Ryan Ruppe

@ryanruppe.bsky.social

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100% earnest posting 100% of the time Read my music newsletter: picks.prestigeformat.com lakeforestsoundmachine.bandcamp.com youtube.com/@CassetteDad Profile pic by MarginallyTalented on IG

IMMACULATE HEART COLLEGE ART DEPARTMENT RULES Rule 1 FIND A PLACE YOU TRUST AND THE TRY TRUSTING IT FOR A WHILE Rule 2 GENERAL DUTIES OF A STUDENT: PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR TEACHER. PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS. Rule 3 GENERAL DUTIES OF A TEACHER: PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR STUDENTS. Rule 4 CONSIDER EVERYTHING AN EXPERIMENT. Rule 5 BE SELF DISCIPLINED. THIS MEANS FINDING SOMEONE WISE OR SMART AND CHOOSING TO FOLLOW THEM. TO BE DISCIPLINED IS TO FOLLOW IN A GOOD WAY. TO BE SELF DISCIPLINED IS TO FOLLOW IN A BETTER WAY. Rule 6 NOTHING IS A MISTAKE. THERE'S NO WIN AND NO FAIL. THERES ONLY MAKE. Rule 7 The only rule is work. IF YOU WORK IT WILL LEAD TO SOMETHING IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO DO ALL OF THE WORK ALL OF THE TIME WHO EVENTUALLY CATCH ON TO THINGS. Rule 8 DON'T TRY TO CREATE AND ANALYSE AT THE SAME TIME. THEY RE DIFFERENT PROCESSES. Rule 9 BE HAPPY WHENEVER YOU CAN MANAGE IT. ENJOY YOURSELF. IT'S LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK. Rule 10 "WERE BREAKING ALLOF THE RULES. EVEN OUR OWN RULES AND HOW DO WE DO THAT? BY LEAVING PLENTY OF ROOM FOR X QUANTITIES." JOHN CAGE HELPFUL HINTS: ALWAYS BE AROUND. COME OR GO TO EVERY-THING. ALWAYS GO TO CLASSES. READ ANYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. LOOK AT MOVIES CAREFULLY OFTEN. SAVE EVERYTHING IT MIGHT COME IN HANDY LATER THERE SHOULD BE NEW RULES NEXT WEEK.
screenprint college in navy, green, yellow, and white that says "Sacred heart of Jesus" among other things. it has two figures, one holding a book.
A small stack of cds including CFCF’s The Colours of Life, Television’s Marquee Moon, and Propellerhead’s decksanddrumsandrockandnroll next to a stereo. Cds Stacked atop of the stereo: Powder In Space Shlohmo - The End 808 state - EX EL Paradigm Shift St. Germain - tourist The Avalanches - We will always love you Tom Waits - Beautiful Maladies Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher Deep Forest Bon Voyage daft punk - homework Metric - synthetica
Start with dried hibiscus in a lil strainer and one bag of Costco green tea, boil water and put them all in a cup. Steep it forever, like make it at lunch and set it on the counter and forget it. Then put it into a go cup with ice cubes and some of the following (multiple choice) lemonade, lime juice, chia seeds, sweetener like stevia or coffee syrup or macerated fruit. IF WILL BE SO TART + GOOD. Comic drawn in grid paper with pencil, crayon
Cassettes of Oceanator’s Nothing’s Ever Fine, Duran Duran’s Rio, and Stevie Wonder’s Hotter than July in front of a stereo system with a yellow robot
a yellow Sony sports walkman on top of a TEAC turntable, next to a wood-panel receiver. There's a CFCF and a Teen Daze tape, and a Richard Swift 7" in the shot too
A photo of Elijah wood as Frodo from lord of the rings lounging in a tree with a pensive look on his face. A keyboard (maybe a Nord Lead) has been photoshopped under his arm. Bold white text says “FRODO SYNTHESIS”
Screenshot of Plexamp music player with a listing for the artist Orbital with their albums in order of release, newest on top, with year and bitrate: Monsters Exist (2018) [flac 44.1/16] Wonky (2012) [mp3 256] Blue Album (2004) [mp3 192] Altogether (2001) [mp3 256] The Middle of Nowhere (1999) [mp3 256] In Sides (1996) (has two entries for some reason) [mp3 320] Snivilisation (1994) [mp3 216] The Brown Album (1993) [mp3 128] The Yellow Album (1991) [mp3 128]
A photo of very cluttered vintage items well photographed that has the caption “Mentally, I’m in the I Spy clutter”
A screenshot of frida cinema’s Instagram containing a screenshot of a repost of AKLingus responding to “what’s your favorite movie about a guy who sucks” with a screenshot of Barry Lyndon. Lots of screenshots
A photo of Fred Rogers, wearing a red sweater, smiling with his mouth open, looking through a window that has incredible patterned drapes
Joy Electric’s album CHRISTIANsongs, which I bought on the release date at my local Christian bookstore
Picture of a tape of Vstal by Manja Ristić and Tomáš Šenkyřík. There’s a transformer behind the tape
