TerminoLOGOS/HA HA Arrives Relentlessly

(for Nick the SorTAR)

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re. TRIBUTARIES AND TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA : PERMIT ONE ITEM OF CORRESPONDENCE TO FLOW

photo courtesy : Theatre of the Archives of Resistance  

 LET THE RIVERS FLOW 

 Save The Franklin - 1982 

 Daylesford Embroidered Banners Project

 LET ALL THE RIVERS FLOW

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new stamp release : instrucTAR (red)

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Go ***TAR Yourself

Ukraine reveals ‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself!’ postage stamp

The illustration by artist Boris Groh received the most votes and will soon be published by Ukraine's state postal company.

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Easter 1916 Easter 2016

All changed, changed utterly: 

A terrible beauty is born.

- W.B.Yeats

A newspaper seller outside the ruins of the GPO in the days after the Rising. Photo: 'Dublin After the Six Days Insurrection' from the Falvey Library, Villanova University
          
Easter 1916

by W. B. Yeats
     
I have met them at close of day

Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

That woman’s days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our wingèd horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road,
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live;
The stone’s in the midst of all.

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven’s part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse —
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

 At the prison yard in Kilmainham Gaol where fifteen rebels were 
 executed by the British after the 1916 Rising.

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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, January 1849

Homs, Syria 2016 :

- Russian drone survey, January 2016

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Vale AUSTRALIA POST

Six months ago, after more than 150 years service, the local Post Office closed down. (see here)

Two weeks ago the cost of a basic stamp rose from 70c to a dollar.

This morning, our postie delivered this pamphlet from Australia Post.

Now, regular delivery times will be much slower unless we pay even more.
         

HAND SPACE manifesto, 1981-  

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TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."

    
Sending Postcards 
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."

collection : FIAPCE 

Collecting Paintings 
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."

        

Quoting Quotations
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."
         
English Chorus: "This too shall pass" 

Persian Chorus: این نیز بگذرد‎‎, pron. īn nīz bogzarad

Arabic Chorus: لا شيء يدوم‎ ("Nothing endures")

Hebrew Chorus: גם זה יעבור‎ ("Gam Zeh Yaavor") 

Turkish Chorus: Bu da geçer yâ hû

Latin Chorus: hoc quoque finiet

           

         
Paying Attention to bLOGS 
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."
          

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Today is the Feast Day of the St. Nicholas(s)

Ikon (16th C.) : Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker.

     
Saint Nicholas (Greek: Ἅγιος Νικόλαος, Hagios Nikólaos, Latin: Sanctus Nicolaus); (15 March 270 – 6 December 343),[3][4] also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century Christian saint and Greek Bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor (modern-day Demre, Turkey). Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker (Νικόλαος ὁ Θαυματουργός, Nikolaos ho Thaumaturgos). He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, a practice celebrated on his feast day―St Nicholas Day (6 December, Gregorian calendar, in Western Christianity and 19 December, Julian calendar, in Eastern Christianity); and thus became the model for Santa Claus, whose modern name comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas, itself from a series ofelisions and corruptions of the transliteration of "Saint Nikolaos".            
Who needs Santa? We've got Street Nick the Postie all year round to deliver us treats (today, unaware it was his gift-giver namesake's commemoration day, Nick brought a gift of his own freshly picked red cherries) (more here), even his own portraits : this latest as Postal Cowboy on New Steed (mask painted by Nick).

*Note the black X on the Holy Steed's white collar, as on the ikon above! 
     

       

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ROBERT MACPHERSON : THE PAINTER'S REACH

      they have

      gone to GOMA droving 
      and we don't know where they are 

           

As well as The drover invitation card from the University of Queensland Art Museum, we recently received another invitation from Queensland (below), from the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA).
    

ROBERT MACPHERSON

THE PAINTER'S REACH

     

          

bLOGOS/HA HA sent one of our award winning journalists
to attend the opening, the lectures and the special guided tour by
The Drovers of TAR.

      The TAR guide is there, awaiting in demand,
      TAR book held firmly in his Hand Space hand;
      He fixes on an Actor with a look of lonely lack,
      Exactly what he's waiting for : "TAR here, Jack!"

      - from Songs of the Open Road 
        (The Drovers of TAR)

          

         

The Painter's Reach is a 40 year survey curated by longtime MacPherson expert Ingrid Periz. For those familiar with the art of Robert MacPherson there are lots of old favourites. 

The early, sufficient, mark-making mark-regarding themes and variations.... 

                  

Robert MacPherson
SCALE FROM THE TOOL, 1976

            

studio c.1977 with SARAH'S MERLES - photo David Goulter

soon spill out from the artist's paint encrusted studio ...
                    

Robert MacPherson, 
SCALE FROM THE TOOL (SABCO) 1976
         
... in liberated, worldly play.

