Huffington Post this morning, noting that
today is the birthday of Henri Matisse:
"On this most holy of art holidays…."
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Spiel ist nicht Spielerei
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Core
JOSEFINE LYCHE
ABSOLUTE ALT. VOL. 2
17. april – 23. mai [2015] —
"I kjernen av mitt arbeid er en pågående
utforskning av esoteriske konsepter…."
"At the core of my work is an ongoing
exploration of esoteric concepts…."
See also
http://issuu.com/tmrk/docs/spritenkunsthall_2015_cut .
Related material: Hard Core.
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The Well Runs Dry
From the obituary of a two-time Oscar winner,
Luise Rainer, who reportedly died today at 104 —
Her oft-repeated account of her last meeting
with [producer Louis B.] Mayer is the stuff of
Hollywood legend.
"Louis B. sent for me and said, 'I understand
that you want to leave us?' I said, 'Yes,
Mr. Mayer, my source is dried out,'" she said.
"He looked at me and he said, 'What do you
need a source for? Don't you have a director?'"
— Claudia Luther in the Los Angeles Times
See also "Would you like some water?"
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An Education
AP Today in History
Thought for the Day:
“I respect faith, but doubt is what
gives you an education.”
— Wilson Mizner,
American playwright (1876-1933)*
From this journal on the (wide) release date
of "X-Men: First Class" —
A minimalist 3×3 matrix favicon—
This may, if one likes, be viewed as the "nothing"
present at the Creation. See Jim Holt on physics.
* A source —
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Revolution of Forms
In memory of Cuban architect
Ricardo Porro, who died
on Christmas Day, 2014:
See also Rubik + Revolution
and Launched from Cuber.
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The Source
Bogus religion from a bogus "research lab" —
|
Journal of Scientific Exploration,
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research "… Consequently, the inferred models of reality are limited to those substances, processes, and sources of information that constitute conventional contemporary science. In this paper we ally ourselves with the sharply contrary position that there exists a much deeper and more extensive source of reality, which is largely insulated from direct human experience, representation, or even comprehension. It is a domain that has long been posited and contemplated by metaphysicians and theologians, Jungian and Jamesian psychologists, philosophers of science, and a few contemporary progressive theoretical physicists, all struggling to grasp and to represent its essence and its function. A variety of provincial labels have been applied, such as 'Tao,' 'Qi,' 'prana,' 'void,' 'Akashic record,' 'Unus Mundi,' 'unknowable substratum,' 'terra incognita,' 'archetypal field,' 'hidden order,' 'aboriginal sensible muchness,' 'implicate order,' 'zero-point vacuum,' 'ontic (or ontological) level,' 'undivided timeless primordial reality,' among many others, none of which fully captures the sublimely elusive nature of this domain. In earlier papers we called it the 'subliminal seed regime,' (2,3) but for our present purposes we shall henceforth refer to it simply as the 'Source.' "* References:
2. Jahn, R. G., & Dunne, B. J. (2001). A modular model of mind/matter manifestations (M5). Journal of Scientific Exploration , 15(3), 299–329. Note: * This assortment of contexts, labels, or models should not be regarded as mutually exclusive or hierarchical; nor are they isomorphic to one another. Rather, they represent different perspectives on the same basic search, and hence should be respected as collectively complementary. Where they reinforce one another, or display common features, this may indicate some degree of basic insight. Where they disagree on details, testable hypotheses may present themselves. |
This was quoted approvingly in a recent book by
Joseph Jaworski, Source (Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
1st ed. Jan. 11, 2012, pp. 2-3).
Jaworski, a lawyer-turned-guru,
in 1980 founded a cult for executives
called the American Leadership Forum.
A synchronicity cult I prefer —
the Roman Catholic Church:
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Dodecahedron Model of PG(2,5)
Recent posts tagged Sagan Dodecahedron
mention an association between that Platonic
solid and the 5×5 grid. That grid, when extended
by the six points on a "line at infinity," yields
the 31 points of the finite projective plane of
order five.
For details of how the dodecahedron serves as
a model of this projective plane (PG(2,5)), see
Polster's A Geometrical Picture Book , p. 120:
For associations of the grid with magic rather than
with Plato, see a search for 5×5 in this journal.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
A Christmas Carol
See also Sagan Dodecahedron, which includes
an image posted at 12 AM ET December 25, 2014:
The image stands for the
phrase "five by five,"
meaning "loud and clear."
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Tyson’s Cosmos
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Cube of Ultron
The Blacklist “Pilot” Review
"There is an element of camp to this series though. Spader is
quite gleefully channeling Anthony Hopkins, complete with being
a well educated, elegant man locked away in a super-cell.
Speaking of that super-cell, it’s kind of ridiculous. They’ve got him
locked up in an abandoned post office warehouse on a little
platform with a chair inside a giant metal cube that looks like
it could have been built by Tony Stark. And as Liz approaches
to talk to him, the entire front of the cube opens and the whole
thing slides back to leave just the platform and chair. Really?
