Projection-Space Thriller (1)

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Male reproductive technoLOGOS/HA HA writ (en)large(d).
With a touch of the double deities too : created in the Image of

Alison Croggon : her Pascall Prize speech

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The following is taken directly from Alison Croggon's
Theatre Notes (15 June 2009):

My acceptance speech for the Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing is now online at the Geraldine Pascall Foundation site. The important bit:

But I also see some sparkles in the gloom. There are a lot of smart young bloggers in Australia, hungrily seeing art and responding to it. And artists themselves are vocal in demanding more and better responses to their work. The internet has stepped into the breach. Theatre Notes was the first theatre blog in Australia, but these days it’s by no means the only one. Melbourne in particular has a rich and lively culture of theatre blogging. This prize means a lot to me in many ways, but a major reason is that it demonstrates conclusively that blogging is not just the province of bored teens. And I hope it will encourage not only me, but the talented younger critics I see developing around me. They need encouraging. As we all know, criticism is no easy career choice. It sometimes feels thankless, and it requires the skin of a Sherman tank.

Change Your Point Of View - Save 30%

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bLOGOS/HA HA received this email solicitation yesterday:
Change your point of view
Is that all?

Thoughts of that great imperial convert Constantine 1.

He too was similarly solicited:
In this Sign, Conquer

Regarding ADD/SUBTRACT

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Add Noise is a Photoshop filter option, one of many such. Despeckle is another from the same Noise set, but it's effect is minimal.

It's like having an extensive filter set for "See through a glass, darkly" and an inadequate set for "See through a glass, clearly".

..( reprocessed from here )

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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detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

LOGOS/HA HA

Snow + Auto = Projection-Space Stencil Act

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It's midday and 4 degrees in the highlands of central Victoria. Snow is predicted down to 5oom, which usually means for us. Like children, we await its simple magic. This photo is from 1998 when we tramped through a rare heavy fall.

A Bonza Queen's Birthday Commemoration

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Queen's Birthday choristers whispered Bonzaview awake to the sound of blessed rain. We thanked you M'am as we opened the blinds to heavy fog. The first of the official party - a Heraldic Supporter mind you - was sighted already in the grounds by 10am recumbent on the crest beneath the mulberry. As preparations continued I passed by him several times. We acknowledged each other and wished the Queen long life.

The Official Party arrived early afternoon, by which time H.M.Supporter had taken his leave. The rain looked like setting in. Miss Hazel aged 7, accompanied by R & S and her canine companion Toby aged 3 months, when told of that sage local insisted upon the immediate production of a Commemoration.

For Those About To Blog ( We Salute You )

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Congratulations to Alison Croggon, winner of this year's Pascall Prize for criticism. bLOGOS/HA HA first read this news not online, not in a blog, but in the smudge and wrinkle of the daily paper as is our habit.

( full article here )

As well as recognising the admirable contribution of Ms TN's theatre notes this award also brings a greater focus and further normalises (duh!) a means of production so easily available to all (sic). For those who already blog or who regularly follow their own blog favourites this is all very what's-the-big-deal? bLOGOS/HA HA though new as a blog contributor is frequently surprised at those in the Arts and Media who never or rarely visit a blog site yet express frustration at the paucity of reviews in Hard Print, as if that is still the only legitimate slate.

Yesterday, Mark Holsworth at Melbourne Art & Culture Critic also addressed this topic.

The impact of blogs is growing. Contrary to the mainstream media blogs are not simply source of gossip and unsubstantiated claims. Many blogs contain first hand reports from educated and informed correspondents. Many blogs appear to be the very essence of traditional journalism. In the golden age of print journalism there would be a writer at every play, exhibition and concert. Now, in the dying days of print journalism unless a blogger reviews it, it is unlikely to be reviewed...
( full article here )

Also yesterday, re-reading some of Alison Croggon's writing:
When bL read this,

My feeling is that if you're uninterested in Beckett, you're uninterested in art. And yet of all artists, he is surely the least compulsory: no one took more responsibility for his writing - poems, prose, criticism, plays - while making the least claims for it. "I produce an object," he said of his plays. "What people make of it is not my concern." He might have agreed with the poet Paul Celan, who said that his work was "a message in a bottle, sent out in the - not always greatly hopeful - belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps". Beckett's uncompromising, strangely tender bleakness has the kind of truthfulness which makes him, of all playwrights, the least biddable to the commercial vulgarities of theatre.

Review: Beckett's Shorts ( full article here )
Thursday, April 23, 2009

bL remembered this image of a LOGOS in a bottle

Undelivered mail of World War soldiers
(crucifix in bottle)
July 28, 1925. Washington, D.C.

from the bLOGOS/HA HA sub-heap Theatre of the Actors of Looking, via the digital online archive of the Library of Congress.

Melbourne's Latest Dance Craze

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Yes, it's the IdeoDance!
Do that dance. Do thaat daaaaaaance.
Doooo thaaaaaaat ideeeeooooodaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaance!

BLACK-DAYLITE : "Make me feel it's real!"

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A while back bLOGOS/HA HA ran a sequence regarding mirrors, including black mirrors.

Here's a companion piece: BLACK-DAYLITE ("G.E. makes you feel it's real!") featuring a White Happy Family and their give-the-dog-a-bone Projection-Space machine.

bLOGOS/HA HA particularly appreciates the additional cameo
of the little girl as Supreme Goddess of the Void, with projection-
space for image. Real Cute!