Monday, December 2, 2019
“Show me all the blueprints.”
Aesthetics at Harvard
"What the piece of art is about is the gray space in the middle."
— David Bowie, as quoted in the above Crimson piece.
Bowie's "gray space" is the space between the art and the beholder.
I prefer the gray space in the following figure —
Context: The Trinity Stone (Log24, June 4, 2018).
Gray Space
See as well a search for Gray Space in this journal.
Related material: The Schwartz Omega .
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
D8: The Black Queen’s Square
The previous post quoted some dialogue from Victor Hugo's
novel about the French Revolution, Ninety-Three.
This suggests a look at the following non-fiction book:
Compare and contrast with the novel The Eight , by Katherine Neville,
about chess and the French Revolution.
Neville's birthday, April 4, plays a major role in her novel. The dies natalis
(in the Roman Catholic sense) of the above Birth of the Chess Queen
author, on the other hand, was reportedly November 20, 2019.
Following a link in this journal from November 20 leads to remarks
that might interest the subjects of an upcoming film, "The Two Popes."
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Space Song
From this journal on the above date — April 13, 2014 (Gray Space) —
Review of Seeing Gray , a book by pastor Adam Hamilton
of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City—
“Adam Hamilton invites us to soulful gray space
between polarities, glorious gray space that is holy,
mysterious, complex, and true. Let us find within
our spirits the courage and humility to live and learn
in this faithful space, to see gray, to discern a more
excellent way.”
—Review by United Methodist Bishop Hope Morgan Ward
The above flashback was suggested by CBS Sunday Morning today —
See also Romanesque in this journal.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Horizon
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker today, quoting
the late Clive James's description of …
" … an adaptation of 'War and Peace': 'Dead ground is
the territory you can’t judge the extent of until you approach it:
seen from a distance, it is unseen. Almost uniquely amongst
imagined countries, Tolstoy’s psychological landscape is
without dead ground— the entire vista of human experience is
lit up with an equal, shadowless intensity, so that separateness
and clarity continue even to the horizon.' "
Date
A search result gives what is apparently the original date for
a story that Ars Technica republished yesterday for Black Friday
(see previous post) —
Another story, also from November 25, 2013 —
Friday, November 29, 2019
Tech Drama for Stephanie*
* See Stephanies in this journal.
See also Best Picture and, more generally, The Accountant.
Verifying Aitchison’s Cuboctahedral Generation of M24
Shown below are Aitchison's March 2018 M24 permutations
and their relabeling, with digits only, for MAGMA checking.
In the versions below, r g b stand for red, green, blue.
Infinity has been replaced by 7 (because a digit was needed,
and the position of the infinity symbol in the Aitchison cube
was suited to the digit 7).
(r7,r1)(b2,g4)(r3,r5)(r6,g0)
mu0= (g7,g2)(r4,b1)(g6,g3)(g5,b0)
(b7,b4)(g1,r2)(b5,b6)(b3,r0)
mu1 = (r7,r2,)(b3,g5)(r4,r6)(r0,g1)
(g7,g3)(r5,b2)(g0,g4)(g6,b1)
(b7,b5)(g2,r3)(b6,b0)(b4,r1)
mu2 = (r7,r3)(b4,g6)(r5,r0)(r1,g2)
(g7,g4)(r6,b3)(g1,g5)(g0,b2)
(b7,b6)(g3,r4)(b0,b1)(b5,r2)
mu3 = (r7,r4)(b5,g0)(r6,r1)(r2,g3)
(g7,g5)(r0,b4)(g2,g6)(g1,b3)
(b7,b0)(g4,r5)(b1,b2)(b6,r3)
mu4 = (r7,r5)(b6,g1)(r0,r2)(r3,g4)
(g7,g6)(r1,b5)(g3,g0)(g2,b4)
(b7,b1)(g5,r6)(b2,b3)(b0,r4)
mu5 = (r7,r6)(b0,g2)(r1,r3)(r4,g5)
(g7,g0)(r2,b6)(g4,g1)(g3,b5)
(b7,b2)(g6,r0)(b3,b4)(b1,r5)
mu6 = (r7,r0)(b1,g3)(r2,r4)(r5,g6)
(g7,g1)(r3,b0)(g5,g2)(g4,b6)
(b7,b3)(g0,r1)(b4,b5)(b2,r6)
Table 1 —
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
r 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
g 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
b 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
The wReplace program was used with Table 1 above
to rewrite mu0-mu6 for MAGMA.
