The Princess and the Paint

Friday night, my daughter will be playing the lead in the Stage Right! musical version of “The Princess and the Pea”  — her first starring role. After rehearsal today, she jumped at the chance to get messy by painting with Mark, our set designer. Similar:From Shakespeare to Sondheim to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, everything you "dew&#0…PersonalYeet with…

Sci-Fi Airshow: Guided Tour

Fantastic series of photos, showing sci-fi spaceships digitally inserted into photos that appear to have been taken at real airshows. To be more believable, we probably need to see more poorly-framed, snapshot-style “here’s my kid standing in front of a Moonbase Alpha Eagle,” but this was still a lot of fun. Sci-Fi Airshow: Guided Tour.…

The Portable Writing desk — the Victorian laptop

Focusing on the materiality of writing, this page offers a brief but fascinating overview of how design and culture affect the act of writing (and vice-versa). Just as we find laptops essential for writing, researching, and storing valuable information, the Victorians found their writing desks indispensable for storing writing materials; valuables, including money and jewelry;…

The Great Gatsby Character Map

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Crabby 10yo Ties Self to Pole to Protest Injustice

My wife confiscated my preteen daughter’s blush. To protest the injustice, my daughter tied herself to a pole and wrote this protest note. Similar:Look at how many times this false claim of media conspiracy is being shared. Compare that …PersonalPerspective | After a stunning news conference, there’s a newly crucial job for the Americ… I…

The Apollo 11 Journey in Photographs

July 20, 1969: astronauts from Apollo 11 visited  the lunar surface. The Atlantic. Similar:Multimodal Composition: Every time a student submits a narrated PowerPoint, a puppy cries.AcademiaDarkest Hour (2017)I’m not a huge fan of war movies, but my…CulturePrincipal fires security guards to hire art teachers — and transforms elementary schoolThe school was plagued by violence and…

The Trouble With Online Education

I’ve taught an online “Video Game Culture and Theory” course about four times now. This fall I’m getting ready to teach my first online section of an American literature survey that I’ve taught multiple times before. Because Seton Hill is a very high-tech school, I have few technical worries, but it will be different teaching…