Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Trying out a new lens to capture creepy-toy-come-to-life choreography. AestheticsTake a look at the moon tonight!I wish I had the time or energy to get o…AestheticsYes I do own a copy of the 1975 Star Trek Enterprise blueprints, but this guy annotated…
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:Charming solar system scale installation on Baltimore St. in Kansas City.PersonalMy students were awesome. So many thoughtful final projects. So much growth. A stressful, …PersonalIconic 'West Side Story' still resonates todayCarolyn Jerz of Greensburg 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…
A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son. Similar:Teacher suspended after pro-Trump yearbook photos alteredFree speech is valuable. It’s dangerous …CultureThe Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17) Lwaxana Troi and the station c…Rewatching ST:DS9 Bashir is hosting t…CulturePracticing my Unity3D design skills. Forgot to turn on gravity.https://youtu.be/PkxxiPAmTFg I’m brus…AmusingIn February, 2001,…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:From Shakespeare to Sondheim to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, everything you "dew�…PersonalAnother homeschool year ends successfully. Here are the kids with their external evaluator…PersonalMy buddy JTK helps me make a key point in my slideshow. #4c18 #b29Putting speaker notes on an iPad is alwa…AcademiaThe Outrageous Okona (TNG Rewatch, Season 2,…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:How journalists can prep for a possible violent eventJournalists face a unique threat when co…Culture1 small shirt for a man, 1 giant leap backward for women: ColumnIdea for a scientist pull-cord doll: “Fa…AestheticsJustice (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 7) When Wes trips…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:The Hidden Benefits Of DaydreamingWhen your mind wanders, its like P. T. B…CultureRhythm of the Dance (Irish dance, song, and music touring show)My family thoroughly enjoyed this perfor…AestheticsBilbo's party sociological infographic.AestheticsThe Strangest, Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse (And How…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Biggest accomplishment of the dayThe real problem is timing — they had c…GovernmentNot bad for a couple hours of work. #blender3d #blender3dart #steampunk #neovictorianNot bad for a couple hours of work. #ble…AestheticsI am very happy for these folks, who spent 20 or so years tweaking an insanely…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Past Tense, Part 2 (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 12) Sisko must channel socia…Rewatching ST:DS9 After the recap of …CulturePerforming as Alquist in ActIII of Rossum’s Universal Robots. (Free Zoom performance of gr…https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…PersonalFamily outing to the…
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:#Blender3D rendition of the bridge of the æthership that featured in the musical #steampun…Personal“We hate math,” says 4 in 10 – a majority of AmericansIf 30% love math, and…
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:MisSpelled: Premiering Oct 1In this podcast series, I voice a mage w…AmusingPart of my daily routine is practicing German for about 15m per day. With no particular pr…EducationEnjoyed watching the restored version of the hugely influential 1927 sci-fi movie #Metropo…Enjoyed watching the restored version of…AestheticsHeart of Glory (TNG…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Another 10 sq cm section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #designAestheticsI broke the garage door when I left for work this morning. Fixed it when I got home.PersonalElsa at noon. College “Intro to Chemistry” in the afternoon. Amy March at night.PersonalSpanish dance @laurelballettheater @westmorelandsymphony The…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Details matter in journalism. Get the brand of the beer, the make, m…EthicsMy "Writing About Literature" Students Are Sampling Text Adventure GamesI’m having my students play Adam Cadre’s…CultureI just dusted off a #textadventure project I started in Inform6 around 1999.I just…
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:First page of a student’s Texture project. (This made me laugh.) This clever freshman writing student…AcademiaQ-Less (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 6) Shenanigans with Vash and QRewatching ST:DS9 In the teaser, Bash…DesignMe waiting for students…