ATTENTION!
The Fashion Expo has been moved to the air conditioned Rhodes Center located near the main Cardinal Gate entrance. The Show will start at 6:30pm!
Image from 2010 Ohio State Fair Fashion Expo
Ohio State Fair Fashion Expo
ATTENTION!
The Fashion Expo has been moved to the air conditioned Rhodes Center located near the main Cardinal Gate entrance. The Show will start at 6:30pm!
Central Ohio Woodturners
Woodturner creates an egg shape out of a solid piece of wood. They will be here all day 10am til 4pm.
Today's Entertainment at the Cox Fine Arts Center...
Sunday, July 31
10 am – 4 pm Central Ohio Woodturners
11 am - Noon Guided Exhibition Award Tour (Meet at north entrance)
3 pm - 4 pm Guided Exhibition Award Tour (Meet at north entrance)
6 pm - 7 pm Ohio State Fair Fashion Expo (6:30 -7:30pm MOVED to Rhodes Center Auditorium!!!)
7 pm - 9 pm Mixed Bag with The Recreational Folk Dancers of Columbus (Gallery)
Today's Entertainment at the Cox Fine Arts Center...
Saturday, July 30
11 am Guided Exhibition Award Tour (Meet at north entrance)
Noon The Wexner Center for the Arts Presents 2011 Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase, Youth Division
2 pm Blue Level (Gallery)
3 pm Guided Exhibition Award Tour (Meet at north entrance)
4 pm Brian Griffin (Patio)
6 pm The Wexner Center for the Arts Presents 2011 Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase, Youth Division
2010 Kid's Tour-n-More Bottle Cap Mural Project
Thank you to all the Fair participants last year who helped create this wonderful mural located outside of east door to the Cox Fine Arts Center. Come check it out!
Today's Entertainment at the Cox Fine Arts Center...
Friday, July 29
3 pm Meet President Lincoln
6:30 pm El Ritmo Flamenco Dance Ensemble (Gallery)
7:00pm Scaryonettes at the Fair
Today's Entertainment at the Cox Fine Arts Center...
Thursday, July 28
3 pm Meet President Lincoln
4 pm -5pm Prussia Valley Dulcimers (Patio)2011 Award Listing
Professional Awards:
Best of Show $2,000
“Bah Bah Black Sheep” Undine Brod
2nd Best of Show $1,400
"The Price of Greatness is Responsibility" Andrew Ina
3rd Best of Show $1,000
“Cousin Duane” Barbara Vogel
Juror’s Choice Award ($500 each)
“Watershed” Catherine Smith Bell
“Watering the Lawn” Kevin Buckland
“Apple” Francis Schanberger
Amateur Awards:
Best of Show $1,000
“Squirt” Isaac Smith
2nd Best of Show $400
“Fearless?” Sarah Ferguson
3rd Best of Show $200
“The Smokey Lava Lamp” Kevin Benson
Juror’s Choice Awards (Three - $500 each)
“Red, the Bull (Memory Painting)” Jules Garel
“Practice” Tom Hart
“Chairs” Karrie Carlyle
Ohio Arts Council (OAC):
Ten Professional Awards ($300 each)
“Conneaut Cycle-Blue Streak” Carol Griffith
“Arrangementin Rust & Ochre Homage to Whistler’s Mother” Susanne Dotson
“Grapes” Jose Luis Quinones
“Waiting” Frederick Fochtman
“Feeding the Deer” Lori Kella
“Dark Table” Jeffery Owen
“Relics” Melissa Vogley Woods
“Baby-Rat” Julie Byrne
“Olentangy 1” Georgie Cline
“Entia per Aggregatum” Nikos Rutkowski
Two Amateur Awards ($250 each)
“The Tinkerer” Owen Simonson
“Watch the Road” Beverly Darwin
One People’s Choice Award $ 500
TBA
Purchase Award $750
“Magical Evening” Morris Jackson
Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC):
Two Professional Awards ($125 each)
“Olentangy 1” Georgie Cline
“Neighborhood Gone” Melissa Vogley Woods
Two Amateur Awards ($125 each)
“2 Minutes” April Hernandez
“Metropolis” Elizabeth Nelson
City of Upper Arlington Award $100
“Delilah Defeats Her Demons” Elizabeth Chrisman
McConnell Arts Center ($250 each)
“Surf Vessel” Kevin Keiser
“Evening Glow” Paul Kramer
Arts Council Lake Erie West Award $ 100
“Memory of Purpose” Sarah Ockuly
New Albany Arts Council Award $ 100
“Out of the Forest“ Elaine Freeman
Southern Hills Arts Council
“Lime Tree Farm” Kit Dailey
