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Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light…
My simulation project does not require me to master medieval daub and wattle architecture. But sadly, I now know just enough to be disappointed by this first attempt. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #keepgoing Similar:What's wrong with the way I talk?Wife & daughter competing w each oth…AestheticsA rare win for Dad. CultureThey still need work but we have…
Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:7 ways for teachers to beat the Sunday bluesTell yourself, I am rejecting these thou…EducationOne of my students is demonstrating the perceived value of brand-name vs no-name products…. PersonalMy journalism students just gave me this wristband: "What would Jerz do? / Verify or…
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:Create Joy with Content Management System Hexcodes for Canvas LMSI spent about 30 seconds eyeballing the …AcademiaThe YouTube "Blender3D to Unity UMA" tutorials blow through all the steps in a h…PersonalMe, contemplating the implications of…
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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Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:CEO’s brutalist office, for a Zoom-based production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)….AestheticsThe Liminal Classroom”What,” I asked, “are we to make of Plat…AcademiaForce of Nature (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 9) A Space Thing leads to an…
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:Russian Grand Ballet Swan Lake.PersonalJournalism academics: mocked by the media and stifled by universities [T]he traditional consensus is t…AcademiaUnmarked papers today. How it started, how it's going.PersonalLove outdoor theater.…
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.…
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