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Parking garage staircase
Two photos from my week. I had to pick up some prescriptions one day and parked in the two-story structure next to the clinic. As I was driving out again along the back wall, I noticed the sun shining down … Continue reading
Algorithms: Looking for love in all the wrong places?
Really interesting, provocative article here from Time magazine by Apryl Williams, Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, on how dating apps insert and perpetuate race- and appearance-based parameters into technology intended to help people … Continue reading
Posted in Digital society, Life, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged humanity, intuitive knowledge, love, ways of knowing
3 Comments
How does AI square with religion?
Because I teach political science courses, as well as a course titled “Digital Society,” I subscribe to an email newsletter from Project Liberty. Some info on that: Project Liberty is advancing the responsible development of the internet of tomorrow – … Continue reading
Posted in Digital society, Political Analysis, Popular culture, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, Digital society
8 Comments
Will “Oppenheimer” save cinema? (Or, Going to “The Show”)
Which is what we called it in my small town back in the day. We had one movie theater in town and thus one movie available to us per week. Hence, “the show.” Not “a” show, and not even “a” … Continue reading
Posted in Movies and film, Popular culture, Uncategorized
Tagged 70mm film, cinema history, cinema industry, movies
6 Comments
Wildfire sun (in the style of Mark Rothko)
Yesterday’s evening sun was a strange shade of intense orange, almost something you might expect to see in a Mark Rothko painting. (Like, for example, his “Orange and Yellow” canvas, found at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum: https://buffaloakg.org/artworks/k19568-orange-and-yellow.) I tried … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Life, Milwaukee, Uncategorized
Tagged iPhone, Milwaukee, photography, sunlight
4 Comments
Abstractions: On a load of dirty dishes, ready to run
Or, the mundane and the sublime, lol. I had just finished loading the dishwasher today, placed the little Cascade detergent pod in the tray, but then right as I was about to snap the tray lid shut, raise the door, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged abstract photography, creativity, photography
2 Comments
Lines Crossed
The sky is overcast in Milwaukee this morning. For some reason this bird and all the crisscrossed lines caught my eye when I stepped out onto our back porch with my cup of coffee to supervise our dog. She had … Continue reading
The Tosa Turkeys
I took this photo a few days ago in my local grocery store’s parking lot, where three wild turkeys stood guard near the entrance. For a couple years now, a flock of wild turkeys has been strutting around the city … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Milwaukee, Nature, Uncategorized
Tagged Milwaukee, Tosa turkeys, urban wildlife
6 Comments
February evening sunlight
This is what greeted me yesterday as I left my office in the Grohmann Museum at MSOE shortly before 5:00. The reflected streaks of orange sunlight across the pavement seemed very cheerful to me. And at this time of year, … Continue reading
Writing Exercise – “The Dress-Up Dress Down”
Or should that be “smackdown”? Read on and see 🙂 My writing group does short exercises to share each time we meet, and I’ve decided it might be fun to start sharing them here on my blog. For this week, … Continue reading