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

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


31 July 2011

KILLER HEADLINE

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A well-known Victorian horse racing identity has referred us to the cover of today's Sunday Territorian.

Along with Sense Of Sun's recent Darwin win
there's this poem of regard
FIRST LOOK
AT JOCKEYS'
COLOURS

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But what a stunner, the feature headline!
KILLER
MURDOCH
BREAKS
SILENCE
This at a time when questions, speculations and revelations about 'media baron' Rupert Murdoch, his son James and the practices of their News Corporation employees have produced so many of the world's news headlines during the past two months.
GOTCHA!
Finer print reveals that it's referring to "Bradley John Murdoch, who is serving 28 years at Alice Springs Correctional Centre for shooting the British ... Read more about this story in today's Sunday Territorian. ... ".

So, of course, it's not about Rupert or James. But that first, fooled impression stays to tease. The stray seed is planted, that the most powerful newspaper LOGOS man in world ...

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28 July 2011

WEST SPACE the next generation

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The latest incarnation of WEST SPACE opens tonight!

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West Space is proud to announce the opening of our exciting new premises in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Over the last few months the West Space staff, Board, Program Committee, volunteers, builders, architects, electricians, floor sanders, plasterers, City of Melbourne staff, and a fantastic community of artists have been working hard preparing our beautiful new venue. It is now time to open our doors to the public.

from the email:
WEST SPACE is launching!

The opening is tonight : 6 - 9pm

WEST SPACE
Level 1, 225 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Australia

exhibition hours :
Wed - Fri 12 - 6pm
Sat 12 - 5pm

website : http://westspace.org.au/

27 July 2011

10 ways to look at the past

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"I have seen the future
and it works"

Lincoln Steffens
after visit as journalist to Communist Russia
- 3 April 1919 -

"I have looked at the past
and cannot find it."

TAR
after visit as regardist to National Gallery of Victoria
- 27 July 2011 -
(see below)



Coincident with the National Gallery of Victoria's present-time exhibition :

10 ways to look at the past
23 July 2011–19 February 2012

Theatre of the Actors of Regard
(TAR) will perform, at that exhibition, ten unheralded tableaux :

It being presently obscured
23 July 2011–19 February 2012

Title, script and stage directions for the ten are as follows :

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26 July 2011

THE REAL REGARD

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On Saturday afternoon, before Cadel Evans successfully raced the final time trial of the Tour de France, bLOGOS/HA HA souvenired this newspaper banner from the local general store.

2011.07.23_HERALD SUN_REAL <span class=

Everything in everything. How curious, the use of the word REAL here. It would have been quite sufficient to simply say CADEL. Everyone would have got that. CADEL YOU BLOODY BEAUTY. Instead, it seems to suggest there is an other CADEL REALITY : THE UNREAL CADEL / THE FAKE CADEL / THE REALISTIC CADEL / THE SURREAL CADEL ...

Main Entry: real
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: genuine in existence
Synonyms: THE absolute, actual, authentic, bodily, bona fide, certain, concrete, corporal, corporeal, de facto, embodied, essential, evident, existent, existing, factual, firm, heartfelt, honest, in the flesh, incarnate, indubitable, intrinsic, irrefutable, legitimate, live, material, original, palpable, perceptible, physical, positive, present, right, rightful, sensible, sincere, solid, sound, stable, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, unaffected, undeniable, undoubted, unfeigned, valid, veritable CADEL
Antonyms: THE dishonest, fake, false, feigned, imaginary, invalid, untrue CADEL


The Herald Sun (Melbourne) is a Rupert Murdoch tabloid. We at bLOGOS/HA HA reckon the REAL CADEL caption is a zeitgeist thing, a possibly subconscious possibly deliberate inversion out of the REAL JULIA / FAKE JULIA headline mindset. ("Cadel Evans, he's a real leader. Not like that electorally illegitimate Julia Gillard.")

The Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has been hammering hammering a small set of catch phrases into the nation's news reports every day since he failed to win the last election and then, in a close result, lost the balance of power to an Independents-supported Labor Minority Government. Hence his FAKE JULIA obsession.

Here's an instance from February this year, as reported on ABC Radio National :
NAOMI WOODLEY: But the Opposition wasn't to be deterred, Tony Abbott launched a censure motion, condemning Julia Gillard's honesty and credibility.

TONY ABBOTT: We have heard a lot about real Julia and fake Julia. Was it real Julia or was it fake Julia that said, we gave our word to the Australian people or was it real Julia or fake Julia who said they will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

Opposition tries to censure PM over carbon price
PM Program : ABC.Radio National _ Naomi Woodley reported this story on Thursday, February 24, 2011 18:43:00

And this was yesterday, as reported on ABC Radio National :
TONY ABBOTT: That was the real Julia speaking then. What we've got now is fake Julia and the real Bob Brown. The policy that the Government is pursing now is fake Julia and the real Bob Brown as opposed to the real Julia who thought that the way to best achieve our 5 per cent emission reduction target was through the Coalition's Direct Action."

Gillard rejects carbon compromise report
PM Program : ABC.Radio National _ Naomi Woodley reported this story on Monday, July 25, 2011 18:30:00

All this talk about REALITY (sic) ...

From last night's 7PM ABC TV News :
"Cycling into Paris, the winner must have been almost surreal for Evans who finished second in 2007 and the following year. Now there was even time for some small talk with his toughest competitors."

ABC TV News - 7PM : 25 July 2001
accurate transcription - to check it yourself click here


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25 July 2011

DINKING with Dad and Oppy and Cadel

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dink (regional : Australia, New Zealand)

verb (t)
1. to convey as a second person on a horse, bicycle, or motorcycle
noun
2. a ride obtained from being dinked


Below is an uncropped photo, taken by mum : Dad, with his Malvern Star bike and Gladstone bag on the handlebars, about to dink your junior correspondent to school. Most likely it was for my first day at school, with dad on his way to work as the local pharmacist - Kangaroo Flat, Victoria, 1956. (Mum also designed that pair of lotus flower wrought-iron gates.)

"Can you give me a dink?"

Such a means of transport is illegal now, but back then we all rode bikes and dinking was common. Even double-dinking, with a second passenger on the handle-bars. True. (There are also accounts of this at the Macquarie Dictionary's Australian Word Map.)



Kangaroo Flat is on the Calder Highway, 4 miles to the Melbourne side of Bendigo. That gum tree lined road can be glimpsed outside our Lotus Gates. Bicycle racing was very popular in Victoria back then so as well as people riding past our place to and from work and school there were always large numbers of cycle athletes going about their training.

Even before that, when dad was young and living in Shepparton, he and his friends would cycle and race from Shep and back to Bendigo and Melbourne and so on. I'm pretty sure dad said he knew and cycled with Oppy, who came from nearby Rochester.
Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman, OBE (29 May 1904 - 18 April 1996), referred to as Oppy by Australian and French crowds, was an Australian cyclist and politician, whose endurance cycling feats in the 1920s and 1930s earned him international acclaim. (See photo below)

read wikipedia entry here


This is my photo of dad beside the statue of Oppy at Rochester in 1997 on a trip back to Shep.

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Hubert 'Oppy' Oppenheim has been mentioned by many in the last 24 hours, in the light of Cadel Evans' magnificent victory in the Tour de France. Australia, and Victoria in particular, has had a century of bicycle culture which is now realised and recognised in the crowning of Cadel Evans in Paris.

Thanks for the dink, everyone.

Vive le Tour!



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24 July 2011

Cadel Evans and the Hero's Journey

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This is the logo of Sports Mad Australia



Sports Mad Australia made the image below in 1991 : The Wonderful Laughing Journey of Saint Kidney. For once, the picture does literally tell the story.



