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.
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Good, I feel good (so good)
Knock on wood 'cause I wanna feel this way tomorrow
Sayin' mono mono mono mono
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Mmmm! (so good)
Eatin' mon O mon O mon O mon O
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Thanks VB!
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Ah I read the news today, oh boy,
four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small,
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on.
A Day in the Life
Lennon–McCartney / The Beatles
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
In this scene from Paris Blues (1961) Joanne Woodward and Sydney Poitier are talking about her Paris holiday boyfriend the musician Ram Bowen (Rimbaud/HA HA), played by Paul Newman. Poitier, as a fellow muso, is telling Woodward that Ram is a "serious" musician, that his music comes first, before any woman. She understands the advice being given.
She says :
"Oh." (O)
He confirms :
"Oh." (O)
While this is happening, Woodward's character is constantly playing with her food, a slice of 'Swiss cheese'. At the start of the discussion the cheese is shaped into something resembling a (Zorro) mask with two eye holes.
By the time of the "O" : "O" exchange it has been whittled to a single hOle, like a mOuth
She raises it tO One eye and the shadOw of the hOle frame crOsses her mOuth
She LOOKS AT him
thrOugh the mOnOcle Of cheese
Message understOOd
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) ... here's lOOking at yOu kiddO ... (
She pOps the cheese ring frame thing
vOid
intO her mOuth
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This is Zac Hepburn's review of Crystal Castles,
published in The Age ( here ) on 24 January 2013 :
A crystal-clear invasion of the senses
ABANDON all hope ye who enter, a Crystal Castles performance is nothing to take lightly. Performing to a capacity crowd at Melbourne's Billboard, The Venue, the Canadian duo, comprised of producer Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass, arrived as a chaotic force determined to destroy the eardrums of every audience member.
Touring nationally with the Big Day Out in support of the latest LP release Crystal Castles III, the set featured an assortment of material. Current singles Plague and Wrath of God took centre stage, pulsating with caustic reverie and palpable dread reserved only for the darkest Joy Division songs. Crowd favourite and worldwide chart topper Not in Love closed out the set to rapturous dancing and applause.
The duo's style of electronica is akin to a fever that burrows deep into the listener's psyche. Each track is a disorienting labyrinth, simultaneously beautiful while also employing an asphyxiating blitzkrieg of drums and shrill electronic sounds. Chain-smoking between songs, Glass exudes a frenetic violent energy. Her broken timbre is mixed with manic dance moves, and the decision to continuously leap into the mosh pit makes her a kinetic force to witness live.
While the bombastic soundtrack occasionally drowned out the brittle vocals, the sonic onslaught effectively created a melting pot of adrenaline, anguish and paranoia.
Their music is a wrecking ball of hostile alienation fuelled by raw emotion and melancholic laments that are not easy to forget.
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A Man, A Woman, A Pain|T|hing : Part 2
Having looked together at the pain|t|hing Pain
(La Douleur by Émile Friant, 1898), the man says:
"I'll show you another by him...
They leave for another room.
Another woman is already there, looking at a pain|t|hing of a woman in a blue dress in a field at evening running towards the aperture of the golden frame.
But this is not our story.
As they arrive, Juliette notices the other woman... as the man indicates to her his woman in a frame.
He says to Juliette,
"The first time I saw it...
For a moment, they look at each other...
... then Juliette walks away.
The man leaves too. Looking back at his pain|t|hing, he runs his finger under the woman's frame.
They are gone.
We remain a few moments more and wonder if the prison-keeper knows that the man in the gold frame to the right of the woman in the gold frame is her depictor and the author of Pain, Émile Friant?
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We move on...
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SBS.TV recently screened, and we appreciated, I've loved you so long. (Director, Philippe Claudel. Actors, Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein and Serge Hazanavicius. France, 2008)
In this scene, the central character Juliette goes to an art museum to meet a friend.
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She pauses at a picture of women in black, in grief at a burial.
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A voice interrupts her reverie.
The painting is called "Pain".
It is her friend.
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Who is the author of this "Pain"?
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This shared regard, we know, is primarily about her pain.
