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on May 19
Faith Rhyne
backed a project
Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat Community Arts Space by nina ruffini
The TBTBTB provides affordable, inclusive, community space where anyone can learn, teach, practice, meet, perform & share their skills.
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74% funded $2,475 pledged
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on May 2
Faith Rhyne
backed a project
THAT'S CRAZY by Lise Zumwalt
There’s a revolution going on in mental health and it’s being led by "the patients."
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101% funded $15,241 pledged
- 135 backers
- Funded May 13, 2012
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on February 3
Faith Rhyne
backed a project
Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out by Jonah
A guide for participants in the occupy movement to strengthen our psychic, soulful and heartfelt contributions. #mutualaid #peersupport
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158% funded $3,167 pledged
- 78 backers
- Funded Feb 23, 2012
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on July 27, 2010
Faith Rhyne
Posted project update #4new post on project concept and detailed state of bewilderment... www.mynameisfaith.net
Post CommentWell - this has turned into quite the big experiment in the making of a DIY book using social media and with critical analysis of potential sources of funding and the ways that unconventional media is excluded from the internet.
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on July 26, 2010
Faith Rhyne
commented on a project updateWhat exactly would the 'ghost of my back tattoo' entail? The actual ghost...or some reclamation of a dignified status after that melee of pink chintz and heavy black work. I thought long and hard about my back..and it does communicate a certain fortitude, does it not. In the end, however, it just a human back. Burnt by sun and knobbed by spine and bent by the weight of children. I actually would like to speak to Glenn Beck about the American economy. Whom is the hustler, the whore? I could, I am certain, with grace and dignity, handle Glenn Beck. I taught sex ed, remember. Nothing makes you tougher than a room full of middle school boys and the words "spontaneous erection." I could even make THAT charming. It's the ghosts, they have good manners:) (that was a joke...sorta.) (I was raised by The Old South...that'll give ya ghosts for sure.) Let's see what happens. Even nothing is something, isn't it? Ah, yes - my book. Volume one is done - I am just sort of sitting and waiting to see how funding may pan out. I think I may be writing volume 2 right now...surpises.
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on July 26, 2010
Faith Rhyne
Posted project update #3thanks, Prof.!
Yes, it's true I do hold the Sociology Dept. at PSU somewhat responsible for my screwy brilliance. See, I actually listened to ya'll. That is, ironically, why I dropped out of grad school @ UGA - I left PSU ready to change the world with ideas and curiosity...but, then all that curiosity got blanched out of me for a while - mostly by the constraints of academic parameters in research...
the real world will do that, huh? Bleach us down like paper to be filled in with whatever is on sale that day.
Poor real world...well, it is what we say it is...and I say it is full of possibility.
This is fascinating. Oh - don't forget to check out my latest ghost video. It features my
full backed tattoo.Oh - and I did, as an exercise in bewilderment, request to speak with GLENN BECK of talk radio toxicity fame. He bewilders me. I think it'd be interesting. I think I could get him to give me 2 dollars - because he's being suckered and sold, too.
Thanks again, Dr. Blazak. Feel free to send this to your sociology peeps and also let those youth and subculture kids know that I exist...they have the economic power to make this thing - now or in the future - huge.
Is this a conspiracy to commit economic treason? No. Not at all. In a free market, funds can be shifted freely from one sector to another. I am just asking folks to see what would happen if we flexed a little 2 dollar muscle to make a point that we have more than we like to admit and we can use it in ways that matter and are - in the end - good for everybody involved. A fractious culture and exclusive economy of social capital is not good for anyone.
Hypercapitalism can be just as propaganda laden as communism...except it is not a stern faced man you see, it is an 18 year old white girl mysteriously licking yogurt off a spoon while working at her laptop. And you are supposed to want to buy it all: the yogurt, the computer, the young tongue and clean hair, the demure little white bookcase and clean corners and calm light through the window in the background...when we buy the life they try to sell us, we only sell ourselves.
Thanks for your encouragement and your commitment to a curious world.
