Retired Baseball Player Is Now an Artist Creating Resin and Wood Animal Sculptures
Retired baseball-player-turned-artist Blake McFarland creates sculptures of animals that are an enticing mixture of wood and epoxy resin. Combining the clear shine of resin with different colors of wood, the figures showcase the elegant beauty of the creatures’ forms while highlighting the materials and McFarland’s mastery of skills.
"We are all lost children crying in the night Afraid of the dark, but terrified of the light. ... Please God, let us find out why, please God, save the children, spare the children, have mercy on the children, and forgive the foolish, lost world."
-Tales of a Rascal: What I Did for Love, Robert Blake, Black Rainbow Productions, 2011, p. 179
Often, jocks are geeks of a different order. The focus and introspection necessary to hone athletic skills can very easily translate into the arts - and sculpture, being such an industrial, sweat-, strength-, and ingenuity-oriented form, carries less stigma in the testosterone-heavy atmosphere of the clubhouse.
Hey! Thanks so much for sharing that list of monastic-themed fiction. Would you mind also sharing some good non-fiction titles on monastic masculinity? (I saw in one of your posts that it was a topic in your dissertation.) It doesn’t have to be exhaustive, just something for an introduction or maybe some titles you personally like. Thanks a lot!
Hi! Yes, here is a (non-exhaustive) list of sources :)
Primary Sources:
Clairvaux, Bernard of. The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Translated by Bruno Scott James. London: Burns Oates, 1953.
Daniel, Walter. The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx. Translated by F. M. Powicke. Edited by Marsha Dutton. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian, 1994.
Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages : A Medieval Source Documents Reader, edited by Martha A. Brozyna, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2005.
McNeill, John T., and Helena M. Gamer. Medieval Handbooks of Penance : A Translation of the Principal "Libri Poenitentiales" and Selections from Related Documents. New York ; Chichester: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Suso, Henry. The Life of the Servant. Translated by James M. Clark. London: James Clarke & Co Ltd., 1952.
Secondary Sources
Arnold, John H. "The Labor of Continence: Masculinity and Clerical Virginity." In Medieval Virginities, edited by Anke Bernau, Sarah Salih and Ruth Evans, 102-18. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.
Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality : Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Bullough, Vern L. "On Being a Male in the Middle Ages." In Medieval Masculinities, edited by Clare A. Lees, Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara. Regarding Men in the Middle Ages, 31-46: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. "Jesus as Mother and Abbot as Mother: Some Themes in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Writing." The Harvard Theological Review 70, no. 3/4 (1977): 257-84. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1509631.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. Jesus as Mother : Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages. Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ucla. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. "The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Later Middle Ages." Chap. 6 In Fragmentation and Redemption : Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion, 181-238. New York: Zone Books, 1992.
Connell, R.W. "The History of Masculinity." Chap. 14 In The Masculinity Studies Reader, edited by Rachel Adams and David Savran, 245-61. Malden, Mass. ; Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Coon, Lynda L. Dark Age Bodies : Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Damrosch, David. "9. Non Alia Sed Aliter: The Hermeneutics of Gender in Bernard of Clairvaux." In Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe, edited by Szell Timea, 181-96. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Doss, Jacob W. "Making Masculine Monks: Gender, Space, and the Imagined “Child” in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Identity Formation." Church History 91, no. 3 (2022): 467-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640722002098.
Elliott, Dyan. Fallen Bodies : Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Elliott, Dyan. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. The Middle Ages Series Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Gutt, Blake. "Medieval Trans Lives in Anamorphosis: Looking Back and Seeing Differently (Pregnant Men and Backward Birth)." Medieval feminist forum 55, 1 (2019): 174–206.
Hadley, D. M. "Introduction: Medieval Masculinities." In Masculinity in Medieval Europe, 1-18. London: Longman, 1999.
Hotchkiss, Valerie R. Clothes Make the Man : Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe. New York ; London: Garland, 1996.
Karras, Ruth Mazo. From Boys to Men : Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia ; [Great Britain]: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Karras, Ruth Mazo. "The Regulation of “Sodomy” in the Latin East and West." Speculum 95, no. 4 (2020): 969-86. https://doi.org/10.1086/710639. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/710639.
Karras, Ruth Mazo. "Attitudes to Same- Sex Sexual Relations in the Latin World." In A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages, edited by Skoda Hannah, 84-101. Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press, 2023.
Karras, Ruth Mazo, and Katherine E. Pierpont. Sexuality in Medieval Europe : Doing Unto Others. Fourth ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
Kerr, Julie. Life in the Medieval Cloister. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009.
Kieckhefer, Richard. "14. Holiness and the Culture of Devotion: Remarks on Some Late Medieval Male Saints." In Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe, edited by Szell Timea, 288-305. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Kieckhefer, Richard. Forbidden Rites : A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century. University Park, PA, UNITED STATES: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/exeter/detail.action?docID=6224672.