SPONSOR AWARDS
Ohio Quarter Horse Association, Inc.:
Professional Award $ 200 “American Flags Diptych” Art Beery
Amateur Award $ 100 "Glenford Summer Dawn" Craig Wales
Roll in the Hay Contest Awards
1st Place $ 300 – Melissa Vogley Woods
2nd Place $ 200 – Michael Mascoto
3rd Place $ 100 – Grace Summanen
Westbridge Camera Club - Two Amateur Photography Awards
Color $100 -“Moonshine Under Peir” Jim Snyders
Black and White $100 -“Kaylea” Karrie Carlyle
Harrison House Bed and Breakfast Award $ 150
“Corwin Nixon Covered Bridge” Aaron Skapik
Hazen-Taft Award $ 100
“Waiting” Frederick Fochtman
William J. & Sheila Riat Award $ 100
“Garden of the Misbegotten” Paula Nees
The Collage of Women Artists Award $ 100
"Tree Peony" Rebecca Taft
Short Film Awards
(Thank you to our jurors Susan Halpern and Chad Dull)
Juror’s Short Film Awards
Best of Show $1,000 - “HOMEless” Andrew Ina
2nd Best of Show $300 - “1926/1950/1984” Corey Aumiller
3rd Best of Show $200 - “HOPE” Beijing Charlie
Juror’s Choice Awards ($100 each)
"Lamentations" Nicolette Swift
“Letters from Frank” Joanne Caputo
"Ink" Amanda H. Cook
Greater Columbus Arts Council ($250 each)
"Walls" Corey Aumiller
“Cycles of Overuse” Matt Swift
Ohio Quarter Horse Association, Inc. $100
“Do-Re-Mi-O-H!” Steven Carmona
My New Hero
After taking a couple of months off from blogging, let me first say that it’s good to be back and that I promise I thought about you every single second I was gone. Some of you have speculated that I suddenly stopped blogging because I was overwhelmed with the masses of people calling for my head for something I didn’t think was that big of a deal, but the truth is that I actually was a little bit behind schedule with my book and had to stop blogging so I could get my ass in gear and finish the thing (which, I’m proud to say, I eventually did finish one day earlier than was expected of me).
But even if finishing the book wasn’t the real reason why I stopped blogging, I don’t want to live in the past and revisit the outrage that I caused. What’s done is done and talking about it now won’t change anything. Besides, I’ve made it perfectly clear dozens of times: she told me she was 19 and even had an ID to prove it (it looked pretty real to me). How could I have possibly known she was actually 15? I never would have touched her had I known her real age and that’s the honest-to-God truth, so everyone just please move on.
Speaking of sex, am I the only one who hears someone say “I’ll try anything once” as they dive into the appetizer sampler platter or go to take a sip of a new beer, and immediately get grossed out over the thought of what “I’ll try anything once” insinuates about their sex lives? I am? Ok, cool. Good to know.
Even though this has nothing to do with anything I’ve previously written and this terrible transition is probably doing more to widen and less to bridge the gap between the two vastly different topics, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that Michael McCary is a new personal hero of mine and very well could be the biggest badass this world has ever seen. Who is Michael McCary, you ask? Well, the fellas probably just know him as the guy in Boyz II Men with the deep voice, but the females no doubt remember him as the guy who gave your vagina a boner every time he chimed in on a Boyz II Men song. But even though he’s got an undeniably sexy voice that I’m not ashamed to admit once made my private parts tingle (although, to be fair, this happened at a dance when I was in 7th grade, so there’s a good chance my wiener moved more because I had two fistfuls of babe butt in my hands and less because Michael McCary was lubing my ears with his baritone), his voice isn’t what makes him a personal hero of mine. No, it’s so much more than that.
