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16 October 2009

Public Projection-Space Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even

In the same constructive spirit as the previous post, this by Sam3 via Vandalog.

15 October 2009

Cynthia and Cyril listen to Thomas and Gerald talking on the wireless.

When not listening to the Ubuweb stream, via WFMU, the team at bLOGOS/HA HA are most likely tuned to ABC Radio National.

Two RN programs greatly enjoyed here in recent days are Peter Mares' interview with writer Gerald Murnane on The Book Show ('Gerald Murnane and the Barley Patch' : here ) and Natasha Mitchell's interview with Thomas Metzinger ('You are not a self! Bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness' : here ) on All in the Mind. bL commends both programs to you, dear reader.

Peter Mares: No, but you want us as readers to be conscious...

Gerald Murnane: I don't want you to think that Cynthia and Cyril are real. I want you to be aware all the time that Cynthia and Cyril are fictional personages, and they're part of a trio; that the third person of the trinity is the personage behind the text, not necessarily the author but this ghostly shadow that you see as you read.

Natasha Mitchell: So it's not a little man or woman inside our heads...

Thomas Metzinger: ...that looks at pictures. But the experience of looking, of being directed to one's own feelings or to one's sensory perceptions of the outside world, this is itself an image. There is nobody looking at the image, it's like the camera is part of the picture or the viewing is itself a part of the process of viewing. This is how a first-person perspective emerges in our own case, the question is, okay, if it's not a thing, if it's not something in the brain, what kind of a process is it? And I think it's a process, as philosophers say, of representing, that is of making an image, and that process is not there all the time. You know you have a conscious self in dreams, you have one in your waking life. During anaesthesia or during dreamless sleep there is no such thing as this process of self-ing, if I may call it like that.

14 October 2009

A day for little things, no doubt

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Decades ago I made some images to accompany a friend's suite of small poems that were to be published. As far as I know this did not eventuate, but I often have cause to recall the proposed title : A day for little things, no doubt, but who would dare despise it? (Zechariah 3:1-4:14)

This morning I had that feeling. First, over breakfast, delight at a selection of old advertising blotters and trade cards that arrived in the mail. Then the delivery of something larger by the parcels postman. As he handed it across he added what a good and friendly night it had been at Petrus's birthday party (see previous blog). This time we got to talking. His name is R. He does drawings too, always has, and still hopes 'to take it further someday'. He asked if I knew G, another of the local posties. I do. G had lent him a DVD about the sculptor Bernini. Extraordinary artist, Bernini, we agreed. The parcel was a copy of Melbourne's un Magazine sent by K. What topped the lot was the unnecessary, therefore special, extra layer of inside wrapping. Sheets of bright colour patched together for mere pleasure's sake.

13 October 2009

Petrus Spronk 70 Today

Today is the 7oth birthday of master confectionist Petrus Spronk.

Petrus Spronk-the apprentice confectioner

On Sunday evening at The Hepburn Palais his bounty of friends and family celebrated a life of constant art and boundless generosity.

One of the best known works of Melbourne street art is by Petrus Spronk : Architectural Fragment (1992). His model for it was initially displayed in the window of a shop in Hepburn Springs.

( photo by The Lab : click to enlarge )

Then there are those who know and appreciate his burnished Black Earth Studio bowls. In 2004 Petrus was commissioned to create a group of these from which one was selected as the official gift to the Dalai Lama after his teachings in Melbourne that year.

The bowl below, The endless horizon, the endless journey, was raffled at the Sunday night party and, typical of Petrus, the proceeds were donated to the Daylesford Dharma School.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETRUS

10 October 2009

2009 Swiss-Italian Festa Parade

Saturday morning. We open the door to a clear blue sky and the sound of a brass band rehearsing. It's the Victorian Youth Brass Band, with players from all over the State - "We're from Echuca", a proud mother of two trumpeters tells me - and they're playing that great simple 6os hit by The Turtles, Happy Together.
For a moment, all seems perfect.

Recently I've been listening again to Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. The Mothers of Invention line-up for that features 'Flo and Eddie' who had earlier formed The Turtles.

Anyway, so begins the annual Swiss-Italian Festa Parade along the main street of Hepburn Springs.

Led by the local brass band (above, with the famous Macaroni Factory in the background); then the district's primary schools' children and parents; Swiss with cow bells and long horns; Italians with flowers and flags; and the many locals who also join the grand parade down to the Springs. Every year, at some point on this walk, I feel my heart leap .

09 October 2009

Lyrics and Type

bLOGOS/HA HA follows online (and occasionally adds to the home heap from) the daily deluge of gig posters. Below is my 2009 favorite. It's by Melbourne graphic designer/illustrator/artist Timba Smits : see more at THE FAD EXPERIMENT

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Lyrics and Type opens in Melbourne tonight at Gorker Gallery (corner of Gore & Kerr Streets, Fitzroy) until Sunday 17 October

08 October 2009

someone looking at something . . .

someone looking at something... is a West Space project curated by Kelly Fliedner. It closes on Saturday.

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someone looking at something...
by Ross Coulter and Meredith Turnbull
Two Half Faces
single channel looped DVD

someone looking at something...
by Patrick Pound :
Egglestone Near Minter City and Glenora, Mississippi
mobile phone photographs

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someone looking at something...
by yours truly

07 October 2009

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS

05 October 2009

"So that each person is in charge of himself."

John Cage/Wim Mertens "So that each person is in charge of himself." (1982) as heard today on UbuStream.

click on image below to listen

04 October 2009

UbuStream : par ordre d'apparition

UbuWeb and WFMU have combined to present a new 24 hour internet radio stream of material from the Ubuweb archive : go to WFMU then click on UbuStream at the left side column.