TAR : The Art Race

 Four runners, their barrows and a marker post.

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 Susie was fourth that time.

 Declared a draw!

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some thank yous

Last week, a nip by a pug to the tip of your correspondent's little finger, thirty hours later brought on rigors and sepsis - From Little Things Big Things Grow - and, later, streams of IV antibiotics and micro surgery to flush out the resistance. A rare invader with a long name. "One case per year," he said.

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Grateful thanks to the doctors and staff at Springs Medical Centre and Daylesford Hospital; to Jo and Michele who at a moment's notice served as long distance ambos; to the doctors, nurses and all at Geelong Hospital; to Gill for bringing hot meals and general checking; and to Josh Bowes who, unaware of the developing bite saga, left this "Glad to see you back in general circulation" drawing on the chair by the front door.

 Josh and Boots 

by Josh Bowes 

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STAR with Venus Rising

    

(right) Susie of Theatre of The Actors of Regard  

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Charles Lang Freer looks at STAR with Venus Rising by the See Sure, after James McNeill Whistler (c.1869-1870)

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Self and Other | Fight Club

 Susie, our hard-working Assistant Editor 

 likes to spar with Appearance & Illusion.

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Vale Milton Moon (1926-2019)

Milton, John (1608-1674) 
Author of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.

    

Lotus Moon / Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)  

Lotus rising from the mud, reaching for the moon [enlightenment). 

   

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Milton Moon (29 Oct 1926 - 6 Sept 2019) 
Lineage name bearer. Potter, Australia.

Robert Yellin's Japanese Pottery Blog 
26 May 2008

A good friend of mine recently returned from 'Down Under' and brought back a wonderful book, 'The Zen Master, the Potter and the Poet' by Milton Moon.

It is a special book full of Moon-sensei's anecdotes of many journeys to Japan, his insights into good pots and the wisdom that can be found when one listens to them in silence. Mr. Moon, if you ever visit Japan again please allow me to take you to Ryutakuji, if you haven't already been, and we can retrace the steps of Hakuin, and also Tsuji Seimei, the photo of him in the previous posting was taken at Ryutakuji. Blessings abound....

Milton Moon leaves us his own excellent archive website :

A free-form platter 33 by 34 cms.

This is the last entry on my website, which, I hope will be still here after I am gone, at least for a few years. The last pots of my life I make will be for me.

I do have a last comment: it is an archival website and shows just some of my journey with clay, and I hope it brings inspiration to some younger potters, but as a wise friend countenanced, 'to copy is not creative, it is merely contrivance.'

Finally, I am grateful for those agents, who over the long period of my creative life, have believed in my work and have supported me. To them I say 'thank-you.'

  

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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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The Loaded Mind

The Loaded Dog (written by Henry Lawson, published 1901)

Plot summary from Wikipedia :

Three gold miners named Dave Regan, Jim Bently, and Andy Page are sinking a shaft at Stony Creek. The trio own a young retriever dog named Tommy, described as "an overgrown pup... a big foolish, four-footed mate." Andy and Dave, fishing enthusiasts, devise a unique method of catching fish using explosives. The dog picks up an explosive cartridge in its mouth, and runs the fuse through the campfire, prompting the three men to flee. Tommy, thinking it a game, playfully chases down his "two-legged mates," who try everything in their power to escape the cartridge. Jim tries to climb a tree and then drops down a mine shaft, meanwhile Andy has hidden behind a log. When Dave seeks refuge in the local pub, the dog bounds in after him, causing the Bushmen inside to scatter. Tommy comes across a "vicious yellow mongrel cattle-dog sulking and nursing his nastiness under [the kitchen]," who takes the cartridge for himself. A crowd of dogs, curious about this unusual object, gather around the cartridge. The subsequent explosion blows apart the yellow cattle-dog and maims numerous others. For half an hour, the Bushmen who witnessed the spectacle are laughing hysterically. Tommy the retriever trots home after Dave, "smiling his broadest, longest, and reddest smile of amiability, and apparently satisfied for one afternoon with the fun he’d had.".