The first and most obvious admirable trait about Michael McCary is that he was a member of the greatest boy band ever. Now, some of you might point to the Backstreet Boys or ‘N Sync or the New Kids as better boy bands, but that’s only because you’re either a woman (who was once a stupid and malleable little girl) or a racist white dude who can’t appreciate awesome black boy bands like Boyz II Men, Jagged Edge, and 112 (personally, LFO was always my favorite white boy band anyway). The fact of the matter is that despite what the sales numbers say, Boyz II Men have more #1 songs than the New Kids, Backstreet Boys, and ‘N Sync combined, which is evidence that they made far better music. Plus, pretty much every music video they ever made is a complete and flawless representation of just how awesome the 90s were, and should therefore be displayed in some sort of museum somewhere.
But being in Boyz II Men on its own isn’t enough to be a hero of mine, or else all the guys in the group would be on the list. What sets McCary apart is that not only was in Boyz II Men, but he was the benchwarmer of the group and has a long history of putting up trillions in their songs. Allow me to explain.
Michael McCary was consistently the only guy in Boyz II Men to not have a solo singing part in their songs and would instead usually just pop in every now and then and either drop a quick line or provide some bass backup by echoing whatever one of the other dudes just said (like in “One Sweet Day”, “Motown Philly”, and “4 Seasons of Loneliness”). Not only that, but there were also the rare occasions such as in “On Bended Knee” and “End of The Road” when he’d tell singing to suck it and just start talking towards the end of the songs, and would use his smooth deep voice to persuade the chick that was the inspiration for the song to essentially just shut up and take off her panties because all the time spent arguing was boning time going to waste.
In those last two songs especially, I like to think that the other three guys in the group spent the entire song effectively getting their point across to whichever beautiful baby they were singing to (fun fact: one of the dudes was singing to Lisa Turtle in “On Bended Knee.” Fun fact #2: real life Lisa Turtle dated real life Zack Morris and was once engaged to Martin Lawrence), and McCary came in at the end to essentially be the icing on the cake and human victory cigar, not entirely unlike the walk-on benchwarmer at the end of games. He’s unquestionably the least heralded and least appreciated guy in the group, but even though there have been tons of guys that have also fit this description in other bands, nobody did it as smoothly as Michael McCary.
Put it this way: I like to think that guys like Chris Kirkpatrick and Howie Dorough represent the douchey walk-ons who lose their minds cheering on the bench after routine plays and run out onto the court when timeouts are called so they can chest bump the real players. These are the kinds of guys who desperately want to fit in with the team and want to be more involved, so they bust their asses in practice and follow their teammates everywhere off the court in hopes that they’ll eventually be accepted. And then there’s Michael McCary, who I like to think is more like me. He’s perfectly fine with his limited action and doesn’t give a Michigan whether or not he fits in with the rest of the team or whether or not he’s fully appreciated because he knows he’s got game and he doesn’t feel obligated to prove it to anybody. So he just kicks back and relaxes until he gets called upon to contribute, at which point he steps in and makes it rain with his soothing baritone voice that, much like my silky smooth J, could charm the pants off even the most prudish of women.
But if all that still isn’t enough for you to appreciate why he’s my new personal hero, consider this picture taken from the “End of The Road” video:
In case you can’t tell what’s going on here, Michael McCary is rocking a hi-top fade, sitting on a rock as waves splash around him, holding onto a cane for no apparent reason, and resting his foot on the rock so his legs spread and the ladies can get a decent look at his man meat. If it weren’t for the fact that he’s 16 years older than me and some would argue doesn’t really look like me, I’d be fully convinced that he and I were twins who were separated at birth. I trust you now understand why I look up to the guy so much.
