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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Framed

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:55 pm

Related reading: "Frame Analysis" in this  journal.

Update of Monday, May 31, 2021 —

For connoisseurs of bullshit —

"… it would have made for a memorable
photograph, the image preserved within
he confines of a four-by-six-inch print."

— Lincoln Perry on a remembered scene
in "If You Frame It Like That," an essay in
The American Scholar  dated March 2, 2020,
linked to today at Arts & Letters Daily
(A website whose motto is VERITAS ODIT
MORAS ,  "Truth hates delay").

And then there is non-bullshit about a
four-by-six frame —

Bullshit addicts pondering the meaning of the letter "Q" may consult
"Q is for Quelle ," "Q is for Quality," and this journal on the above
American Scholar  date — March 2, 2020.

Prestige . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:56 pm

Continues.

For Cruella: All About Yves

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:45 pm

The full last name of Yves Saint-Laurent was Mathieu-Saint-Laurent.

See as well Mystery Box and Box759.

Saturday, May 29, 2021

The Perineal Philosophy

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:36 pm

The conduits  of the previous post suggest a review —

Friday, May 28, 2021

Way

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:31 pm

Local  news on that same day — Jan. 11, 2016 —

The Whole-Object Notion

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:54 pm

Ars Technica , Lee Hutchinson — 

We represent things in the world with words, and once you know that words represent concrete things, it's a short jump to realizing that words can represent abstract things, too.

Symbolic representation isn't necessarily straightforward, either. "A philosopher named Quine had this notion," she said. "If you're out in the field with somebody, and they point and say 'Gavagai!' and you look and you see a rabbit running through the field, you assume that gavagai  in their language means rabbit . But how do you know it doesn't mean 'brown,' or 'tail,' or 'leg,' or 'fur'—"

"Or, 'Look at that!'" I said.

"Yeah, all of this other stuff is present, but we have this whole object notion," she said. "We have a notion of what constitutes a distinct object, and we assume that the word corresponds to that whole object as a default. Would the alien have that notion?"

See as well posts tagged Books as Objects.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

The Only Pretty Ring Time

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:12 pm

BuzzFeed News: "Posted on May 27, 2021, at 12:01 p.m. ET" —

"… to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."

Appraisal

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:37 pm

The Four  Posters

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:26 pm

         Diamond arrangement of the four elements

and   

Logo by Steven H. Cullinane for website on finite geometry

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Heavy Metaphor

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:51 pm

Earlier posts that are also tagged "Points Omega" suggest some 
context for a May 19 New Republic  illustration.

      x → -1/x
 

  See as well
"Flowers and Brown."

The Senator from Central Casting

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:10 am

From the above obituary —

"A debonair Virginian, Mr. Warner was sometimes called
the senator from central casting; his ramrod military posture,
distinguished gray hair and occasionally overblown
speaking style fit the Hollywood model." — Carl Hulse

Related material — The previous post and . . .

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Jersey Hymn

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:44 am

An upload from Good Friday, 2019 —

"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?' 
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."

— Discussion of the 2000 TV movie version in
Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby 

Correction to the midrash: 

Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,

"That must be the corpse."

Jersey girls are tough.

A Separatrix for McCormack

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:59 am

The McCormack of the title is the current owner
and editor-in-chief of The New Republic .

Note the separatrix  between
Stoppard and Nichols.

Related cleavage art —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08A/080801-Puzzlement.png

— http://xkcd.com/457/

Alternate title: Art for Suckers.

Monday, May 24, 2021

Frontiers of Minimal Art

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:46 pm

"… Denis fashioned a minimalist chamber
that derives eroticism from its sparseness."

— HuffPost  on April 11, 2019

That remark describes a film, "High Life,"
that stars Juliette Binoche.

Binoche, along with other minimalist art, appeared here
in the post "The Triangle Induction" on May 11, 2021 —

The logo of a news site that yesterday 
[i.e., May 10, 2021] 
covered a Colorado Springs story:

Related material: 

From a 2014 review, remarks by a noted minimalist sculptor
who reportedly died at 85 on the above date … May 11, 2021.

I personally prefer remarks by Munari —

For the Church of Synchronology:

This  journal on the above HuffPost date — April 11, 2019.

For Doctor Manhattan

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:33 am

"Omega is as real  as we need it to be." — The Osterman Weekend

See also related material in The New Yorker  and the National Review .

Review

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:02 am

From the cover of a 1971 book of stories by Zenna Henderson —

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From Frame Tale (Oct. 1, 2013) —

Twenty-four Variations on a Theme of Plato

From Log24 posts tagged Aitchison —

"Has time rewritten every line?" — Streisand

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Hillbilly Geometry: Circle in the Square

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:42 am

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Hillbilly Space News

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:28 am

(Continued from the previous two posts.)

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

Friday, May 21, 2021

Thinking Outside . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:56 pm

(A sequel to yesterday's afternoon post, "Outside the Box")

Heavy date?  Use the pickup!

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Outside the Box

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:56 pm

For Eliza Doolittle Day

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:28 am

Hope

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:11 am

From a story about the May 2017 un-cancellation ot "Timeless" —

"The nation’s only hope is an unexpected team. . . ."

As often happens.

Dirda Dancing

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:48 am

See Dirda in this journal.  See also . . .

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

For the Monuments Men

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:08 pm

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Supporting Actor

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:38 pm

Nelson’s Monument

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:28 am

See as well . . .

http://cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/64.html .

This post was suggested by an Arts & Letters Daily  link today to . . .

https://placesjournal.org/article/
the-filing-cabinet-and-20th-century-information-infrastructure/ .

A particularly notable filing cabinet:

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Bella+Vista+cabinet .

An Architecture Saint

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:21 am

"Art Gensler, an architect and entrepreneur who
turned a small San Francisco architecture firm
into one of the largest in the world, with projects
spanning the globe, died on May 10 at his home
in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 85."

— Gillian Friedman in The New York Times
     on May 17, 2021

Gensler: "The book I have written, Art’s Principles , is oriented
toward those leading and running a professional practice.
I hope it finds a home in the Cornell library."

— https://www.gensler.com/blog/q-a-with-art-gensler

The Cornell library appeared in a webpage quoted here
on May 10, the date of Gensler's reported death —

Related material — Some library architecture I visited yesterday.

Friday, May 14, 2021

In Memory of Ernst Eduard Kummer

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:33 pm

(29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893)

See as well some earlier references to diamond signs here .

The proper context for some diamond figures that I  am interested in
is the 4×4 array that appears, notably, in Hudson's 1905 classic 
Kummer's Quartic Surface . Hence this post's "Kummerhenge" tag,
suggested also by some monumental stonework at Tufte's site.

User Registrations

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:06 am

User registrations at this weblog have now been disabled.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

New Code Link

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:39 am

Notes on finite geometry
by Steven H. Cullinane:

m759.github.io is the URL
for the displayed  website.

A release of the site's GitHub code
now has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) —

DOI

(http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4759217)

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