Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Memories of Toronto Yonge Street EncountersI arrived in Toronto in 1992 as a 22yo g…CultureMy Son Plays Mozart Too Fasthttps://youtu.be/gXAtRI1NLxs He says “M…AmusingNow that I have polished so many details, I'm working on more selective lighting. #steampu… AestheticsWhy do academics dress so…
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:The Offspring (StarTrek:TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 16) Data Experiences FatherhoodRewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….CybercultureLittle Women (Thurs-Sun)PersonalLooking forward to Part 2 of #PPTPlaytime’s production “The Rivals” (live… now!)CultureRichard Scarry unfinished manuscript to be publishedSome…
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:Prototypes in Technical Writing: What are They?Many a high school student has muddled t…AcademiaApparently I’m using boolean modifiers to carve out negative-space greebles for a texture …AestheticsThe cultural implications of the myth that English majors end up working permanently at St…Would you like facts with…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:Little green owl, if your emotions depend this much on how often I practice, that’s defin…Little green owl, if your emotions depe…PersonalThinking about physical therapy and cheerful, chatty older gents…I feel like I’m living in a sitcom. A…CultureEmpathy in a Downtown Sub ShopSitting in a downtown sub shop.…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Loved part 2 of The Importance of Being Earnest (live videoconference play from @ThePublic…AmusingI'm just getting around to watching this speech from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Impressive!I really never paid much attention to Sc…AestheticsMy crazy Friday night involved tweaking the graphic for an #MLAstyle…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:xkcd: Types of Editorsxkcd: Types of Editors.AmusingCreate Joy with Content Management System Hexcodes for Canvas LMSI spent about 30 seconds eyeballing the …AcademiaTwo computer screens aren't better than oneI turned off the extra screen on my desk…CybercultureI'm Gradually…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Is this why oldsters love nostalgia? I’m 50. I’m in my office casually sharp…CultureShe feels pretty at the dress rehearsal (opens Thursday)On the ride home, in the middle of a spi…AmusingStuffed planet Venus, made for me by my dear mother, around 1974.AestheticsFrom Shakespeare to Sondheim to Tchaikovsky's…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Mr. Chen Goes to WuhanA Chinese media personality with over ha…CultureVanessa Otero's Updated Media Bias Chart (Liberal/Mainstream/Conservative; Facts/Analysis/…Otero goes into great detail describing …CulturePopcorn MakerI’ll have to look into this. Popc…Aesthetics10 Rules of Internet – Anil DashA…
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:Happy Easter!PersonalSports Meant So Much to Me. Why Wouldn’t My Son Play?I heard the boy tell Raffi that all his …CultureShould a Journalist Covering Rocky Horror Live Attend the…
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:Create Joy with Content Management System Hexcodes for Canvas LMSI spent about 30 seconds eyeballing the …AcademiaPerforming as Alquist in ActIII of Rossum’s Universal Robots. (Free Zoom performance of gr…https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…PersonalIt's a thing to do.PersonalAnother sold-out Midsummer Thursday night. PersonalOut & About: Stage Right holds its annual Heart of the…
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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:Crash site and Tower of Voices. Well worth the side trip on the way back from a weekend gi…Flight 93 crash site and Tower of Voices…CultureI was perhaps a bit more conversational and chipper than usual…