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on July 25, 2010
Faith Rhyne
commented on a project- actually was thinking about you and your paper! Stefanie makes some pretty awesome handmade paper and even experimented with growing green cotton in Hendersonville, NC (!) in order to investigate the process of how a seed becomes a note. She has her paper goods on an etsy site that I will link up to so you can see what makes a Guest Services supervisor more than what you may assume her to be. Speaking of paper - no. I do not intend to buy brand new post-its if this project receive enough 7 dollar backing to require more post-ts than I am able to find at the bottom of my desk drawers. Post-its are one of the ways we waste HUGE amounts of money. I'll just ask local offices to donate one partially used stack of post-its...or come up with something. I think I can handle the post-its required for Mr. Herbert and Mr. Taylor's Favorite phrases...yeah, think I got it covered. It would be awesome if my project was funded in excess of the minimum because maybe, at the very least - I could pay Stefanie a few bucks to whip me up a special batch of that Hendersonville paper...limited covers, special inlay process, who knows...the possibilities are endless. Which is - of course - the whole point of bewilderment. When you realize that somehow - a girl from Louisiana now is a mother in the mountains who knows how to turn a seed into a blank page. Awesome. The project could use your paper and - perhaps a story about the school you went to as a kid...if you're up to it. Your long hair was bewildering wasn't it? Yeah - go on an holler. The smallest little groups of words feel so much like triumph.
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on July 25, 2010
Faith Rhyne
commented on a project updateIf people don't want to route two dollars via my triage unit -that's okay, but feel free to let me know about the ways that you do, indeed, give a damn. Not because you should have to prove yourself, but because I really like the ways that people show that they care about things other than themselves. I think that they are beautiful and interesting. So many of our exposures to goodness among humans (extreme home makeover, etc.) are funded by corporations. I don't see how that could work. It seems manipulative. Sears should be good to people and give them elaborate shit they don't need and can't take care of when their community as a whole is still busted poor...just so they can feature the appliances they sell. That's gross. Okay - gotta go expeditioning.
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on July 25, 2010
Faith Rhyne
Posted project update #2The Technology -
Sorry for the bland-ish, un-illustrated updates. I have had a serious problem with my lo-budget webcam program uploading and saving to external drive. I wrote three brilliant updates yesterday, by smartphone, and everysingleone was lost to some fumbling of the curser or an accidental backspace. I am used to autosave on Blogger and I was, like: "Huh? Where'd it go.?"
Sorry to send you elsewhere, but if you want to get a better idea of who I am am what this project is about, a DIY book of excerpts and observations on the subject of bewilderment...well, the motherlode of Faith Rhyne fact and ephemera is @ www.mynameisfaith.net
It is the weblog that birthed this Kickstarter project. Gross.
I have a really great/awful banjo song and some juicy front porch footage for ya'll - I just can't seem to get the file to go where I need to it to go - 'aborted' connections, frozen screens, automatic updates and mandatory restarts gone unnoticed...it is really ridiculous how hard it can be to upload a video to youtube. I think it is - for sure - a technology issue. I wish that the things that slow me down or bungle my process or throw my schedule would just WORK - this is a brand new notebook, they know that people use them for filming and uploading video - so why even bother selling it pre-loaded with a program that sucks...so, that then I can go spend more money for a program that works like even a basic preloaded program ought to...duh. We know the economy is padded with unnecessary requirements to spend...the question is, why are still buying.
I think that we forget how much power we have as consumers. I told my ex-mother in law about this project last night and she was like: "But, people are struggling so much!"
The thing is, the economy IS in crisis...totally true. However, I still see A LOT of wasteful spending. I mean, people want U.S. jobs - but we continue to buy clothes made in China.
"Well, American clothes are too expensive..." Why? Well, because they can be...because someone will still buy them. The real issue is: How many dang shirts do we need?
It is bewildering to me that a fun and informative and pretty-much NO LOSE project like this is seen as confusing and baffling and people aren't sure whether to take me seriously.
I want to see my book of excerpts in print. I deserve this. I do. However, I know enough to know that - at the end of the day - I will cut every sheet out of grocery bags if I have to and busk in Pack Square for copy fees if necessary. I don't really want to do those things. I have better things to do. Like go "expeditioning" with my kids and work a forum-style blog so that Asheville will have a place to discuss things like the impending khakis at the Randolph Learning Center.
So, there is an ENORMOUS amount of Faith R. Rhyne on my blog (ew.) and some parts are more charming than others.
I really feel a little sad that we have all gotten so mis-trusting and that our skepticism toward the motives of corporate funded culture has caused us to be suspicious and overly critical toward some fairly interesting and totally legitimate people.
I just want to make a book and see what would happen if 2 million dollars was skimmed from the convenience stores and couch cushions of the world. It is an important question...we have more discretionary money than we like to admit, and it's okay. I am really quite unemployed right now, but I still buy a red bull. I spend money on crap like everyone else - that's how I know we have money.
What if we did something really awesome with it? What if we put together a huge note filled with the words that comfort, inform, inspire, and remind the people among us who are smart, kind, and MOST IMPORTANTLY
...curious. I'll post up the video soon. In the meantime, here's my note to my second backer, VP of Programs and Exhibits at a health and science museum that really DOESN'T have any discretionary income, but is charged with the daunting task of teaching every student in grades 6-9 how our reproductive systems work.