The resulting code for MAGMA —
G := sub< Sym(24) |
(8,3)(20,14)(5,7)(1,10)
(8,4)(21,15)(6,1)(2,11)
(8,5)(22,9)(7,2)(3,12)
(8,6)(23,10)(1,3)(4,13)
(8,7)(17,11)(2,4)(5,14)
(8,1)(18,12)(3,5)(6,15)
G; |
The Aitchison generators passed the MAGMA test.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
The Zeitgeist Finger
(A title for Harlan Kane.)
Cartoon caption from The New Yorker issue dated Dec. 2, 2019 —
“Someday I’ll buy a little place in the country
and take my finger off the Zeitgeist.”
This (along with the previous post) suggests a Log24 search for Zeitgeist.
That search concludes, appropriately for today, with a meditation
on giving thanks.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
A Companion-Piece for the Circular Rectangle:
For the circular rectangle, see today's earlier post "Enter Jonathan Miller…."
A recent view of the above address —
Enter Jonathan Miller, with Circular Rectangle
The late Jonathan Miller on the existence of the soul:
"The idea of a disembodied person makes no sense
at all, any more than the idea of a circular rectangle
makes sense."
Business Models
Yesterday's post on a recent sci-fi film suggests a look at LA news . . .
From the LA Times Monday morning — “He was working at the Children’s Television Workshop, as the treasurer or something, and I felt that wasn’t an important enough job for him,” Fuchs said. “At that time, we were doing a lot of acquisitions so he was buying music and concerts from around the world. I once asked him how he liked it, and Frank said: ‘I don’t know. There are no answers in this business.’” Biondi is credited with helping establish the successful model of a premium subscription channel…. |
As opposed to an unsuccessful model —
See also "High Life" (from a post of April 1 this year) —
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira l’ennui.
Earlier posts now tagged Coup de Dés suggest a current film review:
Alea Iacta Est*
Saturday evening's post Diamond Globe suggests a review of …
Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24 —
* A Greek version for the late John SImon:
«Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος».
Monday, November 25, 2019
Sunday in Valhalla
Critic John Simon reportedly died at 94 on Sunday in Valhalla, N.Y. —
A search for Simon in this journal yields …
Wednesday March 10, 2004 — m759 @ 4:07 AM “Language was no more than a collection of meaningless conventional signs, and life could absurdly end at any moment. He [Mallarmé] became aware, in Millan’s* words, ‘of the extremely fine line
separating absence and presence, being and nothingness, life and death, which later … he could place at the very centre of his work and make the cornerstone of his personal philosophy and his mature poetics.’ “ — John Simon, "Squaring the Circle" * A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé , by Gordon Millan |
See also Cornerstone.
Far from Home
Peter Parker : How could you do all of this?
Quentin Beck : You'll see, Peter. People… need to believe.
From Sunday morning, a "green vault" hyperbolic paraboloid —
"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia
A related image —
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Hyperbolic Memorial
From "Back to the Saddle," a post of Nov. 23, 2010 —
"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia
See as well . . .
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Diamond Globe
An image from All Souls' Day 2010 —
This is from earlier posts tagged Permutahedron.
See also
Wallace Stevens:
A World of Transforming Shapes.
From that book (click to enlarge) —
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime.
Also from earlier posts tagged Permutahedron —
The Oboe Connection
For Harlan Kane —
“… We found,
If we found the central evil, the central good….
… we and the diamond globe at last were one.”
— "Asides on the Oboe," by Wallace Stevens
This post was suggested by a death on the night of
Friday, November 22 — St. Cecilia's Day.