              

Robert MacPherson

MAYFAIR : XMAS (WILDFIRE RED) FOR MRS PRETTY 2001-2002

'Speaking of CHERRY PICKERS...' (LOGOS/HA HA) :

from QAGOMA Facebook comes this image of THREE MEN and a SPIRIT LEVEL high in a CHERRY PICKER installing the 156 panels of "CHITTERS: A WHEELBARROW FOR RICHARD, 156 PAINTINGS, 156 SIGNS" 1999-2000

                 

                 
Then t/here's our looking at the/se painted words, printed words, pixilated words.

Robert MacPherson
4 PAINTINGS (NAMING) RED CENTRE DEAD CENTRE IN MEMORY OF D.P. 1993-2001

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Looking without, and reading, and perhaps even looking within.

Robert, MacPherson
LITTLE PICTURES FOR THE POOR, 1983

          

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Displayed in a long red wall vitrine are various other MacPherson productions, not so obviously or primarily of The Painter's Reach: his correspondence with fellow artists is as much a measure of The Postal System's Reach. This pair of gloves, with a clearly franked postage stamp on each finger and the receiver's address written under the thumbs, are part of a recent gift to GOMA of around 13,000 items of MacPherson correspondence.

         

Robert MacPherson, 1982

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I SING ON THE CAKE 

Topping the show off, QAGOMA has recently acquired this grand opera by Robert MacPherson and his eternally 10 year old alter-ego Robert Pene :
               
1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS DROVERS ("YELLOW LEAF FALLING") FOR H.S. 1996–2014

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TAR : De Revolutionibus : De-Centred : re. knowing & not knowing where to look

             
Dear wonderful Nadar, 

In 1858, you were the first to photograph our world from space.
             

Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l'Art
Nadar elevating Photography to the level of Art
Lithograph by Honoré Daumier, in Le Boulevard, May 25, 1863

And, in your studio, the first to fake it too.
           
 Nadar, Self-Portrait in a Balloon Gondola, c1865

Félix Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1 April 1820, Paris – 23 March 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. He took his first photographs in 1853 and pioneered the use of artificial lighting in photography, working in the catacombs of Paris. In 1858, he took a camera up in a tethered hot air balloon and became the first aerial photographer. Around 1863, Nadar built a huge (6000 m³) balloon named Le Géant (“The Giant”), thereby inspiring Jules Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon. Although the “Géant” project was initially unsuccessful Nadar was still convinced that the future belonged to heavier-than-air machines. Later, “The Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Heavier than Air Machines” was established, with Nadar as president and Verne as secretary. Nadar was also the inspiration for the character of Michael Ardan in Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon. In April 1874, he lent his photo studio to a group of painters, thus making the first exhibition of the Impressionists possible. (Wikipedia) 

                      
Today, we think of you again, as a vehicle from Earth, New Horizons, after almost ten years travelling through space, passes by and photographs our Sun's outermost mini-planet Pluto and its moon Charon. Here's the screen photo we made for you at the moment of closest approach. 
             
           
Of course, dear Nadar, there were many others involved in this projection : Copernicus & Co... 

Aristarchus of Samos, Martianus Capella, Nicole Oresme, Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara II. Nilakantha Somayaji, Nilakantha, Abu Sa'id al-Sijzi, Alhazen, Abu Rayhan Biruni, al-Battani, Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Zarqali, Ibn Rushd, and al-Bitruji. Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, William Herschel, Friedrich Bessel... 

Nicholas of Cusa in his Learned Ignorance asked whether there was any reason to assert that the Sun (or any other point) was the centre of the universe. In parallel to a mystical definition of God, Cusa wrote that "Thus the fabric of the world (machina mundi) will quasi have its centre everywhere and circumference nowhere." 

Modern thinking is that there is no specific location that is the centre of the universe, per Albert Einstein's principle of relativity. (Wikipedia) 

               
...but it is still giddy YOU who have us in the best of spins!

Yours at large
TAR

      

Nadar,  revolving self-portrait,  c.1865      

             

                 

               

           

Window Shopping ( 'I didn't understand what people meant when they said this. Why would anyone...?' )

        

window (n.)

c. 1200, literally "wind eye," from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr "wind" (see wind (n.1)) + auga "eye" (see eye (n.)). Replaced Old English eagþyrl, literally "eye-hole," and eagduru, literally "eye-door."

Originally an unglazed hole in a roof, most Germanic languages adopted a version of Latin fenestra to describe the glass version (such as German Fenster, Swedish fönster), and English usedfenester as a parallel word till mid-16c. Window dressing is first recorded 1790; figurative sense is from 1898. Window seat is attested from 1778. Window of opportunity (1979) is from earlier figurative use in U.S. space program, such as launch window (1963). Window-shopping is recorded from 1904.

"Window shopping, according to the women, is the king of outdoor sports. Whenever a woman gets down town and has 2 or 3 hours and no money to spend, she goes window shopping. She gives the Poiret gowns and the thousand dollar furs the double O and then kids herself into believing she'd look like Lillian Russell or Beverly Bayne if she had 'em on. It's great for developing the imagination and one of the great secrets of conserving the bankroll. ..." ["Motor Age," Jan. 27, 1916]

In the early 1950s, a 'returned serviceman' chemist set up shop next to the Kangaroo Flat Post Office (see previous POST).
                       

