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Showing posts with label Hepburn Springs. Show all posts
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01 July 2023
TAR On Parade (-1979-2015-2023-)
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TAR street parade (-2015-) with Andrea Lindsay.
Below, with Susie and passer-by self-porTARist
photos by Lisa Gervasoni
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TAR : Travel_Act_Rest (-1979-)
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25 June 2022
Stall
... as Rural Australians for Refugees set up for another Saturday stall.
The raffle plus donations made $242.30 ...
... which will go to Refugee Legal.
The raffle plus donations made $242.30 ...
... which will go to Refugee Legal.
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20 February 2022
name of change
It was
The New Chalet
now it is
The Amalfi
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17 September 2020
Via Flora
COVID-19 restrictions were eased today in country Victoria. Here are some daily-walk encounters over the past month.
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Word has it, it's been a good year for camellias, 'queens of the winter flowers'. Below, Radium Avenue, Old Jack's uprooted dandelions left to dry, 'otherwise hard to kill'.
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17 June 2020
Vale John Madigan, blacksmith and senator (1966-2020)
John Madigan, former senator, dies aged 53
Alex Ford/The Courier (Ballarat)
June 16, 2020 — 1.02pm
'A true original': Former DLP senator John Madigan dies, aged 53
Rob Harris/The Age
June 16, 2020 — 4.19pm
Reproduced below is our post The Outsider from 6 June 2013. Vale John.
Our favorite blacksmith is John Madigan.
A few days ago The Weekend Australian wrote of Senator John Madigan :
He is the "most outside of outsiders" in federal politics but come September, the DLP's John Madigan might find himself at the centre of the action
JOHN MADIGAN FORGES THE HEAVY METTLE OF DLP
Stuart Rintoul / The Australian
1 June 2013
A photo in that article shows Madigan at his forge, not far from our own office.
photo : John Nowakowski
John set up here as a blacksmith when still a boy.
In the late 1970s, one of our staff commissioned him to make a branding iron in the manner of the early hunters and hearders of the Canvas Animal.
Above and below, John prepares two equal-length iron lines of inter-dependence for the ideogram brand.
The parts are then heated soft in the forge, ready to smite and shape together.
The result...
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24 February 2020
SIGN FIELD : Uptight, out of sight!
Baby, everything is all right
Uptight, out of sight
Stevie Wonder, Uptight (1966)
Today, some earlier pre-SIGN FIELD material. This is from the Hepburn Shire Council Meeting of 16 December 2019 in which your correspondent pushes on regarding the unsightly.
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The Mayor : You are not permitted to speak."
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Beaten above by the hubbub and the bell, the full text is below : Draft Local Law No. 2
Dangerous and Unsightly Land
I observe that we're gathered here tonight in the presence of a portrait of Our Queen.
Recently, I’ve been watching ‘The Crown’, the Netflix series.
In Series 1 Episode 9, we are party to an exchange of views between the proud old landscape painter Winston Churchill and the young so-called Modernist Graeme Sutherland, commissioned by members of the Houses of Parliament to paint a portrait of their senior statesman.
Churchill mocks the portrait when it is officially presented to him at his 80th birthday celebration in Westminster Hall. It is not how he sees himself, and not how he wishes to be seen. Writing to Lord Moran, he describes the work as “filthy” and “malignant”.
One of Churchill's Labour critics, calls it, "A beautiful work". A Conservative colleague and friend calls it "disgusting".
The painting was intended to hang in the Houses of Parliament after Churchill's death, but it had been given to Churchill as a personal gift, and he took it away to Chartwell, where it was never displayed.
Within a year, Lady Spencer-Churchill oversaw the destruction of the portrait. She had already destroyed earlier portraits of her husband that she disliked, including those by Walter Sickert and Paul Maze.
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The young Lord Altrincham so loves the British Monarchy that he is prepared to speak out and risk vilification when he observes that the public, after the humiliations of the Suez debacle, are losing respect for the crown because of its tradition-bound out-of-touch relationship with those it oversees.
In his own small publication, Altrincham makes his dutiful criticism and for a while is indeed pilloried. The establishment press refer to him as the SNEER PEER.
The Palace, warned of the seeds of revolution, takes note and is concerned.
In a secret meeting to discuss reform, Lord Altrincham presents the queen with a list of three things to STOP and three things to START.
Lord Altrincham | Theatre of the Actors of Regard
I move that the term “unsightly” be removed from all Local Laws, to be substituted with the term “sight-seeing”. And that “sight-seeing” be represented NOT as the touristic seeing of this or that “sightly” place or “unsightly” object; rather that the term “sight-seeing” be offered to all, residents and visitors alike, as an invitation to look within and without. To visit the safe and unsafe make-do construction sites of our own individual acts of seeing the world into being : to witness in wonder and with wisdom the well-spring of our streaming projections of “sightliness” and “unsightliness”.
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21 February 2020
SIGN FIELD ( The Episode with Jen & Dru )
SIGN FIELD
Festival 'O' Signs
Daylesford Town Hall
Hepburn Shire Council Meeting
Jen and Dru present the amendments sought
and return to their seats
TAR responds with BODY SIGNS
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Freeman Tribilcock filming at right, filming this too.
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20 February 2020
SIGN FIELD : Singing & Signing
6pm
Tuesday 18 Feb 2020
Daylesford Town Hall
Sign Riders arriving at the Town Hall
David Holmgren and Su Dennett, permaculture pioneers
Andrea Lindsay and an earlier campaign's re-purposing of a
Hepburn Shire councillor's address to "You people...
