"Gemini 2.5 Pro is now free to all users in surprise move"
— March 30 headline at tomsguide.com.
Click the above image for the Gemini response.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Saturday, March 29, 2025
“Krysten, Kristen … Kristen, Krysten”
Followup —
The B&N L.A. Grove bookstore on Sunday, March 30, 2025 —
Detail of a photo from Sophie Tabet, director of the
upcoming Krysten Ritter film "Stone Cold Fox" —
The mystery can was apparently
not ready for its closeup.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Early James† Reads Krysten Ritter*
"You are everywhere and nowhere.
You melt into the crowd. Swipe your boarding pass
over the small red laser beam and hear its reassuring beep.
You board the plane and take your first-class seat.
You lift into the air."
— Ritter, Krysten. Retreat: A Novel (p. 260).
HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
† "I've got this problem when I'm reading a book.
Know there's an ending, so I can't help but look."
* See this morning's Ritter post.
Browder Death Date
The death date of Princeton mathematician William Browder
has now been established as February 4, 2025.
That date in this journal . . . See posts tagged Clercs.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Obit for Pilot Fish*
The online New York Times today reports a March 14 death . . .
This journal on March 14 —
"Right through hell there is a path."
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
* See Hemingway Pilot Fish
Review
A review of posts tagged Design Theory yields . . .
"… at the core of reality lies a deep and eternal demonium."
— Alicia in the Cormac McCarthy novel Stella Maris.
Vide "CORE" as a starting point for mathematics from
Royal Holloway —
Design Studies
The "Loeb Fellowship in advanced environmental studies"
is not named for Arthur L. Loeb . . .
Related reading from this journal —
Posts now tagged Arthur Lee Loeb.
Related art from this journal —
The setting for the Sidney Lumet film "Deathtrap" (1982)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
For Patricia Annette† … The Krazy Kat* Game
† https://www.facebook.com/patricia.annette.31521301
* . . .
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Automata* Studio
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="When+in+Rome"
* Vide . . . Automata Studies.
"And the pink pony goes up and down"
— Adapted "Circle Game" song lyric
Blazon Day: Fields and Shields
That title was suggested by an artist wielding her art like a shield
in this morning's post "Art Process," and by the four squares and
four diamonds of yesterday's post "A Combinatorial Configuration."
Related poetic meditation: "Blazoned Days" in this journal.
Minimalist Space
See the March 24 New York Times obituary of a former Venice Beach artist
who reportedly died at 83 in Manhattan on March 14.
Related material from this journal on March 14 — Modernist Testament.
Monday, March 24, 2025
A Combinatorial Configuration
Related art —
From "Self-Dual Configurations and Regular Graphs" by H. S. M. Coxeter,
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 56 (1950), pp. 413-455
For a related combinatorial configuration, take Oxbury's "16 lines"
to be the the 16 dots above and take the "8 points of intersection"
to be the four squares
234, 1234, 124, 24
23, 123, 12, 2
3, 13, 1, 0
34, 134, 14, 4
along with the four diamonds
234, 23, 3, 34
1234, 123, 13, 134
124, 12, 1, 14
24, 2, 0, 4.
Then each "line" is on two "points" and each "point" on
four "lines."
Note that these eight "points" — the four squares and the four diamonds
of Coxeter's figure — form the rows and columns of the following matrix:
| 234 | 1234 | 124 | 24 |
| 23 | 123 | 12 | 2 |
| 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | 134 | 14 | 4 |
Related reading: Points with Parts .
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Annals of Brick Space . . .
Not-so-free Masonry
A Google search today for "brick space" —
Related art apparently suggested by the phrase "building blocks" —
A Mystery Popup
The recent URL cubebrick.space forwards to . . .
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=brick-space.
The web posts so tagged are, as one would expect,
NOT in the Harvard Library system. I was therefore
somewhat surprised to see the following popup today —
Clicking on the "Get article" link yields . . .
This metadata is actually quite helpful, as the cited article
does, in fact, give good references for what I have called,
using a term from the "Miracle Octad Generator" of R. T. Curtis,
"brick space" — the finite projective space PG(5,2).
KenKen.casa
The above new URL now forwards to this journal 10 years ago.
See also KenKen.
(This post was suggested by the phrase "10 years later"
from the image in the previous post.)
