Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Feeding a Neighbor's LambsA neighbor invited us over to help feed …AmusingNOT a scene from The Miracle Worker.PersonalThe girl sank her brother's last ship with the homophonous cry "I-1."AmusingMany of these individual steampunk control panel elements are repeated, but I've arranged …AestheticsCarolyn…
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:Carolyn featured on Steel City News for The Nutcracker The credit at 0:30 should read “Caro…AestheticsThe Girl Has Started Rehearsals for PICT Classic Theatre’s Jane EyreI’ve chauffeured the girl into Pittsburg…Books"A Mushroom at Last… A…
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:Unity3D Maze Game TutorialWorkspace for an in-progress Unity3D tut…AcademiaI had a singular time voicing Sherlock Holmes in The Mystery of Dr. Watson (WAOB Audio The… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azja…CultureCompleted uniforms for the officers and crew from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime sto… Right now I can move the player…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:I'm having scads of fun designing #steampunk control panels. #blender3d #blender3dart…AestheticsVisiting the KLBE Air MuseumPersonalCEO’s brutalist office, for a Zoom-based production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)….AestheticsHere's to the grim-based photojournalist who saved my bacon ~35 years ago Here’s to you, grim-faced photojournal…AcademiaBackstage opening night.PersonalDaughter made a Rainbow Loom…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:I baked pools of light into the wallpaper, so I can quickly suggest background lighting, s…AestheticsDo you get your news mostly from social media? I check NPR, Drudge, and news.google.com.Do you have a regular news-consumption r…CultureApple’s new diverse emoji are even more…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Stephen Coles’ The Anatomy of Type, reviewed.Talk nerdy to me. You’re my type. What …AestheticsKeeping it classy. My 20yo son encounters the fruit-eating scene from the 1996 point-and-c…PersonalBlewsMicrosoft researchers discuss Blews, whi…CybercultureSeeing A Wrinkle in Time. @prime_stagePersonalIt's a…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:My big acting moment in this scene is declining a drink. #indie #filmAmusingI had to act like I knew something about golf. There I am on the right at about :15.PersonalBeam me up, Chewie!AwesomeThe chief engineer of a fantasy #steampunk flagship needs a small booth for shift…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Recording Christmas Stories for WAOB Audio TheatreFor WAOB Audio Theater, my family spent …PersonalWork-Life Balance, from 11(!) Years AgoI think I’m managing work-life balance p…AcademiaChess tournament final pairing. (He’s currently tied for 2nd.)PersonalJulius Ceasar: The Politics 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:T-Shirts for student journalists who recently leveled up to “staff writer”(with bear signe…PersonalCrabby 10yo Ties Self to Pole to Protest InjusticeMy wife confiscated my preteen daughter’…CultureAnother homeschool year ends…
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…DesignIn May, 2000, I was blogging about the 'I Love You' virus, hacking URLs, PG Wodehouse, and…In May, 2000, I was blogging about …AcademiaHeard any good stories lately?My daughter…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Random gauge design, for background details in a fantasy #steampunk project. #blender3d #b… AestheticsFinished Reading The Chronicles of PrydainWe could hardly stop reading just before…BooksPrepare to lower the personnel deployment gondola from the forward eployment bay, two deck… AestheticsSupport the arts in your community!PersonalSomeone I know very…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Blogging is NOT Analog Writing in Digital SpacesBlogging in education is about quality a…CybercultureLiberal arts college professor assaults alt-right group memberCarefully choosing language that fits yo…AcademiaThe Portable Writing desk — the Victorian laptopFocusing on the materiality of writing, …AestheticsMost Americans have…
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:When is Donald Trump kidding? When is he being sarcastic? When is he being serious? Who ge…Earlier today a reporter, following her …Current_EventsMy simulation project does not require me to master medieval daub and wattle architecture….My…