Now that I’ve finished my book, the next step is to obviously figure out how I can give out as many free copies to the Trillion Man March as possible. I still have to iron out some details with my publisher (apparently they have financial motive to sell as many books as possible at the highest possible price?!?), but my idea right now is to hold what I’m tentatively calling “Context Contests.” The idea behind these contests is that I would post on the blog a single sentence taken directly from my book, give the TMM no context whatsoever, and then have you write a short story (no more than a few hundred words) either explaining how I arrived at that sentence or figure out a way to include the sentence in the story. From there, I would give out free books to whoever provided the best/funniest/most ridiculous submissions.
If I do, in fact, get the ok to give out free books, I will obviously sign all the ones I give out. But I’ll take it even one step further and also get some of my former teammates to sign on the page of the book in which I wrote a story about them. Like I said, I still have to iron everything out with the publisher, but in the meantime stay tuned. At the very least, I’ll definitely give out a few free books out of my own pocket and some CLUB TRIL shirts and CLUB TRIL mesh shorts too. I’ll keep you posted.
One last thing: A lot of you have asked, but as of right now I don’t know the exact date the book is going to be released. I was told we’re going to most likely shoot for February or March, but it could be sooner than that. I’ll let you know when I find out for sure.
Proud To Be An American But Even Prouder To Be A Buckeye,
Mark Titus
Club Trillion Founder
CONGRATULATIONS to all the following Filmmakers accepted into the 2011 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition!
2011OHIO STATE FAIR FINE ARTS EXHIBITION
SHORT FILMS
Brandon Antczak- “Birds of Ohio Vol. 2 Issue 2”
Corey Aumiller- “1926/1950/1984”
Corey Aumiller- “Walls”
Steven Carmona- “Unwanted Memories”
Steven Carmona- “Do-Re-Mi-O-H!”
Joanne Caputo- “Letters from Frank”
Beijing Charlie- “HOPE”
Amanda H. Cook- “Ink”
Amanda H. Cook- “Self-Portrait as Marlon Brando”
Eric Homan- “Columbus Lights”
Eric Homan- “Life on Uncle Howard’s Farm”
Andrew Ina- “HOMEless”
Michael Loderstedt- “Winter’s Woodpeckers”
Brandi Mays- “Carriage House Farm”
Michael R Siculan- “Scaryonettes”
Nicolette Swift- “Lamentation”
Nicolette Swift- “Can”
Matt Swift- “Cycles of Overuse”
Matt Swift- “Scenic View”
Scenes from a Saturday Bike Ride
The sun rising over the Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in the background
The mighty Potomac River
Fisherman on their boats, angling for an early-morning catch
The trailExercise Roundup, Week of 4 July 2011
It was a spectacular week for exercise. I hit the goal of five days and got in two long bike rides, thanks to the holiday on Monday. Read on for details.
Monday: Rode 42 miles in under three hours, as documented in a previous post. Excellent!
Tuesday: It was so hot and humid outside, I felt compelled to go to the pool and tread water for my exercise today. I considered treading for 35 or 45 minutes but, honestly, treading water by yourself is boring. I did my thing for 30 minutes and then got out, feeling refreshed.
Wednesday: My friend/training buddy LuAnn and I went for a bike ride in the morning, about an hour I think, maybe a little longer if you count the time to and from our meeting point. On the return leg of the ride, we decided to go single file as fast as we could, rather than trying to stick together so we could talk, etc. Other than having to slow down for some geese that were meandering across the trail, we really kicked it and got the blood flowing. I climbed Evil Hill 2 to get home, which was difficult but certainly not as hard as it was when I first did it earlier this summer.
Thursday: I didn't really do much exercise today, although I did hang out at the pool for a bit, which was nice!
Friday: My friend Jenny and I went for a brisk 45-minute walk in the early morning. We thought we'd beat the brutal DC summer heat and humidity by leaving at 7am. Au contraire! It was already nearly 80 degrees when we set out and I was sticky before we'd even left the neighborhood.