Meg Ulman referencing the disputed LL2 (Local Laws version2)
to be voted on at this evening's Shire Council Meeting
Patrick Jones
Peter O'Mara
Petrus Spronk
Mark Dickenson and Jen Bray photo Natasha Morgan
SINGing and SIGNing against LL2 busking laws
...and many more. Tomorrow, what happens when the Festival
moves inside for the Shire Council Meeting and vote on LL2.
STOP THE PRESS
just in from Mr D
SINGing and SIGNing against LL2 busking laws
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STOP THE PRESS
just in from Mr D
Signs
The 5 Man Electrical Band
lyrics as recorded by The Five Man Electrical Band in 1971 and included on the 1990 compilation album "Made In Canada - Volume Three 1965-1974"
And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said "You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat, I said "Imagine that. Huh! Me workin' for you!"
Whoa-oh-oh
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house,
"Hey! What gives you the right?"
"To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in"
"If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Now, hey you, mister, can't you read?
You've got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat
You ain't supposed to be here
The sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside
Ugh!
------ lead guitar ------
And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray"
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn't have a penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine."
Wooo!
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Sign
Sign, sign
The 5 Man Electrical Band
lyrics as recorded by The Five Man Electrical Band in 1971 and included on the 1990 compilation album "Made In Canada - Volume Three 1965-1974"
And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said "You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat, I said "Imagine that. Huh! Me workin' for you!"
Whoa-oh-oh
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house,
"Hey! What gives you the right?"
"To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in"
"If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Now, hey you, mister, can't you read?
You've got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat
You ain't supposed to be here
The sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside
Ugh!
------ lead guitar ------
And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray"
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn't have a penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine."
Wooo!
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Sign
Sign, sign
18 February 2020
SIGN FIELD
INAUGURAL HEPBURN SHIRE FESTIVAL 'O' SIGNS
6pm
Tuesday 18 Feb 2020
Daylesford Town Hall
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24 January 2020
Street Art : Vincent Street, Daylesford, today
above, one of two Lamborghini; above rear, David Bromley art
below, David Bromley art; reflection, one of two Lamborghini
below, David Bromley art; reflection, one of two Lamborghini
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06 December 2019
Community Circle
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Hepburn Community meeting in Daylesford Town Hall on Tuesday evening to discuss draft changes to Hepburn Shire's
Local Laws. TAR representative PT speaking : see text below
Regarding
Local Law 5.3
Dangerous
and Unsightly Land
I propose
that the word “unsightly” be removed from Local Law 5.3 and that it NOT be used
in any draft or future Local Law.
Currently,
Local Law 5.3 is as follows :
The owner or
occupier of premises must not
allow the premises to be unsighty.
In this
clause, "unsightly" means any land on which :
(1) Unused
excavation material or general household waste is present and in view.
(2) Any other thing that has substantial adverse
visual amenity impact to the general public in context with the surrounding
area.
Draft Local Law 4.3.1 is proposed to replace Local Law 5.3
and is as follows :
The
owner or occupier of land must not cause or allow that
land:
(a) to be unsightly; or
(b) to be
kept in a manner which is dangerous.
NOTE: For
the purposes of this clause, the term
unsightly means land which contains:
(a)
unconstrained rubbish such
as paper, cardboard, plastic bags, styrene, house hold
rubbish, second hand containers;
(b) second
hand timber or second-hand building material;
(c)
discarded, rejected, surplus or abandoned solid or liquid materials;
(d) graffiti;
*that hoary
old chestnut
80 PUNKS IN
THIS VILLAGE AND A FEW HIPPIES
Bakers
Delight OPEN 7 DAYS
Unofficial 'community' mural and bakery signage on wall of Daylesford supermarket car park
HEPBURN DEMOCRATIC CLUB scrolled on street-frontage wall of the old Macaroni Factory at Hepburn Springs.
(Why don't you all f-fade away - 'My Generation', The Who)
(Why don't you all f-fade away - 'My Generation', The Who)
(e) anything
being built which is left incomplete and constitutes a detriment
to the appearance of the surrounding area
THE T-REX : a long-stalled Shire project in central Daylesford
(f) any
other thing making the land visually
repugnant; or
(g)
detrimental to the general amenity to
the area but excludes an enclosed building or structure on
the land which complies with regulations made under
the Building Act 1993 or the Planning and Environment Act
1987.
. .
. .
It’s a truism
that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
So too is
ugliness in the eye of the beholder.
So also, to
quote the draft law, unsightliness, visual repugnance and detriment to appearance.
Is it really
thought wise that the Shire should legislate all subjective appearance?
Others have long
advised otherwise.
This is Matthew, chapter 18 (KJV) :
"Woe unto the
world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to
that man by whom the offence cometh!
...if thine
eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to
enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell
fire."
And this is 8th century Shantideva :
"Where would
there be leather enough to cover the entire world? With just the leather of my
sandals, it is as if the whole world were covered. Likewise, I am unable to
restrain external phenomena, but I shall restrain my own mind. What need is
there to restrain anything else?"
Accordingly,
I move that the term “unsightly” be removed from all Local Laws, to be substituted
with the term “sight-seeing”. And that “sight-seeing” be represented NOT as the
touristic seeing of this or that sightly place or unsightly object; rather that
the term “sight-seeing” be offered to all, residents and visitors alike, as an
invitation to look within and without. To visit the make-do construction sites our
own individual acts of seeing the world into being : to witness in wonder the
well-spring of our streaming projections of ‘sightliness’ and ‘unsightliness’.
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