For the oboe connection, see an obituary.
Plan 9 in a Cartoon Graveyard
In memory of Gahan Wilson, "too cool for school" —
Notes towards the Definition of Box Office
Salzburg Requiem
Porsche.com on Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who reportedly
died at 76 in Salzburg on 5 April 2012 —
"The credo of his design work was:
'Design must be functional and functionality has to
be translated visually into aesthetics, without gags
that have to be explained first.'
F.A. Porsche:
'A coherently designed product requires no adornment;
it should be enhanced by its form alone.'
The design’s appearance should be readily comprehensible
and not detract from the product and its function.
His conviction was: 'Good design should be honest.' "
See also last night's 11:32 PM post, and posts tagged Structural Logic.
Friday, November 22, 2019
For Faustus on 11/22
This flashback was suggested by today's essay
"The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus," by Andrew Marzoni.
Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu …
The Virgin Field:
Representing Schoolgirl Space
From a book reviewed in the April 1923
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society —
From a later book —
"Her wall is filled with pictures" — Chuck Berry
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The Secret Life of Walter Minton
For the late Walter J. Minton, publisher at G. P. Putnam's Sons …
"Walter graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey…."
— New York Times obituary, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019
See that school in the post Bloomsday Trinity of June 22, 2016.
After Rothko
RED
_____________________________________________________________________________
GRAY
______________________
Arya on Rothko
“Experience is the best teacher,” they say.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Game
Another game featured in the above film —
“In Wolfenstein 3D , the player assumes the role of an American
soldier of Polish descent… attempting to escape from the Nazi
stronghold of Castle Wolfenstein.” — Wikipedia
… See also this journal’s Wolfenstein.
The Harvest Conjecture
From Harvest Moon Day, 2019 —
From yesterday —
From St. Bridget's Day, 2012 —
See also Hermann Weyl and T. S. Eliot on time.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Fake Opinion from the New York Times
Transformers: Matt Damon as Max Schnell
Annals of Science Woo:
Impenetrability vs. Interpenetration
The previous post discussed impenetrability .
To give the opposing concept of interpenetration
a fair hearing, see . . .
More generally, see a search for interpenetration in this journal.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Euclid I.47 for Physicists
(And for Mustang Sally)
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.' Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. 'They've a temper, some of them — particularly verbs: they're the proudest — adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs — however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!' 'Would you tell me please,' said Alice, 'what that means?' 'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.' 'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone. 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.' |
Deep Beauty
From a Log24 search for Deep Beauty —
From a related search —
For the Church of Synchronology —
An image from this journal on the above Dick date, Feb. 9, 2011 —
E-Elements Revisited
The German mathematician Wolf Barth in the above post is not the
same person as the Swiss artist Wolf Barth in today's previous post.
An untitled, undated, picture by the latter —
Compare and contrast with an "elements" picture of my own —
— and with . . .
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Logic in the Spielfeld
"A great many other properties of E-operators
have been found, which I have not space
to examine in detail."
— Sir Arthur Eddington, New Pathways in Science ,
Cambridge University Press, 1935, page 271.
The following 4×4 space, from a post of Aug. 30, 2015,
may help:
The next time she visits an observatory, Emma Stone
may like to do a little dance to …
Red and Gray
Oh, the red leaf looks to the hard gray stone
To each other, they know what they mean
— Suzanne Vega, “Songs in Red and Gray“
Friday, November 15, 2019
Operators
Easy E
Not So Easy: E-Operators
"A great many other properties of E-operators
have been found, which I have not space
to examine in detail."
— Sir Arthur Eddington, New Pathways in Science ,
Cambridge University Press, 1935, page 271.
(This book also presents Eddington's unfortunate
speculations on the fine-structure constant.)
Lit for Damned Brats
A sequel to yesterday morning's Lit for Brats —
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Lit for Brats
From a search in this journal for Salinger —
“… the wind was noisy the way it is in spooky movies
on the night the old slob with the will gets murdered.”
— From the opening sentence of the first Holden Caulfield
story, published in the Collier’s of December 22, 1945
See as well the previous post.