Saturday: Completed another 35-mile round-trip on the Mt. Vernon trail (photos to follow). I really wanted to hit that 2.5-hour time and was somewhat disappointed that I didn't. Total time: 2:43. Not bad, but I want to be faster. Still, I always feel so terrific after these long rides, especially when I know I've pushed myself.
Sunday: Tomorrow will be a day of rest.
A la prochaine!
Monday: Rode 42 miles in under three hours, as documented in a previous post. Excellent!
Tuesday: It was so hot and humid outside, I felt compelled to go to the pool and tread water for my exercise today. I considered treading for 35 or 45 minutes but, honestly, treading water by yourself is boring. I did my thing for 30 minutes and then got out, feeling refreshed.
Wednesday: My friend/training buddy LuAnn and I went for a bike ride in the morning, about an hour I think, maybe a little longer if you count the time to and from our meeting point. On the return leg of the ride, we decided to go single file as fast as we could, rather than trying to stick together so we could talk, etc. Other than having to slow down for some geese that were meandering across the trail, we really kicked it and got the blood flowing. I climbed Evil Hill 2 to get home, which was difficult but certainly not as hard as it was when I first did it earlier this summer.
Thursday: I didn't really do much exercise today, although I did hang out at the pool for a bit, which was nice!
Friday: My friend Jenny and I went for a brisk 45-minute walk in the early morning. We thought we'd beat the brutal DC summer heat and humidity by leaving at 7am. Au contraire! It was already nearly 80 degrees when we set out and I was sticky before we'd even left the neighborhood.
Saturday: Completed another 35-mile round-trip on the Mt. Vernon trail (photos to follow). I really wanted to hit that 2.5-hour time and was somewhat disappointed that I didn't. Total time: 2:43. Not bad, but I want to be faster. Still, I always feel so terrific after these long rides, especially when I know I've pushed myself.
Sunday: Tomorrow will be a day of rest.
A la prochaine!
Exercise Roundup, Week of 27 June 2011
Ahh, summertime is such a nice time to exercise outdoors! I didn't hit my goal of five exercise days this week, but I did make some progress on the bike. For one thing, I started riding with a woman I met at church, who wants to train for a cycling event in the late summer/early fall. We're going to try for a metric century (about 65 miles). I also beat my previous time on the Mt. Vernon trail by 10 minutes--no small feat! It's nice to finally see some improvement in the fitness department.
Monday: Worked very late to finish a project; no exercise.
Tuesday: 35 minutes of brisk uphill walking on the treadmill.
Wednesday: Traveling for work; no exercise.
Thursday: 90ish-minute bike ride in the morning with my new friend & training buddy. We could have gone faster and ridden harder, I think, but since it was our first time riding together, neither of us knew the other's limitations or comfort level so we didn't go all out. Still, we did get some good exercise. I rode up Evil Hill 2 on my way home--and didn't feel like I was going to pass out at the top!
Friday: Did some laps at my friend's pool in the afternoon--because my boss gave us all the day off in advance of the 4th of July holiday!
Saturday: As documented in my previous entry, I took a round-trip ride on the Mt. Vernon trail on Saturday, a distance of 35 miles, and did it in 2 hours, 40 minutes, which is ~10 minutes faster than my time for that same route the week before. Waahooo! I want to get it down to 2 hours, 30 minutes (or faster) next time. I think I can do it!
Sunday: Day of rest.
Monday: Worked very late to finish a project; no exercise.
Tuesday: 35 minutes of brisk uphill walking on the treadmill.
Wednesday: Traveling for work; no exercise.
Thursday: 90ish-minute bike ride in the morning with my new friend & training buddy. We could have gone faster and ridden harder, I think, but since it was our first time riding together, neither of us knew the other's limitations or comfort level so we didn't go all out. Still, we did get some good exercise. I rode up Evil Hill 2 on my way home--and didn't feel like I was going to pass out at the top!
