My day started in Humanities, but ended in Wolf. Photos by Pattie Crider Girlboxer1970
Sep 23, 2013
Gross Toes & Sign Language
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For whatever reason, Zeth and I became engrossed in the difference angles we could bend our toes. He also realized his feet are huge next to his sisters baseball cleats. He was especially happy to show me the snake head with and without a tongue he could make with his fingers.
We are easily entertained. ~P.
Zeth can make his big toe point up. I can’t.
I can give Zeth the middle toe, he can’t.
Big foot and the wee baseball player.
SNAKE!
Snake with tongue
Sep 23, 2013
The Amish Queen Esther and her Rapper Man
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Esther has been flying low on the radar since her Twitter account was suspended. Don’t worry, she started another! (I’m officially blocked, though I did have a brief follow.) Her maybe boyfriend, Mirkat also has me blocked but no worries, I have plenty of people who fill in the blank spaces.
On September 16th Mirkat celebrated Esther and her mom making him lunch. I would assume this means mom is okay with Esther’s fondness of the badass rapper. The one that she recently pressed charges against for domestic violence. Must be all smoothed over now.
Esther and her mom made me lunch how sweet!
Today this was sent to me through Facebook. Again, I’m assuming the gentleman Esther was with at Park City, was again, the rapper that tweets about her.
See, this assures me that Esther and Levi won’t be hooking up on the show. Well, I mean they might hook-up on the show, but it’s all fake. But we know it’s all fake now, right? I can’t help but wonder….what does Levi’s REAL girlfriend think of all this love acting?
Can’t wait for Season 3!
Stayed tuned, especially during the off-season! I always have info flowing.
~P.
Can’t Get Enough? More Amish Mafia
http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/05/10/the-amish-mafia-conspiracy-21st-century-reality-tv/
http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/02/13/amish-mafia-levi-called/
http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/01/21/amish-mafia-story/
http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/02/17/levi-loses-control-amishmafia/
http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/03/07/freeman-is-the-man/
http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/02/08/esther-keeps-the-kitchen-hot/
http://girlboxer1970.com/2013/08/13/amishmafiamoreofthecircusmobtonight/
Sep 22, 2013
Jim & Nena Classic Car Show~Dover PA
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Today was the Jim & Nena’s Pizzeria Car Show in Dover, PA. I stopped and enjoyed the custom and classic cars and motorcycles. Click the first thumbnail to open the photo gallery! Thanks for stopping by my blog site! ~Pattie
Sep 21, 2013
How to rock a Mixed Media project
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Pattie Crider
WRT 320
Re-Mix Project
September 24, 2013
Knowledge Made New
Re-mixing is the art of taking what already exists and making it new. The amount of change or addition to an established piece of work can vary from using a small portion, to a complete change to the entire piece of work, or any variation of the two examples. Re-mixing is the art of changing another author’s work.
For my re-mix project, I took the work of The New Book of Knowledge, prints collected in the photography lab at York College of Pennsylvania that would have otherwise been discarded, and a sheet of poster board that was an abandoned project of an 8-year-old. These three properties of my project were all created by other people.
First, I paged through the encyclopedias looking for topics that interested me. I began cutting out quotes, pictures and words and making a pile of pieces I might use. To make the overall look more appealing, I used scissors that cut unique patterns and applied the same process to a selection from the hundreds of photos created by fellow students. My thought process was to make a connection of some type between the outdated encyclopedia texts and the newly created photos as a new way to consume knowledge. At this point, I wasn’t positive how this would all tie together, but as the creator, I went on instinct and hoped for the best.
I only had one Smirnoff in the fridge, so it no influence my project.
My dog was nosy and not helpful as he walked over my materials.
I sat at the empty spot on my living room floor and began placing my materials from the pile onto the poster board.
The first, and the most important line of Manovich’s text, Who is the Author, is “New media culture brings with it a number of new models of authorship which all involve different forms of collaboration.” My project fit his thesis as it grew, piece by piece. I tried to determine a theme for the photos when I realized the theme was, a new media look at knowledge, specifically, The New Book of Knowledge, encyclopedias. I chose, perhaps subconsciously, to use the rocket-like artwork on the poster as my background of the body of a tree.
