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Monday, May 8, 2017
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The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
A product of that edgelord's school —
See a design by Prince-Ramus in today's New York Times —
Remarks quoted here on the above San Diego date —
A related void —
Jill Lepore of Harvard in The New Yorker today —
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"In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the Year: 'This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.' Right about when Time was preparing that giddy announcement, three women whose ovaries and uteruses were involved in passing down the madcap man-god’s genes were in the maternity ward of a hospital in Austin. Musk believes a declining birth rate is a threat to civilization and, with his trademark tirelessness, is doing his visionary edgelord best to ward off that threat." |
Some vocabulary background —
See also this journal on that date —
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Monday, May 8, 2017
New Pinterest Board
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The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
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From "Knight to Move," by Fritz Leiber "… You were talking about basic games. Well, the chessboard is clearly a spider’s web with crisscross strands—in Go you even put the pieces on the intersections. The object of the game is to hunt down and immobilize the enemy King, just as a spider paralyzes its victim and sometimes wraps it in its silk. But here’s the clincher: the Knight, the piece most characteristic of chess, has exactly eight crooked moves when it stands in the clear—the number of a spider’s crooked legs, and eyes too! This suggests that all chess-playing planets are Spider-infiltrated from way back. It also suggests that all the chessplayers here for the tournament are Spiders—your shock battalion to take over 61 Cygni 5.” Colonel von Hohenwald sighed. “I was afraid you’d catch on, dear,” he said softly. “Now you’ve signed your abduction warrant at the very least. You may still be able to warn your HQ, but before they can come to your aid, this planet will be in our hands.” He frowned. “But why did you spill this to me, Erica? If you had played dumb—” “I spilled it to you,” she said, “because I wanted you to know that your plot’s been blown––and that my side has already taken countermeasures! We’ve made a crooked Knight’s move too. Has the significance of track games never occurred to you, Colonel? The one-dimensional track, sinuously turning, obviously symbolizes the snake. The pieces are the little bugs and animals the snake has swallowed. As for the dice, well, one of the throws is called Snake Eyes. So be assured that all the k’ta’hra players here are Snakes, ready to counter any Spider grab at 61 Cygni 5.” The Colonel’s mouth almost gaped. |
"Having seen Labyrinth at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church,
it's time to have a rest at this restaurant."
— https://restaurantguru.com/Bar-Le-Cote-Los-Olivos-California
"It's wine country , after all." — "All the Old Knives"
Two examples from the Wikipedia article "Archimedean solid" —
Iain Aitchison said in a 2018 talk at Hiroshima that
the Mathieu group M24 can be represented as permuting
naturally the 24 edges of the cuboctahedron.
The 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron are labeled
naturally by the 24 elements of S4 in a permutahedron —
Can M24 be represented as permuting naturally
the 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron?
Related material from the day Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died —
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— The New York Times today,
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/world/africa/ …
"He peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call,
then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth
glistening here and there with gold points. Chrysostomos.
Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm.
—Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely.
Switch off the current, will you?"
— Opening scene of Ulysses
"Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find"
— Song by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Lilydale and Rain , by Like No. 90 (Rain is the one on the left) —
A perhaps more useful coach . . .
Some prose by Harrington —
| By 1956, Fromm was dining at Suzuki’s part-time home in New York City, and talking with him about ways in which Zen could contribute to a wholesale reimagining of psychoanalytic therapeutics and theory (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). By this time, also, Fromm was himself spending considerable periods of time at a new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At one point he suggested that Suzuki consider moving in with him permanently. When Suzuki politely declined, Fromm conceived instead a major conference based in Mexico that would try to take stock of the entire current state of the conversation between Zen and psychotherapy (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). In 1957, some fifty psychotherapists—double the original expected number—participated in a week of presentations and discussions. Fromm later recalled the event as a magical time: what began as a traditional conference with the usual ‘over-emphasis on thoughts and words' changed over a few days, as people 'became more concentrated and more quiet.' |
See as well a web page on what is now called "shadow work" —
an activity completely different from the "shadow work" described
some years ago by Ivan Illich, the so-called "Prophet of Cuernavaca."
The Totême bag in the above image suggests an article from Feb. 6, 2020:
"How Totême Used A Uniform Concept To Create A Cult Label."
Log24 posts from the two following days, sans cult label —
For the relentlessly artsy-fartsy at the Santa Fe Institute…
Continued from remarks on Schoenberg on March 10, 2001 —
"First movement from John Adams’ Harmonielehre conducted by
Sir Simon Rattle, performed at BMW Classics, which took place
in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, 10 June 2023." — YouTube
Also on 10 June 2023 —
See as well "Merve Emre’s Vinduet Lecture,
held in the Hamsun Hall at Gyldendal Norsk
Forlag in Oslo, September 4th 2023."
