David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


22 January 2013

The celebrated Mr. K

           
A recent visitor...                     
      
observed and here returning observation in the eucaLabel Tree immediately outside the Bonzaview office of bLOGOS/HA HA
        


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19 January 2013

wE arE

        
After the success of last year's Alpha Beta Best sports day and the finale All In ComPosition (Community Position) E FOR EMPTY
       


... our local chapter of Theatre of the Actors of Regard met again yesterday to expand upon their previous effort. This time as the tableau vivant EMPTY OF ESSENCE

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18 January 2013

Lance Armstrong and the One Hundredth Monkey Effect

        
Lance Armstrong has admitted to bullying, lying and drug taking in his attempt to win the human race. 

"In his first interview since being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, cyclist Lance Armstrong admits to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs in all of his victories. In an initial round of yes/no questioning, Armstrong confirms he used banned substances like EPO and steroids."  
The Guardian 
       
 
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A spokesperson for Human Racers P/L has rejected expressions of concern that other races will copy the Armstrong example. 

On the evidence of the promotional document below, we think it may already be too late.
           
COPIEZ! COPIEZ TOUJOURS...
             

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16 January 2013

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Cadre ancien en bois massif 
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S'accroche à l'arrière par une cordelette d'origine également
Attaches at the back by an original cord.

(J'ai mis un cache sur le visage de la personne en photo par discrétion)
(I have put a mask on the face of the person in the photograph, for discretion)
     
Livraison et expédition :
      
Ce vendeur n'envoie pas d'objet vers : Australia
             
      


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12 January 2013

All the W.O.R.L.D.'s an A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.

      
Today, a classic LOGOS/HA HAism. 

This to-act-is-to-sin drawthing was made last year, but it seems applicable here.
       
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Reading an item about the current state of bushfires in Australia, the ABC newsreader said,
"... with a watch and A.C.T. warning in progress... a watch and act, rather..."

ABC TV NEWS24 - midday 12 January 2013

What to do?



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07 January 2013

The third said, "It is the mind that movies" - The Gateless Gate

       
As part of its Sunday nights Arts Doco season, 
ABC TV1 last night screened SIDE BY SIDE.
For almost one hundred years there was only one way to make a movie — with film.
 
Movies were shot, edited and projected using photochemical film. But over the last two decades a digital process has emerged to challenge photochemical film-making.

SIDE BY SIDE, a new documentary produced by Keanu Reeves, takes an in-depth look at this revolution. Through interviews with directors, cinematographers, film students, producers, technologists, editors, and exhibitors, SIDE BY SIDE examines all aspects of filmmaking — from capture to edit, visual effects to color correction, distribution to archive. At this moment when digital and photochemical filmmaking coexist, SIDE BY SIDE explores what has been gained, what is lost, and what the future might bring.

    
Gale Ann Hurd and James Cameron as
The Supreme Goddess as Void with projection-space for image

At one  point, Kenu Reeves put to James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Avatar) a concern that some express about digital and cgi composition losing touch with The Real Thing. 

Cameron's reply...
       

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WHATSMORE starting tomorrow night on SBS 2 is Mark Cousins' epic 15-part series on the evolution of cinema.
        
The Story of Film - An Odyssey
               

     
And sure enough, in the penultimate episode, there's that real anxiety again.

 Episode 14: January 30, 9:30pm
The 1990s: The First Days of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia
    
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06 January 2013

ANTIPAINTHING LOOKS AT AK

     
It started simply enough.
         
CHILD ACTOR LOOKS AT BLOCK
   

 image courtesy Theatre of the Actors of Regard

Then, suddenly, too late...

"Quicksand!"
      

        
It's true! "C'est la veritable"
      
         
And that, my dears, is how it happened. OK?

ANTIPAINTHING LOOKS AT AK
         

    
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For the background to this go to the ever wonderful BibliOdyssey  

    
           

04 January 2013

Must Be A Zeitgeist Thing

        
One of our favorite exhibition titles from 2012 was 
Ten Years of Things  
at the University of Queensland Art Museum.


As a bonus, the printed invitation characterised this exhibition as an Actor of Regard:
"Ten Years of Things looks at
the open-ended approach artists are taking to..."
          
Today, the latest issue of Art Monthly Australia arrived. Of interest to bLOGOS/HA HA is an article by Ruark Lewis :
Anubhava & the politics of things 
An Index for Max Lieberman
A definition of anubhava provided by Max Lieberman is quoted in a footnote:
Anubhava is an ancient Indian Sanskrit word that means direct knowledge through experience or realisation. It also refers to intuition, feeling, emotion and consciousness.
bLOGOS/HA HA is interested in such ideas and experience - of direct perception unmediated by conception.
     
Rather than here risking an unhelpful reduction of the Lewis index, you might wish to read it yourself (Art Monthly) and visit the Max Lieberman website (here) from where this drawing is reproduced. 
      
      
     
One Hundred Years of ] looking at ( Things
         
bLOGOS/HA HA has a small collection of French rebus - from res, Latin for thing. We are surprised that this form is so little known among the Anglo artists and writers of whom we've enquired.

Here, from the archive of our Paris Bureau, as mentioned recently, is a rebus from around a century ago.
        
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Stepping outside the office door, back into the World Of Things, t|here it all is again.
      

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And again...
  
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02 January 2013

Artist As Family

         
We had to re-post this! 
       


It's from local permacultural earthlings 
(l-r) Patrick, Zephyr, Meg and Woody :
     
Artist As Family
        
click below for their blog

Also check out Patrick's  permapoesis



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01 January 2013

2013

        

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
    
FROM THE STAFF OF  
      
bLOGOS/HA HA
     
 Susie & Peter dance-in the New Year


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