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:Greebles make me happy.Before CGI, filming a science-fiction st…AestheticsParty Like a Jerz My dad just made us root beer floats.PersonalUnmarked assignments in my queue: 0This app, which sports a little red noti…AcademiaAfter the haircut. The girl seems to like…
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:Pics from Thursday's dress rehearsal of Shrek: The Musical. This weekend only! @stage…PersonalThinking about the new semester…
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:A Grave Tale (a short story I narrated for WAOB Audio Theatre)A Grave Tale (WAOB Audio Theatre) Wri…LiteratureI am a dog and I am a…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:I was briefly excited that Turnitin.com's new app works in a park with no WiFiThen I realized… I’m a guy who gets ex…AcademiaChess with my son. As usual, it didn't go well for me.GamesI've missed doing this! Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel goodness.…
#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:How to interact with the introverted…My daughter spends a lot of time with he…DesignGreen / mahogany variation of the vibe I'm working on for a fantasy #steampunk #blend…PersonalMidterm Grades Submitted.AcademiaAttending Religious…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:It's probably safe to throw these out.Personal"I think the Exposition Officer's bridge station might have too many control pan…PersonalLego-Building Tween Refers to "The Hobbit" TextMy daughter, having just received a hand…AestheticsABC News executive placed…
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:Is Google Making Us Stupid?Nicholas Carr, in The Atlantic: As the …BooksJournalism by the Numbers (a pedagogical play in one scene) #math (Lights up on a college journa…CultureI worked in…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:Meme alleging Trump said “Africans Are Lazy, Good at Sex, Theft” is a hoax I’ve seen this meme shared by severa…EthicsMaybe I'll start a cover band, cleaning up hip-hop songs…Maybe I’ll start a…
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:Family catch and eat octopus with six tentacles during Greek vacationI keep a silly personal blog devoted to …PersonalThe Big Boy GraveyardOn road trips in my youth, watching the …AmusingBird flight simulator. The boy goes for altitude and distance, the girl does stunts.In the bird-flight simulator at the…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow: Icelandic bromance, with weapons, secret panels, and…I try to read to my kids for an hour eve…BooksWest Side Story Maria MontagePersonalMany things in the world are awful, but my latest #Blender3D work on my #steampunk control…One of many steampunk…
Similar:Trump and JFK: Masters of New MediaI didn’t use Newsweek’s clickbaity headl…CultureHow Television Covered the Kennedy Assassination – a 1964 TV Guide ArticleIt was a new, shocking, traumatic thing …CultureNew data on the first three jobs held by graduates of six popular majors“There is an enormous part of the econom…AcademiaI had a grand time recording…
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 brother, in town to see The Nutcracker, starts a chess game with my sonPersonalGrades submitted.AcademiaThe black chair is down to 18¢ per ounce? Shut up and…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch I was in college and grad school dur…CultureSettling in for a jukebox show (not my favorite genre but the Go-Gos are fun).PersonalMy meeting was cancelled, so I spent the morning assembling a cabinet for 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:Star Trek TOS Main Theme but it never gets to the Main ThemeArrgh! This is sooo stressful! (Some gre…MediaNo, this photo of…
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…