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:On a little afternoon walk with my son.HealthNot doing well. As usual.PersonalWho is the more dramatic — my extroverted tween or my philosophical teen?Stoked from a morning show-choir perform…AmusingThis long-nelected CD-ROM case tucked away behind…
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:They both reached for the gun.PersonalItalian journalist to be beatified for helping Jews escape persecutionJournalist who helped saved Jews from Ho…Current_EventsCoronavirus Tribute to Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" (1942) I found this image on Facebook (wher…AestheticsHeadphones, Croutons and RhetoricME (with crouton tongs in one hand and s…Culture40…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:13: The Musical Promohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MbeApiX…CultureFrozen opens tonight. (All shows have been sold out for over a month.)DramaSteampunk flag for the United States of Britannia (from the alternate history my kids and …In the steampunk world my kids and I mad…AestheticsMore split-screen actinghttp://youtu.be/EGgeZWskEs8DesignSymbiosis (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 22)Rewatching Star…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Why Hoboken is Throwing Away All of its Student LaptopsUntrained teachers. Damage-prone machine…CybercultureSondra's Garden: Butterfly Release Honors Dr. Lettrich (Seton Hill University)”Every good lesson plan has a culminatin…AcademiaCarolyn had fun playing a street urchin this weekend in Stage Right’s production of Little…Another…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Easter collage 2018.PersonalLast event of a busy day downtown. #AgathieChristie #murderontheorientexpressAestheticsFinished Reading The Chronicles of PrydainWe could hardly stop reading just before…BooksSome problems bringing #Blender3D models into the #Unity3D game engine. The pink represent…AestheticsRefreshing my memory of working…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Cliffhanger from ST:TNG Best of Both Worlds. I haven't made time to watch TNG in probably …The cliffhanger for Star Trek: The Next …HistoryFaculty lining up for #SetonHill's "Go Orientation" — new ceremony hands students from th…AcademiaWork / Life Balance: UnlockedI think I must be doing something…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:What Do People Do on Mobile Devices? (Infographic)A handful of vignettes communicating the…BusinessMy buddy JTK helps me make a key point in my slideshow. #4c18 #b29Putting speaker notes on an iPad is alwa…AcademiaIf in question, have more…
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:What Grammar and Style Checkers MissTeaching students to write does not mean…AcademiaThe film Carolyn was in is a finalist. The screening will start soon. #48hrfilmproject Sup…PersonalPredatory Journals Hit By…
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:When it comes to the truth, point of view really does matter.You may have seen a version of this meme…DesignThe Tempest, According to My 9yo DaughterShe’s 10 now, but here is her response t…CultureMy 13yo and 18yo enthralled by WarGames.Wife likes movies. Son likes military th…CultureThe daughter missed…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Progress.PersonalMore #blender3d #cgi practice. Added workstations underneath the chief engineer's sta…PersonalNerdling spots typo in space exploration textbook.PersonalThe Xplor Store: The Forgotten Carnegie Science Center Exhibit? (Guest Post by Leigh Jerz…The other day, my wife suggested a Carne…BooksAdded an overhead minimap to my #medievalyork #unity3d simulation. #mysteryplayAdded an…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:‘I saw the possibility of what could be done – so I did it’: revolutionary video game The ….. Realising that statistics wasn’t for…CybercultureF-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11She was a rookie in the autumn of…
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:NYT: G.W. Bush is "super-overexposed" and "so far to our right" — so they omitted his pre…The quotes in my headline are accurate, …AmusingAnd if my point of view is somewhat misty-eyed…And if my point of…
Gotta love how this reporter worked the spelling variations into the story. Meet Ben F orgers (we wish we were making this up). The founder of the accounting firm hired by Donald Trump’s social media group has used 14 variations of his name in filings with the industry regulator, far more than any other US…