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: western106
Go west, young man
For our fourth round of ds106radio live tweeting, we had another two-fer: “Retribution” from Sears Radio Theater and “Gun Shy” from Gunsmoke. I liked the way people picked up on the sound details: I can hear the horses making noises … Continue reading
The Holliday and Hickock Hour
Our Wednesday Western106 tweet-along featured two tales – the Gunsmoke episode “Doc Holliday” and “Aces and Eights” from the Frontier Gentleman series. Unlike our two previous shows, these featured narration as well as dialogue. The listeners had mixed feelings about … Continue reading
Letter from Lago
Today’s TDC was Create a Pony Express Postmark. We were supposed to “Design a postmark stamp for the Pony Express of the Modern Age,” but I didn’t read that part until just now. I had the idea to play around … Continue reading
“Come back, Shane!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcM5ISMV8p0 We had a good, if sparsely attended, first tweet-along. We listened to a radio production of Shane, featuring Alan Ladd and Van Heflin, two of the stars of the movie. Radio was once a big enough thing that major … Continue reading
The Good, the Bad, and the Oblivion
I found this thing yesterday: http://ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos.tumblr.com/post/138891094972/seven-surprising-things-that-are-bad-for-your and when I saw today’s Daily Create I knew I had a use for it. I applied what I had learned before about lining up images with animated GIFs. After that trick, I cut … Continue reading
a video of audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRY0oWJ0sM So I thought I’d write a little about the short video I made this week. I’ve done this kind of thing before, so I’m starting to get the hang of it. The class is starting into Audacity this week, … Continue reading
Dang’d spot
For today’s Daily Create, we had to do cowboy Shakespeare: #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1486 Y’all bein’ or y’all not being’, that’s my ask https://t.co/9HzMpCIDXf pic.twitter.com/JF4D3GTE2v — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) February 2, 2016 My better half suggested using Lady Macbeth’s famous … Continue reading
Beware of Dancing Cowboys
A Metafilter post on a history of GIFs made me think of those animated ads from LowerMyBills.com that were floating around the web ten years ago or so. So when I saw today’s Daily Create, I knew what had to … Continue reading
Rule 106
I was about to write this as a comment, but then I thought it would be better to blog it for everyone to see. Our Storytelling Outlaw wrote about her experience working with the Assignment Bank: While I had fun, … Continue reading
A Wild West assignment idea
I don’t like to give too many examples because I’m afraid people will follow them like template. But since I threw everyone in the deep end and had you create assignments in the second week, here’s an assignment idea I … Continue reading