NB: I started this piece originally with the intention of talking about methods to improve your Skype interviews for academic positions, and then the COVID-19 pandemic did two things that necessitate a bit of tweaking. First, it basically froze almost all hiring in the humanities—a lot of the positions I interviewed for have been cancelled or are still very much in flux. Second, it threw a bunch of people into the deep end as far as trying to think about their online presence via video for Zoom interviews, class recordings and the like.

I realize it's been some time since I last posted about my model of the Clopton chantry chapel.  Unfortunately, I've run into a bit of a problem with the second portion of the walkthrough.  I wanted to be able to step you through the process of creating the model, but I've realized that my current hardware cannot actually create the model at a better quality than what already exists without the software crashing.  I have started to do so -- a process that takes several days to a week of rendering time depending on the particular machine -- several times with no luck. When I started the rece