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:Books Come Alive! Catalina Magdalena Cast (Stage Right Greensburg) The cast for “Catalina Mag…BooksAfter lights out, the girl is knitting.PersonalThe girl is the Dew Drop Fairy in @laurelballetperformingco The Nutcracker Saturday evenin…PersonalHollow Pursuits (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three,…
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:Serving at midnight breakfast.PersonalHow Not to Be a Jackass at Your Next Academic ConferenceOkay, I confess, I…
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:Getting ready to run a ChoiceScript workshop for Computers and Writing 2023. #cwcon #cwcon…PersonalOne strategic twist-tie, and my bedside cable-tangles are a distant memory.PersonalMy basement…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:Snape and Ginny at the Hogwarts Club event.PersonalAdobe steals your colorWhat a horrible situation. The Adobe mon…AestheticsA Christmas Carol — new audio adaptationBooksFull Bloom opens next weekend. Tickets 724-527-5777.PersonalSpring 2023 Grades: Submitted! (I only had 3 last-minute submissions to mark today.)AcademiaAnother section of a #steampunk control…
#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:Your first test layout of medieval city streets will be your worst. #blender3d #medievalyo…Your first test layout of medieval city …DesignComfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. –Mr Dooley on the…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:My mother-in-law invited me to try out the 60- year-old tape machine that belonged to my f…My mother-in-law invited me to try out t…AwesomeMy 10yo Created Bookmarks to Express Her Complex Relationship with ReadingMy…
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'm enjoying "William Shakespeare's Star Wars" more than I expectedI didn’t expect a pseudo-Elizabethan ren…AmusingWork-Life Balance, from 11(!) Years AgoI think I’m managing work-life balance p…AcademiaJournalism 101: I fixed this…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:A masked, socially distant museum visit. So nice to get away from syllabuses and email for… Ford built about a half dozen of the…AestheticsThe Neutral Zone (ST:TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 25)Rewatching Star…
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:Students present their research for the Celebration of Writing @setonhilluniversityPersonalAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #relaxing #aestheti…AestheticsOh that sweet, sweet feeling of progress.PersonalI can't really articulate why i enjoy crafting #steampunk control panels, but it's been a …AestheticsMidsummer opens tomorrow.PersonalIn between 3 walks and…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:The film Carolyn was in is a finalist. The screening will start soon. #48hrfilmproject Sup…PersonalLiz Fosslien's insightful comic on unhealthy conflict vs. healthy conflict.PersonalMaybe it wasn’t a sensible idea to hold 5 hours of student consultations on the day midter…AcademiaSibling Affection and Paternal Abstraction as Drawn By…
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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:This the last hour I will have a teenager in my house. (Tomorrow my youngest turns 20.) I blogged in 2004: “The ti…AwesomeEaster collage 2018.PersonalIs this the…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Added multiple swappable upper storeys. Next I will make slightly fewer variations of a sl…Added multiple swappable upper storeys. …AestheticsPrime Stage presents ‘Twelfth Night’ as season-ending productionLooking forward to seeing this! Set in …CultureI just discovered what will grind up 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:Looking forward to what looks like an exciting evening of dance.PersonalTARDIS from today's 3D printing class.AestheticsChecking out of @frontporchtheatricals Grand Hotel. What…
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…