium
In honor of the Semiquincentennial, the Bisesquicentennial, the Sestercentennial, or the Quarter Millennium, I thought I’d try to do a visual mashup of The New Colossus and Ozymandias. I fully expect this not to work, but maybe I will learn … Continue reading
Death Weasel might like it…
The Bull Thistle Gallery has been running a Summit Challenge series, a kind of a Monthly Create for area artists. I’ve been interested in participating, but haven’t had the time, expertise or persistence to make any of my ideas work. … Continue reading
Jungle Prints from the Frozen Land
Our friends at Mandolin Cafe introduced me to the Dahlhoff Dance Collection which I can’t understand a word of but perused anyway. A title that looked like Jungle Prints from the Frozen Land caught my eye, but the linked page … Continue reading
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
Those darned socks
Somehow I missed the sock thing when it happened in ds106. Or maybe I dismissed it since I’m more of a t-shirt person than a sock guy. Anyway, there was a Kickstarter reward level, but something unfortunately fell through and … Continue reading
Why we #MAD
Several years ago I started an art project by stealing (with blessing) an idea from Brother O’Mara, where I make small skull-like objects out of polymer clay and leave them around town for people to find. I piloted the idea … Continue reading