TAR re. TAR (Teddy Watkins)

It's heap-sorting time : this from The Age (2009.11.11)

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within you without you

The Feed (2019)    

Roy Lichtenstein (1961)    

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f o r e ! h e a d

On looking deeper into Victor Hovland's TAR

"double-pump" action :

for Peter Jones    

 Roy Lichtenstein, Coup de Chapeau (Self-Portrait), 1996

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nothing something anything everything

Sometimes everything looms so large.

Friday Night Dinner  

The simplest enquiry can suddenly appear overwhelming when encountered by Mark Heap (Spaced, Upstart Crow, Friday Night Dinner).

 She : Is everything all right?

 He : Everything?

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The Art of Camouflage | Move on, please. Nothing to be seen here.

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Borrowed from French camouflage, from camoufler (“to veil, disguise”), alteration (due to camouflet "smoke blown in one's face") of Italian camuffare (“to muffle the head”), from ca- (from Italian capo (“head”)) + muffare (“to muffle”), from Medieval Latin muffula, muffla (“muff”), from Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”)) + *fell (“hide, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel(e)(w)-, *plē(w)- (“skin, hide”). Akin to Old High Germanfel (“fell, skin, hide”), Old English fell (“fell, skin, hide”). Alternate etymology traces the Italian and Medieval Latin words to Middle High German mouwe, mōwe (“sleeve”) (German Muff (“muff”), Dutch mouw (“sleeve”)) from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”) + fell (“skin”). More at mulch, fell.

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Melbourne Comedy Art Festival

TAR 

presents 

Frocking Clouds

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Professor Laughwell

Young and old at bLOGOS/HA HA have been enjoying the Friday evening re-screenings of the 1960s Batman television series on SBS Viceland.

The most recent, episode six - Batman Is Riled, featured our favourite supervillain The Joker played by Cesar Romero.


 Cesar Romero as The Joker : "HA HA! Look, I've been framed!"

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Holy Headline #1 : 

The responsibility of the press

Robin: All the same! "The Joker is wild!" "Batman and Robin foiled again!" Holy Headlines, do we look like page one dumbbells!

Batman: Too true, Robin. The responsibility of the press is to report the truth, despite what it might do to our public image. Our main concern is to a frightened public, whom we seem to be failing.

Robin: Gosh, you're right. I can't help thinking of only myself. I'm sorry.

Batman: Well, that's okay, chum. We all have the right to be selfish sometimes.

Holy Headline #2 : 

Holy grammar!

Joker: Batman and Boy Wonder? Are your blindfolds in place? Very well, then. Ask yourselves, "What is wrong with this sentence?" "He who laughs last laughs good!" [laughs]

[Batman turns off the television.]

Robin: Holy grammar! Is that all?

Batman: He who laughs last laughs best, not good! Best! Best! Best!

Robin: Do you suppose "blindfold" might have something to do with it?

Alfred: If I may venture an opinion, sir, I think Master Dick may have put his finger on it.

Batman: Blindfold?

Alfred: No, sir. Grammar. The sentence was gramatically incorrect. One does not laugh good, sir. One laughs well.

Batman: Why, that's it, Alfred! Laughs well! Laughwell! Professor James J. Laughwell!

Robin: Holy safari! The one that just got back from Africa, with a collection of rare masks and objects of art!

Alfred: That's where the blindfold part would come in, sir.

Batman: And they're being stored at the Lasts Longer Warehouse! To the Batmobile!

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Vale John Clarke (1948 - 2017)

John Clarke : writer, satirist, broadcaster, actor, comedian, everyman, everywoman. 

Of wit, wisdom and compassion (Shakespeare). 

Up there and down there with Spike Milligan.
     

 John Clarke and Fred Dagg - the early years 

Fred Dagg's Greatest Hits (1976) 

 John Clarke and Sam Neill -

 an antipodean Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Death In Brunswick , 1990 

 John Clarke and Brian Dawe for 27 years

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from Hakuin to Henry

HAKUIN 
paints an enso 
to help us see

 Hakuin Ekaku (1686 - 1768)  

                  
HENRY NO LOGOS

Henry is a comic strip created in 1932 by Carl Anderson. The title character is a young bald boy who is mute (and sometimes drawn minus a mouth). With the exception of a few early episodes, the comic strip character communicates only through pantomime, a situation which changed when Henry moved into comic books. (Wikipedia)

             

                   

Henry steps onto the set of 

I Am Comic Curious (Yellow)

He is carrying a framed portrait by Carl Anderson, 

a can of black paint and a brush.

