Log24

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Art Poem

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From "The Midrash Jazz Quartet Plays the Standards" —

“… and the song of love’s recision is the music of the spheres.”

— E. L. Doctorow,  City of God

(Quoted here on Dec. 20, 2020.)

Related imagery from Log24 on January 4, 2023

USA Art News

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The Ehrlich Date

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The previous post linked to a review by David Ehrlich of the film
"Dog Years," starring Burt Reynolds. The review was dated April 26, 2017.

Also on that date . . .

This post from 2017 deals with the mathematics of "diamond theory,"
an approach to models of finite geometry.

Related philosophy —

The "diamond theory" of truth, as opposed to the "story theory."
(See Richard Trudeau, The Non-Euclidean Revolution.)

For those who prefer the story theory, there is, for instance,
the novel City of God  by E. L. Doctorow —

"In the Garden of Adding 
Live Even and Odd…."

Art Tricks

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BOOOOOOOM Art

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Another Web debut by talented artist Marcela Nowak —

Trademark from shop.booooooom.com

Click the above profile for images of the art itself.

Related verbiage: 
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Spare+OOM"

Wind Over Water Revisited

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The Tempest

IMAGE- 'Wind over Water,' i.e. 'Feng Shui'

A tropical storm over Florida (lower left)
and a hurricane at Bermuda (upper right)
at 3:15 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003:

Wind over Water

as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.

“Wind over Water” in the I Ching,
the Classic of Transformations,
signifies huan, “dissolving.”

Dissolving:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i)

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The Playwright Upstaged by Her Play: “Bening and Howe”

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Links

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Monday, August 28, 2023

The Missing Links

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For the missing links?

The links page is still available on the Internet Archive.

Novel Engineering… for Quentin Tarantino

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Novel  Engineering:

“Ach du lieber August” — John O’Hara, Hope of Heaven

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"We stopped at the Trocadero and there was hardly anyone there.  We had Lanson 1926.  'Drink up, sweet.  You gotta go some.  How I love music.  Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca, ach du lieber August.  All languages.  A walking Berlitz.  Berlitz sounds like you with that champagne, my sweet, or how you're gonna sound.'"

— John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, Chapter 11, 1938

"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."

— Acts, Chapter 2, Verse 4

"Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the

PARIS,
1922-1939."

— James Joyce, conclusion of Finnegans Wake

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Shadow Work* for Alcoholics

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:23 pm

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

* See that phrase in this  journal.

Sacred Texts: Warp and Woof

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This  journal on sacred texts yesterday (International Dog Day) —

“Diamond Theorem” Search Result

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Click to enlarge.

For the Midnight Garden: 
Hexagram 61 Revisited

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See Hexagram 61 in this journal.

Saturday, August 26, 2023

New Game

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Maureen Dowd in her New York Times  column this morning —

" As Audrey Hepburn said in 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s' 
after she tangled with the law, 'There are certain shades
of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.' "

And certain shades that can improve it . . .

Game Over

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In memoriam:

Other recent posts tagged with a Three Dog Night song title.

The Barrymore Line

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See as well this  journal on April 1, 2021.

Jing

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The previous post suggests a reading:

"The Chinese word for 'sacred texts' is jing  經, a character
having its etymological origin in textiles. The first meaning
of this character denotes the fixed lead thread or warp of cloth,
insofar as the weft threads are woven into warp threads to
make a fabric. Its extended meaning referes to authority,
orthodoxy, and the essential way toward truth and principle." 

— Page 497, Yanrong Chen,  "Christian Biblical Tradition in 
the Jing Chinese Culture," Oxford Handbook of the Bible 
in China
, edited by K. K. Yeo, Oxford U. Press, 2021.

See as well the non-Chinese word "symplectic" in this  journal.

For the Church of Synchronology

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Art Blocks  in the previous post

"… making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component" . . .

