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Jerz Personal Culture Academia Aesthetics Design Education Literacy Politics Sports Ethics Empathy Justice censorship copspeak fact-check fake-news Humanities History Language Philosophy Speech Religion Journalism Current Events Fact Check Fake News JournoMemes Literature Books Drama English Poetry Shakespeare Wilson, August Media Aesthetics Art Books Games PopCult Blender3D Star TrekTOS TNG DS9 Sci/Tech Design Health Nature Psychology Technology Usability Writing Academic Creative Essays Rhetoric Technical / Professional About Courses Search Modular low-poly medieval buildings. Ground-level storefronts have more detail than the upper storey windows and interiors. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #gettingthere Modular low-poly medieval buildings. Ground-level storefronts have more detail than the upper storey windows and interiors. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #gettingthere My second try is definitely better than my first from a few weeks ago. I’ve told myself at this stage, no props! No barrels or crates or hay bales, wall sconces, procedurally-generated random street… Continue reading → Personal Spring 2024 Grades: Submitted Spring 2024 Grades: Submitted Personal I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. Personal At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. She: Use that one, because we both look derpy.” Cyberculture / Ethics / Justice / Media / Modding / Social_Software / Technology She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all 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 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 2 days ago 11 May 2024 in Personal . Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity 3 days ago 11 May 2024 in Personal . A crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad ad 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… 5 days ago 9 May 2024 in Aesthetics , Art , Business , Culture , Design , Empathy , Media , Rhetoric , Technology , Weirdness . 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. 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… 5 days ago 8 May 2024 in Academia , Culture , History , Humanities , Journalism , Personal . A Brazilian couple bought a deforested ranch and spent decades planting over 2 million trees. #hope #life #stewardship #earth #ispeakforthetrees A Brazilian couple bought a deforested ranch and spent decades planting over 2 million trees. #hope #life #stewardship #earth #ispeakforthetrees 5 days ago 8 May 2024 in Personal . Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Rescued From the River Thames 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… 1 week ago 7 May 2024 in Aesthetics , Culture , Design , History , Media , Technology , Weirdness . A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son. A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son. 1 week ago 6 May 2024 in Culture , Design , History , Personal . The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. 1 week ago 3 May 2024 in Personal . So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi 1 week ago 3 May 2024 in Academia , Culture , Design , Drama , Media . No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d 2 weeks ago 3 May 2024 in Personal . This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. 2 weeks ago 2 May 2024 in Personal . Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d 2 weeks ago 1 May 2024 in Aesthetics , Art , Design , Media , Personal . Yesterday my stack of unmarked assignments was about 120, so this is not bad. 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. 2 weeks ago 30 Apr 2024 in Academia , Education , Personal . ai, ai, ai: critical thinking and literacy won’t save you 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.… 2 weeks ago 30 Apr 2024 in Academia , Culture , Cyberculture , Education , Ethics , Rhetoric , Technology , Writing . Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day. Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day. 27 Apr 2024 in Personal . The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. 26 Apr 2024 in Personal . How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. 26 Apr 2024 in Academia , Essays , Literacy , Rhetoric , Writing . A.I. ‘Completes’ Keith Haring’s Intentionally Unfinished Painting 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… 26 Apr 2024 in Aesthetics , Art , Cyberculture , Design , Empathy , Ethics , Justice , Media , Modding , Technology . Seton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabeth Burns, Jake Carnahan-Curcio and Carolyn Jerz in a scene...