Game
Rules for a game codesigned by Ellie Black, the cartoonist
of yesterday's post Cutting-Edge Prize —
Gropius Moritat…
… Continued from other posts so tagged.
"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
erfassen und gestalten?"
Another approach to changing the game —
See also a search here for a phrase related to
last night's Country Music Association awards
speech by Reba McEntire — "Rule the World."
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Cutting-Edge Prize
From November 13, 2005 —
Detail from a Log24 post of September 23, 2019 —
Cartoon by Ellie Black in The New Yorker , uploaded there on the above date.
Starlight Like Intuition
See the title phrase, by Delmore Schwartz, in this journal.
See also . . .
From Daniel Rockmore's CV — BOOKS, FILMS, EXHIBITS . . . . Concinnitas , a fine art print project with Parasol Press, Yale Art Gallery, and Bernard Jacobson Galleries. Openings at AnneMarie Verna Gallery (Zurich, SZ, Dec. 2014), Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland, OR, Jan. 2015), Greg Kucera Gallery (Seattle, WA, Jan. 2015), Yale Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, Jan. 2015). . . . . |
. . . and Concinnitas in this journal … as well as — related to a formula
from the Concinnitas project — "Thirteen??" by David Mumford.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Social Logic
Friday, March 10, 2017
The Transformers
|
Monday, November 11, 2019
Time and Chance
The misleading image at right above is from the cover of
an edition of Charles Williams's classic 1931 novel
Many Dimensions published in 1993 by Wm. B. Eerdmans.
Compare and constrast —
Cover of a book by Douglas Hofstadter
Seuil
The trailer pictured above is from the 2016 film Blood Father .
See as well the blood father of Wonderland's Alice:
For the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month
A Lexicon for Housman — See the posts of June 21, 2013.
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Housman and Ecclesiastes
From A.E. Housman's 1892 lecture in the previous post —
"In the day when the strong men shall bow themselves,
and desire shall fail…."
Today's readers may be less familiar than was Housman's 1892
audience with the source of those phrases —
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Wall
"Nor again will I pretend that, as Bacon asserts, `the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning far surpasseth all other in nature'. This is too much the language of a salesman crying his own wares. The pleasures of the intellect are notoriously less vivid than either the pleasures of sense or the pleasures of the affections; and therefore, especially in the season of youth, the pursuit of knowledge is likely enough to be neglected and lightly esteemed in comparison with other pursuits offering much stronger immediate attractions. But the pleasure of learning and knowing, though not the keenest, is yet the least perishable of pleasures; the least subject to external things, and the play of chance, and the wear of time. And as a prudent man puts money by to serve as a provision for the material wants of his old age, so too he needs to lay up against the end of his days provision for the intellect. As the years go by, comparative values are found to alter: Time, says Sophocles, takes many things which once were pleasures and brings them nearer to pain. In the day when the strong men shall bow themselves, and desire shall fail, it will be a matter of yet more concern than now, whether one can say `my mind to me a kingdom is'; and whether the windows of the soul look out upon a broad and delightful landscape, or face nothing but a brick wall."
– A.E. Housman, Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Latin,
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2016/01/ |
Hello, Mr. Chips
A geometric diagram by the late Andrew Jobbings (1951-2019) —
From a book review quoted here on the date of Jobbings's death —
"Dodge is eventually brought back to life, or a kind of virtual afterlife,
in the 'Bitworld' where he exists as ones and zeros. Initially inchoate,
Dodge’s mind evolves, along with the digital environment he creates
around him, a kind of information-age Genesis story that Stephenson
describes evocatively."
Friday, November 8, 2019
Perspective at the End
Glitch
The terms glitch and cross-carrier in the previous post
suggest a review —
|
For some backstory, see Glitch, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inscape —
particularly the post A Balliol Star.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
For Connoisseurs of Insane Fantasy
From a 1962 young-adult novel —
"There's something phoney in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten in the state of Camazotz."
Song adapted from a 1960 musical —
"In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happy-ever-aftering
Than here in Camazotz!"
