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:I saw this Friday night. Great fight choreography, lighting & staging, adaptation of t…PersonalPrime Stage presents ‘Twelfth Night’ as season-ending productionLooking forward to seeing this! Set in …CultureMe, contemplating the implications of maybe doing a socialize this weekend.PersonalThe…
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:Fall 2023 Grades: Submitted! AcademiaThree different sized buildings. Still working on variations for the biggest one. #blender…Three…
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:Celebration of Writing Fall 2018PersonalIf you want to work with words, then journalism courses are very practical options.AcademiaAt the airport, sending the daughter off to…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:Out for a walk during some downtime. Paused to appreciate this beautiful city of #Pittsbur…Out for a walk during some downtime. Pau…Personal'Dream' casting a family affairAmong actors in Cabaret Theatre’s upcomi…CultureOn the upside, no fake news is currently being shared on Facebook. Can't think of a…
#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:I am very happy for these folks, who spent 20 or so years tweaking an insanely complex, co… AwesomeA very happy geekling playing Dungeons and Dragons on her one free evening.…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Thoughtful PopCult Analysis of 'Peanuts' Deserves Better than a Clickbaity Headline Hating…On a shelf in the slanty room under the …CultureOpening night. They've got magic to do! CultureGiven a chance to explain his support…
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:Ode to Huckleberry Finn, Dec’d(Inspired by Emmeline Grangerford, Dec’d…CultureHow are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made? How can we all help each oth…Carolyn and were recently cast…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:Jane Elliott’s “National Brotherhood Week” Lesson https://youtu.be/oGvoXeXCoUYCultureAs Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned The journalist chose to spotlight a litt…CulturePortofess”If people can confess on Oprah, Phil an…EthicsHeadphones, Croutons and RhetoricME…
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:Opening night. They've got magic to do! Culture"I'm a geek. Deal with it." –my 11yo daughter. #geekgirlproblemsAmusingThe dress we ordered for the “girl next door” role in The Fantasticks… vs the dress that…AestheticsThe Girl's Obsession with Scottish History ContinuesWife: “What did you do with your bedshee…AestheticsThe Girl Wins…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:Snow White: The Musical Opens Fridayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIRCoHoN…AestheticsAlike (2015)This short film reminds us why art matte…AestheticsNOT a scene from The Miracle Worker.PersonalIn-person classes heighten age-related hearing problems (opinion)My family tells me I’m starting to speak…AcademiaDr Jerz I think your microphone glitchedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPqnXF7A…AcademiaFall 2022 Grades: SUBMITTED Academia
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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:Today's workload included requesting a "less-depressing used chair" #lowexp…PersonalAs I was preparing to take this screenshot, two more papers came in.I still have odd jobs to tie…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Unmarked assignments in my queue: 0This app, which sports a little red noti…AcademiaFinished the female officers for my neovictorian steampunk personal project. #blender3d, #… Female officers, from the le…AestheticsKeeping it classy. My 20yo son encounters the fruit-eating scene from the…
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:Opening night. They've got magic to do! CultureHow CNN Found the Reddit User Behind the Trump Wrestling GIFCNN is protecting the identity…
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…