He wants to show her a little of his own. He says
"I'll show you another by him...
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No, no. Not this one.
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Another. Tomorrow...
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A recent visitor...
observed and here returning observation in the eucaLabel Tree immediately outside the Bonzaview office of bLOGOS/HA HA
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After the success of last year's Alpha Beta Best sports day and the finale All In ComPosition (Community Position) E FOR EMPTY
... our local chapter of Theatre of the Actors of Regard met again yesterday to expand upon their previous effort. This time as the tableau vivant EMPTY OF ESSENCE
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Lance Armstrong has admitted to bullying, lying and drug taking in his attempt to win the human race.
image courtesy Theatre of the Actors of Regard
A spokesperson for Human Racers P/L has rejected expressions of concern that other races will copy the Armstrong example.
On the evidence of the promotional document below, we think it may already be too late.
COPIEZ! COPIEZ TOUJOURS...
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Today, a classic LOGOS/HA HAism.
This to-act-is-to-sin drawthing was made last year, but it seems applicable here.
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Reading an item about the current state of bushfires in Australia, the ABC newsreader said,
"... with a watch and A.C.T. warning in progress... a watch and act, rather..."
ABC TV NEWS24 - midday 12 January 2013
What to do?
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As part of its Sunday nights Arts Doco season,
ABC TV1 last night screened SIDE BY SIDE.
For almost one hundred years there was only one way to make a movie — with film.
Movies were shot, edited and projected using photochemical
film. But over the last two decades a digital process has emerged to
challenge photochemical film-making.
SIDE BY SIDE, a new documentary produced by Keanu Reeves, takes
an in-depth look at this revolution. Through interviews with directors,
cinematographers, film students, producers, technologists, editors, and
exhibitors, SIDE BY SIDE examines all aspects of filmmaking — from
capture to edit, visual effects to color correction, distribution to
archive. At this moment when digital and photochemical filmmaking
coexist, SIDE BY SIDE explores what has been gained, what is lost, and
what the future might bring.
Gale Ann Hurd and James Cameron as
The Supreme Goddess as Void with projection-space for image
At one point, Kenu Reeves put to James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Avatar) a concern that some express about digital and cgi composition losing touch with The Real Thing.
Cameron's reply...
It started simply enough.
CHILD ACTOR LOOKS AT BLOCK
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Then, suddenly, too late...
"Quicksand!"
It's true! "C'est la veritable"
And that, my dears, is how it happened. OK?
ANTIPAINTHING LOOKS AT AK
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For the background to this go to the ever wonderful BibliOdyssey
One of our favorite exhibition titles from 2012 was
Ten Years of Things
at the University of Queensland Art Museum.
As a bonus, the printed invitation characterised this exhibition as an Actor of Regard:
"Ten Years of Things looks at
the open-ended approach artists are taking to..."
Today, the latest issue of Art Monthly Australia arrived. Of interest to bLOGOS/HA HA is an article by Ruark Lewis :
Anubhava & the politics of things
An Index for Max Lieberman
A definition of anubhava provided by Max Lieberman is quoted in a footnote:
Anubhava is an ancient Indian Sanskrit word that means direct knowledge through experience or realisation. It also refers to intuition, feeling, emotion and consciousness.
bLOGOS/HA HA is interested in such ideas and experience - of direct perception unmediated by conception.
Rather than here risking an unhelpful reduction of the Lewis index, you might wish to read it yourself (Art Monthly) and visit the Max Lieberman website (here) from where this drawing is reproduced.
One Hundred Years of ] looking at ( Things
bLOGOS/HA HA has a small collection of French rebus - from res, Latin for thing. We are surprised that this form is so little known among the Anglo artists and writers of whom we've enquired.
Here, from the archive of our Paris Bureau, as mentioned recently, is a rebus from around a century ago.
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Stepping outside the office door, back into the World Of Things, t|here it all is again.
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And again...
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We had to re-post this!
It's from local permacultural earthlings
(l-r) Patrick, Zephyr, Meg and Woody :
Artist As Family
click below for their blog
Also check out Patrick's permapoesis
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