Jagged Crest
"The man touched the white bishop, queen and king,
and ran his finger over the jagged crest of the rook.
Then, sitting down before the chess set owner could nod
his head, he made his first move with the white pawn."
— The late Stephen Dixon, "The Chess House," in
The Paris Review , Winter-Spring 1963 (early in 1963).
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Soul Snatchers
From All Souls' Day 2015 —
Related entertainment —
Invasion of the Soul Snatchers (Wild Palms review, 1993).
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
A Title for Harlan Kane: The Guilfoile Experiment
See Harlan Kane and Guilfoile in this journal.
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Non-Woo
Monday, November 4, 2019
Science Woo
Trudeau Revisited
Previously in Log24: Trudeau and the Story Theory of Truth.
More-recent remarks by Trudeau —
Bible Stories for Skeptics
Review
About the Author
Product details |
Log24 on the above publication date — July 6, 2014 —
Euclid Revisited
As Above, So Below*
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Kummerhenge: 200 Years
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~idolga/KummerOliver.pdf
is a preprint of an Oct. 10, 2019, talk by Igor Dolgachev —
Kummer Surfaces: 200 Years of Study.
The preprint is also available on the arXiv:
Sinatra Date
December 14, 2003, was the dies natalis
of actress Jeanne Crain.
Kate Date* Continues …
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 "I'm as friv'lous as a willow on a tombstone"
— Adapted from 1945 lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
* See the post with that title from October 31.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Plan 9 Continues.
"So, after summer, in the autumn air,
Comes the cold volume of forgotten ghosts,
But soothingly, with pleasant instruments,
So that this cold, a children's tale of ice,
Seems like a sheen of heat romanticized."
— Wallace Stevens,
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
The German title of "The Recruit" (released Jan. 31, 2003)
is "Der Einsatz." Its MacGuffin is "'Ice 9."
Friday, November 1, 2019
7 8 9 … Heaven Gate Vine
For the title, see Mnemonic and April 7, 2005.
Rules of Magic
Hofstadter’s Shadowland
“… I realized that to me,
Gödel and Escher and Bach
were only shadows
cast in different directions by
some central solid essence.
I tried to reconstruct
the central object, and
came up with this book.”
See also a search for Gresham Alley.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Kate Date
Last night’s post for Oct. 30 (Devil’s Night) displayed a dark side
of actress Kate Beckinsale.
On the brighter side: a date which will live in infamy —
December 7 —
A brighter side of Kate, as a nurse on Pearl Harbor Day —
Bright Passage, Dark Rite
" The subject is justified by its usefulness
rather than as a 'rite of passage.' ”.
— The late Martin Muldoon reviewing a book,
From Vector Spaces to Function Spaces:
Introduction to Functional Analysis with Applications ,
by Yutaka Yamamoto (SIAM, 2012)
Such an introduction is properly a rite of pure mathematics —
the passage in the title from vector spaces to function spaces.
That passage is one of mathematical beauty.
Usefulness is Hiroshima.
Muldoon reportedly died on August 1, 2019.
This journal on that date had a post titled
Different Meanings: For Whom the Bell .
The "Bell" in that post was the author of a New York Times book review.
I prefer a Stephen King bell —
56 Triangles
The post "Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu" of October 29 has been
updated with an illustration from the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator.
Related material — A search in this journal for "56 Triangles."
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Vampire Lore
Fans of non-Christian religions ( like Robert Thurman
in Too Cool for School? ) may enjoy the vampire
oeuvre of Kate Beckinsale —
The above is an image from a Log24
search for Square Inch Space.
Accomplished in Steps*
See also Harvard ex-president Faust on Hogwarts
and (like the above photo, also on Aug. 13) …
* See previous instances of the title in this journal.
Too Cool for School?
An article in Men's Journal on August 1, 2013 —
For the Church of Synchronology — This journal on August 1, 2013.
For The October Country
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Conceptual News
The New York Times reports this evening the
death of a Conceptual artist on October 19 —
Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu
There are many approaches to constructing the Mathieu
group M24. The exercise below sketches an approach that
may or may not be new.
