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As between "No Land" and "No. Land."

See also Conceptualist Minimalism.

The previous post illustrated 
"Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard."

A search for Psychonauts in
this journal yields …

In other news …

From "In the Park with Yin and Yang" (May 10, 2017) —

Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard

In Memoriam —

See 4x4x4 in this journal.  See also …

For the title, see Icon Parking in a search for 54th  in this journal.

For related iconic remarks, click on either image below.

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This post was suggested by the Dec. 30, 2016, date of the
death in Nuremberg of mathematician Wolf Barth.  The first
image above is from a mathematics-related work by
John von Neumann discussed here on that date.

See also Wolf Barth in this journal for posts that largely
concern not the above Barth, but an artist of the same name.
For posts on the mathematician only, see Barth + Kummer.

The corner being turned in the previous post
is formed by the south wall of a Christian Science
church at 1776 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles.

For a related Christian Science meditation, see …

"At a visual level a trick is played" —

Or:  Annie Hall Revisited — 

Air date:  January 5, 2017.

For other philosophical remarks from the first eight days of 2017, see
posts now tagged Conceptualist Minimalism.

Related material:  See March 14, 2017, and the 2007 film Waitress .

Continuing the 1984  theme …

More about 1984 from the above May 1, 2016, post —

Jung's self-symbol —

A meditation on Jung's self-symbol —

From The Hollywood Reporter  today —

" Jeremy Irons' dry Alfred Pennyworth:
'One misses the days when one's biggest concerns
were exploding wind-up penguins.' "

See as well the today's 9 AM (ET) post and …

The author —

In memory of Doris Lessing and Clancy Sigal —

". . . along with [R. D.] Laing they formed 'a circle
of almost incestuous mutual influence . . . .' "

— Sam Roberts, The New York Times , July 21 obituary of Sigal

"Thus I would wish to emphasize that
our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often
the abdication of ecstasy,
the betrayal of our true potentialities,
that many of us are only too successful
in acquiring a false self
to adapt to false realities.

But let it stand.
This was the work of an old young man.
If I am older, I am now also younger."

— R. D. Laing, London, September 1964,
preface to the Pelican edition of 
The Divided Self: An Existential Study
in Sanity and Madness  (Penguin Books, 1965)
 

"My Back Pages," by Bob Dylan, Verse 3 —

Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Un-thought of, though, somehow

[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

— From an album released August 8, 1964

"The story is  the message."

— The Last Bling King 

(by Mike Hockney, ch. 44)

A Log24 search suggested by a webpage*
of the World Economic Forum (the Davos group) —

Snow Mann.

*

(Continued)

See also Log24 posts on and just after the date of Eder's demise.

A phrase of baroque weariness —

"Pull it … Surprise!"

"In 1906, after 20 years of artistic works, and at the age of 44,
Hilma af Klint painted the first series of abstract paintings." — Wikipedia

"The reason, therefore, that some intuitive minds
are not mathematical is that they cannot at all
turn their attention to the principles of mathematics.
But the reason that mathematicians are not intuitive
is that they do not see what is before them, and that,
accustomed to the exact and plain principles of
mathematics, and not reasoning till they have well
inspected and arranged their principles, they are lost
in matters of intuition where the principles do not
allow of such arrangement. They are scarcely seen;
they are felt rather than seen; there is the greatest
difficulty in making them felt by those who do not
of themselves perceive them."

— Blaise Pascal,  Pensées

* Title suggested by a French remark of July 3, 2017

The above image, posted here on March 26, 2006, was
suggested by this morning's post "Black Art" and by another
item from that date in 2006 —

A search for posts in this journal on the actress Ellen Page
in the film "Inception" was suggested by Bastille Day (today),
by her character's name, Ariadne, and by the concluding image
of the previous post —

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That search yielded the following image …

… which in turn suggests a "loop" back to this date last year —

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The New York Times  seems to prefer another sort of black art.
A 9 AM illustration from the Times Wire this morning is a misleading
attempt at humor that links to a very  dark poem —

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See also Hexagram 61 in this journal.

Sure you don't.

See also Ageometretos  and
tonight's previous post.

For Indiana Langdon and the Harvard Foundation —

"The kenning was extensive." — Frank Budgen

Quoted here from Vogue   on August 17, 2013 —

See also Stations of the Clock.

See Phase One in earlier posts.

Darker views —

See also this journal on Feb. 15, 2017 —

"For Your Consideration."

