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:Tonight's Supermoon.AestheticsStarting my “Writing about Literature” class by having students react to a John Donne sonn…PersonalDelighted, amused, touched, and quite frankly weirded out (so… many… puppets…) by @t…PersonalScrooge Is My BrotherMy daughter delivered the opening “Marle…CultureNerd-buddies”He likes Lord…
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:i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries – so that i could engage in…
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:Little Women (the daughter plays Amy, the youngest sister)PersonalThe coronavirus is today just as contagious and just as serious as it was when we were…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:The girl will be dancing as the Gold Fairy in Laurel Ballet's Sleeping Beauty tonight… PersonalThinking about physical therapy and cheerful, chatty older gents…I feel like I’m living in a sitcom. A…CultureFurnished a random nook in the #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser I'm building. Not ha…PersonalI may have mentioned…
#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:Last night I dreamed I was a stagehand during a metatheatrical number called “Butts in Sea…I saw Seton Hill’s production of The Dro…DramaMore split-screen actinghttp://youtu.be/EGgeZWskEs8DesignSnape is not amused at this year's…
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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:Back in the MLAAs the humanities decline in the United …AcademiaTexas School Censors All Of ‘Huck Finn’ Except The N-Words (Satire from The Onion)Is it only a matter of time…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:The eagles in Lord of the Rings are a plot hole, but also an us problemPart of my enjoyment of genre franchises…BooksSo this is Pi DayMy wife says she bought the pies intendi…AmusingThe…
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:So happy to work with @crissycp and benefit from her kindness and baking talents.PersonalWhere the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. —Thomas JeffersonEducationThings are not going well when the other king and queen stop by for such an intimate visit…AmusingProcession #classof2017PersonalSupport the…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:Spanish dance @laurelballettheater @westmorelandsymphony The NutcrackerDanceFinally — the pace at work subsides a bit.PersonalUnder my academic robes… photographer vest with 3 frozen ice packs. #heatwave #HonorsCon…PersonalIt's exam week, and at the moment I have exactly one unmarked assignment (for a paper due …It’s exam week, and at…
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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:Enjoyed watching the restored version of the hugely influential 1927 sci-fi movie #Metropo…Enjoyed watching the restored version of…AestheticsLecturing is So Much Easier than Leading a DiscussionLecturing is…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Datalore (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 12) Data's bro wants to be with a big crystal tr…In “Datalore,” an encounter with Data’s …CultureMany of these individual steampunk control panel elements are repeated, but I've arranged …AestheticsThis is Ralph. Ralph is a…
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:Fake Kitsch! Not Really the 80s! There is a part of me that misses …AestheticsThe Best of Both Worlds, Part 2 (…
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…