Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Dragging Myself to a New Skill Level with Blender 3DWorking on some very complex stuff in Bl…AestheticsThat should be the top "Under 800" prize, but the plaque has an extra zero. #chessPeter spent the day at a chess tournamen…GamesDance of "the awkward…
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:It's been a Dwarf Fortress afternoon. AwesomeQ Who? (ST: TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 16)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…Media"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania."PersonalYour first test layout of medieval city streets will be your…
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:Lego goes steampunkBe still, my nerdy heart. Steampunk —…AestheticsBird flight simulator. The boy goes for altitude and distance, the girl does stunts.In the bird-flight simulator at the Pitt…CybercultureTwo Cheers for the Middle Ages! by Eric ChristiansenI love good writing. “Even those who dou…CulturePeter vs. the…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:Merry Christmas 2013Current_EventsSpent the morning in a socially distanced recording studio.PersonalNipper Hears "His Master's Voice"As a kid growing up in Fairfax County, j…BusinessForgotten closet box: powder blue summer suit with a crisp 1990 $10 bill in the pocket and…The chunky laptop seems to boot and the …DesignMany things…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:True Q (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 6) Visiting Intern Exhibits Q-like Power…Rewatching ST:TNG On its way to help an…CultureSet design for a virtual production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). Post-apocalypti… AestheticsMechanical #greebles (more #Blender3D practice)https://youtu.be/NzUp-9e_olQAestheticsCan we hope to understand how…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:A vacation minibar story from 20 years ago.PersonalI filed my grades early. I shall now, briefly, do something irresponsible.Grades submitted. I’ll reward myself wit…PersonalMerry Christmas 2013Current_EventsThoroughly enjoying Company.PersonalSome new locations for my #neovictorian #steampunk personal project. Created in…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Screening of "Indentured" (short film the girl and I filmed in January)PersonalI’m still teaching journalism and my usual courses, but after 21 years I’ve stepped aside …I’m still teaching journalism and my usu…AcademiaIf I don’t design the sign for the pub on my #steampunk space cruiser, who…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Wood pile stacking animation (Blender 3D)For a medieval project, I wanted a wood …AmusingExplorers (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 22) Sisko builds an ancient Bajoran s…Rewatching ST:DS9 With a come-hither …AmusingI've completed my second set of…
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:Ushering for a school matinee. Love seeing the kids excited about @prime_stage Frankenstei… CultureI think this #denoising filter makes my #CGI scene look a bit like a hand-illustrated chil…I…
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:Checking out of @frontporchtheatricals Grand Hotel. What an experience!My brother had already planned to visit …AestheticsI came of age playing too many CD-ROM point-and-click adventure games to ignore these stee…I came of age playing too many CD-ROM po…AestheticsHow to interact with the introverted…My daughter spends a lot of…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Salesman at Pittsburgh Public Theatre. PersonalFrom Shakespeare to Sondheim to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, everything you "dew�…PersonalWhen we play Star Trek Monopoly, I am the Captain’s chair. Games#Blender3D rendition of the bridge of the æthership that featured in the musical #steampun…PersonalSpent a half hour taming this tangle of cables (left) with…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Trump Briefly Glanced at Eclipse without Protective GlassesDonald Trump’s persona as a man who does…Current_EventsWhen Is Asking the Question Part of the News? (Rarely.) We mostly only encounter the phrase “whe…EducationNAVY TO DROP ALL-CAPS COMMUNICATIONSCaps off to the Navy’s plan to drop all-…CultureA new…
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:Code is not literatureA literate programmer describes his atte…CybercultureShatoetry iPhone app lets you put… words… in… William Shatner's… mouthWilliam Shatner and technology go way ba…AestheticsIn December 2000, I was blogging about typeface snobbery, freedom in video…