Related item from Arts & Letters Daily today —

"The Occult Roots of Modernism," by Alex Ross,
in the June 26, 2017, issue of The New Yorker .

A related illustration —

"Deutsche Ordnung." — Yul Brynner
  in the 1966 film "Triple Cross"

"The heart of the doctor's show is a magic mirror that allows
those who go through it to experience another dimension of
their own minds. Once inside, people choose for good or evil,
opting for — to give one example — either the difficult but
rewarding heights of Mt. Parnassus or the easy pleasures of
Mr. Nick's Lounge Bar. As the doctor angrily puts it when asked
what he's playing at, 'We don't play, what we do is deadly serious,' 
which means nothing less than the eternal battle with the devil
for the spirit of man."

— Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times  film critic, Christmas Day 2009,
reviewing "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."

In terms that might interest the late museum director of the previous post …

Quoted here from The New Criterion  on June 2, 2017 —

Quoted here from The New York Times  on June 1, 2017 —

MoMA’s Makeover Rethinks the Presentation of Art

"The new design calls for more gallery space and a transformed
main lobby, physical changes that, along with the re-examination
of art collections and diversity, represent an effort to open up MoMA
and break down the boundaries defined by its founder, Alfred Barr.

'It’s a rethinking of how we were originally conceived,' Glenn D. Lowry,
the museum’s director, said in an interview at MoMA. 'We had created
a narrative for ourselves that didn’t allow for a more expansive reading
of our own collection, to include generously artists from very different
backgrounds.'"

In memory of a museum director who reportedly died on May 19, 2017 —

See also posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.

Related material — Street View   (Log24, Dec. 11, 2015).

From an Anthony Lane movie review in the April 8, 2013,
issue of The New Yorker —

"When the Lord God forbade his worshippers to bow down
before any graven image, [Rosario] Dawson’s face was
exactly the kind of thing He had in mind. No other star can
boast such sculptured features—except Vincent Cassel,
who is pretty damn graven himself. When the two of them
make love, in 'Trance,' one strong bone structure pressed
against another, it’s like a clash of major religions. What if
they had a family? The kids would be practically Cubist."

As for the other film Lane reviewed in that issue, "Blancanieves" —

See Snow White + Cube in this  journal.

See as well a related cartoon graveyard, also from April 8, 2013.

See Lukasiewicz in this journal.

The title is from a Beatles song. See a link to 2008 in the previous post.

Harmonic Analysis for Illiterates —

Notes and Frequency Ratios

The second editor mentioned below reportedly died
on June 21, 2017.  A page in his memory —

See also "Detail for Hopkins" in this journal on June 21.
For a Maori finale, see "De Haut en Bas " (July 11, 2008).

"Do do that voodoo . . . ." — Cole Porter

This post's title was suggested by a new novel,
"The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." . . . .

. . .  and by the concepts of

synchronicity  and  diachronicity  

in music.

Related reading for Harvard Summer School (click to enlarge) —

Joke question from the 2013 film "Her" —

"What does a baby computer call its father?"

Answer for Harvard Summer School —

"Department of Diachronic Operations."

Imagekind —

Seerkind —

This post may be regarded as a sequel to the post Dream Girls (Oct. 5, 2013).

* Title suggested by my viewing last night "Revenge of the Fallen,"
   no. 2 in the Transformers  series.  That film reportedly opened
   on this date eight years ago.

Click image for a midrash.

* See previous post.

(Continued)

Excerpt from the above story —

"The project could also be a new frontier for Mr. Koons.
'It’s superconceptual,' said Judith Benhamou-Huet,
a French art critic and blogger, in that 'he’s giving
the concept but not the realization.' She compared
the approach to that of Sol LeWitt, who sold wall drawings
that buyers then executed on their own."

— Rachel Donadio

See also the previous post and Rota on Beauty.

* A reference to Truly Tasteless Jokes , by Blanche Knott
  (Book 1 of 11, Ballantine Books paperback, May 1985, page 50).

Today’s New York Times  on a character in a 1978 film —

“Cluelessly upbeat and charmingly idiotic.”

Related material from a post Saturday —

Coda —

See as well this  journal on the above date — Sept. 24, 2015.

(The title is from yesterday morning's Graphical Interfaces.)

"What were you expecting to see in here, Meeno?"

The diamond theorem in Denmark —

From the current New Yorker —

I prefer Wallace Stevens. See posts tagged Thomas Jensen Hines.

Actually, that should be sister  (so Leopardi).

Related material —

Exercise — Translate "cardinal interplay."

Related material — Language animal in this journal.