From this  journal on the above art date — April 6, 2021 —

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Annals of Educational Temptation:

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Ever Witch Way

Friday, August 25, 2023

On the Night Road from Marfa

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"I’m really interested in exploring space."

New Yorker  cover artist for the Aug. 28, 2023, issue.

Related cinematic  art . . .

From a search in this journal for Nocturnal —

For some Bright Art Blocks Moments , see Cube Epiphany .

“Good morning, heat dome . . . .”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:29 am

The title is an adapted song lyric from "Hair."

Windows Programming

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From a 1949 Orson Welles film, "Black Magic" —

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Fresh-Cull Vermilion

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"It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure

Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,

And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground."

— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .

The red of the watermelon eaten on the cover of the
August 28, 2023, New Yorker  is  RGB (240, 57, 53) — 
Cinnabar Red, also known as Vermilion.

For related poetic remarks, see a post of Leap Day 2004 .

Color Space

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Arriving in today's mail: The New Yorker.

Online context for the cover art —

"I’m really interested in exploring space."

Colorful Tale

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Stars at Noon: Fia Buckles Up

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Jungian Meditation: Plato and the Craft

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Song lyric — "Away out here they got a name for wind and rain and fire."

Plato quote — "One, two, three but where is the fourth?"

Miss Earth — "I'm here for all  of the witches."

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Agnes Martin… Cha-Ching!

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"… JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the enigmatic
abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin.
She is drawn to
the contradictions in Martin’s life as well as her art—the soft
and exacting brushstrokes she employs for grid-like compositions
that are both rigid and dreamy." 

See as well Agnes Martin in this  journal.

Art Song For Enola Holmes

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   "My love is a flame . . . ." — Sting

Note the mudra .

Beginning My 81st Year . . . Exploring Color Space

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From the 12 AM Aug. 23, 2023, film at TCM …

See also Chaplin-related remarks in the previous post.

A related scene from April 1, 2023 . . .

Palatinate Purple

Promises, Promises: The Overthinking

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    "What do you get when you fall  in love?" — Song lyric

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The Lying

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Hymn for Her

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The Meeting:  Princess Charming

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"Hazel rolls up to this meeting in short shorts and boots."

"He is very charming here." . . . . As is Jena Malone here and here —

The Developing  (El Revelado)

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Earlier in this journal, from other posts tagged Revelado :

Monday, August 21, 2023

The Orb and the Band

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Art Song:  “… And They Call the Wind Pariah”

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Update …

"Here are 3 brands building on the blockchain…"

  "Way out west they have a name for rain and wind and fire …."

https://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/
theycallthewindmariahlyricschords.html

They Call The Wind Mariah
Recorded by Jim Ed Brown
written by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe

C                 Am              C                 Am
Way out west they have a name for rain and wind and fire
    C                Am                  F        G7   C
The rain is Tess the fire's Joe and they call the wind Mariah
                 Am               C                 Am
Mariah blows the stars around and sets the clouds a-flying
  C                 Am                F     G7            C
Mariah makes the mountains sound like folks up there were dying

Am      Em
Mariah  Mariah
     F        G7     C
They call the wind Mariah

              Am               C                  Am
Before I knew Mariah's name or heard her wail and whining
  C                 Am             F       G7     C
I had a gal and she had me and the sun was always shining
             Am                  C                     Am
And then one day I left that gal I left her far behind me
    C                   Am            F    G7      C
And now I'm lost I'm so darn lost not even God can find me

Am       Em
Mariah  Mariah
     F        G7     C
They call the wind Mariah

                 Am             C             Am
Out here they’ve got a name for rain wind and fire only
    C                Am                  F        G7       C
And when you're lost and all alone there ain't no word for lonely
                Am             C                 Am
Well I'm a lost and lonely man without a star to guide me
  C            Am           F    G7         C
Mariah blow my love to me I need her here beside me

Am      Em
Mariah  Mariah
     F        G7     C
They call the wind Mariah

Art Benchmarks

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Sunday, August 20, 2023

In Memory of an LA Artist — “A Vertical Band of Color”

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From an LA Times obituary for an artist
who reportedly died on July 30 —

"In his abstract paintings, he often returned to
the image of the atomic bomb, through
a recurring motif of an orb hovering
in a vertical band of color."