Graphic Sermon
The release date of the Paul Schrader film "First Reformed"
was May 18, 2018. This suggests the following graphic art . . .
From this journal on that date, art from The New York Times —
Ninefold-square art that is much more recent —
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Triskaidekamania
Note that in the above illustration, there are four sets of points
that, with the exception of the top front corner point h0, form
four equilateral triangles . . .
z1, z2, z3
y1– , y2–, y3–
y1+, y2+, y3+
h0, h1, h2. h3 .
Enthusiasts of sacred geometry may investigate the mystical properties
of this four-triangle (plus h0) labeling.
For a less mystical approach to the 2011 Yu-Oh illustration, see . . .
Friday, March 21, 2025
Axiom Attics … Continues.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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An illustration from the Axiom Attics post linked to on March 13 —
Clay Risen in The New York Times yesterday, in reporting the March 13
death of a Mother-Jones-cofounding journalist . . .
"In between editing investigative journalism, he wrote
a science fiction thriller, The Black Hole Affair (1991)."
The description at Amazon.com of that thriller —
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The Black Hole Affair Paperback – January 1, 1991 by Jeffrey Klein (Author) Zebra Books, 1991. Mass market paperback, stated first Zebra printing, August 1991. (SBN 0-8217-3470-9) Embossed wrappers with foil lettering. Good copy, back wrapper scuffed. thight copy, unread. It was the orbital weapon powerful enough to destroy entire nations. The Pentagon would kill anyone who tried to expose the lethal secrets of the Black Hole Affair. "Klein knows more about Silicon Valley's Dark Side than anyone!" — Mike Malone, PBS. "'The Black Hole Affair' captures the terror of our times!" — Mike Weiss, Edgar Award Winner. The Black Hole Affair, code name for a super secret Star Wars weapons program powerful enough to destroy America's enemies in minutes and reduce half the earth to a nuclear wasteland. The most closely guarded military program ever funded by the Pentagon's infamous "black budget" — only two men knew its true power and would kill to protect it. The deadliest government conspiracy in U.S. history, it was the story of a lifetime for Silicon Valley's investigative reporter Eli Franklin, that if if he lived long enough to tell it. Fiction. |
Spring Reading and Viewing
Reading:
The March 18 New York Times obituary of a master gardener
who reportedly died on January 16, 2025.
This journal on January 16, 2025 — "Faustus Revisited."
Viewing:
Master Gardener, a 2022 crime thriller film.
Note that the January 16 link target in this journal is related to the
2022 crime thriller by Royal Holloway and by a notable starlet
who appeared in both Master Gardener and the recent Apple TV
series Prime Target.
Wag The Tag
Two posts from the date below in an image from today's
previous post have now also been tagged Congregated Light.
Conway Scenic Locomotion
See as well Conway and Congregated Light . . .
and, for Hotel New Hampshire fans,
Conway Scenic Railroad . . .
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Appalachian Theology
From this journal on Walpurgisnacht 2005 —
"A key concept in Augustine's great
The City of God is that the Christian church
is superior and essentially alien
to its earthly surroundings."
— David Van Biema in Time Magazine
(May 2, 2005, p. 43)
Click on the above for a rendition of Appalachian Spring.
Harmonielehre for Royal Holloway*
The Instagram date Nov. 3, 2021, in the previous post
suggests a check of this journal on that date . . .
* Harmonielehre is a book by Schoenberg. For Royal Holloway,
see the post Prime Notes of Monday, March 17, 2025.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Applied Eliot
This post was suggested by the date of an Artforum article . . .
The New York Times reported yesterday that Arn is art critic
of The New Yorker no longer, due to alleged misbehavior
in February at the publication's 100th anniversary party.
Eindhoven Playgrounds
Monday, March 17, 2025
Annals of Metadata: Math Hacks
This post was suggested by the meta-reality of much current
entertainment . . . Specifically, by an ad for the Max series
Hacks that preceded the Sunday, March 16, "Full Moon Party"
White Lotus.
From this journal on May 13, 2021 —
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The Axiomatic Method: "We hold these truths to be self-evident…." Other methods: "In Gauss we trust." (See below.)
But perhaps not so much in Princeton . . .
