bLOGOS/HA HA

02 November 2009

Grail Day

Today is Melbourne Cup Day

aka

The Race That Stops A Notion

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The Great Blood Purifier

Let Us Ride the Imaginary to Victory

1880s_Young jockey riding saddle_sRGB_400w

01 November 2009

All Saints Day. The major political issues in Australia at the moment are, yet again, the conjoined Identity Construct and Border Defence. There are several boatloads of Sri Lankan, Afghan and other off-shore refugees presently exciting ideological passion; Australia's immigration detention 'facilities' (far from the word root, "easy") are full; and talkback radio-waves transport a flotilla of tongues.

A point often made is that the number of persons arriving in this country by boat and without a visa is miniscule in comparison with the number of those who arrive by plane then stay on after their visa expires. A commentator recently remarked that the latter are not as sexy as a boatload of desperates.

Then there's swine flu, bird flu, equine flu, cane toads, crown-of thorns starfish.... the economy... the environment... terrorists... drugs... "Thriller" zombie street parades (last weekend)... hoons...

These thoughts permeated last evening after this white fella and his non-dingo canine companion on their evening walk three times encountered groups of young children dressed as witches and skeletons, all abroad to initiate the neighbourhood. Halloween had 'arrived' in Australia. I'd heard the supermaket in-store propaganda a week ago, so knew it was coming. It's visa had been $tamped.

The heap initially acquired this (trimmed base) blotter for it's Halloween projection-space terror scene - Nothing to Fear but Fear/Nothing Itself - and had puzzled at the linking of this to the thinking of a bank. Now it makes a kind of sense.

2009.11.01_Halloween Projection Fear_illustration_sRGB_400w

31 October 2009

Blank Worship

bL enjoys the tape-made works of Melbourne artist BUFFdiss

There's plenty to be found online : Blank worship and lots more here ; the full photo of the image below plus an interview clip at UNEARTH here.

I was reminded of the image above when I received the image below, unattributed, in today's transmission from E of the O.

2009.10.31_Man in stairway looks at cube tape

The Laughing Cubist
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Yesterday upon my stare
I saw a cube that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
No worries!

30 October 2009

Episode 12 : The Adventures of Inspector U

Sharp-eyed heapist malE ( here and here ) yesterday morning sent a collection of comic-culled projection-spaces, tagged as
Eleven Someone - Somethings.

Here's just one.

I thought to show and share a few more of them here, but by day's end our correspondent had himself taken the next step (.here.) and re-compos(t)ed the eleven into a new meta-view comic-style arrangement. Merci malE

29 October 2009

Model Viewers

Frank Lloyd Wright, Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim regard the 1945 model for the Guggenheim Museum. Wright died 6 months before the official inauguration, fifty years ago.

27 October 2009

Reporting Season

Smack Bang centre-stage on the Stocks page of today's The (Melbourne) AGE, this bottom line summation of your
avant-garde investments.

25 October 2009

Out, Damn'd Blot or What The Angel Saw

Jonathan Swift's 'The Lady’s Dressing Room' portrays two ways to regard the blotist.

The entire poem can be read here. These are its concluding lines:

Thus finishing his grand survey,
Disgusted Strephon stole away
Repeating in his amorous fits,
Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits!

But vengeance, Goddess never sleeping,
Soon punished Strephon for his peeping:
His foul Imagination links
Each dame he see with all her stinks;
And, if unsavory odors fly,
Conceives a lady standing by.
All women his description fits,
And both ideas jump like wits
By vicious fancy coupled fast,
And still appearing in contrast.

I pity wretched Strephon blind
To all the charms of female kind.
Should I the Queen of Love refuse
Because she rose from stinking ooze?
To him that looks behind the scene
Satira’s but some pocky queen.
When Celia in her glory shows,
If Strephon would but stop his nose
(Who now so impiously blasphemes
Her ointments, daubs, and paints and creams,
Her washes, slops, and every clout
With which he makes so foul a rout),
He soon would learn to think like me
And bless his ravished sight to see
Such order from confusion sprung,
Such gaudy tulips raised from dung.

In our time, another archaic sounding name, Quilton, appears on shopper shelves with angel view and a blotter worthy of our blot.

On the Quilton ("Loves your bum") website, on the guest book page, Sarah-jane updates the paean thus :

Posted by Sarah-jane on October 15th 2009
Thankyou to the Quilton Gods above for makeing such a perfect paper. As all us women know soft toilet paper is a girls best freind.

( click image to enlarge )

23 October 2009

bLOG of Blot

A dozen old blotters arrived in the mail today, bought online from Cardboard Heroes. Beaut name, Cardboard Heroes.

The front of the package, with requisite stamps stickers and customs declaration, inclines towards the Merz of Schwitters.

This is the back of the package. The Silver frame defines a projection-space for heroes. An Arte Povera crown, fit for a cardboard king.

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Inside, old blotters. Un-numbered pages from the Book of Blot; mirrored shadows for the Peoples of the Book.

In the Beginning was the Word.
Then was the blot.

22 October 2009

Puppet Culture

A big thank you to those Carnivors of the Art Cult who so excitedly brought to the heap's attention this fresh cut Meat Puppets poster by Fred Hosman of Hosco Press.

2009.10_Meat Puppets_poster by Fred Hosman

21 October 2009

Smells Like Teen Spirit or Whatever

Still on projection-spaces and public posters: this is The Ballarat Courier's banner from last Friday. Displayed in the usual way, in a metal wire grid leaning against a window outside the Hepburn General Store.

2009.10.16_Courier poster_Teens Bored._400w

David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :