Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:I just thought of a time before you were born when I should have been kind, but I can't re… Sometimes when I’m driving along los…AcademiaComing up for the girl is another classic show: The Fantasticks.So looking forward to seeing her in…
Have you seen Apple’s “Crush” ad? It features a huge huge hydraulic press crushing musical instruments, art supplies, google-eyed toys, and other beloved artifacts of imagination and creativity. I remember seeing a video years ago that showed how a smartphone replaced a desktop full of tools like a calculator, notepad, rolodex, and so forth. But…
I’m still teaching journalism and my usual courses, but after 21 years I’ve stepped aside as faculty adviser to the Setonian. The student voice of the hill (founded in 1919) will continue to evolve. First published in 1919, The Setonian not only predates SHU’s journalism major, it also predates the majestic London planetrees that the…
A Brazilian couple bought a deforested ranch and spent decades planting over 2 million trees. #hope #life #stewardship #earth #ispeakforthetrees Similar:Another lovely variation of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3dart #neovictorian #desig…AestheticsLetter of Recommendation: Fanny PacksWhat other accessory ensures the safety …CultureAnother delightful section of #steampunk control panel, for a personal #blender3d project….AestheticsCreating textures for background…
A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him. With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and…
A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son. Similar:Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital HumanitiesMean technology. Mean, mean technology. …BooksGraphic Design Pun Cards Sara Heffernan designed these wonder…AestheticsMy theory: Trump was composing therapeutic poetry, and got stuck on the last line. PersonalTWEEN GIRL: "What's a tribble?"TWEEN GIRL: “What’s a tribble?” MY GE…PersonalFacebook Axes “Trending”…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:The Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17) Lwaxana Troi and the station c…Rewatching ST:DS9 Bashir is hosting t…CultureNot doing well. As usual.PersonalThe girl told me to post this with the caption, “The Addams Family Goes to the Big League….PersonalI am at that stage of life where…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Motivation Amid Crisis (Autotrophic Bat)As part of an independent study project,…BooksAwesome 1935 Soviet Movie Deploys Saxophone-Controlled Robots to Crush Tophat- and Bowler-…I wish I understood Russian, so that I c…AestheticsWhy our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreamingNeil Gaiman tells us why…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:The Xplor Store: The Forgotten Carnegie Science Center Exhibit? (Guest Post by Leigh Jerz…The other day, my wife suggested a Carne…BooksSnazzy officer uniforms from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult ch…AestheticsParchmap – Interactive Fiction…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:The Last Outpost (ST:TNG Rewatch. Season 1, Episode 4) Riker shouts from a cliff while Fer…Rewatching ST:TNG after about a 20-year …CultureOn Office Hours and Student Contact at the Small Liberal Arts College I don’t expect students to be constantl…AcademiaAn Unexpecting MinorityTruthfully, I expected my new department…AcademiaAnd…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Spring 2022 Final Grades: Submitted.PersonalServing at Christmas on the Hill 2025PersonalWorld Press Freedom Day. (Don't take the free press for granted. Journalists are not the e…PersonalProcession #classof2017PersonalYesterday it was 298 so this is actually a good number.PersonalYounger…
Nothing in this stack is pressing, but they do include rough drafts of final papers, so that will involve concentration and tact and empathy and time. Similar:"The face of the last man on Earth." #alquist #rur #robots #capek #virtual #theater Gettin…AestheticsOur family has seen David Whalen in the persona of Sherlock in five or six…
Here’s the underlying problem. We have an operating image of thought, an understanding of what thought is and how to make thought productive of knowledge and truth through the use of various methods. This image and its methods are, of course, products of human history. They change over time, in different cultures, and so on.…
Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day. Similar:Airlock for a #steampunk #blender3d project featuring #neovictorian #greebles. #blender3da… AestheticsGil Gerard (1943-2025) I built a model of the two-pronged Sta…CultureSkin of Evil (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 23)My rewatch reflection on the Star Trek:T…DesignToday's workload included requesting a "less-depressing used chair" #lowexp…PersonalWatching a National Guard helicopter lift…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Random sibling selfie.PersonalModular low-poly medieval buildings. Ground-level storefronts have more detail than the up…Modular low-poly medieval buildings. Gro…AestheticsHamlet. #tobePersonalRandom gauge design, for background details in a fantasy #steampunk project. #blender3d #b… AestheticsThe girl on Halloween 2018. (The boy and I were watching the 1931 Frankenstein at the…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:An Adjunct's Death Becomes a Rallying Cry for Many in AcademeBecause I blogged Kovalik’s editorial ye…AcademiaBlue Feed, Red FeedFacebook is designed to keep your attent…CultureDoes the phrase "based off of" make you shudder… or shrug?Jerz > Writing >&nb…AcademiaAnd if my point of view is somewhat misty-eyed…And…
After learning of his AIDS diagnosis, artist Keith Haring created the work, “Unfinished Painting” (1989), which is mostly a blank canvas, with streaks that evoke his own interrupted, incomplete life. Someone who thought it was “so sad” that the painting was unfinished used AI to “complete what he couldn’t finish.” Needless to say, the bot…
Seton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabeth Burns, Jake Carnahan-Curcio and Carolyn Jerz in a scene from “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.” This weekend only… opens tonight! Order tickets online at http://www.setonhill.edu/tickets by phone at 724-552-2929, or by mail at SHUPAC Box Office, Seton Hill University, 1 Seton Hill Drive, Greensburg, Pa., 15601-1599. Box Office Hours are…
Inspiration can come to those with the humblest heart. Caedmon the Cowherd believed he had no talent for singing, but the voice in his dream encouraged him. Listen to what he does with it in, “The Cowherd Who Became a Poet,” by James Baldwin. A Production of We Are One Body® Audio Theatre. Read by…
Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) featured during Seton Hill‘s “Celebration of Scholarship.” Similar:Why I Like Papers, PleaseAt a certain point, the transit papers w…AestheticsJournalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis When scholars of journalism study the …BusinessAcademics want to preserve video games. The game industry is…