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:Little Women (Thurs-Sun)PersonalSet design for a virtual production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). Post-apocalypti… AestheticsA Conversation with Dennis Jerz, Actor — WAOB Audio Theatrehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU6vs0ZB…DramaThe Naked Now (Season 1, Episode 2: ST:TNG Rewatch) When a script that blows chunks…
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:Really enjoyed watching Your Name with the family. Visuals hooked me, but the story kept m…AestheticsYork Corpus…
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:Introduction to The Skin of Our Teeth (optimistic, absurdist metatheater; Thornton Wilder,…https://youtu.be/1okt8MIVTtsAcademiaThe dress we ordered for the “girl next door” role in The Fantasticks… vs…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:My older brother falls to my son's chess skills.PersonalJesus Christ SuperstarI have a daughter who does things. Her n…CultureNASA Releases New Earthrise ImageNASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO…AestheticsThinkGeek :: Star Trek Enterprise PlushSet phasers to “Squeee!” ThinkGee…AestheticsSafety is a good thing.PersonalThe girl will be performing as the Dew Drop…
#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:Nipper Hears "His Master's Voice"As a kid growing up in Fairfax County, j…BusinessSeeing a different cast. Break all the legs!CultureAdded a pilot and cockpit details to my flyby of a #steampunk…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital HumanitiesMean technology. Mean, mean technology. …BooksPope calls Argentine kiosk owner to cancel paper deliveryThis is a very cute story, further illus…AmusingAttending Religious Perspectives on the War in Gaza.…
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:Father copes with toddler son's cancer by creating 'empathy' gameGreen and Larson both admit that even th…AestheticsThe dawn of the post-literate societyThe world of print is orderly, logical a…BooksStudents say…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:In defense of the Selfie StickI’m sure there are hipsters, even now, l…AmusingThere's No Substitute for FictionWhat do Peskin and Astington recommend f…BooksIn News, What’s Fake and What’s Real Can Depend on What…
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:I create five color variations of each #blender3d building I #design, and each of those ha…I create five color variations of each #…AestheticsA #neovictorian #steampunk ship-of-the-line needs a dramatic flag and a conveniently locat…AestheticsOver the years I have leveled up my Blender3D skills.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNLArSlF…AestheticsPictures from opening night of @pictclassictheatre…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:Delightful #steampunk #neovictorian control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesth…One of many steampunk control panels I’v…AestheticsFirst steps towards reconstructing a 30-year-old simulation. Marking the locations of the …First steps towards reconstructing a 30-…AestheticsA full minute standing ovation after that rousing final “Alleluia.” Thrilling!PersonalYes Virginia the Musical coming to…
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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:Academic Writing BluesTwo days ago my problem was that I had n…AcademiaIn Which I Bow Before the Mistress of Teen SnarkThe Girl: I’m sorry I’m being so……
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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:Sam Shepard Giggles, Doesn't GoogleI wrote my undergraduate honors thesis o…CyberculturePfully Pfizered and pfeeling pfine so pfar. Current_EventsBroken Link #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch…
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…