Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:The girl is the Dew Drop Fairy in @laurelballetperformingco The Nutcracker Saturday evenin…PersonalNo filter October mist as I walked up from the parking lot. Not a bad view. AestheticsUnmarked assignments in my queue: 0This app, which sports a little red noti…AcademiaTapdance /…
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:Smalltalk through masks is hard; I really was glad to see so many familiar upper halves of…If you said hello to me recently and I d…CultureEverything is beautiful at the ballet.DanceI just discovered what will…
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…
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The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:More #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dartAestheticsHalf of my students have never read Hamlet. (I told them not to get too attached to any of…We focused just on Act I today — the ope…PersonalAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #relaxing #aestheti…AestheticsIf I…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Open Access Journals in the Field of EducationUpdate, June 2015: New URL for the Direc…AcademiaA Mind Forever Voyaging reviewWhen it comes to gameplay, A Mind Foreve…CybercultureThe Current War (Quantum Theatre Musical)Waiting for The Current War to start. I …AwesomeHow Poetry Helps You…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Scoutship Flyby — #Blender3d and #MakeHumanhttps://youtu.be/8bgqZ_-iBcEAestheticsThe Case for Breaking Up With Your ParentsI already felt fairly independent from m…AcademiaThoughtful Gestures Sometimes Speak Louder than WordsShe ended up waiting out the light cycle…AmusingPoetry Stimulates the Brain's Reward-Anticipation Arousal Near…
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Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Your verbs have been lost and will be invisible until sentence author revision.The marketers and programmers at Google’…CybercultureCarolyn, Easter 2017 PersonalThis is what audience members are saying about Prime Stage Theatre’s production of The Out…https://youtu.be/y_yXrOdB-oE BooksChess tournament in…
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:College Professors Hate Sharing These Mind-Blowing Study Tips (#3 Made Me Cry) Read the syllabus. Read the syllabu…AcademiaHow hate and misinformation go viral: A case study of a Trump retweetOn…
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.…
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The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Living Room PhysicsI’ve blogged before about my eight-year-…EducationThree different sized buildings. Still working on variations for the biggest one. #blender…Three different sized buildings. Still w…AestheticsCelebration of Writing Fall 2019PersonalI'm having scads of fun designing #steampunk control panels. #blender3d #blender3dart…AestheticsThe dress we ordered for the “girl next door”…
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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:Memorizer (Memorization Tool)A Midsummer castmate shared a link to th…CybercultureLove This Headline: "He took a date to the park where he was gored by a bison, figuring it…DramaHenry V Fans: Today is St Crispin's DayKing Henry rallies his…