Kieckhefer, Richard. "Necromancy in the Clerical Underworld." Chap. 7 In Magic in the Middle Ages, 151-75. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Klaassen, Frank. "Learning and Masculinity in Manuscripts of Ritual Magic of the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance." The Sixteenth Century Journal 38, no. 1 (2007): 49-76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20478245.
Klaassen, Frank. "Necromancy." In The Routledge History of Medieval Magic, edited by Sophie Page and Catherine Rider. London: Routledge, 2019.
Kolve, V. A. "Ganymede/Son of Getron: Medieval Monasticism and the Drama of Same-Sex Desire." Speculum 73, no. 4 (1998): 1014-67. https://doi.org/10.2307/2887367. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2887367.
Linkinen, Tom. Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
McNamara, Jo Ann. "The Herrenfrage the Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050–1150." In Medieval Masculinities, edited by Jo Ann McNamara, Clare A. Lees and Thelma Fenster. Regarding Men in the Middle Ages, 3-30: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Mills, Robert. "The Signification of the Tonsure." In Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis, 109-26. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004.
Mills, Robert. "Transgender Time." In Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Muir, Carolyn Diskant. "Bride or Bridegroom? Masculine Identity in Mystic Marriages." In Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis, 58-78. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004.
Murray, Jacqueline. "Masculinizing Religious Life: Sexual Prowess, the Battle for Chastity, and Monastic Identity." In Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis, 24-42. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004.
Murray, Jacqueline. "One Flesh, Two Sexes, Three Genders?". In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, edited by Lisa M. Bitel and Felice Lifshitz. New Perspectives, 34-51: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Nelson, J.L. "Monks, Secular Men and Masculinity, C. 900." In Masculinity in Medieval Europe, edited by Dawn M. Hadley. Women and Men in History 121-42. London: Longman, 1999.
Newman, Martha G. "Real Men and Imaginary Women: Engelhard of Langheim Considers a Woman in Disguise." Speculum 78, no. 4 (2003): 1184-213. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20060926.
Rollo, David. Medieval Writings on Sex between Men: Peter Damian’s the Book of Gomorrah and Alain De Lille’s the Plaint of Nature. Brill, 22 Feb. 2022, 2022. doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507326. https://brill.com/view/title/57406.
Sauer, Michelle M. "Uncovering Difference: Encoded Homoerotic Anxiety within the Christian Eremitic Tradition in Medieval England." Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, no. 1 (2010): 133-52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40663371.
Shopkow, Leah. "Mooning the Abbot: A Tale of Disorder, Vulgarity, Ethnicity, and Underwear in the Monastery." Chap. 9 In Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper, edited by Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke, 179-98: Brill, 2017.
Thibodeaux, Jennifer D. The Manly Priest : Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 1066-1300. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Trokhimenko, Olga V. ""Believing That Which Cannot Be": (De)Constructing Medieval Clerical Masculinity in "Des Münches Not"." The German Quarterly 85, no. 2 (2012): 121-36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41494744.
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall, and Blake Gutt. Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Wes works for both his company Press On Publicity and EBM. From EBM website: “Vause founded Press On Publicity, a boutique PR company that manages the public relations for artists including Blake Shelton and Elle King. Vause also collaborates with PR entrepreneur and executive, Ebie McFarland.” Ebie is the owner of EBM.
Blake is with Press On Publicity and ML is with EBM. Wes works for both Blake and ML.
“Vause has been instrumental in the success of Miranda Lambert.”
Unfortunately, I don’t see anything to indicate B left Wes.
Think of the Disney+ DVS track for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and the emotion of the one for Monsters, Inc. For more instructions, be sure to read the Ultimate Guide to Audio Description on u3playmedia.com.
