4/27/2023 Pattern: After the After Party
August 2, 2023 Update: updated the post with "(done)" the tasks which have been completed.
This page is just a placeholder until I am able to compile the written instructions (done), put together some charted instructions, draw up some diagrams and other visual aids, create a photo gallery (done), and get that all into a .pdf for distribution. I hope to have the pattern available by the end of Summer 2023, but that's a lot of work, and I'm not holding myself to a specific deadline. My goal of "Summer 2023" is really just arbitrary. If you are one of the three people who chose to take one of my samples from the food pantry where I left them, and you have come to this page from there, thank you for your interest in my work! One last tip about wearing the scarves: watch out because they catch easily on tree branches, bushes, and likely jewelry as well. Just a fair warning. If you have come to this page and are interested in the pattern, you could bookmark it and check back starting in June or July to see if I've been able to publish it yet. There's a lot of work ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to it! :-D If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you should see a word bank of categories where the word "Patterns" should appear. If you click the word "Patterns," it will bring up all the blog posts for my patterns. Feel free to peruse those, as well as the rest of the website. 4/17/2023 mindfff-bread
I once conceived, staged, and performed in a concert dance-art piece in which I sat in a chair and ate my dinner, which consisted of nothing more than a chunk of bread, whilst other dancers in the same show danced around me having been instructed to take their improvisational movement inspiration from little scraps of paper, randomly torn, by me, from a notebook I had been writing in for some time. Mind you, I was instructing them as I was tearing the paper scraps out of the book, and they had only volunteered when I asked them maybe 3 or 5 minutes prior. The instructions were basically: "take your movement inspiration from whatever you see on this scrap of paper, and feel free to vocalize in any way you see fit by stage-whispering to me as you dance around me. Meanwhile, I'm going to sit on a chair in the middle eating this bread." The whole thing was very last-minute, impromptu.
The overarching show was the last show a certain choreographer was presenting in Columbus, OH before he moved to New York City, and I was performing in it. This dinner incident was in a little showcase immediately preceding the performance on one of the nights that the show ran. The artistic director (who was also the show's choreographer) had invited us to present work in this little showcase. Ever the opportunist and full of wacky ideas that just might work, I went, "okay." with a casual shrug in my head. And so it was that I came to be eating bread that I had baked, probably that day or the night before, onstage in Columbus, OH one evening. The thing about the bread in this art-piece is that it was simply a point of pragmatism: it was only ever about satiating my hunger. I didn't have any ideas or anything "in the works" when the original offer to present something in the little showcase was made, but like i said, I was an opportunist, and generally speaking, I thrive and feel my most competent when I am forced to improvise, especially if my improvised idea works out to my liking. Still speaking generally, I'm sure that's how it is with everybody and that I'm not unique in this. When it came showtime, I guess the whole idea developed around and because of the bread. Otherwise, the piece may have, and in all likelihood would have, been different were Adam and I not starving. We were about 20 pounds each less muscular and bone-dense as we are now, now that we eat pretty much every day, sometimes too much. I had been dancing after college, and those were the days of the $0.53/hour gig that dragged on well past very nearly every last millimeter of my epidermis had been exposed in public, on a stage, in a bar, with or without great security, hair and all. I remember one morning during those days when I barfed from having drunk a certain quantity of whiskey the night before. I've never had whiskey (nor bourbon, if you please) since. That's beside the point. 4/16/2023 YouNazied States of America
Now, I'm not saying that I condone communism or whatever Russia's politics are, but I thoroughly agree with them when they say that Americans are Nazis. From the Wikipedia article on Eugenics in the United States:
The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs,[117] including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.[15]
So, I guess I'm just saying: here it is in black and white that Americans directly informed and inspired the genocide that took place in under 100 years ago in Germany. It's not like it's a secret either. I already knew that Hitler loved and was inspired by America. Eugenics programs were popular in America well before Hitler came to be elected. Earlier up in the Eugenics in the United States article, it talks about the origins of the popularity of eugenics here and how the anglo-saxons and nordics believed their genetics to be superior to that of any other race, naming specifically the jews to be among those who were inferior.
These proponents of eugenics often cited studies to justify their claims of the superiority of one race over all others, but what seemingly everyone is ignoring or just doesn't care about is the fact that these "studies" are just based on these peoples' made up personal preferences, and they're passing them off as fact. So, not much has changed in science, I guess! Most of the people who were being sterilized were being operated on either against their will or without their knowledge. One example is that the people signing papers to be sterilized were illiterate. Also, black women in the south underwent what is known as a "mississippi appendectomy" in which a black woman going to the hospital to give birth or for other medical treatment is unknowingly given a hysterectomy so that after returning from the hospital, she is "mysteriously" unable to bear another child. Other groups that are targeted for such sterilizations are latinas, native americans, asians, and immigrants. |
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