Bottom Half
With imagination, this work can be interpreted in endless ways. My specific interpretation is a mix of reality and fantasy, supported with quotes of historical meaning. At the base of the work, roots and death, real and imagined, are grounded. An audience is presented in consumption of performances. A young man surrounded by vegetables, a young boy with imagination spurting from his head through a rainbow while his accomplices pass gas (nuclear bomb) in the face of a centaur and to the far right, a recipe for “Heavenly Hash” by the graveyard while ladies perform musical numbers on the world’s stage…surreal.
Top Half
The top piece of my work represents knowledge being shared with others. The tree is metaphoric in expanding and touching the lives of all people, from those that served time in the service, defending their country and often losing their lives, to students learning or enjoying the material items life has to offer. Again, my humor urged me to place hamburger above the ladies enjoying the nude presentation of a sculpture and to place a consumer product like Jello, as the base of the skate-boarding rubber duck. In the center, the arms of the performer expand into a tree (cut from the cover of the encyclopedia) and a fox; the expansion of knowledge through performance is crafty, like that of a fox. The old versus new technology is represented in the young lady facing an antiquated television and phone. Around this lady’s neck are headphones that connect to current technology that allows for television and music entertainment on a cellular phone…surreal.
The Crown
The crown to this mixed-media mash-up, is made of the front cover of one encyclopedia and the binding cover of three, to form the “holding piece” of a new form of media knowledge. From the base of the tree a diver is frozen in space, destined to portray people’s desire to be informed by all means of media available to them. The addition of media re-mixes allows the logic in previous work to be explored in a new form continually expanding the wealth of knowledge to those that choose to explore examples of new media forms.
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Sep 20, 2013
Orators: They’re Not a Dime a Dozen
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Pattie Crider
WRT320
Response 7
September 20, 2013
Classical Rhetoric
De Oratore (Of Oratory; Cicero 55 B.C.E.)
One uses a prompter
Orators: They’re Not a Dime a Dozen
Good orators are a rare find in the present day. Most people have difficulty speaking in public, often causing the audience great distress. Cicero believed that students who strive to learn the mechanics of public speaking may still never achieve the ability to captivate and move an audience with their words. It takes a special person to excel in the art of public speaking.
Cicero had the ideal person in mind that could become a great orator. This person must be able to portray their power, the “mastery of speaking” in front of an audience. To have this ability, they must have a personality that the audience can connect with on a personal level. To do this, the orator had to be knowledgeable on a vast number of topics, or the dedication to perform research on a topic prior to speaking. Law was the most important topic and an orator was always expected to know Roman law. Using wit and humor, and possessing whip-like reflexes in delivering responses in combination with their body gestures and changes in the tone of their voice, made their speeches most engaging.
The specific level of language used to address an audience was mentioned several times by Cicero. An orator must speak on a level they will understand and if more scholarly words are used, examples should be given to make the argument clear. To lose the audience attention and understanding by “speaking over their heads” would be have been a tragedy. The audience, in this time period, only had the words of orators to become informed citizens. This was the news and the people depended on the orators to update them on all topics.
Cicero’s requirements of a person in the art of rhetoric are realistic presently, just as they were in the first century B.C.E. In that time, Cicero was driven to destroy the Roman senate. He was serious in his dedication to use rhetoric to inform the citizens of the actions of the empire. He is an example of a great orator of the past. Presently, no one person comes to mind because rhetoric has changed to press conferences where the speeches are seamlessly places before the orator. There is no memorization involved in public speaking, but as Cicero pointed out, body language, facial expressions and tone are also important. Cicero was spot-on in his requirements of an orator and those requirements still hold true today.
Sep 18, 2013
2013 York Fair Photos
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By Pattie Crider
A storm was brewing at the 2013 York Fair. I ran for shelter and found comfort photographing the animals. 
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Sep 17, 2013
Heather Called
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I got a call while I was in Rhetorical Theory class. John wanted to tell me that there was a meeting for the parent’s of the girls that were joining Girl Scouts. Heck, Tesla even joining Girl Scouts was news to me, but that didn’t surprise me.
I get to the meeting and learn Heather is the Assistant Girl Scout Leader of Tesla’s troop. That didn’t surprise me.
I filled out papers for Tesla to join. I gave it to Heather, so she could have John sign on his line. She told me they already filled out Tesla’s membership paper. Good, I hope they paid the fee too. (So much for needing both parents signature) That didn’t surprise me.
John showed up later, stopping before heading into York to play softball. Tesla was going home with Heather. That didn’t surprise me.
