Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:It’s been a while since something got me into a movie theater. Obviously I wasn’t in a rus… It’s been a while since something got …AmusingEpilogue to Rossum's Universal RobotsMy big finish as Alquist in a Zoom-based…DramaSteampunk flag for the United States…
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:Visiting my parents. Admiring their original Hallmark Enterprise Christmas ornament. I ask…AmusingTwelfth Night Cast Photo (Prime Stage, May 3-12)My daughter can hardly stop talking abou…AestheticsOnly a Dad (Edgar Guest poem, read by Carolyn and Peter…
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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So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Qpid (#ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 4, Episode 20) Q and Vash and Robin Hood, SomehowRewatching ST:TNG Who doesn’t like se…MediaThoreau's Cellphone ExperimentWhen I teach “Intro to Literary Study,” …AcademiaBanned Books Week | Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept. 30 – Oct. 6, 2012…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:On the spiral staircase that leads from the top deck down to the officers' pub and wa…AestheticsNew CarWednesday morning my resourceful brother…BusinessMore #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d #blender3dart #aestheticsAestheticsMe loving my birthday truck, c. 1971. I adored this…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:An Unexpecting MinorityTruthfully, I expected my new department…Academia"It's called an amphora," the artist says.AestheticsAbout to launch. Personal"I don't view Shakespeare's work as intimidating anymore." — midterm reflection from coll… “It has made me more confident in my…AcademiaThe Naked Now (Season 1, Episode 2: ST:TNG Rewatch) When a script…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Perspective | After a stunning news conference, there’s a newly crucial job for the Americ… I have always taken a neutral stan…CultureDance of "the awkward nerd trying to act really cool" Carolyn (doing a really cool dance…
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:What Twitter Changes Might Mean for AcademicsThis is one of the reasons I still consi…AcademiaWith actor Ken Bolden, who appears in Quantum Theatre's gripping (and hilarious, and shock… Mix…
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:Making more retro props for a #blender3d project. The way to get better at a thing is to d…PersonalThe girl around the house casually dressed "as a Jacobite."AmusingToday's workload included requesting a "less-depressing used chair" #lowexp…PersonalLaying out our anti-socialization defenses & cleaning out the penitence shack for anot…Visiting…
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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:Before I Go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and timeA very moving reflection by a dying man,…CultureWhy Japanese Kids Can Walk to School Alone It’s a common sight on Japanese mass t…CultureDetails on the…