Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Carolyn is the Production Understudy for PPT’s Dial M for Murder in September A great professional experience for he…CultureRefreshing my memory of working with reel-to-reel tape as a radio news intern (c. 1989).HistoryOn my fantasy #steampunk cruiser, every uniform is a parade…
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:And so it begins.BooksMy student journos are meming it like bosses.PersonalMy 13yo and 18yo enthralled by WarGames.Wife likes movies. Son likes military th…CultureNo filter October mist as I walked up from the parking lot. Not…
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:Don’t Want to Fall for Fake News? Don’t Be LazyFake news is not a problem caused by tho…CultureMy meme about the distracted boyfriend memeAmusingWhat the police really believe: Inside the distinctive, largely unknown ideology of Americ…“That whole thing about the bad apple? I…CultureAI researchers find…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:Did you put enough donuts in the elevator shaft of your #steampunk #neovictorian cruiser t…https://youtu.be/lSgv5L0sXtc &nbs…AestheticsMy parents doing their daily brain treasers in a coffee shop.PersonalUgh. Unmarked items waiting for me as I start to recover from an illness.PersonalHeard any good stories lately?My daughter has a terrible time…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:For God's sake John, sit down!CultureAnother day, another 10 square centimeters of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blende…AestheticsMy #Blender3D set design for a Zoom-based production of Rossum's Universal Robots, which I…I’ve loved this 1920s play for almost 30…AestheticsPhysician: "My career of treating patients…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Cause and Effect (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 18) time loop. Ka-boom. The En…Rewatching ST:TNG A smart, charac…AestheticsFaculty stacked up in launch tube beneath McKenna gym, ready for graduation 2022.AcademiaCongrats to all the winners at the Pittsburgh…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:A dinosaur and an octopus are among those doing a speed-writing workshop in my journalism …PersonalAnother homeschool year ends successfully. Here are the kids with their external evaluator…PersonalMy son showed me Seven Samurai. I had never seen it before. Amazing!I’m going to have to watch this one…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:In-home schooling popularity slipping across stateWe were on our way out the door to see A…CultureAnother #steampunk #neovictorian control panel module. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #…AestheticsShrek Image Mashup (Musical Theatre Promo)Hey, Tony. See this photo of Shrek? H…AestheticsifMUD…
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:When You've Already Got a Major, But You Love Books (Seton Hill English) When committee work is fun… making…AcademiaI saw this Friday night. Great fight choreography, lighting & staging,…
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:Support the arts in your community! I’m here for the daughter and the rest of the cast. @j…Support the arts in your community! I’m …CultureThey figured it out.PersonalSurprised and delighted to find that Scratch 3.0 runs on an iPad.PersonalSo glad to be attending another live theatrical production. @quantumtheatre…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Carolyn as Hodel and Peter as Lazar in the Stage Right homeschool Fiddler on the Roof.PersonalHow long has Google Docs let you pop up a window with your current word count? Why wasn’t …PersonalToday I didn't save the world, but I did help a student while power-walking…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:The Media Pyramid: “Any content where ideology leads to falsehood is bad for you.”You Are the Media You Eat CultureWhat Is Newsworthy? (10m animated lecture)https://youtu.be/xSKllj9wuSk How do j…CultureMemo to faculty: AI is not your friend (opinion)I was approached on LinkedIn with…
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:Overheard at Quora: "Why after all these years is Moodle still so ugly?"Moodle is a free course-management tool …AcademiaLiberals and conservatives dislike reading opposing viewsMost research subjects, when offered the…CulturePreview of "The Fantasticks" (thanks, Tribune-Review, for…