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:Another delightful section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #…AestheticsMy buddy JTK helps me make a key point in my slideshow. #4c18 #b29Putting speaker notes on an iPad is alwa…AcademiaRelics (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode…
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:"I don't view Shakespeare's work as intimidating anymore." — midterm reflection from coll… “It has made me…
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:I baked about 12 million vertices of steampunk control panel geometry into a flat plane wi…PersonalBrand new chairs for PICT draw applause.PersonalSaints and Poets, Maybe…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:Bilbo's party sociological infographic.AestheticsFull Bloom opens tonight.PersonalI've spent 8 hours with 24 different Verizon agents who keep transferring me back and fort…It’s not a Verizon Wireless issue. It’s …BusinessEye of Sauron, Hobbit Door, Palantir and One Ring Easter Eggs.AestheticsContext for Hayles, My Mother was a Computer…
#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:Why scientists should care about artMy artsy daughter loves stories about sc…ArtThis happened the last time an eclipse was visible in the area. My students left the room,…Pinhole projection. PersonalSupport the…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Learning the hard way, by making mistakes and starting over. The fore section of the fanta… AestheticsBacon Starry Night MemeI’ve no idea where the “Bacon Starry Nig…AestheticsHow Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free PlayNormally,…
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:ABC News executive placed on administrative leave after reports surface of insensitive, ra…The Huffington Post reports that dozens …CultureElderly ballerina hears familiar music from 50 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owb1uWDg…AestheticsDebunking the newspapers are…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:Children of Eden (Stage Right, April 2014)My wife and I in Biblical costumes for C…CultureSimulated iceberg, preserved artifacts and re-creations at the Titanic installation. …CultureThe Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17)…
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:A very happy geekling playing Dungeons and Dragons on her one free evening. #llapGamesThe poetry of deafnessMy auditory processing disorder makes it…AestheticsI'm having scads of fun designing #steampunk control panels. #blender3d #blender3dart…AestheticsGreen / mahogany variation of the vibe I'm working on for a fantasy #steampunk #blend…PersonalFrom Shakespeare to…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:Stack of wooden desk trays with metal supports. #Blender3D. Normal map, glossy map; mahoga…My goal in trying to do an object each d…AestheticsAfter a successful piano recital.CultureAfter your shift at the protocol station, join me in the officers' lounge, just up the spi… AestheticsTricking the eye 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:My wonderful daughter.PersonalSiblings gotta sib.PersonalNot bad for a couple hours of work. #blender3d #blender3dart #steampunk #neovictorianNot bad for a couple hours of work. #ble…AestheticsI think I’ve mentioned…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Okay, freshly downloaded app…Okay, freshly downloaded app, If you are…CybercultureAnother chess tournament with the boy.GamesThat's what's been bothering me since yesterday's #AirPod reveal. #manamanaNumber of times one of my $9.99 headphon…Business‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick…
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:Everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes.CultureSorry, not sorry. I don't want such…
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…