CD case of Shlohmo’s The End on top of a synth with the corner of a stereo and the foot of a transformer. Im trying to make it look cool
a CD of Simian's album WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS which is bright yellow with stylized red portraits of the band. the CD rests atop some stereo thing, and you can see a bit of a transformer and a small ceramic bowl with rings in it
A photo of the CD cover of Cornelius' landmark 1997/8 album, Fantasma. It's a very stylized orange and white image of a face smoking a cigarette with "FANTA SMA" formed in the clouds and it says "performed by CORNELIUS produced by KEIGO OYAMADA matador menu./OLE 300 compact disc digital audio stereo" at the bottom
A photo of the cover of Delicious in Dungeon volume 14 by Ryoko Kui (translation by Taylor Engel, lettering by Abigail Blackman), featuring a bearded dwarf holding a large pot, with a half-elf Druid and cat girl behind him, and a small hobbit and armored man next to him. In the background is a feast and many people eating
a kid jumps into the foam of a wave crashing on a beach in Southern California
Ingredients 2 lbs 93/7 ground beef 1 onion chopped 1 bell pepper chopped 1 can red beans 1 can black beans 1 cup beef stock 1 can tomato paste 1 can diced tomatoes & garlic ½ Tbsp cumin ½ Tbsp smoked paprika 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp dried oregano Salt & pepper Steps 1. Drain and rinse beans Add everything into the crock pot, on low for 6-8 hours. Break up the meat and mix about halfway through
3 cds: Oneohtrix point never's Age Of, Why?'s Alopecia, and Green Druid's Ashen Blood. photographed on a wood grain floor with some electronics detritus, a Tron light cycle usb drive, a beholder keychain and the face of a dinosaur transformer. I should clean my floor, but maybe all of this clutter looks cool
Suzanne Ciani and collaborator (I didn’t get his name, sorry) playing synthesizers at Buchla & Friends
The band of blue-skinned aliens from Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555
A photo of a record player on the left, with side A of a clear record playing, on the right is the cover of Teardrops, which has a black and white photo of diamonds falling. The cover has a small handwritten "thank you Ryan! - Yuuki" note taped to it. below the album cover is a printout of an old Peanuts cartoon with Charlie Brown listening to static
A photo of an open record player, playing side A of Dosh's album Milk Money on the left, and to the right is the album cover which features a man in a cap seated at a fender Rhodes keyboard and a drum kit with multiple spotlights
Brothers Hildebrandt illustration of Saruman and the Palantir: a white wizard with long beard and eyes all white is illuminated by a sphere at which he is staring intently
Letterboxd Screenshot of last 4 movies watched: Forrest Gump (2 stars), Be Kind Rewind (heart), Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (4 and a half stars), and Tetris (3 and a half stars)
gray cat with yellow-green eyes looking at camera, lounging inside of a white plastic toy crib printed with "bitty baby" containing, besides the cat, a pink cloth, and a green-edged "happy birthday" pillow
A yellow and black sticker that says “REMEMBER Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99.” And a Best Buy logo
A photo of 4 cassette tapes, clockwise from top left: An Angel’s Noel by the Ware - Patterson Duo, A Very Rosie Christmas by Rosie Thomas, Bells Merrily and Holiday Fable by Ronnie Martin
a cropped screenshot of Charlie Brown Christmas of the sad little tree with a single ornament which has bent the tree over and is touching the ground
Photo of a pizza where the cheese is completely blackened with the caption “when you accidentally burn a pizza”
A mostly static video of buzzy synth drone coming from a chase bliss mood pedal, a Bastl Softpop sp2, and a monome norns shield running dronecaster (with the “dreamcrusher” drone)
Photo of the comic book/graphic novel “Superman Smashes the Klan” by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
clockwise from top left: chase bliss mood pedal, bastl instruments soft pop sp2, Norns shield running dronecaster with the dreamcrusher drone @ 432hz lol
A brightly colored toy synth with bringing lights feeds into a tiny black and orange synth. A hand tweaks the knobs and crunchy space sounds come out
Photo of a hand with a large pinky ring with the Stonecutters symbol
