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Polly Farmer and The Car

History for sale as Graham 'Polly' Farmer's football treasures go to auction

5 July 2020 : ABC / Russell Jackson / ARTICLE HERE

     Photographs on the block include the unforgettable

     shot of Farmer handpassing a ball across a road 

     and through the partly-open window of ...

‘The Car’ (John Brack) set off for the day in 1955. 

It is travelling still. Below, 1963, the excursionists turn to look at a man in a suit by the side of the road as he ...

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worldview

or   

How 

 one  

sees 

the 

world 

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Reign of TAR | blOOd mOOn over hOng kOng

The Revolution Is Never Coming

by The Red Paintings (2013) 

Track 10 : Hong Kong 

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College of TAR / School of TAR

 Pete:  [strums guitar] You ready for this, J-dog? Jam out, drink some brews, talk about everything and nothing.

  

 Jack:  After today, that is exactly what I am ready for. [claps hands] Beer me.

  

 Pete:  [hands Jack a beer]

  

 Jack:  [cracks beer and sighs] Sitting around, drinking beer while a guy in a poncho plays guitar... this is what I always pictured college being like.

  

 Pete:  I wouldn't really know. I only had about two weeks of real college before Paula got pregnant. Twice. She had overlapping pregnancies five months apart.

  

 Jack:  [sighs] Hey, Pete. Do you know Aqualung?

  

 Pete:  [laughs and starts playing guitar] Baw baw baw baw baw.

  

 Jack:  [sings] Sitting on a park bench. I don't know the words except park bench.

Jack:   Hey, Pete. How do I know that the colors you see are the same as the colors that I see? Maybe what I see as red you perceive as green.

Pete:  We should be writing this stuff down.

- 30 Rock [ season 5 episode 8 )

Although Daishu apparently never formally studied Zen as did the other two Shu, he once had a run-in with a Zen priest who gave him a valuable hint. Deishu was visiting a temple in Ueno on family business and happened to boast to the priest there how skillful he was with a spear.

"Is that so?' remarked the priest. "How about a demonstration? Do you think you can touch me with your weapon?"

Angered by the priest's cavalier disregard of his reputation, Deishu grabbed a laundry pole, prepared to make short work of the monk. To his consternation, Deishu got nowhere near the priest who deftly avoided every thrust. Deishu was forced to concede defeat and beseeched the the priest, "What school do you profess? Please teach me the principles of your Ryu."

"I belong to the 'Mountains are high, rivers are long' Ryu. It is also know as the 'Eyes horizontal, nose vertical' or the Willows are green, flowers are red' School."

'What do you mean?" a confused Deishu asked

"Figure it out for yourself," the Zen priest told him.

- John Stevens, The Sword of No-Sword: Life of the Master Warrior Tesshu

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After-drawn thoughts of the great Melbourne band of the late 70s early 80s Whirlywirld, their performances at The Champion, supporting the little bands, Arnie (photo right, on guitar) returning from a recording session with a new track needing to test it on a low-fi cassette player, Win/Lose (listen here) in Dogs In Space...

 Whirlywirld (Greg Sun, Ollie Olsen, John Murphy, Arnie Hanna)

 M. C. Escher (1898-1972), Rind (1955) 

 enso/hoju, Ike Taiga (1723-1776)         collection FIAPCE

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re. the liTARary artist

 

literary (adj.)

1640s, "pertaining to alphabet letters," from French littéraire, from Latin literarius/litterarius "belonging to letters or learning," from littera/litera "alphabetic letter" (see letter (n.1)). Meaning "pertaining to literature" is attested from 1737. Related: Literariness.

liTARary
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amo amass amuse

COVID-19 as cause : 
as, one by one, Australia's museums re-open...