— BY ANA IWATAKI   AUG. 18, 2023 10:08 AM PT

A Songline* for Alpert and Moss (A&M Records)

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* For the term "Songline," see (for instance) a post of June 10, 2022.

A Tune for FUBAR

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Drunkard’s Dream  Continues.

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From a search in this journal for Babylon . . . 

— and Toorop with Aurora —

Art Appreciation: A Star at Noon

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Instagram message

12:01 PM ET Sunday, August 20, 2023

You replied to their story

Song and Dance:  Your singing is pretty… to watch…
but your DANCE drives me wild with lust. https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/
17853878273230949/

Vermeers, Interrupted

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The Little Mushroom Song

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"Weep, all you little rains,
  Wail, winds, wail,
  All along, along, along

  The Psilocybin Trail."

The Big Apple Song

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   "Good lookin', so refined . . . ."

See also April 19, 2003.

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Speak, Memory: The Jewel in Ray Houchins’s Lotus

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:21 pm

"Does the name 'Coulter' mean anything to you?"

See as well this  journal on 07/19/2021, the Lotus-page date above. 

Working Blue:  Dialogue for a Showbiz Wedding

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"Would you like me to suck you off while driving?"
"I'd love it, darling, but you better keep your eyes on the road."

The Seventh Like

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For Esmeralda

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See also . . .

A Year for Magical Thinkers

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See the posts of August 19, 2022.

Annals of Magical Thinking: The Shuttering

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"Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks announced campgrounds
closures from noon Saturday through at least Tuesday and preemptively
shuttered several roadways." — Los Angeles Times  yesterday

Landings

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One of the scenes from "Spencer" shows a Christmas weigh-in
at Sandringham with a staircase, and landing, in the background.

Another landing — On the staircase between the first and second
floors at Skillmans in Bemus Point, NY, where in a summer not too
many years ago I saw displayed a copy of Dorm Room Feng Shui .

I ordered this book online and enjoyed it when it arrived.

On the cover is a 3×3 array of images, with the caption "You are here"
in the center square.

Interpret this as you will.

Jena Malone’s Really Nice Dance

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Some lines from "Psychedelic Love," a song in
the album "New Truth" (2020), by Jenny O.

I went and saw my sister friend
Told her I been compromising
And I would like a psychedelic love
I will give all day long

She says, "Here's a piece of paper
      and a really nice pen
Write it down, read it out, tell me
      what it says, baby."

These lyrics, and the accompanying music, were presented
not in writing, but in dance, by Jena Malone in her Instagram
highlight "Dance revolt."

Friday, August 18, 2023

Emergency Management: The View from the East Coast

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This evening, I prefer a West  Coast view . . .

  Detail of an art video by Marcela Nowak, Log24, August 11, 2023

Double Feature — The Front Page/His Girl Friday

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Core Values

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From posts tagged The Drill Imperative

Related material —

Desilu Drumpad and the All-Day Heart-On

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“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers  is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”

— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 

A Country Song For the Talented Jena Malone

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"She's turning me on, turning me on
Pushing my buttons like it ain't no thing
If I'm what she wants, she gets what she wants
The neon's buzzing when she pulls that string"

— https://genius.com/Blake-shelton-turnin-me-on-lyrics

Jena Malone in "Lorelei" (2020) —

Lines from the above "Lorelei" scene —

Wayland — "You've been busy."

Dolores — "Yep."

Photography for Bicoastal Lovers

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Earlier, above some other bodies of water . . .

The Tempest

IMAGE- 'Wind over Water,' i.e. 'Feng Shui'

A tropical storm over Florida (lower left)
and a hurricane at Bermuda (upper right)
at 3:15 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003:

Wind over Water

as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.

