In memory of Theodore Sturgeon, Leonard Nimoy,
and William Thomas McKinley —
From the Boston Modern Orchestra Project today :
"In a good way"
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Logical Loop
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Elegy with Stars
This evening's New York Times —
"William Thomas McKinley, a prolific American composer
whose music was infused with the jazz he had performed
since childhood, died on Feb. 3 at his home in Reading,
Mass. He was 76.
He died in his sleep, his son Elliott said."
"William Thomas McKinley: Elegy for Strings (2006)
[Elliott McKinley]
137 views as of 9:45 PM ET Feb. 28, 2015
Published on Feb 11, 2015
Composed as an elegy and tribute for friends and family
that have passed, spurred by the passing of McKinley's
long time friend, drummer Roger Ryan. The performance
heard here is by the Seattle Symphony under the direction
of Gerard Schwarz.
Photos by Elliott McKinley (Rho Ophiuchi nebula complex…
and the Pleiades…) shot at Cherry Springs State Park."
Related material from the date of McKinley's death —
Expanding the Spielraum.
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Recycled Religion
The previous post's Kirkridge link leads to
a mention of religious philosopher Parker J. Palmer.
From an Utne Reader page on Palmer:
See also Theodore Sturgeon's 1949 story "What Dead Men Tell"—
"… He’d read about it in a magazine or somewhere.
He took a strip of scrap film about eighteen
inches long and put the ends together. He turned
one end over and spliced ’em. Now, if you trace
that strip, or mark it with a grease pencil, right up
the center, you find that the doggone thing only
has one side!”
The doctor nodded, and the girl said:
“A Möbius strip.”
“That what they call it?” said Hulon. “Well, I figured
this corridor must be something like that. On that
strip, a single continuous line touched both sides.
All I had to do was figure out an object built so that
a continuous line would cover all three of three sides,
and I’d have it. So I sat down and thought it out…."
— and the following mathematical illustration —
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What Dead Men Tell*
"I thought I had an important idea.
It's part of a … call it a philosophy,
if that doesn't sound too high-
falutin'," he said.
"It's a philosophy," she said.
"We can call things by their names."
Leonard Nimoy, 2015 :
"A life is like a garden.
Perfect moments can be had,
but not preserved, except in memory."
* A tale from Astounding Science Fiction
Vol. 44, No. 3, November 1949
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Friday, February 27, 2015
Fighting Chance
"Give faith a fighting chance." — Country song
"The proof uses modal logic, which distinguishes
between necessary truths and contingent truths."
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Stranger than Dreams
For a former president of Notre Dame
who reportedly died at 11:30 PM last night —
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— The end of DeLillo's Point Omega
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Nicht Spielerei
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A Simple Group
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App News
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer makes pitch to app developers
By Matt O'Brien
mobrien@mercurynews.com
POSTED: 02/20/2015 06:12:32 AM PST
"Mayer described the conference as a 'forkpoint'
in Yahoo's evolution toward a stronger mobile
presence and a chance to share with independent
developers some of the fruits of Yahoo's recent
growth. It also helps Yahoo leave its mark, and its
ads, on an entire network of apps not developed
by the company."
See also yesterday's post on the film "App."
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A Coldbed of Activity
A followup to the Feb. 24 10 PM ET post
on the new researchers' site InvenZone:
A screenshot as of 10:46 AM ET today—
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Brit Award
"The Brit Awards are… the British equivalent
of the American Grammy Awards." — Wikipedia
Detail of an image from yesterday's 5:30 PM ET post:
Related material:
From a review: "Imagine 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
set in 20th-century London, and then imagine it
written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies
but in Dante and the things of the spirit, and you
might begin to get a picture of Charles Williams's
novel Many Dimensions ."
See also Solomon's Seal (July 26, 2012).
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Words and Images
The words: "symplectic polarity"—
The images:
The Natural Symplectic Polarity in PG(3,2)
Symmetry Invariance in a Diamond Ring
The Diamond-Theorem Correlation
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AI News
The New Yorker —
Artificial Intelligence Goes to the Arcade
BY NICOLA TWILLEY
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Sort Of
From a Jan. 8, 2015, review of the 2013 Dutch film "App"—
"It is sort of like the old cult favorite 'Electric Dreams'…."
"Digital security is not static."
— Statement today from the Dutch SIM card maker Gemalto
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Where Entertainment Is God (continued)
The Cumberbatch Conundrum
A quote from Benedict Cumberbatch in this journal
on Nov. 15 last year:
"… this film’s been up my ass
for the last five years.”
The quote, in connection with today's previous post,
suggests a check of this journal five years ago.
The check yields a paper at the new research site InvenZone.
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Amy’s After-Party
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Monday, February 23, 2015
For Katy Perry
See also this journal on the date of Mr. Howard's death:
"Mark my words
This love will make you levitate
Like a bird"
— Katy Perry, "Dark Horse"
“It’s the Super Bowl, I guess,”
Michael Keaton said in the first minutes
of ABC’s official Oscar red-carpet special."
— Hallie Cantor in the online New Yorker today
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Symbolic Poetry*
“When life itself seems lunatic,
who knows where madness lies?”
— Man of La Mancha
Perhaps the late Sidney Lumet?
The setting for the Sidney Lumet film "Deathtrap" (1982)
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
Sermon
“Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers,
not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.” ― Max Lüthi
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Backstory
" Some works are less visually striking
than infused with a kind of symbolic poetry.
Is a good backstory enough to make
a compelling work of art? "
— "The Meaning of Art? It's Complicated" —
Sarah Moroz yesterday on a Paris exhibition
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
High and Low Concepts
Steven Pressfield on April 25, 2012:
What exactly is High Concept?
Let’s start with its opposite, low concept.
Low concept stories are personal,
idiosyncratic, ambiguous, often European.
“Well, it’s a sensitive fable about a Swedish
sardine fisherman whose wife and daughter
find themselves conflicted over … ”
ZZZZZZZZ.
Fans of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche know she has
valiantly struggled to find a high-concept approach
to the diamond theorem. Any such approach must,
unfortunately, reckon with the following low
(i.e., not easily summarized) concept —
The Diamond Theorem Correlation:
From left to right …
http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140824-Diamond-Theorem-Correlation-1202w.jpg
http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140731-Diamond-Theorem-Correlation-747w.jpg
http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140824-Picturing_the_Smallest-1986.gif
http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140806-ProjPoints.gif
For some backstory, see ProjPoints.gif and "Symplectic Polarity" in this journal.
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Friday, February 20, 2015
Conceptual Art
See High White in this journal.
Related material:
The Astoria Column
on Coxcomb Hill,
Astoria, Oregon
See also a tale from today's Daily Astorian
(click the AP link in Parks and Recreation) and…
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"McArthur and McArthur in Oregon Geographic Names (2003, Oregon Historical Society) states: '… Coxcomb Hill, Clatsop. This is the summit of the ridge south of Astoria, between the Columbia River and Youngs Bay. The compiler has been unable to learn who first applied the name. The spelling used is the customary form applied to court fools and jesters who wore an imitation coxcomb, and were frequently called coxcombs. …'" |
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