Log24

"So, there is one place
where modernism triumphs.
As in the cases of the pyramids
and the Taj Mahal, the Siegfried line
and the Atlantic wall, death always
 calls on the very best architects."
 – J. G. Ballard,
"A Handful of Dust"

Daily Globe  Meets  Daily PlaNet

Office scene from "Spotlight," a 2015 film about The Boston Globe

Detail of the above office scene 

A photo from the Web of Mount Baker and Bellingham WA 
that may or may not match the "Spotlight" picture's location.

Update of 1 AM on March 3, 2016 —

A much better match for the "Spotlight" office picture is this image of
Mount Illimani and La Paz, Bolivia, from dreamstime.com. 

From the screenplay for the 2015 film "Spotlight" —

Related material —

The death today of an Irish actor noted for a British sitcom:

Frank Kelly, Father Ted's foul-mouthed priest, dies aged 77.

This time it's personal.

"Mr. Clark's designs built a bridge … ."
— The New York Times  today on a computer designer
who reportedly died on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016.

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From Log24 on the reported date of Mr. Clark's death —

The previous three posts —

• A Manifesto for Mira
• Putting the Globe in Global
• Back to the Blackboard

​— suggest a review of a post from April 11, 2015:

Michael Starbird on Mathematics —

In Starbird's philosophical fable, the "fifth element" is change .
See also the recent post White Mischief.

See spotlightthefilm.com.

From the February 2016 article in the previous post —

"Over a century has passed since the publication,
in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro  on 20 February 1909,
of a frontpage article by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti which
came to be known as the Manifesto of Futurism ."

This suggests a review of the 20 February 2009  posts now tagged

"A Modernist Manifesto ."

"The Manifesto of Futurism  Revisited" —     

Related material — "Manifesto" in this  journal — 
                                 more specifically, "Manifest O."

The phrase GET SPIKED BY EMAIL* above suggests a review of
"Something in the Way She Moves" and "Marissa and the Dropbox."

See also …

Marissa Mayer, not amused —

* "Get spiked in your inbox every Friday for free."

A death on George Washington's birthday —

Memorial cinematic storyboard —

Plan 9

From a New York Times  obituary today —

"The Rev. Fernando Cardenal, a son of privilege
who embraced Latin America’s poor as a revolutionary
priest and brazenly defied Pope John Paul II’s order to
quit Nicaragua’s leftist cabinet in the 1980s, died on
Saturday in Managua. He was 82."

Photo caption from the same obituary —

"Fernando Cardenal in 1990. As education minister of
Nicaragua under the Sandinistas in the 1980s, he
oversaw a sweeping campaign credited with reducing
illiteracy to 13 percent from 51 percent."

This alleged literacy improvement makes him sound like
a Protestant  revolutionary.

For a Catholic  view of literacy, see The Gutenberg Galaxy .

See also the post Being Interpreted (Aug. 14, 2015) — 

An interview in Smashpipe  today
deserves a Smiley award.

Related material:  "Paul Winchell" in this  journal.

From a post of Christmas Eve, 2012 —

"Mephistopheles is not your name…" — Sting lyric

"You see, technically, chemistry is the study of matter,
but I prefer to see it as the study of change :

Electrons change their energy levels.
Molecules change their bonds.
Elements combine and change into compounds.

But that's all of life, right? It's the constant, it's the cycle.

It's solution, dissolution. Just over and over and over.

It is growth, then decay, then transformation! .

It is fascinating, really."

— Walter White, Season 1, Ep. 1, "Pilot"
more or less as quoted in huffingtonpost.com

See also Gestaltung  in this journal.

"Bing Bang, I saw the whole gang." — Bobby Darin

"We're entering Weimar, baby." — Peggy Noonan

"It's there for the weight, dear." 

Continues, in memory of author Harper Lee.

For some structures, see Logo and Windows.

"Have you ever thought about
 the properties of numbers?"

 — "The Maiden" in Shaw's
 Back to Methuselah , quoted in
 the Fritz Leiber Changewar  story
“No Great Magic” (1963), Part V

See a Log24 search for Leiber + Properties.

"I could a tale unfold…" — Hamlet's father's ghost

Or not.

The following Log24 excerpts are from a noted mathematician's
recent date of death, and the preceding date.