book cover of Jason Kirk's book Hell is a World Without You - a novel
Tweet from me on October 24, 2022: "Absolutely in love with Charles Schultz's visual representations of noise from 1954." with an image of a peanuts comic where Charlie Brown is listening to the radio with some unique and chaotic but not crazy illustrations of what static sounds like. Tweet has 1.5K retweets and 8.8K likes
Photos of the spine of the following ska audio tapes, from top to bottom: Jeff Rosenstock - POST Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM JER - Bothered/Unbothered Five Iron Frenzy - Upbeats and Beatdowns The Orange County Supertones - Supertones Strike Back (Also MXPX - Teenage Politics but that’s technically not ska)
Shoegaze band Mo Dotti playing at the constellation room on November 24, 2024 in Orange County, California
Four gluten free pumpkin chocolate chip loaves in a multicolored nordicware ceramic baking dish
A photo of a glorious ear of corn covered in mayo, Parmesan, and tajín. Served in a folded paper plate
Screenshot of my profile on letterboxd, showing my 4 favorite movies as Wizard of Oz, Tron, O Brother Where Art Thou, and Speed Racer. And my 4 most recent as Baby Driver, Migration, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and speed
Panel from Watchmen with caption that says “NOVEMBER 14TH: A PARTIALLY MUSCLED SKELETON STANDS BY THE PERIMETER FENCE AND SCREAMS FOR THIRTY SECONDS BEFORE VANISHING…” with a drawing of a skeleton with some meat on it screaming near two soldiers, one of whom is on the ground getting sick
“Peppermint” is a sleepy tuxedo cat, curled up and asleep on a lightly patterned fleece blanket next to a large rainbow colored shooting start pop toy
A wide-angle video of a Southern California park around golden hour. There are kids playing and someone might be playing pickleball. All of the sound is heavily processed with delay (echos), reverb and a tuned resonator
Field recording setup at a park with a battery with an egg sticker, a wingie 2, Korg nts-1, cassette recorder, bluey backpack and water bottle, and yellow backpack on a low park table
A screenshot of the PBS KIDS show Carl The Collector where character Lotta plays a midi controller, works with a DAW on a laptop, and is clearly using a behringer TD-3 (a 303 clone)
Cover of One for Sorrow comic book
A noisy video of ambient music generated by a yellow handheld game device, a raspberry pi with a hat in a 3d printed container, a tiny keyboard, and an orange guitar pedal
3 bundts and 4 little loaves of Trader Joe’s gluten free pumpkin bread with a light sprinkling of powdered sugar on a white plate
the B-side of the Over The Garden Wall soundtrack (with "beautiful eye" on the label) on golden lantern vinyl on the turntable, with the cover of a spooky paper cutout of the two main characters in a lantern in front of reeds with a shadowy hand. This is all on a cluttered desk.
Orange pumpkin-shaped vinyl on a turntable, with the cover of It’s the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown to the right. It’s all on a cluttered desk with pencils and cassette tapes strewn around
A guy from a Gundam manga (not sure who, sorry) saying “do not share your views with me. No more about this.”
A signed cassette copy of Skillet's self-titled debut album, released in 1996. Each illegible signature is accompanied by an admonition. Clockwise from top left: "be a voice for this generation" then "serve God!" and "JESUS!"
The main set of Peewee's Playhouse, showcasing it's wild late-80s aesthetic with bright colors, different patterns, and lots of kitsch
Photo of spines of cassettes in a wooden rack. Tapes, top to bottom: Mamman Sani - Taaritt, Ginger Root - Shinbangumi, Pearl & the Oysters - Coast 2 Coast remixes, Dummy - Free energy, Mo Dotti - Opaque, The Gleaming Corridor - Collected Dots, The September Equation - The great filter and the green valley, Sound of Ceres - emerald sea. There are more tapes to the right and left, plus the shoulder of a transformer and an uncle iroh action figure
Cassettes of Mamman Sani's album Taaritt, Rickard Jåverling's Album 3, and CFCF's Liquid Colors
The image that came up when I searched up "90s clear phone" in Google. Fun fact--I won mine at a school fund raiser
screenshot showing the post and reply along with the Digital Color Meter window, with "display in Adobe RGB" selected, and a white pixel highlighted with R: 0xFF, G: 0xFF, B: 0xFF