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Civilization Time - Harmony Day Edition


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Civilization Time - Box Template


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KX Dispatches Mantra
| Year: 2009 Anno Domini 12009 CT (Civilization Time)
Part of the Great Australians Project
Australians of Arabia - The Movie
Background | Contact | Facebook | Movie Pre-Production: Financing by National Lottery, Screenplay...
 

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AOA Progress Report
Savvy fair dinkum grassroots projects are a key strategy when the world economy is careering toward a longterm Recession.

The next step is getting on board fair dinkum leaders from all levels of Government - Federal, State and Councils, along with Australian Filmmaking Elders and Corporate CEOs.

Aussie Film Mafia Elders
David Lean's '1962 Lawrence of Arabia film comes in at #5 on the AFI Top 100 Movies of all time...
The AOA epic should represent a celebration of how far our Filmmakers have come on the world stage, in the tradition of what the Billjim achieved first, and highlighting role models for young ones following in their footsteps.

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Coooo-ee!
Fair Dinkum Australians
Let's not let the Lawrence
Myth and Gallipoli Defeat
bandwagon roll again.

  In just 6 years we will be hit by a full-on WWI 100th Anniversary ('1914 - 2014) Billion Dollar Barrage
  Major Hollywood Film and TV production companies are already working on their blockbusters and remakes about Lawrence of Arabia. Again blatantly ignoring the historical facts and the true heroes, the Australian Light Horse and Camel Corps.
  Are fair dinkum Australians of the incumbent generation going to let that happen again?
You see in early '1916 it was the allied force spearheaded by the ALH, that began pushing the Ottoman Empire back out of Egypt all the way to kicking them right out of the Middle East by October '1918.
  The historical evidence clearly shows the greatest military victory in modern history was executed by uncouth Australians, thereby making possible the new State of Israel. Not Lawrence, who was 'created' by an American journalist after the War. So let's also begin the difficult task of replacing the Gallipoli defeat as our No.1 'achievement' in the national psyche.
  We have an obligation to restore the honour of the Billjim - by coming up with our own film, "Australians of Arabia - The Movie"
All of us, can make some kind of contribution to make it happen.
  We need to find out which of the Big 4 Banks is Fair Dinkum Australian, by assisting with the early funding. Then it's got to be backing from other high profile Australians, like Kerry Stokes, Richard Pratt, Rupert Murdoch, Mel Gibson, Russel Crowe...
  And there are signs of change. Even at the ABC see their News report of 29 April 12008 Pratt funds Light Horse commemoration in Israel.


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  We are now calling for expressions of interest from Australian country towns to locate our AOA Film Studios, Theme Park and Factory for manufacturing our promotional merchandise.
  Just look what Baz Luhrmann's Australia film has done for Tourism WA in the Kimberleys and Bowen NQld, which he used to recreate the bombing of Darwin.
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If we achieve our mission it will be because these guys showed that when a bunch of internationally acclaimed Aussie filmmakers got togther they are capable producing a Movie that is really going to give that all time Top 5 a shake.
It would be just perfect if we could get the ball rolling by getting someone like Bruce Beresford to come on board first as the Director - guess who birthay he shares on 16 August? Yep Lawrence!

Recession Proof
Financing by National Lottery

This is no ordinary movie. It's about a nation coming to terms with a fundamental truth. It should therefore be funded by the people themselves through a National Lottery just like we had when we were kids with the Opera House Lottery:
Open Letter to State & Federal Government, Australian Filmmaking Mafia & Moguls

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Coooo-ee!
Join The Great Ride II
Become an AOA supporter. It's a win-win situation - you help restore the honour of the Billjim, and you show the public that you are doing your bit for the country.


We also plan to organize special tours retracing the steps of the Billjim right from the famous 'Cooee' recruitment drive around Australia. Then onto ships for the Centennial Celebrations - Cairo by '2016, Jeruasalem Decemeber '2017, and finally Damascus 6:30am 1 October '2018 - where we will get the drop on the Lawrence sycophants.
Then Cannes, the Sundance Festival, etc., and the Big Night at the Oscars!
Watch out for our AOA Store at Ebay. We want to create early interest and funding by focusing on our Promotional Products (especially items like specially branded old tin mugs) and Collectibles.
The time has come. The Billjim need fair dinkum Australians to step up to the plate like they did.
We outdo the Poms and Yanks!

