The Lovers Rene Magritte
1928
Demonstrable Ideograms : Specific-Bonding detail The Public Service : Theatre of the Actors of Regard
2013
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25 July 2013
Demonstrable X
The Lovers Rene Magritte
1928
Demonstrable Ideograms : Specific-Bonding detail The Public Service : Theatre of the Actors of Regard
2013
23 July 2013
morealphabetgrids
In recent posts, we've been looking at some alphabet grids : the drunken crosswords of the bowlers at Lord's (here) and an early 20th century French meta-puzzle (here).
Then, last night we watched the final episode of Breaking Bad, season 5. Again, more alphabet grids, starting with the inspired - the lead character Walter White is a chemist - opening credits that use the periodic table of chemical elements.
Now you can be your own Breaking Bad meth lab.
Step into the Breaking Bad lab and see your name transformed with
element symbols like the iconic logo itself. Then share or download your
personalized periodic table name.
If the opening credits are the Alpha guide to Breaking Bad then in last night's series concluder the fate of Hector Salamanca's alphabet board was the Omega...
No spoilers here. Check it out for yourself.
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20 July 2013
"Now, where were we?"
In our previous post, we quoted Henry Blofield's description of the bowlers' run-up marks chalked on the green at either end of the Lord's wicket.
"It's like a crossword puzzle that had, perhaps, a drink too much."
We have been much entertained since, imagining the antics of drunken crosswords.
Not quite that, but not far off, is this early 2oth century crossword puzzle from the archive of our Paris office. Concours de perspicacité No.3 (literally Insight Competition No.3).
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We imagine it re-captioned : "Members of Lord's scramble to decipher drunken crossword."
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18 July 2013
'Blowers' sets the scene
The Ashes
England versus Australia
Day one at Lords, 20 minutes into the opening session.
On the radio, Henry 'Blowers' Blofeld is describing the scene.
"One or two pigeons cavorting away over there...".
This is standard opening fare for Henry, and much appreciated by his legion of fans.
This is standard opening fare for Henry, and much appreciated by his legion of fans.
His eye now in, he fixes on the white chalk marks of the bowlers' run-ups at either end of the wicket.
"It's like a crossword puzzle that had, perhaps, a drink too much."
"It's like a crossword puzzle that had, perhaps, a drink too much."
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Admirer with banner at Headingley, Leeds, 8 August 1996
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16 July 2013
MELBOURNE NOW : more details announced
Technical details :
Issue date: 2 July 2013
Issue withdrawal date: 31 January 2014
FDI withdrawal date: 31 July 2013
Denominations: 5 x 60c
Illustration: Gavin Ryan
Stamp & product design: Sharon Rodziewicz
Printer: McKellar Renown
Paper - gummed: Tullis Russell
Paper - self-adhesive: B100
Printing process: Lithography
Stamp size: 35mm x 35mm
Perforations: 14.226 x 14.226
Sheet layout: Module of 50
National postmark: Sydney, NSW 2000
Melbourne -
Gutter strip 10 x 60c
collection : FIAPCE
We collected this gutter strip from the local Post Office today.
Behind the couple in the stamp, looking at their MELBOURNE NOW gallery guide, is an updated rendition of John Brack's The Car, 1955.
collection : National Gallery of Victoria
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We are reminded of this image of Ed Ruscha looking at his book Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1967.
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15 July 2013
Let's think about it...
The Man Who Thinks
Invests in FINCK'S
- Promotional Slogan : W.M. FINCK & CO.
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QUESTION:
Isn't having a market-based system, though, quite within the philosophy of the Coalition? Indeed, Howard and the thesis by Greg Hunt in the past? Isn't that kind of what needs to happen?
TONY ABBOTT:
This is not a true market. Just ask yourself what an emissions trading scheme is all about. It's a market, a so-called market, in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no-one.
(before and after Daniel Buren)
QUESTION:
Isn't having a market-based system, though, quite within the philosophy of the Coalition? Indeed, Howard and the thesis by Greg Hunt in the past? Isn't that kind of what needs to happen?
TONY ABBOTT:
This is not a true market. Just ask yourself what an emissions trading scheme is all about. It's a market, a so-called market, in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no-one.
QUESTION:
Isn’t that like financial markets?
TONY ABBOTT:
I mean let's think about it. It is a market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no-one and look...
- Tony Abbott, Leader of the Opposition
Monday 15 July 2013
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14 July 2013
The longer you look at it...
In Zen they say:
If something is boring after two
minutes,
try it
for four.
If
still boring,
try
it for eight,
sixteen,
thirty-two,
and so on.
Eventually one discovers that it’s not
boring at all
but very interesting.
If something is boring after two
minutes,
try it
for four.
If
still boring,
try
it for eight,
sixteen,
thirty-two,
and so on.
Eventually one discovers that it’s not
boring at all
but very interesting.
- John Cage, Indeterminacy
. . . .
"How long is a piece of sing?"
- Uncle Doug, The Coodabeens, Saturday 13 July 2013
. . . .
QUESTION:
But you were also a proponent of carbon pricing at one point?
TONY ABBOTT:
Look, the thing about this tax is that the more you see of it the worse it gets. The longer you look at it, the more of a disaster it is for our country and if it’s true that Labor is on the point of moving from a fixed tax to a floating tax, it essentially has indicated everything the Coalition has been saying about this all along. It’s a bad tax, it’s bad for families, it’s bad for jobs, it’s bad for everyone.
- Tony Abbott, Leader of the Opposition
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12 July 2013
PIG-IRON DUALISM
Last time, we looked at a PIG-IRON BOB poster.
Two things linked together
PIG linked to IRON
Two things linked together
PIG-IRON linked to BOB
Two things linked together
PIG-IRON BOB! linked to POSTER
Two things linked together
WORD linked to WORD
Two things linked together
LOGOS/HA HA linked to LOGOS/HA HA
Here's another, this one from 1983 :
Two things linked together
Person linked to Art
someone linked to something...
Two things linked together
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Two things linked together
LOGOS/HA HA linked to LOGOS/HA HA
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10 July 2013
What goes around comes around
The earliest graffiti that we recall is from a time when graffiti was rare, the 1950s. It had probably been painted a decade or two earlier. In large white letters on the red bricks of the railway arch over the road at Golden Square. It said PIG-IRON BOB.
Parents told the story and school reinforced it. Before the war, against the protests of the workers, Bob Menzies sold Our Scrap Iron to the Japs and they'd sent it back as Bombs on Darwin. PIG-IRON BOB
On Sunday night, the ABC Australian history series, Chris Masters' The Years That Made Us, referred to this episode.
They showed this image from 1946. We noticed the young boy looking at that simple effective poster, and wondered if he understood (when we did not, back then,) why these two word-things were linked: PIG-IRON
A political protest in Darlinghurst, Sydney, 18 September 1946.
Bruce Howard Collection_National Library of Australia
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Also, we made a quick note (see below) to seek out later another fleeting PIG-IRON image. A wharfie looking at a bicycle wheel. So simple, so profound: what goes around, comes around.
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06 July 2013
HEAD 2 HEAD
THE HEAD OF U
REGARDS
THE HEAD OF DJ SHADOW
REGARDS
THE HEADS OF THE OBSERVERS OF THIS DRAWTHING BY ERHARD SCHON
REGARD
THE HEAD OF U
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