We were reminded of Henry Lawson's danger dog and the after-laughter of his Bushmen of TAR when we first saw and mis-read/double-read this scroll-carrier scroll scene by Kano Tsunenobu.

Kanō Tsunenobu (狩野常信) (1636–1713) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. He first studied under his father, Kanō Naonobu, and then his uncle, Kanō Tan'yū, after his father's death. He became a master painter and succeed his uncle Tan'yū as head of the Kanō school in 1674. (Wikipedia)

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Apollo and Venus and Susie by The See

Recently rediscovered in Des Moines, USA, and now restored, is Apollo and Venus (c.1600) by 
Otto van Veen, the teacher of Rubens.

Also recently found, this one in Australia, c.1900, 

Venus and Susie at The See, Apollo Bay.

                                                         

It is thought to be painted 'after Whistler' by one of the Heidelberg School artists, a playful Antipodean response to the 1897 Bliss Sands & Co publication Venus & Apollo in Painting and Sculpture by William Stillman.

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The Clive Palmer Poetry Party presents

Recent tweets from Clive Palmer :



and now his Frog Poem contribution :

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TARgets

 AtlanTAR Season 1 Episode 5 : Darius goes to a shooting range.
 He books a bay, buys some bullets, pins up his TARget and 
 starts shootin' ...

 Nice cap, yo!

 Pretty soon, the dog TARget gets some special TAR attention. 

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Theatre of the Animals of Regard : Why Listen to Animals?

           
This experimental project by Liquid Architecture reframes English writer and artist John Berger’s classic 1980 essay Why Look at Animals? through the prism of sound and listening. We gather together artists, musicians, scientists and historians to investigate human-animal sound via the dynamics of power, knowledge and value in the pursuit of a new question : Why Listen to Animals?

In partnership with West Space, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Naturestrip, Australian Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Melbourne

Supported by City of Melbourne

artists :

Eric Avery, Eugene Brockmuller, Alex Cahill, Catherine Clover and Peter Knight, Melissa Deerson with Georgina Criddle, Will Foster and Sabrina D’Angelo, Tamsen Hopkinson, John Jenkin, Max Kohane, Nicholas Kuceli, Tessa Laird, Bunna Lawrie, Camila Marambio, Anthony Magen, Joel Maripil, Sally Ann McIntyre, Louis Kennedy, Miranda Liebscher, Julia McFarlane, Jake Moore, Lynn Mowson and Bruce Mowson, Bryan Phillips, Jack Prendergast, Kim Satchell, Undine Sellbach & Stephen Loo, Rob Thorne, James Utting-webb and Riley Lockett, Cecilia Vicuña, John-Joe Wilson.
     
schedule : look at / listen to CLICK
               

FIAPCE   -1976-  

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Theatre of the Abattoirs of Regard

                   

To express one's disgust 
        toward another person, 
                toward Donald Trump say, 
or one's disgust
        toward another section of human persons, 
                toward women say ,
by further denigrating 
        yet another group
                of our fellow sentient beings :
Hey,
        what's with that, 
                people?!

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(he is) a disgusting pig

(she is) Miss Piggy

(he is) an animal
(he is) a dog

(she is my) bitch

(her) pussy

(he is) a f***ing  monkey

(he is) a slug

(he is) an orange slug

(he is) a revolting slug :

        

TAR : NSW Parliament Officially Calls Donald Trump 'Revolting Slug' : Hansard

That this House:

(a) condemns the misogynistic, hateful comments made by the Republican candidate for President of the United States of America, Mr Donald Trump, about women and minorities, including the remarks revealed over the weekend that clearly describe sexual assault;

(b) reflects on the divisive, destructive impact that hate speech from political candidates and members of elected office has on our community; and

(c) agrees with those who have described Mr Trump as "a revolting slug" unfit for public office.

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 Post Script : on cue... 
 

Captain Look : Transit of Regard Observed

          

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The Reign of La Langue

                            
Marie's words to Jeanne have long since reached the sea and returned into the various atmospheres. 

        Art is dead, Long live Art!