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Australia - Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann now doing Australia too   And already films exploiting our theme of the currency of capturing the Outback Australia spirit are being released - Baz Luhrmann, a loca boy, just happened to call his epic "Australia" [remembering our "Australians of Arabia" was first published on Pete's website 11 years ago] and National and State Tourism chiefs have joined forces with the federal Government to cash in on the November '08 release. "The release of Australia offers the Australian tourism industry one of its greatest promotional opportunities in many years," said federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson. "This movie will potentially be seen by tens of millions of people, and it will bring life to little-known aspects of Australia's extraordinary natural environment, history and culture."
As we head up to the 100th Anniversary of WWI, the media is going to be even more hungry for this kind of story - the bandwagon heading to Damascus has well and truly started
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  Then it's finding the right country town, or towns, to locate our AOA Studios, Theme Park and Factory. And of course, every Australian can contribute in someway.
Why should I get involved?
1. Just stop for a moment and ask yourself, "Have I done anything that makes my kid think automatically that I am a fair dinkum Australian?"
2. Outrage at the continuing neglect of the Billjim, what they actually achieved and allowing impostors to take the credit and enjoy the spoils of something they made possible.
3. Reciprocal Altruism - everybody wins. You help put the Billjim up where they belong on the world stage, in return, oneday you sit there watching a movie with your kid - the credits are scrolling, and there's your name.
 
Billjim Poem Billjim


Edward Dyson
('1865 - '1931)

DOWN to it is Plugger Bill,
Lyin’ crumpled, white ’n’ still.
Me ’n’ him
Chips in when the scrap begins,
Carin’ nothin’ for our skins,
Chi-iked as the ’Eavenly Twins—
Bill ’n’ Jim.
They ’ave outed Bill at last,
Slugged me cobber hard ’n’ fast.
It’s a kill.
See the purple of his lip
’N’ the red ’n’ oozy drip!
Ends our great ole partnership—
Jim ’n’ Bill

Mates we was when we was kids;
Camp, ’n’ ship, ’n’ Pyramids,
Him ’n’ me
Hung together, ’n’ we tore
Up the heights from Helles shore,
Bill a long ’arf head afore,
Fine to see!

Then it was we took a touch—
Simple puncture, nothin’ much;
But we lay
’N’ we stays the count, it seems,
In a sorter realm of dreams
Where the sun infernal gleams
Night ’n’ day;

Boilin’, fryin’ achin’, dumb,
Waitin’ till the stretchers come,
Patiently.
I hangs on to ’arf a cup.
Which I wants ole Bill to sup.
Damn if he ain’t savin’ up
His for me!

When they come to lift my head
I am softly kiddin’ dead,
For a game,
So’s they’ll first take on his gills.
Over, though, me scheme he spills—
Bli’me, this ole take-down Bill’s
Done the same!

But he isn’t kiddin’ now,
And it knocks me anyhow
Seein’ him.
We was both agreed before,
Though it got ’em by the score,
Two was goin’ to beat this war—
Bill ’n’ Jim.

Mate o’ mine, yiv stayed it through.
Hard luck, Bill—for me ’n’ you
Hard ’n’ grim.
They have got me Cobber true,
But I’m stickin’ tight ez glue. . . .
Bill, there’s one who’ll plug for two—
It is Jim!


This poem has been preserved by
a fair dinkum Australian University
newcastle.edu.au


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Background
AOA Pre-Production:
    Financing by National Lottery
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AOA - The Movie Flyer
Open Letter to State & Federal Government, Australian Filmmaking Mafia & Moguls
Great Australians - support letter (13 Feb '09) from Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, "...I do believe it is important for children to learn all about their ancestors..."

