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:Jumpsuit for a female mechanic in my #neovictorian #steampunk project. #blender3d #unity3dAestheticsAt the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland.At the airport, sending the daughter off…PersonalSpring 2022 Final Grades: Submitted.PersonalProgress (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 15) Kira…
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:Yesterday my stack of unmarked assignments was about 120, so this is not bad.Nothing in this stack…
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:This Is What Summer Vacation Is For: Designing a Steampunk Airsloop with Blender 3DSummer vacation means if I am telling my…AestheticsMy theory: Trump was composing…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:I'm not tired of @shu.pippin yet! Final performance is sold out.PersonalCreated a new graphic for an existing handout on writing editorials.The “lead editorial” represents the offi…EmpathyYes, this is my 11yo daughter yodeling on stage.http://youtu.be/reyclH7zuHIAmusingHomeschool prom 2017PersonalI just thought of a time before you were born when…
#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:My Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m official…AcademiaKeeping things in the proper perspective at 4Cs: Praise for my delivery of a line from Sta…Already met…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Vibing to a park saxophonist as I code for an upcoming conference presentation, and wait t…Vibing to a park saxophonist as I code f…PersonalAugust Wilson House officially opens in Pittsburgh's Hill DistrictThe August Wilson…
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:Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than PythagorasTranslating the markings from base 60 – …CultureYou Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To ScienceI don’t…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:Dennis Jerz, R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots), Karel Capek's "Fantastic Melodrama" – YouT…”In which the origin of the word “robot”…AestheticsSights, Sounds, and Smells of Elizabethan TheaterSomewhere during my education I picked u…AcademiaAdobe steals your…
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:My current Zoom backdrop. #blender3d #partylikeaprofAestheticsPicking up books for another termAcademiaUnmarked papers today. How it started, how it's going.PersonalToday's workload included requesting a "less-depressing used chair" #lowexp…PersonalLook at the unusual colors chosen by the three Russian cosmonauts who just arrived at the …PersonalScreening of "Indentured" (short film the…
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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 parents doing their daily crossword. I’m spending a few days visiting my …PersonalMisSpelled: Premiering Oct 1In this podcast series, I voice a mage w…AmusingMy student journalists…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Daughter is in 2 theatrical productions opening this weekendThe daughter plays Laertes in Seton Hill…BooksThoughtful Gestures Sometimes Speak Louder than WordsShe ended up waiting out the light cycle…AmusingSibling Affection and Paternal Abstraction as Drawn By a Six-Year-Old; or, Aren't My Daugh…My…
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:Writing, Coding and Education: Why They MatterBack in my grad school days, I was calle…AcademiaNew York Times Ready to Charge Online ReadersI…
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…