       
    Verbum mortuum est, dum vivat.
               
      
The great circulation of language continues. Below, a new reign falls upon the ground of all, and on those standing around; on the dog, too. 
         
             
In 1808, Théâtre des Acteurs de Regard proposed that this monument should be inscribed with a poem beginning
  'Passants, contemplez cette pyramide…'
  'Passers by, contemplate this pyramid...'  

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...but it never eventuated.
         
A.B. is writing to chere Leontine : the fall of words align with the obelisk (atopped by the funerary vase intended to hold the bullet-pierced heart of Louis Desaix ...but it never eventuated) and with the rood tree, stripped and strung with the lines of the new langue : telegraph, telephone and electrification.

        

   
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THE AXE MAN COMETH

This morning we watched in disgust as The Senate finally passed the Abbott Government's AXE THE TAX legislation.

A few days ago, Bill Shorten made one of his better speeches, we reckon. You can read it HERE on page 31 of Hansard.

The extract below is the conclusion of the Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt's advocacy, followed by Bill Shorten.

... Ultimately, repealing the carbon tax will reduce the cost of living, make jobs more secure and improve the competitive position of our country. It will be replaced with a system which actually reduces emissions. Let us be absolutely clear: the Australian people have already voted on this carbon tax repeal bill. They are now waiting for members and senators to honour their commitments to abolish the tax and get the budget back into surplus. As the Prime Minister has said previously to the House: these bills are the government's bill to reduce the Australian people's bills—and so the government and I commend these bills to the parliament.

Mr SHORTEN (Maribyrnong—Leader of the Opposition) (12:51): I rise to speak on the Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2014 and related bills. In late 2009, this nation was on the verge of making a decision about which we could have been collectively proud. We could have made this parliament a place of inspiration, with a national response to climate change, supported by both government and opposition. It was a policy of both government and opposition that built upon the previous government's decision—a government not of our party—but consistent with the best practice in the world Indeed, this week is the seventh anniversary of Prime Minister Howard announcing his support for an emissions trading scheme...

Gauge the seriousness of concern here by the uncommon language of the conclusion, addressed to the future and to history :

... Today, the parliament has a choice: we can enter the history books as the generation that ignored the perils of climate change; we can be marked down as the generation that surrendered to the selfish, shouting clamour of vested interests; or we can guarantee that Australia does its fair share to deal with this global problem. This parliament can vote for an emissions trading scheme that puts Australia in step with the rest of the world. Today, I give Australians this promise: Labor will always fight for serious, credible climate change policy. We will never surrender to this Prime Minister's bullying denialism and his government's extremism. 

Sadly, we have run out of time to deal with climate change. The decisions made by us, the elected representatives of the people, over these final six years of this critical decade for climate action will have an irrevocable impact on the quality of life for future generations. We all have choices in history, and some are more than important than others. Today, we can embrace the extreme risk of doing nothing, and when, in the future, it is proved wrong, the costs will not be measured by a rye laugh of those opposite, an embarrassed smile or a belated and sincere expression of regret. No apology will suffice. It will be forever remembered as your greatest voting folly. There is no mistake greater. There is no blunder more serious. It is inexplicable. It is unjustifiable, not because we were responsible but because we did not accept our responsibility in this parliament. 

If we embrace the risk of doing something, then we shall take our place in the progressive world supported by a society that saw this issue as political but above politics. This parliament has choices. Each of us here knows that the political process can be exciting and exhilarating. We all know that it can be cruel and exacting. On this side of the House, we know that on the other side of the House and in the other house in this place there are people of character and commitment no less convinced than we are of the severity of the problem. But, for Labor, we will reach for the higher ground, always and constantly. In the blink of an eye of Earth's history, we have seen climate change that is staggering and frightening. In the blink of an eye that responds, let there be no tears for humanity.

AXE THE AXE : We turn in this moment of frustration to a what-goes-around-comes-around drawing made by a local primary school student ten years ago. 

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Post Script : 
After four days of deliberation, The Age publishes this Editiorial:
    
     
To read it click here