We don't - a STAGGERING - number of us, understand our basic biology. Now THAT is bewildering.
We can manipulate atoms to make unholy explosions and channel electrons and send infinite zeroes and ones spinning through the air to somehow land in the right place...?
I texted a thanks to my first backer, I think he is in England on business. How did my thank you get all the way over there so quickly and...?
See, I guess I am prone to bewilderment and that is what makes me so curious. I want to know WHY and HOW and WHAT IF... anyway, thanks so much for taking part in my experiment.
I have a really big sample don't I? If anyone wants to let the folks in the cubbies beside them know that they are taking part in a social experiment, please: feel free. If they have any questions, they can call me. Really - I posted a scan of a resume draft and I had been REALLY careful not to let my number or address EVER show up. Why? It is easy to find that stuff out. I want to see what happens. If someone is a nutcase who is liable to show up at some blogger's house unannounced - well, I'd rather it be me than some terrified mommy blogger from the midwest. I am freakishly strong and have developed nerves of steel. Almost a superhero, but not quite:)
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Sent: Jul 25, 2010 7:51 AMNew video update (with banjo:/ is uploading. This is fascinating, isn't it?
If I didn't have a background in sociology - my feelings might be hurt...fortunately, I am far too intrigued by the why and how of it all that I just can't waitsee what happens next. Even if it's nothing - now, THAT would be interesting, wouldn't it?
(But, I do still want my book funded, and I want to buy ya'll somethin' really nice for helping me learn to be brave and then being nice after I got confused by all the bravery...)
Really - though, this is pretty interesting, huh?
Faith
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerrystill - hours later - my efforts to upload have been unsuccessful. Please, visit my other site for more info and if you want you can even help me edit. I am really skilled at processing criticism - even poorly communicated criticism - in a way that is informative to me.
The world and all it's tangly places is a somewhat confusing place to me - feel free to explain things to me...but, only if your explanation is sound. So far - they are all pretty flimsy and fairly frightening. I am beginning to think that the vast majority of people simply don't give a damn and perhaps never did.
Some would shrug, I think I want to know why.
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Faith Rhyne on July 25, 2010
If people don't want to route two dollars via my triage unit -that's okay, but feel free to let me know about the ways that you do, indeed, give a damn. Not because you should have to prove yourself, but because I really like the ways that people show that they care about things other than themselves. I think that they are beautiful and interesting. So many of our exposures to goodness among humans (extreme home makeover, etc.) are funded by corporations. I don't see how that could work. It seems manipulative. Sears should be good to people and give them elaborate shit they don't need and can't take care of when their community as a whole is still busted poor...just so they can feature the appliances they sell. That's gross. Okay - gotta go expeditioning.
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on July 24, 2010
Faith Rhyne
Posted project update #1My First Day Launched...
Post CommentThe first half -an-hour post-launch was really exciting. I am a huge fan of Rube Goldberg and I often imagine social interactions and economies as working in the same cause and effect, culminating reaction sort of way. I think that is why I am drawn to social experimentation as an art form and bewilderment as an agent of social change.
If we consider, for a moment, the technological and "scientific" folly that has forged what we consider to be 'reality' - well, it is all a big experiment anyway, ie sn't it? May as well make it a good one -
Low risk for participants and with the possibility of providing insight into how the economy of discretionary/disposable income - which, I know is difficult to conceive of for most people...what? Disposable income? Perhaps undervalued or misappropriated income may be more apt terms.
I don't know anybody with much income at all. However, I do know that there is a vast amount of money in this country that just sort of drifts around with small convenience store purchases and that there are also huge, untapped reservoirs of straight-up wealth - gained in some way or another. It seems to me that a great deal of privately held wealth in this country is held by those who have found some success, be it hard-won or happenstance - in industries of entertainment and technology.
However, there are also a great number of academic professionals who, though by no means wealthy, have an enviable degree (no pun intended) of economic stability. It seems to me that these people would be curious about what sort of book a girl like me might write if she were given a chance...not by luck, but by hard-won happenstance -
There are an awful lot of wonderful things that happen out there. I want to learn about them and I want to contribute my own baffling brand of wonderful to the social and economic landscape. I think that it's time I surprise everybody with just how remarkable I can be.
Speaking of, another banjo-ed update is in the works...More Faith, less Ghost-y.
Hopefully...I really have no idea why so much weird stuff happens in my life. I guess I'm just lucky, or paying really close attention, or entertaining myself. A combination of the three is probable.