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The English museum comes from the Latin word, and is pluralized as "museums" (or rarely, "musea"). It is originally from the Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseion), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence a building set apart for study and the arts,[3] especially the Musaeum (institute) for philosophy and research at Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BC.[4] - Wikipedia

Seat of the Muses? (Museum)
Amuse-ment Arcade?
TAR set of Mu? (Mu-seum)

The Japanese and Korean term mu (Japanese: 無; Korean: 무) or Chinese wu (traditional Chinese: 無; simplified Chinese: 无), meaning "not have; without", is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions. - wikipedia

Penelope Mason writes of Hakuin's mu : 

When carefully executed, this kanji has three parallel horizontal lines, four verticals, and four marks below the grid. The configuration of strokes suggests a means of counting and after four items have been marked off, they are cancelled out by the three horizontal lines. In contrast, Hakuin's mu is a jumble of strokes expressing vitality rather than negation, energy rather than meticulous accounting...

- History of Japanese Art (p.284) 

FIAPCE writes, after Soseki and Fugai :

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The posters can easily be mistaken for official New Museum (New York) marketing material (courtesy of Artists for Workers)

ABC chair Ita Buttrose writes letter to Communications Minister day after job cuts announced

What would Australia look like without the ABC?

The ABC has not only helped shape Australia, we are the national voice that unites us.

It’s about democracy. Without the ABC we would have a balkanised and parochial bunch of broadcasters that are in danger of being compromised by profit and more intent on dividing than unifying.

Imagine what it would be like during the bushfire season if we had to rely only on state-based or even regionally based media outlets. When we are in the middle of bushfires, don’t we want to know that they are being covered by a knowledgeable and experienced network of journalists with all the supporting infrastructure of a large national network?

The ABC, funded by all of us, regardless of our creed – race, age, political beliefs – is us. It’s the way we build cross-cultural understanding, the way we help each other in times of need. It’s who we are collectively. Why would anyone want to diminish that and make us less than who we are?

This has been a devastating week for the ABC. With unemployment at an all-time high to have to inform up to 250 people they no longer had a job has been an incredibly difficult task.

Cuts to services caused by the ongoing reduction in our budget forced this action upon us and although we knew what had to be done, our hearts were with our employees.

Let me clarify the cuts because there seems to be some confusion in Government circles about them. The 2018 Budget papers clearly state that the Government’s savings measures reduce funding to the ABC by $14.623 million in 2019-20, $27.842 million in 2020-21, and $41.284 million in 2021-22. This reduction totals $83.75 million on our operational base.

It is true that over the three years the ABC budget does still increase but by a reduced amount, due to indexation on the fixed cost of transmission and distribution services. Previously, it was rising by a further $83.75 million over the same three years for indexation on our operational base. This is the funding that has been cut and considered a saving by the government.

These funding cuts are unsustainable if we are to provide the media services that Australians expect of us. Indexation must be renewed.

The strength of the ABC and its relationship with the nation comes from the very people who work for us. They are passionate about public broadcasting and are prepared to work for less than they would be paid by commercial media to deliver it. The creativity in the programs they produce, the dogged and independent journalism they pursue and the connection with communities everywhere they provide through conversations is at the very heart of what the ABC delivers to our audiences.

The ABC has a statutory requirement to operate as efficiently as possible. We have a strong track record in identifying savings and reinvesting them in services. This is how we created ABC News 24, ABC iview and a range of packages to boost services in rural and regional Australia.

There is no other authority better placed to manage the ABC than the ABC itself. We know our business and we are determined to honour our commitment to independence. All Australians expect this of us just as they expect the Government to provide the appropriate funds to allow us to do so.

The ABC is essential in generating and preserving Australia’s democratic culture. An independent, well-funded national broadcaster allows Australians, wherever they live, to connect. It is how we share our identity, how we tell our stories, how we listen to each other, how we ask for help and how we give it.

Ita Buttrose AC OBE

ABC Chair

Posted 26th June 2020

Same as it ever was. ABC supporters, including Kerry O’Brien, left, and Allan Hogan, make their feelings known in 1976. 

photograph by Binna Burra Media 

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every now and then

we loop a song all day

today, James Blake, My Willing Heart : listen 

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