AUSSIEMANDIUS - ATLAS SHRUGGED
(Best Viewed Globally)
HAIKU FOR ATLAS
I held up the sky
'Til Men forgot my burden
So I let it Fall
After the Fall, when the Last Man had passed, uncounted statues fashioned in the likeness of humanity were reflections without admirers.
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This is one of the gaudy Greco-Roman fantasy details decorating The Forum Theatre, Austrian born American architect "Papa" John Eberson's playfully embellished Moorish Revival picture palace that has whimsically graced the corner of Flinders and Russell Street in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) since 1929. The Forum started out as a cinema and has morphed into a live entertainment venue and a revivalist centre in its time.
Eberson designed over 100 picture palaces the world over, a great many of which no longer exist or have been stripped of their interior decoration so the Forum is a priceless heritage piece.
I took two pictures of this alcove, one without flash and this one with. The dark one looks equally interesting, but I like this one because it brings out the chipped plaster and faded Bordello paint job.
I was at the Forum to see a performance of Charles Ross's exhuberant One Man Star Wars gig for the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. A hilarious piece, by the way, and I was pleased to interview him the week before for my show, Zero-G: Science Fiction, Fantasy * Historical Radio.
Popular belief has it that Atlas was supporting the Earth on his shoulders, but the older legends has it that he is carrying a celestial globe, that is to say, the sky. I like that in the Aussiemandias Post-Holocaust context.
Ayn Rand provided the picture title, of course.
AUSSIEMANDIUS - ATLAS SHRUGGED
(Best Viewed Globally)
HAIKU FOR ATLAS
I held up the sky
'Til Men forgot my burden
So I let it Fall
After the Fall, when the Last Man had passed, uncounted statues fashioned in the likeness of humanity were reflections without admirers.
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This is one of the gaudy Greco-Roman fantasy details decorating The Forum Theatre, Austrian born American architect "Papa" John Eberson's playfully embellished Moorish Revival picture palace that has whimsically graced the corner of Flinders and Russell Street in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) since 1929. The Forum started out as a cinema and has morphed into a live entertainment venue and a revivalist centre in its time.
Eberson designed over 100 picture palaces the world over, a great many of which no longer exist or have been stripped of their interior decoration so the Forum is a priceless heritage piece.
I took two pictures of this alcove, one without flash and this one with. The dark one looks equally interesting, but I like this one because it brings out the chipped plaster and faded Bordello paint job.
I was at the Forum to see a performance of Charles Ross's exhuberant One Man Star Wars gig for the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. A hilarious piece, by the way, and I was pleased to interview him the week before for my show, Zero-G: Science Fiction, Fantasy * Historical Radio.
Popular belief has it that Atlas was supporting the Earth on his shoulders, but the older legends has it that he is carrying a celestial globe, that is to say, the sky. I like that in the Aussiemandias Post-Holocaust context.
Ayn Rand provided the picture title, of course.