I feel lucky to have noticed this opportunity and I am having a ot of fun thinking about all the reasons why I don't have people wanting to pledge their coffee money just to see what happens if they do.
I think it's time people realize how much those little dribs and drabs of wealth can write. True stories about a Girl and Her Ghosts and a deep love of surprising people when they need it most and expect it least.
Sorry, this got long. I tend to be a little word-y. My apologies to Great Britain, I have been told that my syntax is horrific to The English.
My first backer is English. He's a very smart and dapper Financial Advisor. My new friend Smokey never dropped off his two dollars. I guess he had something else to spend it on. I hope he comes around again. If only so I know he is real:)
Thank you to my 1st backer -- who also happens to know exactly how to help me to ensure that any funds I may receive in excess of 350.00 will be handled in such a way that they are sustainable and are re-directed to sectors of the economy that serve people in a way that is more mindful and humane than corporate giants. It seems to me that 2 bucks could get a really lovely little book by a fairly scrappy and optimistic creative problem solver into the hands of the young adults who are bewildered into despair when their critical thinking skills begin to develop in adolescence...
The world can seem like a fairly disturbing and clueless place sometimes. Really, for all my antics - I am pragmatic to the core. I think my stories are important because I am still here to tell them. Strange logic, I know.
I also know that I wish I had had more grown-ups in my community who were really invested in the kids in the way that so many people here seem to be. We just sort of floundered. The suicide rate in my hometown, in S. Georgia was RIDICULOUS. The adults just seemed robotic - like, "Everything is fine, going to work....do what you have to do..."
Here in Asheville, I think some kids have enormous access to possibility. However, just as there is disparity in test scores and free/reduced recipients - there is disparity in possibility. I want to model myself as someone who is smart and cool and sane and doing it her way and I want to prove to every single beautiful loser out there that ANYTHING is possible if you just keep trying to be brave and amazing in ways that only you can be.
I really do appreciate your time. I know I am a little bit rough around the edges...but, as I have assured several people today: My Heart is Solid Gold. I just want us all to be okay...I want people to feel more empowered and more enlivened and to realize just how little real fun can cost.
I want to see our valuable middle class dollars redirected to benefit our communities, not some insurance underwirter for Medicaid or some printing press in China used to crank out all those costly address labels that the conservation people send out.
This is a good idea, through and through. Really. And - just think of the stories I can tell in the making...the songs I can sing, the pictures I can draw.
Oh - if you want references of my legitimacy - you can sift through the bloggage or just search the internet. What could the world need more than a clean slate with a heart of gold and a head full of big, beautiful ideas?
Even if this project barely makes minimal funding, it has already been worth it. I have had some great talks with all sorts of people lately about all sorts of possibilities. It makes sense to people. Now they just need to realize that, yes - in order to actually generate changew, you have to DO something. Fortunately, it is an easy something to do.
2 bucks and few clicks and we are on our way to what could be a very important story.
Thanks again for your time.
Feel free to contact me with any questions or inquiries, faithrhyne@gmail.com
Faith Rhyne
Asheville, NC
I am a divorced mother of two. I grew up in south Georgia. I am almost a genius, but not quite. I live in a one-hundred year old house and have a wonderful family of animals. I like my life a lot. I feel lucky. I have decided that I love surprises. Key to my development as an artist is the fact that I have never been to art school.
One of my proudest moments was saying "no" to the Glenn Beck Show. They wanted me to go live and I had to give a final. I chose torturing my students over Glenn. I was on The O'Reilly Factor. That's enough whoring. Look forward to seeing the ghost of your back tattoo.
What exactly would the 'ghost of my back tattoo' entail? The actual ghost...or some reclamation of a dignified status after that melee of pink chintz and heavy black work. I thought long and hard about my back..and it does communicate a certain fortitude, does it not. In the end, however, it just a human back. Burnt by sun and knobbed by spine and bent by the weight of children.
I actually would like to speak to Glenn Beck about the American economy. Whom is the hustler, the whore? I could, I am certain, with grace and dignity, handle Glenn Beck. I taught sex ed, remember. Nothing makes you tougher than a room full of middle school boys and the words "spontaneous erection." I could even make THAT charming. It's the ghosts, they have good manners:) (that was a joke...sorta.) (I was raised by The Old South...that'll give ya ghosts for sure.)
Let's see what happens. Even nothing is something, isn't it?
Ah, yes - my book. Volume one is done - I am just sort of sitting and waiting to see how funding may pan out. I think I may be writing volume 2 right now...surpises.