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Lilydale and Rain , by Like No. 90 — (Rain is the one on the left)
Caption from Getty Images (Wikipedia links added) —
"Philosophers James O Urmson (1915 – 2012, left), a fellow of
Christ Church, Oxford, and Professor James** Langshaw Austin
(1911 – 1960) of Magdalen College, Oxford, at a joint session of
the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birmingham
University, August 1952. Original publication: Picture Post – 6001 –
It All Depends On What You Mean – pub. 16th August 1952
(Photo by George Douglas/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"
** Getty Images error. Should be John Langshaw Austin.
Welcome to 9/6 — "Too Clever by Half" Day.
Related imagery … "ABC Art."
Related philosophy … "Krell Lab."
* At Black Rock City — 2023 — For interpretations
of the above W and A, see Gaugin and Cool Rider.
"Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get the show on, get paid"
— Lyrics from . . .
And for the Church of Synchronology … Log24 on
the above YouTube date — Dec. 25, 2009.
Windows lockscreen, 6:08 AM ET, Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 4, 2023 —
"Come discover hundreds of new games
that are free to play whenever you want!"
"Peopled with pirates, smugglers, beach bums and barflies,
Mr. Buffett’s genial, self-deprecating songs conjured a world
of sun, salt water and nonstop parties animated by the
calypso country-rock of his limber Coral Reefer Band."
— Bill Friskics-Warren reports a Friday death.
Related material: http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Chat+Chill
The combination of Shakespeare and Frankenstein
in the previous post suggests a more potent combination —
Hypnotic and Propaganda.
Beneath the balcony, Mark Ruffalo, in Brando style, cries "Bella! "
I find a real balcony scene from Cuernavaca more interesting —
An animated GIF that shows the basic unit for
the "design cube" pages at finitegeometry.org —
From a post of Dec. 8, 2010, the (somewhat) related Stella Octangula —
From "The Midrash Jazz Quartet Plays the Standards" —
“… and the song of love’s recision is the music of the spheres.”
— E. L. Doctorow, City of God
(Quoted here on Dec. 20, 2020.)
Related imagery from Log24 on January 4, 2023 —
The previous post linked to a review by David Ehrlich of the film
"Dog Years," starring Burt Reynolds. The review was dated April 26, 2017.
Also on that date . . .
This post from 2017 deals with the mathematics of "diamond theory,"
an approach to models of finite geometry.
Related philosophy —
The "diamond theory" of truth, as opposed to the "story theory."
(See Richard Trudeau, The Non-Euclidean Revolution.)
For those who prefer the story theory, there is, for instance,
the novel City of God by E. L. Doctorow —
"In the Garden of Adding
Live Even and Odd…."
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The Tempest
A tropical storm over Florida (lower left) as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.
“Wind over Water” in the I Ching, Dissolving: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i) |
Novel Engineering:
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"We stopped at the Trocadero and there was hardly anyone there. We had Lanson 1926. 'Drink up, sweet. You gotta go some. How I love music. Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca, ach du lieber August. All languages. A walking Berlitz. Berlitz sounds like you with that champagne, my sweet, or how you're gonna sound.'" — John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, Chapter 11, 1938 "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." "Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the
PARIS, — James Joyce, conclusion of Finnegans Wake |
This journal on sacred texts yesterday (International Dog Day) —
See Hexagram 61 in this journal.
Maureen Dowd in her New York Times column this morning —
" As Audrey Hepburn said in 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s'
after she tangled with the law, 'There are certain shades
of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.' "
And certain shades that can improve it . . .
The previous post suggests a reading:
"The Chinese word for 'sacred texts' is jing 經, a character
having its etymological origin in textiles. The first meaning
of this character denotes the fixed lead thread or warp of cloth,
insofar as the weft threads are woven into warp threads to
make a fabric. Its extended meaning referes to authority,
orthodoxy, and the essential way toward truth and principle."
— Page 497, Yanrong Chen, "Christian Biblical Tradition in
the Jing Chinese Culture," Oxford Handbook of the Bible
in China , edited by K. K. Yeo, Oxford U. Press, 2021.
See as well the non-Chinese word "symplectic" in this journal.
Art Blocks in the previous post —
"… making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component" . . .
From this journal on the above art date — April 6, 2021 —
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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"I’m really interested in exploring space."
— New Yorker cover artist for the Aug. 28, 2023, issue.
Related cinematic art . . .
From a search in this journal for Nocturnal —
For some Bright Art Blocks Moments , see Cube Epiphany .
The title is an adapted song lyric from "Hair."
"It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,
And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground."
— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .
The red of the watermelon eaten on the cover of the
August 28, 2023, New Yorker is RGB (240, 57, 53) —
Cinnabar Red, also known as Vermilion.
For related poetic remarks, see a post of Leap Day 2004 .
Arriving in today's mail: The New Yorker.
Online context for the cover art —
Song lyric — "Away out here they got a name for wind and rain and fire."
Plato quote — "One, two, three… but where is the fourth?"
Miss Earth — "I'm here for all of the witches."
"… JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the enigmatic
abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin. She is drawn to
the contradictions in Martin’s life as well as her art—the soft
and exacting brushstrokes she employs for grid-like compositions
that are both rigid and dreamy."
See as well Agnes Martin in this journal.
From the 12 AM Aug. 23, 2023, film at TCM …
See also Chaplin-related remarks in the previous post.
A related scene from April 1, 2023 . . .
"Hazel rolls up to this meeting in short shorts and boots."
"He is very charming here." . . . . As is Jena Malone here and here —
Update …
"Here are 3 brands building on the blockchain…"
♫ "Way out west they have a name for rain and wind and fire …."
https://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/ theycallthewindmariahlyricschords.html They Call The Wind Mariah Recorded by Jim Ed Brown written by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe C Am C Am Way out west they have a name for rain and wind and fire C Am F G7 C The rain is Tess the fire's Joe and they call the wind Mariah Am C Am Mariah blows the stars around and sets the clouds a-flying C Am F G7 C Mariah makes the mountains sound like folks up there were dying Am Em Mariah Mariah F G7 C They call the wind Mariah Am C Am Before I knew Mariah's name or heard her wail and whining C Am F G7 C I had a gal and she had me and the sun was always shining Am C Am And then one day I left that gal I left her far behind me C Am F G7 C And now I'm lost I'm so darn lost not even God can find me Am Em Mariah Mariah F G7 C They call the wind Mariah Am C Am Out here they’ve got a name for rain wind and fire only C Am F G7 C And when you're lost and all alone there ain't no word for lonely Am C Am Well I'm a lost and lonely man without a star to guide me C Am F G7 C Mariah blow my love to me I need her here beside me Am Em Mariah Mariah F G7 C They call the wind Mariah |
From an LA Times obituary for an artist
who reportedly died on July 30 —
"In his abstract paintings, he often returned to
the image of the atomic bomb, through
a recurring motif of an orb hovering
in a vertical band of color."
— BY ANA IWATAKI AUG. 18, 2023 10:08 AM PT
* For the term "Songline," see (for instance) a post of June 10, 2022.
Instagram message
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"Weep, all you little rains,
Wail, winds, wail,
All along, along, along
The Psilocybin Trail."
"Does the name 'Coulter' mean anything to you?"
See as well this journal on 07/19/2021, the Lotus-page date above.
"Would you like me to suck you off while driving?"
"I'd love it, darling, but you better keep your eyes on the road."
See the posts of August 19, 2022.
"Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks announced campgrounds
closures from noon Saturday through at least Tuesday and preemptively
shuttered several roadways." — Los Angeles Times yesterday
One of the scenes from "Spencer" shows a Christmas weigh-in
at Sandringham with a staircase, and landing, in the background.
Another landing — On the staircase between the first and second
floors at Skillmans in Bemus Point, NY, where in a summer not too
many years ago I saw displayed a copy of Dorm Room Feng Shui .
I ordered this book online and enjoyed it when it arrived.
On the cover is a 3×3 array of images, with the caption "You are here"
in the center square.
Interpret this as you will.
Some lines from "Psychedelic Love," a song in
the album "New Truth" (2020), by Jenny O.
I went and saw my sister friend
Told her I been compromising
And I would like a psychedelic love
I will give all day long
She says, "Here's a piece of paper
and a really nice pen
Write it down, read it out, tell me
what it says, baby."
These lyrics, and the accompanying music, were presented
not in writing, but in dance, by Jena Malone in her Instagram
highlight "Dance revolt."
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"She's turning me on, turning me on
Pushing my buttons like it ain't no thing
If I'm what she wants, she gets what she wants
The neon's buzzing when she pulls that string"
— https://genius.com/Blake-shelton-turnin-me-on-lyrics
Jena Malone in "Lorelei" (2020) —
Lines from the above "Lorelei" scene —
Wayland — "You've been busy."
