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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Gettin’ Medieval
Friend of #ds106 Tom Woodward shared his discovery of an AI-generated rap based on The Canterbury Tales. That inspired me to ask Dr. Oblivion: and his response: Dr. O seems to think “We don’t need Skynet records taking over the … Continue reading
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Collect the whole set!
I saw Bryan Mathers’ Trading Card Remix on Mastodon: Post by @bryanmmathers View on Mastodon and I thought, “This could be a cool way to visualize course characters.” Is there a trading card assignment though? If there wasn’t … Continue reading
Collateral coincidences
I watched the Michael Mann neo-noir classic Collateral last night. I was thinking about the idea of noir characters, and how this film shows a great example of the Innocent Bystander, a cab driver, a man with a plan, whose … Continue reading
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Whack Waldo
Today’s Daily Create asked us to remake a Captcha challenge. I thought it might be evil to use a Where’s Waldo image. Then I remembered an old Flash game where you had to take potshots at Waldo to get him … Continue reading
Show us the Tech Noir
The point of the film review assignment was to get people thinking about the Tech Noir concept, how it has been portrayed in media, and what it means to us. It’s not meant to be a generic or conventional film … Continue reading
“Ever get the feeling you was being watched?”
The other day friend of ds106 Grant Potter noted that the tech noir adjacent theme of surveillance is a theme on the Criterion Channel this month. One of the films on their list is The Anderson Tapes, which conveniently happens … Continue reading
Down by GIF
Today’s Daily Create instructions were to visualize The Scream, but since I saw Down by Law way back when, “scream” suggests a different image. If I were smart I would have realized that someone must have made this GIF before, … Continue reading
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Talking Tech Noir, part deux
We’re working with a them of Tech Noir in ds106 this semester, and as I mentioned before, we can’t really expect the class to know what we’re talking about, so Jim and I recorded a half-hour discussion which hopefully brings … Continue reading
Tech Noir 106
Jim had talked about doing a Tech Noir themed course many years ago, and now we’re looking to revisit the idea. It feels appropriate to the times. I can’t expect everyone to be an aficionado of the genre though, 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