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:A merry look at journalism in the classic "The Year without a Santa Claus"PersonalAt Computers and Writing #cwcon for the weekend.Am I wise now? At an event for encouragi…AcademiaAnother delightful section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #design…
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:Weird History offers a good debunking of this persistent myth.PersonalGo not to the elves for counsel, for…
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:AP Style: try to determine, and then respect, a source's preferences when it comes to…PersonalThe Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17) Lwaxana Troi…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:Self-Regulation: American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist KidsFor a while, we were part of a homeschoo…CultureJust in case you can’t find the tweet that Trump, who got trolled for making a rookie erro…This is how the President of the United …PersonalLast event of a busy day downtown.…
#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:They figured it out.PersonalOne strategic twist-tie, and my bedside cable-tangles are a distant memory.PersonalI regularly teach A Raisin in the Sun but haven't seen a live production in decades. Looki… AwesomeLatest…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:On the way to the theater for the show! Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd.PersonalVaccine hesitancy morphs into hostility, as opposition to shots hardens What began as “vaccine hesitancy” has …CultureProcession #classof2017PersonalThis happened the last…
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:I’ve been teaching with this handout for over 25 years, updating it regularly. I just remo…I first started teaching with this hando…AcademiaBehind the art: The Westmoreland's 'Death of Elaine' beloved…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:In October, 2000, I was blogging about bobbed hair, Woolf, a CFP for interactive fiction s…In October 2000, I was blogging about …CultureA warning to college profs from a high school teacherMy students…
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:Reader, I ushered him. @pictclassictheatrePersonalBackstage opening night.PersonalMy college writing students are out making short videos responding to a prompt.While my students are out of the room ma…AcademiaAdding detail to a #steampunk control panel workstation. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #b…AestheticsHello, I’m Dr. Jerz, I’ll be your server tonight for Christmas…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:‘Twelfth Night’ is a Shakespearean hoot, and Prime Stage actors Carolyn Jerz, Malcolm MacK…Why is Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Nigh…AestheticsWhere the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. —Thomas JeffersonEducationThe Icarus Factor (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 14)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…PersonalOn set.…
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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:They've got magic to do. Carolyn is the Leading Player. (Pippin, Oct 21-29) AwesomeIt’s something to do.PersonalAt the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland.At the airport,…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:The captain will shortly address the officers and crew. Please have the custodial bots pol…AestheticsUnmarked assignments. Major drafts came in over the weekend so I lost some ground but I kn…PersonalMore #blender3d #steampunk control panel details. #blender3dartAesthetics"Oliver Twist" is a story…
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:Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards It is a game absent strategy, requi…AestheticsI’m thinking this is a still from the cringey…
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…