Narrator: Leilani Jones-Wilmore (The Nightmare Before Christmas, the Monsters, Inc. duology, the Finding Nemo duology, Shrek 2, the Cars trilogy, the High School Musical trilogy, Ratatouille, Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales, Up, The Princess and the Frog, Alice in Wonderland (2010), Toy Story 3, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Social Network, Gnomeo and Juliet, Brave, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, The Radiator Springs 500 1/2, Annie (2014), Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, Despicable Me 3, The Boss Baby: Family Business, Sing 2, Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Trolls Band Together)
Credit rolls (Mistral arc)
Here’s a demonstration (sped up because the normal speed is over three minutes long)
Volume 4
Created by
Monty Oum
Directed by
Kerry Shawcross
Co-Directors
Gray G. Haddock
Miles Luna
Story by
Miles Luna
Monty Oum
Kerry Shawcross
Written by
Miles Luna
Kerry Shawcross
Executive Producers
Burnie Burns
Matt Hullum
Supervising Producer
Gray G. Haddock
Producer
Koen Wooten
Post Production Producer
Chrysta Hiser
Technical Producer
Sean Murphy
Assistant Producer of Pre-Production
Nick Todd
Assistant Producer of Animation
Luis “Paco” Vazquez
Starring the voices of
Lindsay Jones as Ruby Rose
Kara Eberle as Weiss Schnee
Arryn Zech as Blake Belladonna
Barbara Dunkelman as Yang Xiao Long
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Jessica Nigri as Cinder Fall
Christopher Sabat as Arthur Watts
Josh Grelle as Tyrian Callows
Jen Taylor as Salem
William Orendorff as Hazel Rainart
Katie Newville as Emerald Sustrai
Samantha Ireland as Nora Valkyrie
Neath Oum as Lie Ren
Miles Luna as Jaune Arc
Mike McFarland as Mayor
Chris Guerrero as Blacksmith
J. Michael Tatum as Klein Sieben
Howard Wang as Whitley Schnee
Jen Brown as Pyrrha Nikos
Alejandro Saab as Dying Huntsman
Jason Douglas as Jacques Schnee
Jason Rose as James Ironwood
Bruce Carey as Captain
Tyler Coe as Reporter 01
Amber Lee Connors as Reporter 02
Jason Douglas as Reporter 03
Jen Brown as Lisa Lavender
Burnie Burns as Taiyang Xiao Long
Yunhao Zhang as Crew Member 01
Kendra Ziegler as First Mate
Michael Jones as Sun Wukong
Chris Kokkinos as Crew Member 02
Aaron Dismuke as Oscar Pine
Shannon McCormick as Professor Ozpin
Marissa Lenti as Oscar’s Aunt
Ryan Haywood as Peter Port
Joel Heyman as Bartholomew Oobleck
Vic Mignogna as Qrow Branwen
Kim Newman as Higanbana Waitress
Anna Hullum as Raven Branwen
Tara Platt as Kali Belladonna
Kent Williams as Ghira Belladonna
Derek Mears as Corsac Albain
Mike McFarland as Fennec Albain
Scott Frerichs as Businessman
Amber Lee Connors as Businesswoman
Alejandro Saab as Henry Marigold
Nick Landis as Angry Businessman
Kyler Smith as Waiter
Felicia Angelle as Trophy Wife
Chris Kokkinos as Husband
Cherami Leigh Kuehn as Ilia Amitola
Dawn M. Bennett as An Ren
Apphia Yu as Young Ren
Connor Pickens as Young Blacksmith
Scott Frerichs as Tall Boy
Marissa Lenti as Short Boy
Amber Lee Connors as Medium Boy
Kaiji Tang as Li Ren
Kristen McGuire as Young Nora
Stan Lewis as Mistral Pilot
Richard Norman as Atlas Pilot
Alena Lecorchick as Train Announcer
Music
“Let’s Just Live”
Lead vocals by Casey Lee Williams
Lyrics and music written by Jeff Williams
Performed, produced and mixed by Jeff Williams
“Like Morning Follows Night”
Lead vocals by Jeff Williams and Casey Lee Williams
This piece of media has been described by the Media Access Group at WGBH with funding from Rooster Teeth Productions and Viz Media, read by Leilani Jones-Wilmore. For more information about motion picture access, visit our website at access.wgbh.org.
This piece of media has been described by the Media Access Group at WGBH with funding from Rooster Teeth Productions and Viz Media, read by Leilani Jones-Wilmore. For more information about motion picture access, visit our website at access.wgbh.org.
This piece of media has been described by the Media Access Group at WGBH with funding from Rooster Teeth Productions and Viz Media, read by Leilani Jones-Wilmore. For more information about motion picture access, visit our website at access.wgbh.org.
English Cast Announced for the Handyman Saitou in Another World Anime
The English cast has been announced for the Handyman Saitou in Another World anime:
Blake McNamara is Saitou
Sarah Roach is Raelza
Bradley Campbell is Morlock
Krystal LaPorte is Lafanpan
Christopher Guerrero is Gibungle
Matthew David Rudd is Guivre
Jalitza Delgado is Liliza
Landon McDonald is Maderaka
Kelly Greenshield is Maevena
Mike McFarland is directing the dub.
Crunchyroll will begin…
I was just wondering. Is Wes Vause still Blake’s publicist? He left WMN and started his own company in 2022 with Blake as his main client. I also remember reading he signed Elle King. But I happened upon a December 2023 press release from Caesars announcing mls last shows and at the bottom is said regarding ml contact Ebie McFarland/Wes Vause. When you look up Ebies company they represent a lot of country artists. Wes is listed as one of their employees. Blake and Wes worked together a longtime. You would think if they parted that would be announced. But I can’t find anything about it. Does anyone else know?