Carolyn Jerz lights up the stage from her first entrance, almost literally. Dressed in bright colors and elaborately coiffed, with her face made up so pale white that it glows (think Björk meets Catherine O’Hara in Beetlejuice), Jerz imbues the role of spiritualist and yoga enthusiast Marigold with an outsider energy that is otherworldly, larger than life,…
Moments after Donald Trump was rushed to safety following a failed assassination attempt at a Saturday night rally, some of his supporters turned toward the press pen with obscenities as they fingered reporters for blame. “This is your fault!” one attendee emphatically yelled, pointing at individual journalists as he approached the fence line separating them from attendees.…
Your first attempt at a medieval gate and city walls will be your worst. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:The daughter is home from London.PersonalWatching a National Guard helicopter lift off after an EMS displayJust spending an August evening with the…PersonalSpace Shuttle Challenger (Destroyed 28 Years Ago Today)I was in my final semester of high schoo…EducationI'm in…
Sold out opening night of Mamet’s Oleanna. Chilling. Gasps from the audience. Office furniture may be a bit too fancy for an untenured prof, but multiple copies of the prof’s book on the shelves was a realistic touch. Similar:Beautiful. No Data / Lore opposition required. AestheticsMinneapolis protest cleanup: Did you share this meme without fact-checking…
These buildings are so much better than my first try about a month ago, and good enough for me to move on to the next step. #blender3d #blender3dart #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Once On This Island (next weekend)PersonalHow Not to Be a Jackass at Your Next Academic ConferenceOkay, I confess, I was once in the audie…AcademiaCarolyn choreographed…
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#blender3d is teaching me more than I ever thought I’d need to know about roof geometry. Enjoying free WiFi in a shady courtyard downtown. Similar:A pallet of cabinet fronts and structural elements to flesh out #neovictorian #steampunk i…PersonalBook geyser. My latest #Blender3D practice.In a peaceful grassy setting, a geyser o…AestheticsHappy Father’s Day One of my…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Why ‘Cats’ the Movie Fails So FlamboyantlyI can’t seem to get into superhero movie…AestheticsA pallet of cabinet fronts and structural elements to flesh out #neovictorian #steampunk i…PersonalHooded faculty and staff are loaded into the…
The writer, director, and one of the cast members talk about the play that my daughter Carolyn is getting ready to open Friday. Tickets: https://veryberrydead.bpt.me/ Similar:In-home schooling popularity slipping across stateWe were on our way out the door to see A…CultureThe Business 9 Women Kept A Secret For Three Decades, by Lori Weiss Over the…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:He Googles for some random memes to connect with weak prose, but what he does next is shoc…BusinessTrump’s Claims About Media Coverage of Terror Attacks Are BogusThe difference between PR and journalism…CultureFULL BLOOM…
I used to spend time in class teaching students about how your act of choosing to link from your blog to someone else’s blog was part of the formula Google used to rank its search results. The words you picked when you crafted your hyperlink was a way of conveying or withholding value. Tagging is…
Replica of George Washington’s field camp. @fortligonier Similar:A very happy geekling playing Dungeons and Dragons on her one free evening. #llapGamesWhy Were Old Video Games So Pixelated?I get all my news online now, but I grew…AestheticsA question I find myself thinking all the time.PersonalMoonBot is back. This time he fights a new adversary. #Blender3D physics…
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I’m not making a serious attempt at recreating specific architecture, just trying to convey a sense of what the streets might have looked like. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #simulation Similar:And to think… I had just decided to retire this meme because the last time I used in cla…AcademiaAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Dress rehearsal for Mamma Mia. This weekend only.PersonalUPDATE: BREAKING: 'Star Wars' Returns — 'Episode 7' Slated For 2015 And More Movies Plann…The moment in Attack of the Clones when …BusinessIs this why oldsters love nostalgia? I’m 50. I’m in my office…
Glenda Morgan does not sound that impressed with Google’s latest promises about AI and education. [T]hus far I am unconvinced that the kinds of tutoring currently offered via AI matches the concept of watching a student’s thought processes and identifying the core issues they aren’t understanding. Instead, AI tutoring today seems to consist of breaking…
When scholars of journalism study the effects of the shrinking press corps, they usually focus on how it hurts civil society. Vast swaths of the country are at risk of becoming “news deserts,” with limited access to reliable local journalism. This state of affairs makes it harder for people to make educated decisions and is…
Not bad for a couple hours of work. #blender3d #blender3dart #steampunk #neovictorian I painstakingly created every knob and switch as a 3D object two summers ago. Now I can slap these textures anywhere. Similar:Somewhere out there, somebody is working really hard to come up with a meme to blame this …Front page of the Miami…
Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have been studying how Gen Zers digest and metabolize what they see online. The researchers were hoping that their work would provide one of the first in-depth, ethnographic studies of Gen Z’s “information literacy.” But the…