ORAZIO FANTASIA and the METAPHYSICAFLOGOS/HA HA

IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM
In the Beginning was the Word...
and the Word was made Flesh

ORAZIO FANTASIA
I Speak the Fantasy...
into Being


 Orazio Fantasia

"Fantasia making something out of nothing." 

 ABC radio game caller as Fantasia kicks a goal
 27 minutes into the 2nd quarter
 Essendon v Collingwood



 And whatsmore :
"Bombers at one end making something out of nothing. Collingwood at the other making nothing out of something."



For the second time this season,
Bombers defeat Collingwood

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Overs Bowled :

outswinger also bowled to that previous post
by Spare Room 33 :

SR33 caption: Comrades Aleksandr Rodchenko and Pavel Popov* inspect state porcelain factory bowl containing M. Marcel Duchamp’s coffee grinder.  *Liubov Popova’s brother

Canberra Times caption: Senior manager of the Security and Emergency Management Branch in the Justice and Community Safety Directorate Bren Burkevics, and Minister for Police and Emergency Services Mick Gentleman inspect new CCTV cameras that are being installed as upgrades to the ACT public safety CCTV system. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong).

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temporarymade as temporarymade

off break bowled to the previous post
by Matrix Mitch 
(as re-temporarymade (sic) - Ed.)

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There was a Child went Forth

There was a child went forth every day;
And the first object he look’d upon, that object 

      he became; 

And that object became part of him for the day, 

      or a certain part of the day, or for many years, 

      or stretching cycles of years...

 'There was a Child went Forth'
 from "Leaves of Grass"
 by Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
 read full poem here

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Anne T at 60

Happy Birthday Anne

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Trans Avant Regard

Maybe KRAFTWERK could do the soundtrack...

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

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Sensible Agreement

Jacques Derrida  

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detail : Actual Size

In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on nature's power,
Fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' brows are raven black,
Her eyes so suited; and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Slandering creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says, beauty should look so.

- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 127

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OVERVIEW

On 21 June Sotheby’s will stage a curated evening sale. Bringing together a range of works from across the 20th and 21st centuries, this first-of-its-kind auction will include exceptional paintings, sculptures and works on paper which share one common characteristic – each one is no bigger than the size of the catalogue page on which it is illustrated, in actual size.

“We like the idea of breaking the addiction that much of the art market seems to have developed that bigger is always better. We want to reanimate connoisseurship in different ways, in this case by focusing on exceptional works on an intimate scale”, say Thomas Bompard and Allan Schwartzman, curators of the Actual Size sale.

The auction will bring new perspectives to some of the most celebrated artists in modern history including Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Freud, Fontana and Manzoni. It is often the smallest things that pack the strongest punch.

Illustrated below :

Lucio Fontana
Concetto Spaziale
15 by 10cm.
Estimate: 250,000–350,000 GBP

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> Suprematism > Cymbolism > Regardism >

One hundred years ago, Mr K showed the world his way

Kazimir Malevich, Black square in a white square and black circle in a white square, c.1917

And, seventy years ago, below 

It was twenty years ago today
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
They've been going in and out of style
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

- The Beatles

 Leader of the Band, street parade Bendigo (Australia) c.1947

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retrocentric

Fifty years ago last month, on 26 May 1967, 
The Beatles released their astonishing new LP 
with an introduction to another band :

It was twenty years ago today
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
They've been going in and out of style
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

One week later, on 4 June , The Jimi Hendrix Experience boldly opened their set at the Saville Club, London, their final gig in the UK, with the same but-go-one-better meta-fiction : 

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
We hope you will enjoy the show
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sit back and let the evening go
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
It's wonderful to be here
It's certainly a thrill
You're such a lovely audience
We'd like to take you home with us
We'd love to take you home

Then they left for the US. Paul McCartney had recommended Hendrix and The Who for the line-up of the Monterey International Pop Festival. From London, England...

  

The Who ended their set with My Generation, with Pete Townshend smashing his guitar and Keith Moon kicking over his drums as the band left the stage.

photo Henry Diltz  

Next comes Hendrix. Electric guitar genius. To top The Who finale, to Wild Thing, he lays the black Strat on the stage, kneels and kisses it, simulates fucking it, ejaculates lighter fluid onto it and sets it on fire. He smashes his flaming axe on the stage seven times then tosses its broken remains into the stunned crowd. Fifty years ago today, 18 June 1967.

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Six months later, in Australia, kid correspondent buys Eric Burdon's record of that instantly famous, prototype youth music festival.

  

The people came and listened
Some of them came and played
Others gave flowers away, yes they did
Down in Monterey
Down in Monterey

Young Gods smiled upon the crowd
Their music being born of love
Children danced night and day
Religion was being born
Down in Monterey

The birds and the airplane did fly
Oh, Ravi Shankars music made me cry
The Who exploded into fire and light
Hugh Masakela's music was black as night
The Grateful Dead blew everybodies mind
Jimi Hendrix baby,believe me, set the world on fire, yeah
His Majesty, Prince Jones, smiled as he moved among the crowd
Ten thousand electric guitars were grooving real loud, yeah

You want to find the truth in life
Don't pass music by
And you know I would not lie, no I would not lie
No, I would not lie
Down in Monterey

Three days of understanding of moving with one another
Even the cops grooved with us
Do you believe me, yeah?
Down in Monterey

I think that maybe I'm dreaming
Monterey
Down in monterey
Did you hear what I said?

 
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The Greatest Music Festival in History

Kevin D. Greene   VIETNAM '67   13 June 2017

The New York Times

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Nothing to do with Monterey '67, just something noted a few days ago...

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