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:Support the arts in your community!PersonalForgotten closet box: powder blue summer suit with a crisp 1990 $10 bill in the pocket and…The chunky laptop seems to boot and the …DesignVote for Carolyn's Headshot — Round 2 Vote for…
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:Synergistic Synthesis XVII Sub B1 Chair by Kenneth SmytheAfter my daughter’s theater workshop, I …AestheticsMy older brother…
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:Misaligned interior and exterior portholes. Bulkheads from the deck below visible above th… AestheticsShe’s wearing a shirt with a frog. We are in town to…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:Leftovers from the food my colleagues brought in to bribe/reward those few students who sh… Leftovers from the food my colleagues b…AcademiaA Thursday throwback to end 2015.PersonalThe girl got picked for an audience participation bit as the muse of comedy in Xanadu. Gre…CultureCaptain Gearheart inspects progress…
#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 brief respite from grading. A brief respite from grading. PersonalSummer photos of the daughter.PersonalPushing and pulling vertices. Components that fit together perfectly when I model them in …AestheticsTop deck of…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:How Are Websites Made?This one chart is actually the punch lin…AmusingI Felt a Great Disturbance in the Font. And the Margins.You don’t want to use Courier New and 1….AcademiaFacebook, Now You Remind Me of…
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:Listening to Weird Al's "Word Crimes." Awesome. My teaching method does not involve sham…AmusingWhat Can You Do With a Humanities Ph.D., Anyway?Victoria Blodgett, director of Graduate …AcademiaText, Speech, Machine: Metaphors…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:Stunning writing in this WaPost reflection on the Trump campaign's journey from a gold esc…I’m stunned by the writing. Here’s just …CultureThis Is Not a Book: Thomas Jefferson & Apple's App StoreHumanities professors…
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:The daughter introduced me to this wonderful Martin Freeman comedy. Kind of like School of…PersonalCelebration of Writing Fall 2019PersonalLaying out our anti-socialization defenses & cleaning out the penitence shack for anot…Visiting Fort Ligonier. When the girl…CultureDetails for a modular mid-range scoutship, from the #steampunk #neovictorian bedtime stori…Details for…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:Nerd Break! Listening To: Wilhelm Scream / Castle Thunder / Amen Break (While Watching Lig…In order to provide some context for a b…AestheticsNext up for the girl: Amy, the youngest sister, in Little Women: The Broadway Musical. Nov…PersonalCookies. That is all.AestheticsCarolyn's Theater Bio for Prime Stage's The…
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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:Delighted, amused, touched, and quite frankly weirded out (so… many… puppets…) by @t…PersonalThree more performances of Jane Eyre. Closes Saturday night! @pictclassictheatrePersonalFor the record, if I should…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Come see Carolyn and her talented castmates in The Fantasticks (Theatre Factory, Trafford …PersonalThe Defector (ST:TNG Rewatch; Season Three, Episode 10) Cold War Brinksmanship, via Shakes…(Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break…CultureSharing a root beer float with your dad doesn't fix everything…
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:Churning Out More Non-profit Arts PromosAs part of my volunteer work for a local…AestheticsLawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over…
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…