Dolores — "Yep."
Earlier, above some other bodies of water . . .
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The Tempest
A tropical storm over Florida (lower left) as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.
“Wind over Water” in the I Ching, Dissolving: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i) |
From a 1984 film, "2010: The Year We Make Contact" —
Russian — "Piece of pie."
American — "Cake. Piece of cake."
This brief dialogue was suggested by the phrase
"Pineapple Upside-Down Cake," which in turn was
suggested by an image and a dance from the Instagram
page of the talented Jena Malone:
Ann Harlow's tattoo offering —
Statement from the family of music man
Jerry Moss, who reportedly died yesterday
at 88 —
“They truly don’t make them like him anymore
and we will miss conversations with him about
everything under the sun,” the statement reads
in part, “the twinkle in his eyes as he approached
every moment ready for the next adventure.”
Twinkle, twinkle, Jena Malone . . .
"Formed in 1962, Alpert and Moss’ A&M (named after their initials)
label’s quarter-plus century run included some major blockbuster
albums, including Carole King’s Tapestry, Peter Frampton’s Frampton
Comes Alive!, and Alpert’s own Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
— BY ALTHEA LEGASPI August 16, 2023
See as well "Report from Clouded Mountain" (Log24, June 8, 2023).
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From an Evan Oppenheimer 2011 film script, https://www.scripts.com/script.php?id=the_speed_of_thought_18645&p=3 . . . . Do not worry, it's an easy technique. Okay.
Right. Look at your feet. Now is better.
If we open ourselves to each other, What is this?
It's something we do very much. Everything?
It may be that we do not like |
And then there is the Quick and Dirty method . . .
Sunday, August 13, 2023
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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection,
and on his own terms, not anyone else's." — Franny and Zooey
See as well "Hum a few bars."
See also a video discussing Hexagram 58 — and the month of May, 2021.
Related material — Cultural remarks from May 2021 in this journal.
For adults, there is a quite literal version of this motto,
starring Uncle Harry, Uncle Jack, and the lovely Ann Harlow.
"datePublished":"2023-08-15T03:14:25.000Z"
03:14:25 Zulu time is 23:14:25 EDT.
"My mother, the late Isabel Nash Eberstadt,
was the daughter of the poet Ogden Nash."
This post is in memory of a "photographer of socialites and artists."
* For the title and the color, see last night's "Drunkard's Dream" post.
Happy birthday, Cara Delevingne.
The New York Times on an artist who reportedly died yesterday —
The background wall art below is not unlike Marden's Moss Sutra …
Some will prefer the fore ground of the above image,
which is closely related to the art term "line of beauty."
Other Amalfi Coast scenes —
"Dabo claves regni caelorum" — 1986 Cullinane poem
And for Jamestown New York's National Comedy Center —
The Latin Club Gang: "We put the 'sex' in sextets!"
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… in his book “Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican’s Challenge to His Party,” Mr. Whalen detailed his disappointments with Nixon, including his pledge in March 1968 to end the Vietnam War, presumably swiftly, if President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t end it by the end of the year. “This promise, implying a plan to fulfill it, splashed across the front pages and brought the reporters and TV crews rushing back to the Republican side of the New Hampshire campaign, eager for details,” he wrote. “There weren’t any. Nothing lay behind the ‘pledge’ except Nixon’s instinct for an extra effort of salesmanship when the customers started drifting away.” |
"Gimme the beat boys and free my soul . . . ."
From a Log24 post of March 19, 2019 —
Caption for the National Comedy Center —
"Getting a little behind in your reading?"
…230811-Palm_Springs-IMDb-soundtrack-song-500wide-373deep.jpg —
The title combines phrases from Wallace Stevens and Billie Holiday.
Illustration, from an image linked to in the previous post —
Related images . . .
See June 19th of this year.
"The lost lane-end into heaven" — Thomas Wolfe
"Come on . . . ." — Cristin Milioti
"I viewed the morning with much alarm;
The British Museum had lost its charm."
* Vide that phrase in this journal.
"A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."
"Pardon me. J'adoube."
— The Consul as he fastens his fly in Malcolm Lowry's classic
novel, Under the Volcano , the Garden of Eden scene.
I, on the other hand, adobe.
Musical accompaniment . . .
"Sleight of hand and twist of fate . . . ." — "With or Without U"
Lines
"Listen to the wind blow, down comes the night
Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies"
— Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain"
Shadows
Related YouTube and Log24 date: Sept. 27, 2018 —
"Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one"
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