Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:After your shift at the protocol station, join me in the officers' lounge, just up the spi… AestheticsI've completed my second set of 25 #neovictorian control panels, which I'll eventually use… AestheticsMy precious is fifteen. PersonalMy college writing students are out making short…
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:Created a new graphic for an existing handout on writing editorials.The “lead editorial” represents the offi…EmpathyThe Problems of Real-Time Feedback in Teaching WritingSometimes my students get nervous becaus…AcademiaLook at how many times this false claim…
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:Pippin! Last show today at 2pm.CultureIf I don’t hang my own artwork on the walls of my #steampunk fantasy ship-of-the-line, who…AestheticsThey still need work but we have 2 weeks before classes start, so I feel pretty good.They still need work but we have 2 weeks…PersonalThe…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:Another section of a #neovictorian control panel for a #steampunk #blender3d project. I h…AestheticsWhat Khan Academy's Fun, Free Learning Empire Has to Do with Dystopian Social Control Over the Christmas break, I’ve been ch…AcademiaCarolyn's performance as Ariel #bardinbloom @ThePublicPGHSo good to see her preforming live on st…CultureI let her tend…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:I Find Myself in Another Showhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517BhV1j0…DramaMy Minecraft-obsessed tween made this blocky foam pig at art camp. Next up: Stage Right summer musical th…AestheticsThe Woman in BlackLast night’s preview was a layered treat…CultureBrian Williams is Giving NBC an Opportunity to Bravely Break with…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:I love my students enough to teach them the difference between passive voice and past tens…If a goggles-for-brains Lego character c…EducationYou're Doing It for the Exposure!! The Oatmeal on working for “exposure…BusinessOne strategic twist-tie, and my bedside cable-tangles…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Carnegie Science Center: Roboworld (and a bit of SportsWorks)Here’s a brief video, made up of clips I…CultureOpening night. They've got magic to do! CultureBlank template details and a wider view of a 30cm x 30cm grid of brass and glass #neovicto…PersonalCelebration of Writing — a big presentation…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:1 small shirt for a man, 1 giant leap backward for women: ColumnIdea for a scientist pull-cord doll: “Fa…AestheticsAgain with the @shu.pippinPersonalLovely set for @prime_stage Frankenstein. The daughter joined this cast less than a week a…PersonalElmo? Yes,…
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:AP Style: try to determine, and then respect, a source's preferences when it comes to…Personal'Jane Austen, Game Theorist' by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Is a Joke When [Chwe] says that…
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:Set design for Acts II and III of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) #blender3dDesignSledding in Spring Break SnowMy wife suddenly decided I should be a G…Current_EventsSummer Theater Camp Photos: "Patrice" in "13" My 11yo performed the part of “Patrice…Current_EventsThis weekend! GeyerPAC.comPersonalAfter you finish your brass-polishing shift, join me at…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Pippin! Last show today at 2pm.CultureSee The Nutcracker!@laurelballetperformingco dancers and full @westmorelandsymphony orches…DanceEducated, uplifted, boosted, and fed. Block party celebrating August Wilson continues thro…CultureCharming solar system scale installation on Baltimore St. in Kansas City.PersonalAnd so it begins.BooksThere’s Something Off About LED BulbsWhen I’m stressed, or I feel…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Thesis Reminders and Transitions: Touched up and created an infographic for a web page tha…Touched up and created an infographic fo…AcademiaSharing memes about news you don’t see is lazy. Be part of the solution!CultureFBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decadesSo…
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:A new study says young Americans have a broad definition of newsI expect that many of my students will b…CultureSo, what do professors do all day, anyway?Some days I am not Dennis. I am Marky Mc…AcademiaIn…