A few years later, as the post-WW2 austerity gave way to a new hopefulness, the chemist bought the premises next door and built a large modern Pharmacy and Gift Palace.

       
Sometimes, a young family could be seen there, looking at the things in the window display.

     
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POST script

In researching the previous blog post
about post offices...

Hmmm : why "post"?

post (n.1) 

"a timber set upright," from Old English post "pillar, doorpost," and Old French post "post, upright beam," both from Latin postis "door, post, doorpost," perhaps from por- "forth" (see pro-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand, set down, make or be firm" (see stet). Similar compound in Sanskrit prstham "back, roof, peak," Avestan parshti "back," Greek pastas "porch in front of a house, colonnade," Middle High German virst "ridepole," Lithuanian pirstas, Old Church Slavonic pristu "finger" (PIE *por-st-i-).

post (n.2) 

"place when on duty," 1590s, from Middle French poste "place where one is stationed," also, "station for post horses" (16c.), from Italian posto "post, station," from Vulgar Latin *postum, from Latin positum, neuter past participle of ponere "to place, to put" (see position (n.)). Earliest sense in English was military; meaning "job, position" is attested 1690s.

post (n.3) 

"mail system," c. 1500, "riders and horses posted at intervals," from post (n.2) on notion of riders and horses "posted" at intervals along a route to speed mail in relays, probably formed on model of Middle French poste in this sense (late 15c.). Meaning "system for carrying mail" is from 1660s.

Aha! That supports Tim's theory. We were wondering about the public seating in this mid-1960s photo : set above the gutter and facing towards the road outside the Kangaroo Flat Post Office.

             

We recalled it was a Bus Stop. Tim suggested it might be sited there as a continuation from the days when the Melbourne-Bendigo Cobb & Co mail coach would stop at each post/office. 

Anyway, in researching our previous blog post about post offices, we found online at vimeo a very interesting 90 minute interview with the artist Robert MacPherson.

l - r : Michele Helmrich, Robert MacPherson, Rex Butler
An Evening with Robert MacPherson
The University of Queensland Art Museum
1 May 2013

In it, MacPherson talks at length and in great detail about his art. And, in a note towards the end, explains why one year he sent 3000 items through the Hepburn Springs Post Office and received in return a thank you letter from postmistress Debbie.

 33 envelopes from Bob (23 January 2007)

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THE END (continued)

   

Hepburn Springs Post Office closed today.

Imperceptibly, the centre of the township moved south. The Hepburn Post Office, in use for just over 100 years, now stands a mile or more from the township of Hepburn Springs.

             

   

The above photo was taken in 1964, not long before the Post Office closed. For nearly 30 years, from 1869 to 1896, members of the Hill family were Postmasters from this building. Today the building survives; instead of a grocery store, or bootmaker's, it is now a B & B.

In 1908, at a time when tourism to the area was beginning to boom, a Receiving Office was established in Hepburn Springs.

Then, for over fifty years, from 1910 until Hepburn closed its doors in 1964, there were the twin post offices of Hepburn, and Hepburn Springs.

  - from  stampboards.com 

Originally post was picked up from the Police Camp at Hepburn then the Postal Service (in 1854) was in a building where Mooltan is now, it was soon relocated to Old Hepburn to what I believe was the building in your photo (above).

A new Hepburn Springs post office was established in a tiny timber building once on the East side of Main Rd and then moved next to the now General Store. Mr Perini later built the current post office as a newsagent - gift shop - post office.

  - local historian Gary Lawrence

           

Post Office photos from National Archives  

Last year, our Hepburn Springs staff photographer gave to QAGOMA a hoard of about 13,000 postal items received over 35 years from the artist Robert MacPherson.  These were part of a correspondence between the two, sent and received through the Toowong (QLD 4066) and Hepburn Springs (VIC 3461) post offices. 

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One for all the posties
       
time place post obliteration

         

Taking mind for a walk ] after Paul Klee (

      
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Today, our postman delivered this postcard. 

It shows a portrait of the distinguished veteran postman Le Père Huguenin, as photographed by the Robert Brothers of Le Locle for Theatre of the Actors of Regard.  

The verso postmarks indicate the card was first sent in 1903, from Le Locle, to the writer's dear son in Germany : Cher fils Gustave...

Huguenin the intermediary fixes his gaze. To his right, he holds a small rectangular parcel; to his left, from his shoulder, he suspends a large rectangular deliveries box.

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We have no record of the messager-facteur who first delivered this postcard; or what, if anything, was made of the meta- moment the card's imagery provided.

What we can add is this early photo portrait of Le Père Huguenin. Already practising his intense regard, he was known then as Le Bébé Huguenin. 
     

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