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Stage Right Water Sprite

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Last week my daughter and I were a little too early to see the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s new exhibit, so we revisited some of our favorite items in the permanent collection.

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Mom scheduled to serve community service hours for chalk vandalism

Even though both sides share their point-of-views, they agreed on a common ground to help beautify the James River Park System. –NBC12.com

A typical TV-news style “send them into the laundry detergent commercial feeling happy” story conclusion, designed to train the viewer to think of TV news as a valuable provider of wisdom and establisher [...]

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Ideal Homeschool Summer Day: Studying Latin, Justifying Nilla Wafers, and Making a Duct Tape Skirt

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Today, I managed to get in a couple of hours of web development and PR/social media work that is stretching my skills a bit. The new pack of iPad styluses I ordered from Amazon has shipped. I’m caught up in the online faculty development class I’m taking. My inbox is brimming with opportunities to collaborate [...]

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That idea about a set of hideaway tables and chairs? Shelve it.

Orla Reynolds Design.

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Seton Hill’s Griffin Holds an iPad in Front of Admin Steps (Blender 3D Models)

I textured the model I created yesterday, and imported into an environment where I was already working on The Griffin. I added the iPad prop to the Griffin’s hand.

The railings are the wrong color, the Griffin’s hand needs to be posed to hold the iPad better, and I’ve got to give Griff something to [...]

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Seton Hill Admin Main Stairway (Blender 3D Model)

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Last night I used Blender 3D to rough up a model of this stairway, the site of hundreds of group photos over the years.

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The importance of “show, don’t tell”

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Futuristic Acrylic Chair (Blender 3D Animation)

Yesterday, I sketched a chair I found at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s “The Art of Seating” exhibit. I had a spare hour, and threw together this Blender 3D model, and let the simulation render overnight.

I only sketched it from one angle, so it’s fair to say this rendering is inspired by the [...]

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Synergistic Synthesis XVII Sub B1 Chair by Kenneth Smythe

After my daughter’s theater workshop, I took her up the street for a leisurely tour of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art‘s current exhibit, “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design.”

Most chairs encountered throughout the day define themselves fairly simply – a place at the family table, a comfortable spot with a [...]

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Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty Over Obama ‘Hope’ Image

The street artist Shepard Fairey, whose “Hope” campaign poster of Barack Obama became an enduring symbol of his last presidential campaign, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge stemming from his misconduct in trying to bolster claims in [...]