Log24

(A sequel to Raum  and  Zeit )

See also Christmas Eve, 2012.

“It’s going to be accomplished
in steps, this establishment
of the talented….”

— To Ride Pegasus , by
Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe ’47)

( A sequel to Raum )

The author reportedly died on August 14, 2014. See a post from that date.

“Bryan Cranston won an Emmy for lead actor in a drama series Monday…”

“Tu es le pianiste….” — Log24 post 641

Two images from posts tagged ‘Objects of Beauty‘ —

“And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense….”

Related material:  March 20, 2013.

(Continued)

See Shadowlands in this journal.
The film so titled was directed by Richard Attenborough,
President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,
who reportedly died on Sunday, August 24, 2014.

“Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE
(… 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor,
film director, producer and entrepreneur. He was the President of
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).” — Wikipedia

A song for those who prefer the red path: Abracadabra.

Meets Clark Gable —

Signifying Nothing.

(The title is from a post of July 8, 2010.)

“What is important is the ability to tell stories through character.”

— Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander  series of novels

An image from the bottom line of images in the previous post:

In memory of Scottish folk singer Jean Redpath,
who reportedly died on Thursday, August 21:

See also this journal on August 21.

The bottom three lines of an image search:

For a meditation on the bottom line, see Mary Gaitskill’s story
“The Agonized Face.” See also George C. Scott reciting from
the Scottish play in The Exorcist III.

Image search for “symplectic structure” + “35 lines” —

Click for larger (2.5 MB) image.

See Madeleine + Folded.

An illustration (click to enlarge) —

Related material: Posts from the above upload date, 10/1/10.

(As opposed to an alleged bearer  of lux  .)

(Here “eidolon” should instead be “eidos.”)

An example of Gestaltung :

This journal on the day of Feininger’s death, and the day before —

The 256 Code (Thursday, July 7, 2011) and Nordstrom-Robinson Automorphisms.

In memory of one who sent in the clowns:

See also Plan 9 in this journal, as well as Saturday’s posts.

To Feb. 11, 2012:

“News and Traffic. Sports and Weather. These were his acid terms
for the life he’d left behind, more than two years of living with
the tight minds that made the war. It was all background noise,
he said, waving a hand. He liked to wave a hand in dismissal.”

— DeLillo, Don (2010-02-02), Point Omega 

Send in the Clowns.   (Click to enlarge.)

The above flashback was suggested by Lev Grossman’s verb “trafficked”
in yesterday’s posts, and by the song lyric “show us the way to
the next little girl.”

In memory of a Manhattan real-estate developer
who reportedly died on August 9, 2014 —
a post from that date a year earlier.

Click on the Tower for further details.

“Mr. Ryckmans translated, into English, the ‘Analects,’
the collection of sayings attributed to Confucius.”

— A New York Times  obituary this evening

See also this morning’s post on Confucius.

A prequel to today's noon post

Rosalind Krauss in "Grids" —

"The physical qualities of the surface, we could say,
are mapped onto the aesthetic dimensions of
the same surface. And those two planes—
the physical and the aesthetic— are demonstrated
to be the same plane…. the bottom line of the grid is
a naked and determined materialism.”

A writer I prefer:

Barsotti's classic illustrated:

The naked and determined Annette Bening in "The Grifters" —

“. . . the bottom line of the grid is a naked and determined materialism.”

— Rosalind Krauss, quoted by Josefine Lyche

See also http://www.dailymotion.com/video/
x164rmi_britt-ekland-nude-wicker-man-1973_people.

Robin Williams and the Stages of Grief

A weblog post from Jan. 25, 2014 (click image to enlarge)—

Clues for a Mystery   (Click links for more details)—

Clue 1:  A June 11,* 2014, math death.

Clue 2:  The answer is a surname.

Midrash for Will Hunting:

See Nanavira Thera at Wikipedia and space notes from September 2012.

* According to a (perhaps inaccurate) math department.
June 10, according to other sources cited by the department.

“The Pope’s visit to South Korea is the first part of a very intelligent
opening to Asia,” said Lionel Jensen, associate professor of East Asian
Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame.
— Madison Park, CNN this morning

A not-so-intelligent opening —

“Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius
was invented by Jesuit priests? In Manufacturing Confucianism,
Lionel M. Jensen reveals this very fact….”

— Duke University Press

For some background, see an Atlantic Monthly  article from 1999,
“Confucius and the Scholars,” by Charlotte Allen.

Continues…

Update of 9:29 PM ET (Click to enlarge.) —

Adapted from a Facebook page.

Welcome to the Ape Stuff.

Continued from June 5, 2003.

Complete the sentence: “The son of a bitch stole my _______. ”

“Something in your eyes I see
Soon begins bewitching me”

“In 1977, Golan directed Operation Thunderbolt….”

— Hollywood Reporter  obituary

* See a search for Lightfoot  in this journal.

“… which is our actual experience” — Joan Didion

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

In memory of radio personality Steve Post,
a link to some remarks on the date of his death.

“This is a divorce case that was before us on an earlier occasion.”

Wild:

From the director of The Wild Bunch —

Brady:

From The New York Times —

Dialogue from “The Osterman Weekend”—

01:57:22  “Why did he make us try to believe Omega existed?”
01:57:25    ….
01:57:26  “The existence of Omega has not been disproved.
01:57:28  Don’t you understand that?
01:57:31  Omega is as real  as we need it to be.”

See also Omega elsewhere in this journal.

Update of 9:15 PM ET —

• “Jung’s archetypes transgress the barriers of time and space.”
  — From a passage quoted by Fritz Leiber in “The Oldest Soldier,”
  Fantastic,  May 1960
• “… as if they had opened a door and stepped into another dimension
  full of the potentialities of any dimension not immediately calculable.”
  — Wallace Stevens, Bard College speech,  1951
• “Break on through to the other side.”
  — The Doors, 1967

Today’s previous post quoted a professor of English at Bard College.

Related material:

Horwich reportedly died on July 21, 2014.

For a different perspective on smart art, see the Log24 posts of April 2013.

Continued from the Facebook-related post of February 4, 2014:

In related news at the website of the
American Mathematical Society today:

Multimillion-Dollar Minds

“The Multimillion-Dollar Minds of 5 Mathematical Masters,”
by Kenneth Chang, ran in the New York Times  on June 23, 2014.
The piece reports the award of $3 million “Breakthrough” prizes….
The prizes are financed by Yuri Milner, “a Russian who dropped out
of graduate studies in physics and became a successful investor in
Internet companies like Facebook,” and Mark Zuckerberg,
the founder of Facebook….

Related material:  Requiem for a Cat  (March 27, 2012).

“Break on through to the other side” — The Doors