           

          

Henry hangs the portrait on his free-floating name.

Henry turns to face us.
       
Henry paints an enso round his right eye.

         

Henry turns back to face the portrait.

Henry paints an enso round the portrait's right eye.

     
Standing beside the portrait, Henry regards us.

This is

Black Hole Henry's Meta-Portrait Enso Show 
painted to help us see

      

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Light at the end of the tunnel for Abbott & Co.

       
Common words get weird together sometimes : 
PARTY ROOM SPILL MOTION 

This morning's attempt by 'a few disaffected back benchers' to challenge the party leadership of Prime Minister Tony Abbott has failed. The vote (about whether or not to vote) for a LEADERSHIP SPILL was defeated 61-39. 

And so the STAGGERING PERFORMANCE of Abbott & Co. continues a while longer...

From our small collection of Charlie Hebdo, this extraordinary 1975 re-imagining of the Ouroboros symbol by Cabu - CHIRAC SEES THE END OF THE TUNNEL - seems equally applicable today.

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Aphex Twin - Piano Tuners ] CLICK 2C&H\EAR (

I was watching very old cartoons while listening to Aphex Twin 26 Mixes for Cash. 

This is the result. I did not edit it to match, 

but I did cut down the song to be shorter. 

Aphex Twin remix of Curve's Falling Free

Cartoon - Tom and Jerry the Piano Tuners

residentofboxfive

for I and S of

what, how & for whom

        


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dis-abuse your self ] why don'tcha?! ( regards allography

        

L.H.O.O.Q.

What kind of figure of speech or figure of text would you call that? The Free Online Dictionary gives it a shot, which we've further assisted.
     
Acronym     Definition    
L H O O Q   not an acronym; 
            auditory pun

            Elle a Chaud au Cul 

            French - U.S. 

            She Has a Hot Donkey

            French - Australian

            She has a hot arse  

         

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Assisted readymade by Marcel Duchamp (1919)  
      

Below, an anti-clerical carte postale from before 1904. The divided-back format was introduced to French postcards in 1904 : address on the right, message on the left.

      

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    3AB  OQP  HIE = 3QBC ...

  3 abbés occupés hier = 3 culs baissés

  3 abbots occupied yesterday = 3 asses lowered

     
From these, one does get a sense of the times...

Messengers Run Amok

...of F--k Art! and F--k The Church!  

Gillard launches royal commission into child abuse

     

bLOGOS/HA HA claims to be Le bLOG qui rit ] scroll to the the base of this page to see this writ ( after Benjamin Rabier's famous 1924 meta-image of La Vache qui rit. 

In this context, it is interesting to note the critical comments of the four cows who look down upon the three crapping clerics. "Disgusting", says one. "Oh my brother", another. This one reckons the priest a "Pig".

 

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Riddle

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Q : What's the difference between a Golden Guillotine and a rabbit trap.

A : None [Snap!]

Sometimes someone is a little smarter.

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BE-HOLD ( WITH CARE )

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In our two previous posts ( here and here ) canny regardists handled their apparitions of the void with white gloved care.

Today, we follow those same white gloves to a third beholding:
MM and the Golden Guillotine

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Staff at le bLOG qui rit are sometimes asked which journals we read.

A recent postcard from one of our overseas correspondents illustrates: a newsy letter amid regardez-moi (Mademoiselle Josephine regarde un journal) on one side, and on the other

Wishing you were here
reading Le Rire
with me
J.

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Episode 12 : The Adventures of Inspector U

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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

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bL went to Castlemaine yesterday for lunch and a catch-up with KF prior to this Thursday's opening of the group show someone looking at something... at West Space. At the next table members of Punctum ; people on the street; cafes spilling out. All in all, Castlemaine seemed very buzzy.

At a secondhand book shop, bought another cover for my small Comic Depictions of Art/Artists sub-heap.

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Have been interested for yonks in the mythoLOGOS/HA HA of the one-eyed strongman Popeye. (Wikipedia on Popeye here )

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In particular, Popeye's 1933 self-portrait song "I Yam What I Yam" has exerted a special fascination.

I Yam What I Yam
(Lyrics from the 1980 soundtrack album of Popeye.)