Exercise:
It is well-known that …
There are 56 triangles in an 8-set.
There are 56 spreads in PG(3,2).
The alternating group An is generated by 3-cycles.
The alternating group A8 is isomorphic to GL(4,2).
Use the above facts, along with the correspondence
described below, to construct M24.
Some background —
A Log24 post of May 19, 2013, cites …
Peter J. Cameron in a 1976 Cambridge U. Press
book — Parallelisms of Complete Designs .
See the proof of Theorem 3A.13 on pp. 59 and 60.
See also a Google search for "56 triangles" "56 spreads" Mathieu.
Update of October 31, 2019 — A related illustration —
Update of November 2, 2019 —
See also p. 284 of Geometry and Combinatorics:
Selected Works of J. J. Seidel (Academic Press, 1991).
That page is from a paper published in 1970.
Update of December 20, 2019 —
Monday, October 28, 2019
Stuff
The Stuff of Legend —
Stronger Stuff —
For a third stuff — that which dreams are made of — see Mantilla.
D8ing
“There has never since been any serious question
that the event from which to date the founding of
Harvard College is this vote on October 28, 1636.”
— Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College
See also D8ing the Joystick (4/04 2018).
A Larger Truth
From an article on cybersecurity in today's new New Yorker —
Boback and Hopkins formed a corporation.
Hopkins came up with its name, Tiversa ,
a portmanteau of “time” and “universe.”
It was also an anagram of veritas : Latin for
“truth,” but scrambled.
Then there is …
vastier veritas —
Cipher Prequel*
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Cipher
"The postwar self became a cipher to be decoded."
— Nathaniel Comfort in Nature , PDF dated 10 October 2019
From a Log24 search for Temple of Doom —
Friday Night Lights
Entertainment from NBC on Friday night —
The above question, and Saturday morning's post on a film director
from Melbourne, suggest an image from December's Melbourne Noir —
(March 8, 2018, was the date of death for Melbourne author Peter Temple.)
Partial Recall*
* For the title, see Saturday morning's post
"Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade."
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Director’s Cut
The title was suggested by the previous post and by
the title illustration in the weblog of the director,
Leigh Whannell, of the 2018 film “Upgrade.”
Related visual details —
For the Church of Synchronology —
Related remarks: “The Thing and I.”
Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade
Friday, October 25, 2019
Facettenreiche Gestaltung
On the word Gestaltung —
(Here “eidolon” should instead be “eidos .”)
A search for a translation of the book "Facettenreiche Mathematik " —
A paper found in the above search —
A related translation —
See also octad.design.
Midnight 5×5
See as well this journal on the above FlixLatino date: Dec. 3, 2015.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Halloween Logos for MIT
From the end credits for a 2016 TV mini-series
based on the Stephen King novel 11/22/63 —
This post was suggested by the Oct. 22 post
Logos, by the Oct. 11 post Dick Date, and by
the Oct. 11 death of an MIT robotics professor.
Related tasteless humor —
A headline from the print version of the recent
technology issue of The New Yorker :
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Art-Historical Narrative*
"Leonardo was something like what we now call a Conceptual artist,
maybe the original one. Ideas — experiments, theories — were
creative ends in themselves."
— Holland Cotter in the online New York TImes this evening
From other Log24 posts tagged Tetrahedron vs. Square —
* Phrase from the previous post, "Overarching Narrative."
Overarching Narrative
In memory of a retired co-director of Galerie St. Etienne
who reportedly died on October 17 . . .
"It is… difficult to mount encyclopedic exhibitions
without an overarching art-historical narrative…."
— Jane Kallir, director of Galerie St. Etienne, in
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/
visual-art-and-design/269564/the-end-of-middle-class-art
An overarching narrative from the above death date —
See as well the previous post
and "Dancing at Lughnasa."
Philosophy in a New Key
(With apologies to Susanne K. Langer, née Susanne Katherina Knauth)
See too the buzzard-related Catch-22 song —