“Wind over Water” in the I Ching,
the Classic of Transformations,
signifies huan, “dissolving.”

Dissolving:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i)

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Marcela with Red Riding Hood

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If she said "Eat my dust!" I would be tempted.
 

And then there is Pullman . . .

The Serbian Gambit

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:49 pm

See also this  journal on August 9.

Language Game for a Baker’s Wife (Pace Sondheim)

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From a 1984 film,  "2010: The Year We Make Contact" —

Russian — "Piece of pie."
American — "Cake. Piece of cake."

This brief dialogue was suggested by the phrase
"Pineapple Upside-Down Cake," which in turn was
suggested by an image and a dance from the Instagram
page of the talented Jena Malone:

The Elderbrook Palette

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"Every shade I choose is intentional, chosen to evoke specific feelings within those who view my work. Blue strokes embody tranquility, a gentle touch that calms the nerves like a whispered secret. Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion, inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions. And then there’s orange — a hue that signifies intelligence, dedication, activity, and enthusiasm — a palette of emotions waiting to be explored." — Marcela Nowak

Update of 1:18 PM ET August 17, 2023 —


From the current version of the above tweet —



Detail: E-Shapes


Related tunes

E is for Energy.

“Catch a falling star . . . .” — Song Lyric

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Ann Harlow's tattoo offering —

Ready

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Statement from the family of music man
Jerry Moss, who reportedly died yesterday
at 88 —

“They truly don’t make them like him anymore
and we will miss conversations with him about
everything under the sun,” the statement reads
in part, “the twinkle in his eyes as he approached
every moment ready for the next adventure.”

Twinkle, twinkle, Jena Malone . . .

Gathering Moss

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"Formed in 1962, Alpert and Moss’ A&M (named after their initials)
label’s quarter-plus century run included some major blockbuster
albums, including Carole King’s Tapestry, Peter Frampton’s Frampton
Comes Alive!
, and Alpert’s own Whipped Cream & Other Delights."

— BY ALTHEA LEGASPI  August 16, 2023 

See as well "Report from Clouded Mountain" (Log24, June 8, 2023).

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Oppenheimer… Evan, not Robert

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:32 pm
 

From an Evan Oppenheimer 2011 film script,

"The Speed of Thought."

https://www.scripts.com/script.php?id=the_speed_of_thought_18645&p=3

. . . .

Do not worry, it's an easy technique.

Okay.

Right. Look at your feet.
Now, focus on them. See them well.
Put light on them.
Now go up through your body
and keep the focus.

Now is better.

If we open ourselves to each other,
things will get easier.

What is this?

It's something we do very much.
Knock down our walls
and we merge in our heads.
We learned everything about each other.

Everything?

It may be that we do not like
long after that…
but at least
we'll understand.

And then there is the Quick and Dirty method . . .

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Before, Behind

Tags:  — m759 @ 12:43 PM 

The Underwriting . . . Continues.

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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection,
and on his own terms, not anyone else's."

— Written by J. D. Salinger ( as quoted earlier here )

For Mellevold and Brody*

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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection,
and on his own terms, not anyone else's." — Franny and Zooey

* See previous post.

A Lullaby from Gretel

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“Once in a Lullaby” — Song Lyric

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See as well "Hum a few bars."

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

For Styx4639

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:11 pm

See also …

“You’ve got skills!” — Line from a Tom Cruise film

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See also a video discussing Hexagram 58 — and the month of May, 2021. 
Related material — Cultural remarks from May 2021 in this  journal.

Politics and the English Empire

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:48 am

Claves Regni

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For adults, there is  a quite literal version of this motto,
starring Uncle Harry, Uncle Jack, and the lovely Ann Harlow.

“Would you stay if she promised you heaven?” — Stevie Nicks

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:21 am

 Related material —

The “Heavenly City” is perhaps not Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Recall as well Jean Simmons preaching the Foursquare Gospel
in the 1960 film classic “Elmer Gantry” —

Military Time

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:15 am

"datePublished":"2023-08-15T03:14:25.000Z"

03:14:25 Zulu time is 23:14:25 EDT.