[spoken]
You don't have to be no fish to tell when you're flounderin'
What am I? Some kind of barnacles on the dinghy of life?
I ain't no doctors but I knows when I'm losin' me patiensk
What am I? Some kind of judge, or a lawyers?
Aw, maybe not; but I knows what laws suits me
So what am I? I ain't no physciscisk, but I knows what matters
What am I? I'm Popeye, the sailor

[sung]
And I yam what I yam what I yam and I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam 'cause I yam what I yam

And I gots a lot of muskle and I only gots one eye
And I never hurts nobodys and I'll never tell a lie
Tops to me bottoms and me bottoms to me top
And that's the way it is 'till the day that I drop
What am I?
I yam what I yam!

I yam what I yam what I yam what I yam what I yam

I can open up an ockean I can take a lot of sail
I can lose a lot of waters and I'll never have to bail
I can pushk up Madagascar grab a whale by the tail
What am I?
What am I?
I yam what I yam!

I'm Popeye, the sailor
I'm Popeye, the sailor
I'm Popeye, the sailor
I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam
I yam what I yam what I yam what I yam
I'm Popeye the sailor man!

With a Judeo-Christian upbringing, to my ear Popeye's self-declaration has long echoed of another : Yahweh / YHWH

I Am that I Am (Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה‎, pronounced Ehyeh asher ehyeh [ʔehˈje ʔaˈʃer ʔehˈje]) is a common English translation (King James Bible and others) of the response God used in the Bible when Moses asked for His name (Exodus 3:14). It is one of the most famous verses in the Torah. Hayah means "existed" or "was" in Hebrew; "ehyeh" is the first person singular imperfect form. Ehyeh asher ehyeh is generally interpreted to mean I am that I am, though it more literally translates as "I-shall-be that I-shall-be." (Wikipedia : more here )

The foundling Swee' Pea appears to view 0r interpret Popeye through the philosophical filter You Am What You Eat.

I'm Popeye the sailor man!
I'm Popeye the sailor man!
I'm strong to the finich,
'Cause I eats me spinach.
I'm Popeye the sailor man.

When young we were told " If you don't/eat your greens you'll be...

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Paint - Auto = Projection-Space Splatter Act

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Snow + Auto = Projection-Space Stencil Act
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Paint - Auto = Projection-Space Splatter Act
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Flip Twice for Double Feature

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What Joy to receive in today's mail a small envelope with a primitive, double feature movie inside. An old flip book, a response to the recent blog about movies and comics, from childhood fellow traveller D.

Flip forward and it's Tom & Jerry.

After intermission, turn it over and flip the other way for Droopy. *Cover poster a fine somedog looks at something ...

?

O!
What was that?
cries the River Free

I was once your Burden
sings the Delta to the Sea

And now, a bow
All Three:
!AHA?
(laughter, exeunt)

The previous post recalled DC comic character The Riddler and his question mark logo. From the great parade of comic fashions - costumes, capes and masks - his is near enough the favourite at bLOGOS/HA HA.

On Dualism's Stage, I usually regard the question mark as a female sign : spiral and wombful. Ditto the Riddler's tease to Bat Man's LOGOS : He Man, upright citizen, phallic Imperator, exclamation hammer! Zap! Pow! Bam!

While Batman was always poised and in control of his emotions, Robin was a highly excitable young man. Throughout their exploits, Robin would often find some event, some comment, some thing, completely unbelievable. On these occasions, he would exclaim, "Holy (insert words here), Batman!" What follows is a list of such outbursts.

("Holy read the list here Batfans!")

Still on question marks, I was intrigued several days ago to 'uncover' this 1922 image at the Library of Congress archives.

[Unclothed woman behind "?" sign], 7/28/22

bLOGOS/HA HA is interested in Labels, and reproduces the
LC Label below. It includes a helpful and unhelpful NOTE :
Title devised by Library staff

TITLE: [Unclothed woman behind "?" sign], 7/28/22

CALL NUMBER: LC-F8- 19377[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-06771 (digital file from original)

RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [19]22 July 28.

NOTES:

Title devised by Library staff.

Date from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves.

Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.

This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.

Temp. note: Batch two.

FORMAT:

Glass negatives.

PART OF: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original) npcc 06771 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.06771

CONTROL #: npc2007006770

How do the LC Lablers know the woman is unclothed? She is/the image is an emanation of the Supreme Goddess as Void, with projection-space for image whereupon we may project and see "unclothed woman" et al.

Another recent fun find is the 1950 sheet music for THE THING. On the cover, in the centre, between the name of THE THING (THE THING) and the nailed and bound wooden box, floats a big bland question mark. [What is this thing called THE THING? Huh?]

Below is a slightly later version, from 1952, with neither ? nor !
(Just looking, thanks.)