Friday: Did some laps at my friend's pool in the afternoon--because my boss gave us all the day off in advance of the 4th of July holiday!
Saturday: As documented in my previous entry, I took a round-trip ride on the Mt. Vernon trail on Saturday, a distance of 35 miles, and did it in 2 hours, 40 minutes, which is ~10 minutes faster than my time for that same route the week before. Waahooo! I want to get it down to 2 hours, 30 minutes (or faster) next time. I think I can do it!
Sunday: Day of rest.
Keirstead: Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism
Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism
Christopher M. Keirstead
The scope and complexity of the encounter with Europe in Victorian poetry remains largely underappreciated despite recent critical attention to the genre’s global and transnational contexts. Providing much more than colorful settings or a convenient place of self-exile from England, Europe—as destination and idea—formed the basis of a dynamic, evolving form of critical cosmopolitanism much in tune with attempts to theorize the concept today. Christopher M. Keirstead’s Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism synthesizes the complex relationship between several notable Victorian poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, and A. C. Swinburne, and their respective attitudes toward Europe as a cosmopolitan whole. Examining their international relationships and experiences, the monograph explores the ways in which these poets worked to reconcile their emotional and intellectual affinity for world citizenship with their British identity.
This book reveals how a diverse range of poets sought to resituate the form within a broad European political and cultural frame of reference. At the same time, a strong awareness of the difficulties of sustaining genuine, transformative contact between cultures permeates the work of these poets. The challenge of cosmopolitanism thus consisted not only in the threat it posed to entrenched assumptions about what was normative, natural, or universal but also in the challenge cosmopolitanism posed to itself.
Goerler: The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University
An Illustrated History
Raimund E. Goerler
Raimund E. Goerler, acclaimed archivist and historian, has written the definitive guidebook to the history of The Ohio State University, one of the world’s largest universities and a prominent land-grant institution. Using a topical strategy—ranging widely through critical events in OSU’s history, vignettes of prominent alumni, and stories of well known campus buildings, historic sites, presidents, student life, traditions, and athletics—The Ohio State University: An Illustrated History is the first one-volume history of the University to appear in more than fifty years.
Always entertaining and consistently informative, the book is lavishly illustrated with more than 300 rare photographs from the OSU Archives. The Ohio State University: An Illustrated History is a must-have for all who call themselves Buckeyes.
It's About Time
I've been determined lately to improve my performance on the bike, meaning I want to be faster. My non-competitive nature goes into hiding when I start riding and I find myself feeling annoyed when other cyclists pass me on the trail. I know I'm not super fast, but did that teenager on the Schwinn with no helmet really just pass me? Or that old guy cruising along in action sandals? Not acceptable!Well friends, put your hands in the air for the untrammeled woman who was more than 10 minutes faster last Saturday! WOOT!! I rode 35 miles on the scenic Mt. Vernon trail in 2 hours, 41 minutes--beating my previous time on the same course the previous week by more than 10 minutes. Not only that, but I didn't feel like passing out at the top of the hill at the turn-around point--a small victory.
Keep up that applause because I repeated my success two days later when I went for an early-morning ride on the W&OD trail on Independence Day. I rode 42 miles--an accomplishment in and of itself, especially in that day's humid weather. Target time: 3 hours. Actual time: 2 hours, 53 minutes. WOO HOO!!
I was ravenous after both rides. All day.
The secret to my success is keeping up a brisk pace (to the extent possible) throughout the ride, rather than my previous approach--almost done unconsciously--of treating certain sections of the ride/trail as times to slow down and take a little break while riding. As Jillian Michaels admonishes repeatedly in her workout videos, "NO REST!" Whenever I felt myself slipping into that habit, I gave myself a stern "this is not a break" reminder. I also tried to use downhills and long flat stretches to push myself to actually pedal faster, instead of cruising along comfortably.
I know there is still vast room for improvement in my performance, but for now, HOORAY FOR ME!!
Why More Women Should Take Up Cycling
"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
-- Susan B. Anthony
-- Susan B. Anthony
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