Monday, August 14, 2023

The Palette

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Some art prose I like —

"Every shade I choose is intentional, chosen to evoke specific feelings within those who view my work. Blue strokes embody tranquility, a gentle touch that calms the nerves like a whispered secret. Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion, inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions. And then there’s orange — a hue that signifies intelligence, dedication, activity, and enthusiasm — a palette of emotions waiting to be explored." — Marcela Nowak

A related meditation — "Follow the girl who follows a dream.

In Hoc Signo: The Eberstadt Legacy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:49 pm

"My mother, the late Isabel Nash Eberstadt,
was the daughter of the poet Ogden Nash."

Hometown Obituary

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The Underwriting

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"Another opening, another show." — Cole Porter

An Artist on Her Art

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Marcela Nowak on her art. 'datePublished':'2023-08-12T20:17:16.091Z'

This new Medium page inspired me to create my own.

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Social-Lite Artist

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World Class Structural Analysis

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Annals of Numerology:  “Hey, Ninety-Eight Point Six”

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This post is in memory of a "photographer of socialites and artists."

Hand Jive

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"Mirrors on the ceiling . . ." — "Hotel California"

Before, Behind

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Anatomy for Manic Pixies

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Saturday, August 12, 2023

“On a Dark Desert Highway…”

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Manic Pixie Song*

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* For the title and the color, see last night's "Drunkard's Dream" post.
  Happy birthday, Cara Delevingne. 

Falling in Lust Again

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"All publicity is good." — Saying from the previous post.

Except when it isn't . . .

Compare and contrast —

Art …

Reality …

"Falling in lust again, can't help it." — Adapted song lyric.

The Bored Panda Saga Continues: Bicoastal!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:38 am

Related entertainment —

For Jodie Foster and the Late Robbie Robertson —
“A Drunkard’s Dream If Ever I Did See One”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:42 am

'Innocence,' a porn film starring Ann Harlow

"Another day, another couch." — Marcela Nowak

Marcela

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:24 am

Friday, August 11, 2023

Art Conflict:  Wall Moss versus Line of Beauty

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:29 pm

The New York Times  on an artist who reportedly died yesterday —

The background wall art below is not unlike Marden's Moss Sutra

Model: Tyffany Million

Some will prefer the fore ground of the above image,
which is closely related to the art term "line of beauty."

Entertainment for Escher

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:59 pm

Other Amalfi Coast scenes —

"Dabo claves regni caelorum" — 1986 Cullinane poem

And for Jamestown New York's National Comedy Center —

The Latin Club Gang: "We put the 'sex' in sextets!"

Drifting

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:46 pm

 

… in his book “Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican’s Challenge to His Party,” Mr. Whalen detailed his disappointments with Nixon, including his pledge in March 1968 to end the Vietnam War, presumably swiftly, if President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t end it by the end of the year.

“This promise, implying a plan to fulfill it, splashed across the front pages and brought the reporters and TV crews rushing back to the Republican side of the New Hampshire campaign, eager for details,” he wrote. “There weren’t any. Nothing lay behind the ‘pledge’ except Nixon’s instinct for an extra effort of salesmanship when the customers started drifting away.”

"Gimme the beat boys and free my soul . . . ."

For the late Brice Marden, Painter . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:48 pm

From a Log24 post of March 19, 2019 —

'Sincerity, order, logic and clarity above all' — Italian rationalist architecture philosophy.

Caption for the National Comedy Center —

   "Getting a little behind in your reading?"

First-Wife Advice

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:10 pm

Some unsolicited, but good, advice this afternoon
from my first  wife —

"Forty-two percent of reviews on Amazon are fake."
(Brandishing a July 4 copy of Consumer Reports ).

Related image  . . .