The journey of a hero who sets out on a binary eye cycle and along the way, through the geography of pain, heals the dualistic wound.


This epic of the AFL came to mind again over the recent weeks of this year's Tour de France, and especially during the last few days, witnessing the enormous courage of the Australian cyclist Cadel Evans, lead rider for team BMC.



Duality of determinants in the duel for the crown
Rupert Guinness : Sydney Morning Herald July 24, 2011
click to read article




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19 July 2011

Let it all hang out : Australian Art of the 70s

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There are a couple of old favorites in this exhibition (- 7 August)
at the Ballarat Art Gallery .

First, Frank Littler's wonderful hot! crazy Pro News, circa 1975.



Here at Pro News bLOGOGOS/HA HA we have no inside knowledge about Mr Littler's intended readings, if any. However, in the dark light of the current revelations about Media Chief Rupert Murduch's NEWS of the WORLD, it's shame and demise, and the ongoing investigations into that newspaper's journalists' hacking of the phones of everyone from Royalty to a murdered child... it's hard not to see Rupert et al pictured here in excruciating hellish detail.

In the last week we've seen live on World TV not only Rupert and James Murdoch and their former now-arrested editor of News of the World grilled before a committee of the British Parliament, we've also seen the two most senior London police officers resign over police involvement.

Frank Littler's cockatoo screeching radio and television Media Man is accompanied onstage and off by the boys in blue. One of them even reads a rag with the headline MANAGING DIRECTOR



In the off stage shade at the bottom right corner, a blind or otherwise eyes-closed someone (a Pro News journalist perhaps) is playing along on a customized black phone-guitar. Yakkety Yak hackety hack...



That darth tool echoes the Instrument of the Passion, the eyeless guitar-body being fingered by the headliner.

These two Pro News guitars find familiar company in the form of the PUPPET CULTURE FRAMING SYSTEM at work in this other exhibition favorite from 1979 :

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The Puppet Culture Framing System was also configured around this time as a guitar...



Hence

Slave Guitars
formerly known as
Slave Guitars of the Art Cult


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09 July 2011

Who, ME? US? WE?

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Here's another from the Paris EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE.



A souvenir from LA MAISON DU RIRE (The House of Laughter), an expo presentation by the journal LE RIRE (Laughter),
a favourite of bLOGOS/HA HA.

This is a 1900 drawing of the exterior of La Maison du Rire.
(It's from here)



And, especially for all our PUPPET CULTURE subscribers, an interior view of the above : LA SALLE DES MARIONNETTES.
(From here)



The exterior frieze presents the grand parade of passing persons.



The souvenir emphasises the same.
These are, you are, we are...
Types de la Rue.




And what of the communiqué?
This self-declaring card of backwards regard??
Carte rétrospective ...

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06 July 2011

"............. .......!."

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Dear Old Friends!

Next, five years after the first Venice Biennale
(see our Venezia 1895 blog here), this postcard from Paris's
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1900
Le Chemin de fer Electrique et la Plate-Forme mobile
(The electric railway and mobile platform)


Our bLOGOS/HA HA expo correspondent James begins his report with a quote :

". . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . ! ."

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03 July 2011

WAR ON TERROR LINGUA

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Being a follower of the emptiness teachings makes barracking for The Bombers an emptiness practice par excellence.

It never ceases to amaze this observer that in Australia one can wear a red and black beanie or scarf featuring the word BOMBERS and everyone who sees it thinks FOOTBALL.

This in the time of The War on Terror.



Nor (amaze) to hear the fans loud urging Come on Bombers!
As on Saturday night when against the predictions of all the expert commentators...

Nor (amaze) to read a newspaper headline such as the next day's
Bombing raid stuns Geelong

The Age, 3 July 2011
article here (including full photo by Sebastian Costanzo)



Nor amaze to hear us sing

See the Bombers fly up, up!
To win the premiership flag.




This from 1980-1983 :
collection: Art Gallery of Western Australia

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