Your first attempt at a medieval gate and city walls will be your worst. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:That felt sooo good!PersonalHow Not To Make Professional ContactsTowards the end of my year-long radio ne…AmusingGo not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.First runner-up for the girl’s Halloween…AestheticsLook at the unusual…
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:My buddy JTK helps me make a key point in my slideshow. #4c18 #b29Putting speaker notes on…
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:Merchant of Venice Part 2 live, now! #PPTPlaytimeDramaOnce on This Island (Stage Right! Greensburg; May 11 & 12 Promo Video)The girl plays Ti Moune in…
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#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:Did you put enough donuts in the elevator shaft of your #steampunk #neovictorian cruiser t…https://youtu.be/lSgv5L0sXtc &nbs…AestheticsMore #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dartAestheticsHappy Easter 2016PersonalDaughter made a Rainbow Loom Marty…
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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:100 Careers for English MajorsAnyone with an English degree will tell …AcademiaMy Dad Is a Right-Wing Asshole (Village Voice)A closed-minded liberal writing a letter…CultureJames Goodwin Clonney: Mother's WatchThis painting, of…
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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…
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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:Still in her make-up from her scene as Marley's ghost, with script in hand standing i…PersonalValid for any new yearEthicsYes Virginia the Musical coming to ConnellsvilleCarolyn Jerz…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Next up for the girl: Cherry in "The Outsiders" (March 6-15)BooksA student just booked an appointment to discuss picking up journalism as a second major. E…AcademiaI filed my grades early. I shall now, briefly, do something irresponsible.Grades submitted. I’ll reward myself…
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:Proofreading matters. (For the record, Blanche actually said, "We most certainly enter a p…I make mistakes on my blog all the time….Current_EventsA…
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…
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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…