…230811-Marcelanow-Amazon-box-
MADE_WITH_LESS_MATERIAL.jpg

"Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel spin." — Song Lyric

"I love you Mony Mony . . . ." — Another song

Related art from http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=104669 —

Couch and Davenport

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:21 pm

Related material:

1 Corinthians 13 and…

The Midnight Special —

Guy Davenport's Midnight Special

Iconic

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:55 pm

Social media control panel —

Anti-social media control panel —

Pictures for an Art Director

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:42 pm

"You show me your control panel and I'll show you mine."

"Where past and future are gathered" — T. S. Eliot

Dimensions  for a Coachella Valley Girl

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:23 pm

…230811-Palm_Springs-IMDb-soundtrack-song-500wide-373deep.jpg —

Like Decorations for  Strange Fruit

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:45 pm

The title combines phrases from Wallace Stevens and Billie Holiday.

Illustration, from an image linked to in the previous post

Related images . . .
See June 19th of this year.

Beechwood Aged

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:45 pm

"The lost lane-end into heaven" — Thomas Wolfe

"Come on . . . ." — Cristin Milioti

Some Cartoon Graveyards are Better than Others.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:29 pm

Gentlemen Prefer . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:55 am

Lyrics for Damnation Morning*

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

"I viewed the morning with much alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm."

* Vide  that phrase in this journal.
"A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."

Garden Party

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:29 am

"Pardon me.  J'adoube.

— The Consul as he fastens his fly in Malcolm Lowry's classic
novel, Under the Volcano , the Garden of Eden scene.

I, on the other hand, adobe.

Musical accompaniment . . .

"Sleight of hand and twist of fate . . . ." — "With or Without U"

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Lines and Shadows  (title taken from Wambaugh)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:24 pm

Lines

"Listen to the wind blow, down comes the night
Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies"

— Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain"

Shadows

Related YouTube and Log24 date:  Sept. 27, 2018 —

“Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me…” — Robbie Robertson

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:53 pm

"Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one"

Shadow Work

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:14 pm

Colorful Prose

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:32 am

From April 1 … "The Color Out of Nevermore" —

Palatinate Purple

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Arty Facts Meditation:  Not So Together.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:56 pm

Commentary on the "Yellow Submarine" song "All Together Now" —

Related tune from The Pretenders —

Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Stephen King Intelligence Test

Tags:  — m759 @ 4:41 PM 


Related images —

See also other posts tagged Arti Facts.

Related reading for posh toffs —

https://www.chronicle.com/article/darkness-visible .

Waiting for the Low-Hanging Fruit

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:23 pm

How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.

Mary Gaitskill's latest substack meditation —

"I am thinking of Susan Sontag, writer, philosopher,
political activist and some-time pain in the ass;
she went to Sarajevo during the siege in order to
put on a theatrical production of Waiting for Godot. 
She didn’t get paid and none of the actors did either.
They rehearsed in the dark and performed by sparse
candlelight . . . ."

"How many  bananas ?"

"Drei . . . or else Vier ."

See also the comedy writers of  Elsevier

Ethical Barbenheimer:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:23 pm

G-Spot Author and Oppenheimer at Ethical Culture School

Related reading —

The Junction Function

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:27 pm

A function (in this case, a 1-to-1 correspondence) from finite geometry:

IMAGE- The natural symplectic polarity in PG(3,2), illustrating a symplectic structure

This correspondence between points and hyperplanes underlies
the symmetries discussed in the Cullinane diamond theorem.

Academics who prefer cartoon graveyards may consult …

Cohn, N. (2014). Narrative conjunction’s junction function:
A theoretical model of “additive” inference in visual narratives. 
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society
, 36. See https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2050s18m .

Getty Images

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 am

J. Paul Getty and Minotaur, according to Hollywood —

Getty Images and the "Cubic Stone"

Getty Images —

https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/news-photo/
freemasonry-cubic-stone-masonic-symbol-news-photo/535802541

See also the previous post and . . .

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