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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So let’s rock!
Today’s Daily Create was in honor of World Rock Day, which I hadn’t heard of previously. When I saw the prompt on Mastodon I thought of photographing a rock in my yard, but then I saw it was a different … Continue reading
Everything Is the Same as It Ever Was
I’ve always wanted to do the David Lee Roth audio remix assignment but never came up with a good use for it. Maybe I still haven’t, but I made this thing: The other day I saw a tweet from Open … Continue reading
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Record Store Day’s big score
There was some impromptu vinylcasting on ds106radio yesterday, ending up with Jim playing Sonic Youth’s Goo album. One of the songs was Cinderella’s Big Score. The title echoes the Shaft sequel, so it was just asking for the ds106 mashup … Continue reading
That Toddling TDC
For today’s Daily Create, I pushed play and got Chicago (That Toddling Town) It has quite a history for a song I never even heard of. There’s even a James Brown version: which sounds entirely different. I also located sheet … Continue reading
Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’
Who’s trolling who? I was reading more of The Passenger this morning, and on page 195 one of the hallucinatory ‘horts spouted the classic line from Airplane. So you know what I had to do. The face swap doesn’t quite … Continue reading
“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now”
I thought of this song when I was reading The Kekulé Problem the other day. In it, McCarthy recalls, I suggested once in conversation at the Santa Fe Institute that language had acted very much like a parasitic invasion and … Continue reading
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Keep on walking
So I made a few more Walk of Life edits: That worked nicely, I think. It almost seems appropriate, so I figured I should try a different track: That’s probably longer than it needs to be, or maybe it just … Continue reading
The Notorious W.O.L.
Yesterday a conversation popped up in my Twitter stream https://twitter.com/mweller/status/1580077271863291905 which introduced me to the Walk of Life Project. The hypothesis stated on the site is that the Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life” is the perfect ending song for any … Continue reading
Casting shadows
Today’s TDC asked us to make shadow art. Naturally my first thought was of The Shadow, but I didn’t want to just find an illustration on the web. Then it occurred to me to make audio art, of sorts. I … Continue reading
“Trapped In a World He Never Made”
@ds106dc #tdc3862 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is This is how Howard would do it. pic.twitter.com/xkKTJgpIuS — paul bond (@phb256) August 9, 2022 I only vaguely remember Peter and the Wolf, the subject of today’s Daily Create, from … Continue reading