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Related material —
250317-Hacks-movie-ad-before-White-Lotus-of-250316.jpg:
AI Overview scholium —
Related numerical theology —
Shadow Work for Styx4639.
Prime Notes
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Sunday, March 16, 2025
Annals of Bewitchment:
“Finkelstein, Euripides … Euripides, Finkelstein”
This post was suggested by the board game name Halma.
The game itself was suggested by the shape of its later
descendant, Chinese Checkers … which in turn was suggested
by a "magic" hexagram, in its turn suggested by the remarks
of one David Ritz Finkelstein on the "magic" square in Dürer's
Melencolia I.
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“Finkelstein, Euripides … Euripides, Finkelstein”
“Finkelstein, Euripides … Euripides, Finkelstein”
Compare and Contrast
Note that the triangles 5-9-12 and 7-8-11 in figure B above correspond
in cube A to vertices ∞ and 0 in the Aitchison Hiroshima cube below.
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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Birthday Meets Dies Natalis:
“Harrison, Frida . . . Frida, Harrison.”
Wikipedia — "Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942)
is an American actor."
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=birthday+death-day . . .
From page 63 of The New Yorker issue
dated August 5, 2002:
“Birthday, death-day —
what day is not both?”
— John Updike
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=the-finkelstein-talisman . . .
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“Harrison, Frida . . . Frida, Harrison.”
“Harrison, Frida . . . Frida, Harrison.”
Friday, March 14, 2025
“Mobius, Stephanie . . . Stephanie, Mobius.*”
From the Graf Dies Mortis posts —
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http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Pearl+Jam . . .
In other news from the Northwest . . . Stephanie Dick. |
A flashback from today's previous post —
* For the Mobius of the title, see a 2004 novel by Andrew Crumey.
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Graf Dies Mortis
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Modernist Testament
This post is in opposition to the informative, but unfocused, survey
of academia by one Alma Steingart in her 2023 book Axiomatics.
The reported Axiomatics publication date — Jan. 17, 2023 — in this journal . . .
"Right through hell there is a path."
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
In Memory of Professor James Reason, Error Analyst:
A Flashback for Doctor Who
The New York Times today reports that Doctor Reason died on Feb. 5
(the date of the Log24 post "Axiom Attics: Ars Longa").
Perhaps he has now escaped the confines of time. From this journal . . .
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A Flashback for Doctor Who
A Flashback for Doctor Who
In Memory of Sci-Fi Illustrator* Chris Moore
On the TV series "White Lotus" episode of Sunday, March 9, 2025 —
* For the above cover illustration, see (for instance)
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?274753 .
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
“Prime Target” Scholium:
Brick Space for Apple TV
For Astra herself, see . . .
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Brick Space for Apple TV
Brick Space for Apple TV
Dirac, Kummer, Hudson, and the 16 Points
From the January 2025
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society :
Some background for the above article's conclusion —
For some related material . . .
Search for "Hudson Kummer Quartic" in Log24.
A song for Singer . . .
"I've got this problem when I'm reading a book
Know there's an ending, so I can't help but look"
— Early James, "I Got This Problem" lyrics
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Max Bill in Basque Country:
Foursquare Geometry
The above is an example of what has been called a foursquare.
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Foursquare Geometry
Foursquare Geometry
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Annals of Entertainment
Princeton has chosen to let the date of William Browder's death
remain a mystery. His brothers Felix and Andrew reportedly died
on December 10, 2016, and March 24, 2019, respectively.
Fans of Doctor Who Kool-Aid may click the links for those dates.
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For “Unfrosted” Fans: K-Pop Math
Flashback suggested by a New York Times obituary today . . .
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A Sunday Sermon: Math Noir
From this journal last Sunday morning . . .
From this journal this morning . . .
"In conclusion: what an axiomatic presentation of a piece of mathematics
conceals is at least as relevant to the understanding of mathematics
as what an axiomatic presentation pretends to state." — Gian-Carlo Rota
As for noir . . .
Consider how Apple TV recently created "brutal, exaggerated worlds
that originated in actual locations" and also created a villainous
private company named Axiom .
Some relevant history of mathematics . . .
"The bond with reality is cut." — Freudenthal on axiomatics .
