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:Look what I found on my shelf in a closet. #history #archaeology #media Look what I found on my shelf in a cl…PersonalAdded a splash…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:In September, 2001 I was blogging about… With a grant from UWEC, I was able t…AestheticsChristmas 1970. I was feverish and it was unseasonably warm outside. One of my favorite pi…PersonalOn the spiral staircase that leads from the top deck down to the officers' pub and…
#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:Same photo, two different interpretations.This is why I spend time teaching my jou…PersonalBehind the bar in the officers' pub, from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my…AestheticsI came of…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Enjoying the “Science of Pixar” 3d computer modeling and storytelling exhibit with my son….Enjoying the “Science of Pixar” 3d compu…PersonalWar via TikTok: Russia's new tool for propaganda machine “This is the way they go…
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:One Does Not Simply: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Internet MemesWhen we envisioned a journal of visual c…AcademiaTom Jones, librettist for "The Fantasticks," dies at 95I was so…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:Sorry, but I am done hearing about the "Cruise from Hell" story. Done.Okay, so yeah. One of these describes a …CultureHad a great time with AmLit students at the August Wilson block party…
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:Picking up books for another termAcademiaToday's 10 sq cm of #blender3d #steampunk control panel. #aesthetics #design #blender3dartAestheticsYesterday we took advantage of a rare free day.At the Carnegie Museum of Art. AestheticsTerm grades submitted. Homeschool son graduated. Time to breathe.AcademiaOn the spiral staircase that leads from the top deck…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:Summer Theater Camp Photos: "Patrice" in "13" My 11yo performed the part of “Patrice…Current_Events“Waiting for Life” (Once on This Island)https://youtu.be/NeoVD3prQWYPersonalWest Side Story Maria MontagePersonalUnion siege cannon, printing press, and "From Slavery to Freedom" were the highl…PersonalRichard Scarry unfinished manuscript to be publishedSome of my happiest memories of…
Similar:Life in Code and Software (Open Humanities Press)This book explores the relationship betw…Academia'Our worst nightmare': New legal filings detail reporting of Rolling Stone's U-Va. gang ra…The court documents, submitted as eviden…AcademiaJourney's End (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 20) Picard must relocate a North … Rewatching ST:TNG An obviously tr…CultureThe Girl Has Started Rehearsals for…
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:My meeting was cancelled, so I spent the morning assembling a cabinet for a Little Free Li…AcademiaWide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3dAestheticsCliffhanger from ST:TNG Best…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Drinking milk and using the #WaybackMachine to fix broken links in a 10-year-old blog post…PersonalMy basement dehumidifier was flashing an error code. YouTube had a tutorial with a possibl…My basement dehumidifier was flashing an…PersonalFinal grades are due tomorrow. My Fall 2020…
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:The Terrible Things I Have Said and Done My Entire Life, and Right Up Until a Few Days Ago…The media constantly takes…
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…
I was never really a fan of MTV, I assume because I grew up without cable TV as a teenager in the 80s, and because I was very busy with grad school and starting a family in the 90s. I didn’t really feel like I had much in common with my “Gen X” cohort (most…
Cops gotta cop, and that means keeping pesky journalists under control. Tirado was 38 in May 2020 when she drove from Nashville, Tenn., to Minneapolis to cover the unrest unfolding after the murder of George Floyd. He died when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes. The city became an epicenter…
Modular support craft from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now adult children. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics Similar:#Blender3D rendition of the bridge of the æthership that featured in the musical #steampun…PersonalCarnegie Science Center: Roboworld (and a bit of SportsWorks)Here’s a brief video, made up of clips I…CultureModular components to mix and…
How can a nostalgic, branching-path story-game encourage my 100-level journalism students take risks and learn from their mistakes? Using the ChoiceScript programming language, which features a robust stats system that can remember and respond to player choices, I coded up a “writing your first news story for the student paper” scenario, which unfolds as a…