Aussie Filmmaking Elders Aussie Filmmaking Elders
These guys are capable of producing a Movie
that can give the all time Top 5 a shake


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Civilization Time - The New Epochal Book by Peter and Tara Hogan


F5 Replay
Tara & Peter Hogan
Producers
Great Australians Kids Documentary Series
PO Box 1
Potts Point
NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
greataustralians@gmail.com

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KX Dispatches Blog is inspired by Michael Herr's Vietnam War classic
and his collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola on Apocalypse Now
heavily influenced by
Arthur Schopenhauer / Eastern Philosophy
'Wille' = Will-ard + 'Vorstellung' = Kurtz + vice versa
John Milius took title from 60s hippie slogan Nirvana Now
Richard Wagner (Ride of the Valkyries),
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness "Mistah Kurtz--he dead"
James Frazer's The Golden Bough,
Jessie Weston's From Romance to Ritual re the Fisher King motif
and T.S. Eliot's (/ Ezra Pound's "The Waste Land") Hollow Men
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion ...


Brando / Kurtz rendition:



Vorstellung
Ding an Sich vs Vorstellung

This is how the page ends.
Not with a bang but a flower...
Dedicated to Tara's 'New Millennium Generation of Filmmakers'



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Civilization Time Main Page

Civilization Time - The New Epochal Book by Peter and Tara Hogan First Published 12009CT - ISBN: 978-0-646-50793-4 - only 2 words long on a tablet 56 mm (H) x 40mm (W) yet it leaves the reader pondering for hours afterwards...

What the book publishers, reviewers, critics, and blogs are saying about Civilization Time, The Epochal Book:
"Couldn't put it down ... OK it is only 2 words, but it got me thinking, I want to know more, including about what my own ancestors got up to..." - Everly, Year 1, Kiengir Public School

Official Civilization Time Book Launch / Author Signing Coming Soon
CT-zen founding authors, Peter & Tara Hogan, are currently setting things up (wish we had an agent!). Could be Dymocks George Street Sydney, Kinokuniya Town Hall (since Pete used to live in Japan and do 'tatsu-yomi' at their store). Will probably be late January or early February '09.
In addition we will be at whatever book store wants to invite us around the world as we step up our book signing tour. A key objective is to encourage kids reading of history - who first invented what, e.g. Sumerian cuneiform writing and the first ever recorded story, "The Gilgamesh Epic".

Ordering Information for Bookshops and Distributors

Enquiries and Orders:
Peter & Tara Hogan
Civilization Time - The Epochal Book
PO Box 1
Potts Point NSW 1335
Sydney Australia
CT Email : kxol.pete@gmail.com
Civilization Time Book Webpage: www.geocities.com/ct12000

Availability
Civilization Time, The Epochal Book is literally a "Childmade Book" - co-author and producer / printer Tara Hogan (Year 1 Darlinghurst Public, oh and established auteur - just Google her) is currently turning out about one per day depending on what's on the Playhouse Disney Channel.
Output might change if we could ever interest a mainstream publisher.

Format
Hardcopy - 12 tablets, 6 as double-sided, 56 mm (H) x 40mm (W), corner bound. Comes in ancient looking box (Tara Art) 65 mm (H) x 50mm (W) - you open it and the tablets are buried in sand (can any kids in Iraq send us original Arabian sand!)

Electronic / CT eBook version - is of course free - simply a matter of printing the civilization_time.jpg file and having fun putting it together yourself.

Pricing
RRP - not finalized yet. Thinking of a the following options, all giving full membership to any future Civilization Time Foundation / Clubs / Blogs / Conventions:
1. Inaugural CT-zen Collectors Version - $12.00
2. Inaugural CT-zen Collectors Version with family details included in production - on "Dedication Tablet 5 and CT-zens Tablet 11) - $120.00
3. Gold Version - extra goodies - visit and hang out with CT-zen founders Peter and Tara Hogan - $1,200
4. Platinum Version - even extra special - CT-zen founders Peter and Tara Hogan come to you! - $12,000
5. Officially Designated Founding Benefactor of the Civilization Time Foundation - $120,000!
6. Officially Designated Founding Benefactor of the Civilization Time Foundation Building - $1,200,000!

Contents
1.

Civilization
Time

Peter Hogan • Tara Hogan
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2.