FUCKING REALLY ? "
— Kate Reilly at Geekenstein.com (Sept. 27, 2013)
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Saturday, December 27, 2014
Hopefully
The previous post, More To Be Done, quotes an
opera lyric by physicist Lisa Randall :
The opera, about a physics of hidden dimensions,
may of course be given a theological spin —
See Hope of Heaven in this journal.
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More To Be Done
The Ball-Weiner date above, 5 September 2011,
suggests a review of this journal on that date —
"Think of a DO NOT ENTER pictogram,
a circle with a diagonal slash, a type of ideogram.
It tells you what to do or not do, but not why.
The why is part of a larger context, a bigger picture."
— Customer review at Amazon.com
This passage was quoted here on August 10, 2009.
Also from that date:
The Sept. 5, 2011, Ball-Weiner paper illustrates the
"doily" view of the mathematical structure W(3,2), also
known as GQ(2,2), the Sp(4,2) generalized quadrangle.
(See Fig. 3.1 on page 33, exercise 13 on page 38, and
the answer to that exercise on page 55, illustrated by
Fig. 5.1 on page 56.)
For "another view, hidden yet true," of GQ(2,2),
see Inscape and Symplectic Polarity in this journal.
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Friday, December 26, 2014
Thursday, December 25, 2014
The Interview
Or: Entartete Kunst für Max .
Rail: You speak about your friendships with Mike Nichols and
Steve Martin, and I can understand the affinity in your sense
of timing, of knowing what to include and what to leave out.
Fischl: I had the great privilege the other night actually of
having dinner with Mike and Steve after looking at a workshop
that Steve and Edie Brickell are doing. Afterward we sat
around a table and Steve was asking for feedback because he is
still early in the process….
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
More-Nuanced Realities
This evening's NY Times wire:
Mabee reportedly died on December 18, 2014.
The cover of Harvard Design Magazine , Spring/Summer 2014:
See also Sigla (Dec. 22, 2014):
"Everyword for oneself but Code for us all."
— James Joyce in Scribbledehobble
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Stoicheia*
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Monday, December 22, 2014
Sigla
Or: Chessboard continued
"Time is irrelevant in these matters.
Joyce and the monastic brethren who
painted their manuscript ornaments
a thousand years ago were working on
the same project. There was a pattern
to be abstracted…."
— Adolf Holl, The Left Hand of God
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Wicked
"She made me laugh a lot. She had a wicked
sense of humour and could be devastatingly funny."
— Film director Edgar Wright on the late Billie Whitelaw
Update of 11:01 AM — See Omen.
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Ornaments
"How often in the course of a lifetime
is the third eye, our organ for detecting
the hidden luster of the front door key,
capable of opening? Up to now, this has
not been investigated. And why should it be?
One single time is enough, and then
all the cold shark eyes of the world
start to look a touch friendlier.
Time is irrelevant in these matters.
Joyce and the monastic brethren who
painted their manuscript ornaments
a thousand years ago were working on
the same project. There was a pattern
to be abstracted from the confused mesh
of tangled lines that was the reality
of the world, a pattern that would have
staying power, a pattern to which one could
say Yes. Every now and then a work
succeeded in accomplishing such a task,
and the heavens opened once more.
On February 2, 1922, for example…."
— Adolf Holl, The Left Hand of God
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Party On
Related material: This morning's NY Times obituaries—
Scully reportedly died on Dec. 16, 2014.
See that date in this journal —
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Dark Fields*
A date in the previous post suggests a flashback to March 11, 2014,
and a post on that date titled "Dark Fields of the Republic"—
This uncredited translation of Plato is, Google Books tells us,
by “Francis MacDonald Cornfield.” The name is an error,
but the error is illuminating —
* See posts mentioning the novel with that title, republished as Limitless.
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Gullible’s Travels
The President of the United States
on the Sony hacking
in his Dec. 19 press conference:
"But let’s talk of the specifics of what we now know.
The FBI announced today and we can confirm that
North Korea engaged in this attack. I think it says
something interesting about North Korea that they
decided to have the state mount an all-out assault
on a movie studio because of a satirical movie…."
This post was suggested in part by the contemptibly
misleading remarks of Carl Sagan in his "Cosmos"
TV series (see yesterday's Colorful Tale) and by the
following remarks in a Presentation Zen piece dated
March 11, 2014, "More Storytelling Lessons from 'Cosmos',"
praising Sagan's vulgarizations —
"Good storytelling causes the audience to ask questions
as your narrative progresses. As the storyteller you can
ask questions directly, but often a more interesting approach
is to present the material in a way that triggers the audience
to come up with the questions themselves. And yet we must
not be afraid to leave some (many?) questions unanswered.
When we think of a story we may think of clear conclusions
and neat, clear endings, but reality can be quite a bit more
complicated than that."
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Friday, December 19, 2014
Turing’s Church
This post was suggested by the book Turing's Cathedral and by
comments 29 and 31 on Scott Aaronson's Dec. 16 post about
"The Imitation Game."
See Church-Turing thesis at Wikipedia and Church Logic here.
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