Introduction - Patrick...a story of creation.

Hello everyone, my name is Albert, and I am a letters-constitutional studies major here at OU. I'm a fifth-year senior and will be applying to medical school this spring! For the past four years in college, I've run my own business every year in different states with Southwestern Advantage and have had a blast! facebook.com/bmswalbert. Also, Every summer, I bring a little wooden Patrick Star with me and take pictures with it... sometimes with my customers.

Here is Patrick being sported by one of his fans last summer in Michigan

Uploaded from my Iphone

A little over a year ago I took the Indian Epics course with Dr. Gibbs and wrote everything through the persona of Patrick Star. https://patrickstartrick.blogspot.com/ I really enjoyed the creative process of it so I'm doing the same thing for this course! Join me as I explore different myths and legends with Patrick!

Before we do that, here is a little bit of background on who and what Patrick is. Patrick is a wooden figurine that I created in 10th grade in my ceramics class at Classen SAS. He was created completely by accident. My friend and I were designing a sculpture out of two pieces of wood. Both pieces failed, but from the rubble arose possibility. My friend ended up throwing his piece of wood away, but I saw potential with my half. At first, the block looked potentially like a long sword. I shaved the piece and sanded it down into what later resembled a magnet shaped device. The final product was a wooden figurine that resembled Patrick Star from the popular show on Nickelodeon, Spongebob Squarepants. I decided to paint the figurine a shade of pink and had another friend draw a face on him.                             
                                                       

All photos were uploaded from my Phone

Anyways, I thought Patrick was super funny and started taking pictures of Patrick. It started off as a joke between me and my friends and we took pictures of him everywhere.

                                                      Here this is Patrick Skyping with one of my friends

                                                  Patrick with a baby photo

                                          Here Patrick is part of my Science Fair project

                                          A rad picture of Patrick in my physics class with the Tesla Coil

                                        Patrick at a Mexican Restaurant (Featuring my sister in the background)

                                      Here Patrick is being sported by one of my friends as a pocket square
                                              Also, all these photos were taken from my phone

I even created an Instagram page for him at one point and it went viral (not really).
                                           
                                                     All pictures were taken from my phone

I admit it was hilarious for the first few days and then everybody expected the joke to die down. But it never did. As a matter of fact, I still think it's hilarious! Even in college, I think this is hilarious and will randomly take pictures of him, kind of like a weird zany continuous art project will no definitive goal.

Patrick in somebody's garden statue with a frozen donut.
Uploaded from my iphone

Anyways, the blog turned out pretty well last time I did it so hopefully it is pretty decent this time!
Have fun reading!