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The Doctor Who Kool-Aid
On Monday, March 10, 2025, The New York Times
reported a Sunday, March 9, death —
Simon Fisher-Becker, Actor in
‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Doctor Who,’
Dies at 63
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Annals of Cinematic Confusion:
Back in the High Life
"Even so, Pattinson, I wouldn't kick her out of bed."
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Back in the High Life
Back in the High Life
For a Dreamcatcher*
* See a New York Times obituary from March 2, 2025.
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For Nora Barnacle
This afternoon's post "Speak, Memory" referred to the conclusion
of Chapter 17 in Joyce's Ulysses . For those looking forward to
the next chapter . . .
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Face Planes Mindset Shift
A rather different planes solution from Log24 on March 7 —
See the illustrations in this journal on that date and . . .
"Note that in the Design Cube image above, the six faces are viewed
as suspended in space on three pairs of parallel planes, with the observer
viewing the parallel images only from the three directions front to back,
right to left, and top to bottom. In the WebSim row of six faces, the images
are pictured as they might be seen by an observer whose viewpoints vary
as he himself floats in space around the cube."
Related chrome art —
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For Language Animals . . .
“And thereby hangs a suffix”
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“And thereby hangs a suffix”
“And thereby hangs a suffix”
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Coxeter’s “Pleasantly Discursive”
“What Is Truth?” . . . Continues.
See as well the post "Advanced Study" of October 2, 2017, and …
Update . . .
https://x.com/LGBTMath/status/1641817634349133824 —
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“What Is Truth?” . . . Continues.
“What Is Truth?” . . . Continues.
“Nicht Spielerei”
Also on June 6, 2018 . . .
"If it's a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo."
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For Octavio Paz …
Labyrinth of Loneliness: A Dialectic Response
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Labyrinth of Loneliness: A Dialectic Response
Labyrinth of Loneliness: A Dialectic Response
Resonance
For further photo details, see https://lunabeylerian.com and . . .
♫ "… und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne …"
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Saturday, March 8, 2025
New from Apple TV
See as well Kafka in this journal.
Related New York humor . . .
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From Today.com on March 8, 2025 . . . https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/is-snl-new-tonight-rcna195170 Is there a new episode of ‘SNL’ tonight? Yes! The March 8 episode will be a new, live show hosted by Lady Gaga. Gaga will also perform as the episode's musical guest. A double-duty "SNL" episode seems especially fitting for Gaga, who's been nominated for four Oscars and 38 Grammys. Gaga also released her latest album, "Mayhem," on March 7. Ahead of the episode, the singer and actor gave viewers a glimpse of her creative “process” when she played piano and made up impromptu lyrics about the show’s embarrassed cast members in a hilarious promo. Dressed down in a ball cap and eyeglasses, Gaga noted that Andrew Dismukes ordered his breakfast sandwich at 2 p.m. and that Devon Walker was "taking a big swing" by donning a new cowboy hat. Gaga then busted Heidi Gardner, who emerged from her office in jammies and an eye mask, for sleeping on the "SNL" set. "And the question is why?" Gaga sang, hitting a dazzling high note. "And the answer is bed bugs," Gardner sang back, which seemed to inspire the crescendo for Gaga's song. "She has bedbugs!" Gaga belted out with passion. — |
Some dialogue better suited to flyover country . . .
From the first episode of the TV series “The West Wing“:
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Original airdate: Sept. 22, 1999
MARY MARSH
CALDWELL
MARY MARSH
JOSH
TOBY [A stunned silence. Everyone stares at Toby.]
TOBY (CONT.)
JOSH |
For "Love Me" fans, some less clownish material . . .
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Oz Noir . . . Continues.
For the title, see posts tagged Oz Noir:
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=oz-noir.
Some art publicity I came across for the first time today . . .
For some art of my own posted here on the above IssueWire date,
see the last of the Oz Noir posts … The Passage of Time.
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The Missing ART … Continues.
From the post "The Missing ART" (November 7, 2014) —
“An article (abbreviated ART) is a word (or prefix or suffix)
that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference
being made by the noun.” — Wikipedia
Reading between the lines, some more recent remarks . . .
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“Remember, remember the fifth of November”
An image from this journal on that date last year —
A more recent image from this journal . . .
"Does the phrase 'facial recognition' mean anything to you?"