The shortest
(12 tiny tablets
corner bound)
most succinct
(two words)
most meaningful
book ever published
in the 12,000 year
march of civilization
since the end of the
last ice age.
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3.
[Title Page]
Civilization
Time

Peter Hogan
Tara Hogan
[Your Name]
Our Ancestors

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4.
Copy-me! The authors
Peter & Tara Hogan
waive all copyrights -
"Civilization Time"
belongs to all of us.
ISBN: 978-0-646-50793-4
First Published 12009CT
'Childmade Books'
http://civilizationtime.wordpress.com
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5.

[Dedication]
For Our Children
[ Graphic: Tiny CT tablets
book in palm of 6 yo's hand]

"Selfishness lasts
a day
Civilization endures
forever"

- Unknown Sumerian
Scribe c. 7000CT.
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6.

Foreword

As families all
round the world
reel from the
financial crisis
characterized by
greed and selfishness
it's timely to unearth
just two words.

Peter & Tara (6yo)
Hogan - 20i12009
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7.
[Body Text: 2 words in various languages]

Civilization...

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8.

...Time

[The End]
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9.

Credits

The first inventors e.g.
Japan - Jomom pottery;
Sumer - cities, writing
(Gilgamesh Epic)
the wheel, law...;
Egypt - time;
Balkans - copper working;
China - paper, printing,
gunpowder, ice cream!
India - numbering system
(esp 0-1 computers);...

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10.

Notes to New CT-zens

There can be no
copyright on Civilization
Time - feel free to copy,
add your own artistic
expression, market, and
sell our little CT Tablets
meme at a price to make
distribution viable for
you. Add your details to
Tablet 11.
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11.

[Graphic: Un-Earthing Authors]

Founding CT-zens,
Peter & Tara Hogan
(ancestors pioneered
Byron Bay 11882).
And new members:
[Your details here]

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12.
[Back Cover]

The shortest most meaningful
book ever published in the
12000 year march of civilization

[Graphic: Stone clock-like artefact
("C.I.V.I.L.I.Z.A.T.I.O.N." has 12 letters!)]

==
From: CIP/Cataloguing cip@nla.gov.au
To: kxol.pete@gmail.com

Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Subject: CiP 19491
mailed-bynla.gov.au

Dear Publisher
The Cataloguing-in-Publication entry for your forthcoming publication is as follows:

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Authors:
Hogan, Peter.
Hogan, Tara.

Title: Civilization Time / Peter Hogan ; Tara Hogan.
ISBN: 9780646507934
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Civilization. Time.
Dewey Number: 909
==

Civilization Time Book Videos:
YouTube: Tara opening sandfilled CT Box - "What's in here..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmiWiLdki4

civilization_time_book.wmv (276Kb, 15 secs)

ctbook-prep-tara.wmv (1.6 Mb., 1 min 40 secs)

Civilization Time Book Webpage: http://www.geocities.com/ct12000

Civilization Time Blog: http://civilizationtime.wordpress.com


National Library of Australia reject Civilization Time Latest 'Alarming' News Dateline 20 January 12009: National Library of Australia - Madams Josephine Thompson, Lisa Mackie - reject 6 year old Tara Hogan's First Children Book, "Civilization Time" and special request to encourage children to be more than passive users, rather than authors. This appalling callous behaviour just when President Barack Obama's Inauguration speech emphasizes that it's Time for "Civilty" around the world. It would seem either Tara's CT Book is 'two' simple or NLA staff are 'too' simple. What do you think? Full Story at our new blog http://civilizationtime.wordpress.com

Sir Keith Murdoch Dame Elisabeth Murdoch's -100th Birthday February 8th - The best birthday present Dame Elisabeth Murdoch could get at Cruden Farm on the big day would be long overdue recognition, direct from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, that it was her beloved husband, Sir Keith Murdoch, that saved the lives of thousands of Australian soldiers at Gallipoli with his 23 September 1915 letter to the British High Command. We are the only Australians that have been able to put the pieces together and unearth little known proof that the then young war correspondent's letter did indeed do the trick, at great personal risk. Specifically, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith's subsequent letter of 2 October 1915, to one of Gen. Hamilton's senior officers, Major Dawnay. GA-KiDS Internet TV

Happy 100th Birthday Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

Great Australians - Keith Murdoch