He said Tesla had a doctor appointment at 7:45 AM to have her nose cauterized. This was the first I heard about it. That didn’t surprise me.
We had a verbal spat about how he is to discuss things like, Girl Scouts and doctor appointments, with me. He blew me off. That didn’t surprise me.
Heather called me while I was developing film on campus. She wanted to extend the olive branch and hoped I would be involved in Girl Scouts with Tesla. That we could get along for what is best for Tesla. That she doesn’t put herself in the business of John and I getting divorced or the ongoing battle of custody. I didn’t agree with her opinion and that didn’t surprise me.
She went on and on about how wonder her and her ex husband’s relationship is, and that she would write letters to glorify her ex husband’s new wife and even sign over her children to the new wife, if it were necessary. I didn’t really follow her thought process. That didn’t surprise me.
Finally, I just told her she didn’t need to blow smoke up my ass anymore than I needed to blow smoke up hers. (Maybe she got that, maybe not) That, while her divorce is final, mine has not even started, and I have no other intention but to pursue the divorce to court and eventually, take custody of Tesla. That, beyond the entire divorce and custody nightmare, I am glad that Tesla is a happy child even though she was not given the choice of where she wanted to live and that John and I will never agree, and it will always be a matter of what the court decides, until Tesla is old enough to make the decision that the law will take into consideration. I told Heather, she can say she isn’t “part of the problem” but unless she truly butts out, like Dale does, she will always be part of this three-ring-circus and the way I deal with this circus is to write about it, and go to college. I told her I am happy to have Girl Scout time with Tesla (since I can barely squeeze any other time out) and that I am certain we can all get along for what is best for our children. I told her I am tired of being the last person to know anything, and that John’s behavior with screaming at me over being 15 minutes late returning Tesla after the fair was just ridiculous, considering he can’t give me any information about Tesla in the way the courts laid out. That he claims I am irresponsible, but he instigates problems by disrespecting me in front of Tesla. While she wouldn’t agree that John acts like a complete Ahole and thinks he is always right, we did manage to have a conversation lasting nearly sixteen minutes where neither of us screamed at the other or hung-up pissed off.
Now that surprised me.
~P.
Update: Heather text messaged me that the paper I signed was holding me responsible for any fundraiser money, not giving permission for Tesla to join the Girl Scouts. Silly me, thinking she might need her mother’s permission to join, not just be responsible for all the money from endless fundraisers.
Sep 14, 2013
Visiting Mannequin Fetish.com
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Just when I thought things were getting dull, I meet the girls at http://www.mannequinfetish.com ~P.
I was absolutely speechless walking into this room of boots and shiny clothing!
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Ceiling light show
Ceiling lighting
30 second exposure
Sep 13, 2013
Why Travel to India?
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Pattie Crider
G241
Questions
September 13, 2013
Founder of The Homes of the Indian Nation: Darlene Large
- I believe service learning is taking what you have learned and applying it to practical situations in life. Helping other who are disadvantaged and can benefit from the knowledge they may not have otherwise obtained. Not that I am especially knowledgeable in the situations of Indian people, but I it can be a mutual exchange of information, educating each other rather than a one-sided teaching approach
- Traveling abroad for me to help and teach orphans allows for me to also “help myself” to learning about them and their country and culture. While educating myself and furthering my writing and photography, I will feel a sense of accomplishment and feeling of self-worth in helping others, especially orphans.
- There is “poor in the USA” and “poor in India.” The two have little in common. Few Americans truly understand the concept of being poor. Poor to us means less material items and perhaps a lower food quality. Poor in India means the possibility of death due to lack proper healthcare and nutrition. Poor is a word that refers to one’s wealth. My view is it doesn’t take money to be happy but the needs for adequate existence of life may revolve around who has wealth and who does not.
- Globalization was once a slow-moving force of integrating world-wide view, ideas, politics, religion and other aspects of culture. Now with the invention of the Internet, globalization is now taking place at a high rate of speed, connecting most areas of the world that are not in total seclusion.
- I am very interested in Hinduism. The traditions, followers, ceremonies and history of Hinduism especially the meaning of Karma to India natives versus the Western understanding. Also, I am interested in NGO’s and their ability to sustain their non-profit work through the use of rhetorical theory, appealing to people to support the children who are taken in at the HOINA orphanage.
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