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Friday, March 7, 2025
Note from a Dies Natalis*
* For the dies natalis itself, see a New York Times report
of a death on February 27, and this journal on that date.
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For Herrigel and Kafka
Wikipedia — "The words category and functor were borrowed by mathematicians
from the philosophers Aristotle [and Kant] and Rudolf Carnap, respectively.
The latter used functor in a linguistic context…."
From Carnap himself —
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Bridge of Sighs
For Neurodivergent Math Campers
Detail from the previous post —
Related photography memory . . .
Scholium for Apple TV, whose series "Prime Target" just ended —
See as well the "Bridge of Sighs" post of Thursday, Feb. 27.
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For Neurodivergent Math Campers
For Neurodivergent Math Campers
Skin in the Game: Checkpoint Charly
A scheduled concert tonight in the former East Berlin suggests . . .
Related material for those not thrilled by mindless entertainment . . .
Posts now tagged Model Kit.
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2025: Space Odysseys
From a much more abstract space, an image from the
Log24 post Symmetry of May 3, 2016 . . .
For a rotating 3D view from 2025, made with the help of AI, see . . .
Note that in the Design Cube image above, the six faces are viewed
as suspended in space on three pairs of parallel planes, with the observer
viewing the parallel images only from the three directions front to back,
right to left, and top to bottom. In the WebSim row of six faces, the images
are pictured as they might be seen by an observer whose viewpoints vary
as he himself floats in space around the cube.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
Hollywood Geometry
In a sextuple, there are 15 couple-pairings and 20 threesomes.
Illustration . . .
Meanwhile, on the other coast . . .
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At SXSW … Coming Soon!
vulture.com/article/15-movies-were-excited-to-see-
at-2025s-sxsw-film-festival.html
Some may prefer an earlier incarnation of this concept . . .
And then there is a more abstract incarnation of the concept
(with the third person of the threesome being the beholder ) . . .
(Adapted from unsigned art in a Venice Beach apartment)
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Night’s Hymn
See as well the DeMarco date 20210616 in this journal.
Related quote . . .
As a different DeMarco, "Depp received the
London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year,
along with his performance in Ed Wood . . . ."
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Apple TV’s Politically Correct Mathematical Narrative:
Ed Brooks Meets Ed Wood
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Ed Brooks Meets Ed Wood
Ed Brooks Meets Ed Wood
Meeting on a Plane of Reality*
The image of Stephansplatz in the previous post, from the
Instagram of Mia Bandini, suggests a reality-based article . . .
* "You meet people on their plane of reality"
— White Lotus posture teacher, 2025
Related time reality . . .
This journal on the date of the above article, 12/12/17 .
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Coppola Family Values for Auntie Wow:
The Vocabulary Lesson
Good question.
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The Vocabulary Lesson
The Vocabulary Lesson
Welcome to Klein Space*
"You meet people on their plane of reality"
— White Lotus posture teacher, 2025
* For a rather different Klein space, click here.
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“Old men ought to be explorers” — T. S. Eliot
See cubebrick.space.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Brick-Space News
Earlier in this journal, a more abstract approach . . .
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Monday, March 3, 2025
Blue Velvet Finishing School
(As opposed to the Red Carpet Prep School of the previous post).
For the Biv family, see the TV series "The Resort."
Traveling northwest from the southeast corner above . . .
"You ain't been blue
No, no, no
You ain't been blue
Till you've had that mood indigo."
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Red Carpet Prep School
"Does the phrase 'facial recognition' mean anything to you?"
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Annals of Tech Support . . .
Saturday Night Live and the Sunday Red Carpet
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Saturday Night Live and the Sunday Red Carpet
Saturday Night Live and the Sunday Red Carpet
Sunday, March 2, 2025
For Oscar Day Afternoon
The rest of the text from Marcela Nowak today . . .
I started a new painting and wanted to share the process with you all!
Also, this is my first time doing a voiceover, and recording and listening to
my own voice is so stressful—it took way too many tries to get this right.
And as always, the early stages of my paintings make me question all my
life choices. They don’t start looking right until they’re at least 70% done…
but that’s just part of how it comes together…
#artist #arttok #abstractart #artprocess #painting
#timelapse #artistsoftiktok #art #artwork
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Art Tools: The Mona Lisa Ellipsis
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