Track listing

1. "Dirty Laundry" (Henley, Danny Kortchmar) – 5:36
2. "The Boys of Summer" (Mike Campbell, Henley) – 4:45
3. "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" (Kortchmar) – 4:28
4. "Not Enough Love in the World" (Henley, Kortchmar, Benmont Tench) – 3:54
5. "Sunset Grill" (Henley, Kortchmar, Tench) – 6:22
6. "The End of the Innocence" (Henley, Bruce Hornsby) – 5:14
7. "The Last Worthless Evening" (John Corey, Henley, Stan Lynch) – 6:05
8. "New York Minute" (Henley, Kortchmar, Jai Winding) – 6:34
9. "I Will Not Go Quietly" (Henley, Kortchmar) – 5:41
10. "The Heart of the Matter" (Campbell, Henley, J.D. Souther) – 5:21
11. "The Garden of Allah" (Corey, Paul Gurian, Henley, Lynch) – 7:02
12. "You Don't Know Me at All" (Corey, Henley, Lynch) – 5:36
13. "Everybody Knows" (Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 6:10

(Continued)

Michaelmas 2004

Johnny Cash*  Meets  Fritz Leiber**

*  "You can run on for a long time…"

** See Spider + Snake in this journal.

"Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie." — Pascal

(Quoted here in The Search for Finite Space on Mon., Feb. 8, 2016.)

From phys.org today —

See also posts from the above date on The Zen Ideal .

Continued from Self-Awareness 
and Master Class …

See also last night's "Blacklist" post.

"You can run on for a long time." — Johnny Cash

"Arnold H. Lubasch, who covered crime and the courts
for The New York Times  for more than 30 years and
later wrote a biography of the actor and civil rights
activist Paul Robeson, died on Friday [Feb. 5, 2016] 
in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 83." 

— Daniel E. Slotnik in The New York Times  tonight

Related soundtrack lyric —

Air date:  January 14, 2016.

See also "The Martian" posts and a post from
the reported date of Cooper's death.

Backstory:  Posts tagged Space Writer.

"Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie." — Pascal

Stealth (the movie) and Stealth (the Super Bowl ad)

See also "Intruders."

"Sports may be the place in contemporary life
where Americans find sacred community most easily."

— All Things Shining , the conclusion

Or Bolivia —

Backstories — Natural Hustlers.

"Nature generally wins in the end."
— Wikipedia on Saki

For a related story, search the news.

See also Greek mythology in a post of Jan. 31, 2016,
and Upsilon in this journal.

* For the relevance of the title to the
   above spaces, see Seven-Cycles.

Wikipedia on a George Clooney film released yesterday —

"The studio's major production is Hail, Caesar! ,
an epic set in ancient Rome and starring Baird Whitlock
(Clooney). During a shoot, Whitlock drinks from a goblet
of wine drugged by an extra; he passes out behind the
soundstage and is abducted. A ransom note soon arrives,
written by a group calling itself 'The Future' and demanding
$100,000, which Mannix arranges to have paid. Whitlock
awakens in a beach house and finds his way into a meeting
of The Future, a Communist cell. The members explain their
doctrine to him, and he begins to sympathize with their cause."

See also this morning's post Space Program:

"Bad news on the doorstep…." — American Pie

An article yesterday at Re/code was titled

Why Google’s Artificial Intelligence Boss
Is Taking Over the Search Empire.

Related material from Log24 a year ago today —

(Continued from Jan. 29)

For a literary tigress —

The image reproduced below was
revisited here on January 27, 2016.  
That date was the reported date of death
for another literary tigress.

Continued from January 18, 2005 —

See Lili Anolik, "Tiger of the Week," in Princeton Alumni Weekly  
on April 29, 2015, and this journal on that date.

(This post was suggested by the following sentence
by Anolik in Vanity Fair 's current Hollywood issue —

"I think that for the city of Los Angeles,
Didion is the Ángel de la Muerte.")

An originally French-Canadian professor of mathematics
at Villanova University reportedly died at 91 on Dec. 28, 2015.

See a eulogy from Legacy.com.

See also The French Mathematician  and the following image,
related to the architectural philosophy of Christopher Alexander,
from this journal on the above date.

Related material:

Remarks on philosophy and architecture at Villanova.

From yesterday's 2 PM post —

From "Inception" —

Paraphrase of remarks by "Inception" director Christopher Nolan
at Princeton on June 1, 2015 —

"If you have built castles in the air, 
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau