Saturday, September 30, 2023
"As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity
to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience,
The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories one inside the other,
rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine."
— Amazon.com description of a novel published on All Souls' Day
(Dia de los Muertos), 2021.
See also the underlying symbolic structures of Boolean functions . . .
as discussed, for instance, on Sept. 23 at medium.com —
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Some less esoteric café alternatives … the ".cafe" domains
cubespace, foursquare, metamorph, and namespace.
And then there is a Morocco café domain for Marcela —
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On the recent Peacock series "Mrs. Davis" —
"The algorithm is known as Mrs. Davis … and is
the all-seeing, all-knowing, not-quite-all-merciful
manifestation of artificial intelligence to whom
humanity has plighted its troth in this eight-part
manifestation of real intelligence from creators
Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof."
— John Anderson in The Wall Street Journal ,
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
For The Algorithm , see last evening's Michaelmas post and . . .
For a different Mrs. Davis, see . . .
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From Tom McCarthy's review yesterday of The Maniac , a novel about 1940s social life at Los Alamos —
"The mathematician Martin Davis’s wife, Lydia, storms out of a Trinity dinner party, condemning the men’s failure to fully take on board the consequences of their atom splitting. Besides sharing her name with our own age’s great translator of Blanchot and Proust, this Lydia Davis is a textile artist — a hanging detail that points back toward the novel’s many looms and weavings.
For the Greeks, the fates spinning the threads of human lives were female (as Conrad knew, recasting them as Belgian secretaries in 'Heart of Darkness'). So was Theseus’ wool-ball navigator, Ariadne. And so, too, was the Ithacan ur-weaver Penelope, whose perpetual making and unraveling of her tapestry beat Gödel to an incompleteness theory by thousands of years.
'Text,' by the way, means something woven, from which we get 'textile.' It might just be that Penelope was not only testing her own version of the ontological limit, but also embedding it — in absent form, a hole — within the weft and warp of what we would eventually call the novel."
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Martin Davis reportedly died this year on New Year's Day.
This journal on that date —
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Friday, September 29, 2023
Vide …
See as well the "Flowessence" art of Marcela Nowak and
the subject of today's Google Doodle . . .
"Csíkszentmihályi is the author of the bestseller
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,
as well as a distinguished professor of psychology
and management at Claremont Graduate University
and co-director of the Quality of Life Research Center."
— upi.com/Science_News
SEPT. 29, 2023 / 7:21 AM / UPDATED AT 12:07 PM —
"Google Doodle marks happiness psychologist
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's birthday, " by Karen Butler
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Don't suppose you're going to tell me
how you do it.
How you disappear.
It's there for anyone to see
if you know where to look.
You have my record already.
They do.
I gave it to all of you.
The algorithm.
Breaks my life up
into fractions of seconds
and randomly stores them
in the records of everyone else.
But if you try to find
that split second of me,
it would go by without you knowing.
You have to have the algorithm
to put my entire life back together.
— Transcript of the 2018 film "Anon."
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Members of the Church of Synchronology may investigate
in this journal the above Harold Budd dates —
Sept. 27, 2020 and April 18, 2018.
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Tom McCarthy today on a new novel about von Neumann at Los Alamos:
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"Beyond its mid-20th-century viewfinder, though, it quickly becomes clear that what The Maniac is really trying to get a lock on is our current age of digital-informational mastery and subjection."
"Amid — or, more aptly, beneath — the panoply of brilliant men in The Maniac , women function as bit players. At Los Alamos they’re even called 'computers,' since they carry out the secondary, workaday calculations that are then fed upward for male geniuses to work their magic on. But does von Neumann really deserve the title 'Father of Computers,' granted him here by his first wife, Mariette Kovesi? Doesn’t Ada Lovelace have a prior claim as their mother?"
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"As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil,
of technological modernity to reveal the underlying
symbolic structures of human experience,
The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories
one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual
motion machine." — Amazon.com description
of a novel published on All Souls' Day (Dia de los
Muertos), 2021.
The McCarthy novel is mentioned in The New York Times today —
For a simpler perpetual motion machine, see T. S. Eliot's "Chinese jar."
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Update at 11:34 am ET Sept. 29, 2023 —
See too remarks in this journal on the above metadata date, 12/17/2020.
A quote included there:
"The way I work is that
I focus entirely on a small thing
and try to milk that for all it's worth,
to find everything in it
that makes musical sense."
— A composer who reportedly died in December 2017
in Arcadia, California.
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If you liked this one, see more in Blanche Knott's Truly Tasteless Jokes.
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♪ “I left my Booth… in San Francisco” ♪
Brian Harley in Mate in Two Moves:
“It is quite true that variation play is, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, the soul of a problem, or (to put it more
materially) the main course of the solver’s banquet, but
the Key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings, and
if it fails in piquancy the following dinner is not so
satisfactory as it should be.”
(London, Bell & Sons. First edition, 1931.)
Related art from the 9/25 Log24 post Harvardwood Suggests —
The musical accompaniment to the TikTok cock is by Village People.
Related news from yesterday —
The Village Voice founder reportedly died on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
"The nightingale tells his fairy tale" — Song lyric, "Stardust"
The drama game …
BBC.com on Gambon:
"… in 2005, he finally achieved his ambition to play Falstaff
in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 at the National Theatre."
The art game …
“ ’A babbled of green fields”
— Shakespeare on the death of Falstaff
Art relevant to the pair of obituaries above —
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Raphael+Table.
"Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?"
— Wislawa Szymborska
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"Through a combination of captivating visuals
and concise storytelling, we aimed to present
the platform as a game-changer…."
This is not a description of yesterday's Meta
developers conference, but rather prose by
Marcela Nowak in 2022. Miss Nowak is a
talented visual artist, but perhaps not as adept
at promotion as the Meta team, who introduced
yesterday the new "AI Studio" concept. This
suggested the creation of a more modest and
less artificial approach to intelligence —
artfield.studio.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Emily Throwing Shapes
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"AI Studio will be available in alpha to start,
and Meta says that it’ll scale the toolkit further
beginning next year."
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Click screenshot to enlarge.
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Old Hollywood saying:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog . . . ."
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
This journal on the above date of death —
The New York Times has a eulogy.
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The "private view" angle here is perhaps supplied by the plastic sheet
underlying the painting. See posts tagged Portable Door.
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Earlier in this journal . . .
Crossing Pico Boulevard . . .
♫ "I like to walk in the shade, with the blues on parade . . . ."
— Adapted from the great American songbook.
Meanwhile, in a cartoon graveyard . . .
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Boozin’ N Schmoozin’
Stephen King, Archimedes, and Daisy Buchanan —
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"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — Updike
The actor who played "Illya Kuryakin" reportedly died yesterday —
" David Keith McCallum Jr. was born on Sept. 19, 1933, into
a musical family in Glasgow. His father was the first violinist
for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; his mother,
Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist. He would later tell interviewers
that his Scotch Presbyterian upbringing had left him emotionally
circumscribed.
'We Scots, we tend to be awfully tight inside,' he told TV Guide
in 1965. 'It has hurt me as an actor to be so — so naturally restricted.' "
— Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times
This journal on McCallum's 90th birthday — Sept. 19, 2023 —
"You take the high road and . . . ."
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Monday, September 25, 2023
"William LeRoy Schneck, 88, of 307 W. Fifth Ave., Warren, PA,
died on January 3, 2008. . . .
LeRoy was named Man of the Century in 2000 by the
Warren County Chamber of Commerce."
"Time it goes so fast."
— "Manic Monday"
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See Koestler in this journal.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropic —
"Questions abound about how the various proposals intersect with
anthropic reasoning and the infamous multiverse idea."
— Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 16 June 2019
A more recent, and notable, use of "anthropic" :
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/
amazon-to-invest-up-to-4-billion-in-ai-startup-anthropic/ —
"As part of the investment agreement, Anthropic will use
Amazon’s cloud giant AWS as a primary cloud provider for
mission-critical workloads . . . ."
The cloud giant appeared here recently :
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The above YouTube posting date is July 5, 2021.
An image from this journal on July 5, 2021 —
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This journal on the above color-field date . . .
* I prefer the art-history term "color field"
to the pandering term "psychedelic."
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From an obituary in this morning's online New York Times —
" He was, Mr. de Lucia wrote, 'the mobster who ferried
Sicily’s Cosa Nostra into a new era, within a criminal
system that unites many segments.' ”
From a post of Assumption Day 2023 —
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For an aspiring art director . . .
Since the event is online, your boozin' can be merely simulated .
This might be your best course of action. Looking for a cock tale ?
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Sunday, September 24, 2023
"Make him express how he feels" — Madonna
The Artist's Pal . . . A Palette.
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"There's plenty of dives to be something you're not . . . ."
— Roseanne Cash, Seven-Year Ache
Related material in memory of AA's Doctor Bob —
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Saturday, September 23, 2023
Metaverse art — "View to a Screw"
(Not inspired by the Duran Duran "View to a Kill" lyrics
"The first crystal tears
fall as snowflakes on your body…."
Some cultural background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Diamond_in_the_Mind:_Live_2011
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=diamond-in-the-mind-concert-date.
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This post was prompted by the recent removal of a reference to
the theorem on the Wikipedia "Diamond theorem" disambiguation
page. The reference, which has been there since 2015, was removed
because it linked to an external source (Encyclopedia of Mathematics)
instead of to a Wikipedia article.
For anyone who might be interested in creating a Wikipedia article on
my work, here are some facts that might be reformatted for that website . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
User:Cullinane/sandbox —
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Cullinane diamond theorem
The theorem uses finite geometry to explain some symmetry properties of some simple graphic designs, like those found in quilts, that are constructed from chevrons or diamonds.
The theorem was first discovered by Steven H. Cullinane in 1975 and was published in 1977 in Computer Graphics and Art.
The theorem was also published as an abstract in 1979 in Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
The symmetry properties described by the theorem are related to those of the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.
The theorem is described in detail in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics article "Cullinane diamond theorem."
References
Steven H. Cullinane, "Diamond theory," Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1977, pages 5-7.
_________, Abstract 79T-A37, "Symmetry invariance in a diamond ring," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, February 1979, pages A-193, 194.
_________, "Cullinane diamond theorem," Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
R. T. Curtis, A new combinatorial approach to M24, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1976, Vol. 79, Issue 1, pages 24-42.
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Friday, September 22, 2023
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For the purpose of defining figurate geometry , a figurate space might be
loosely described as any space consisting of finitely many congruent figures —
subsets of Euclidean space such as points, line segments, squares,
triangles, hexagons, cubes, etc., — that are permuted by some finite group
acting upon them.
Thus each of the five Platonic solids constructed at the end of Euclid's Elements
is itself a figurate space, considered as a collection of figures — vertices, edges,
faces — seen in the nineteenth century as acted upon by a group of symmetries .
More recently, the 4×6 array of points (or, equivalently, square cells) in the Miracle
Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis is also a figurate space . The relevant group of
symmetries is the large Mathieu group M24 . That group may be viewed as acting
on various subsets of a 24-set… for instance, the 759 octads that are analogous
to the faces of a Platonic solid. The geometry of the 4×6 array was shown by
Curtis to be very helpful in describing these 759 octads.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
"…on Saturday…."
* See other chess art and a related poem.
"Play It as It Lays."
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The Mathematical Intelligencer Vol. 10, Issue 1, page 3 (Dec. 1988) . . .
http://www.log24.com/noindex-pdf/
Cullinane-letter-Artes_Liberales-Intelligencer.pdf —
Not a snowflake . . .
Related material . . . "Omnibus ex Nihilo."
And, for the Church of Synchronology —
Log24 on the above Instagram date:
September 8, 2022 — Chevron Variations.
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Graphic design from April 1, 2018 —
Later, in 2019 —
An undated webpage says . . .
"…we’re officially announcing the launch of the new Beamery brand."
— https://beamery.com/resources/blogs/
were-launching-beamerys-new-brand
(metadata: itemprop="datePublished"
content="2019-11-20T19:00:00")
This logo design was described elsewhere —
"Beamery's new mark–The Bexa.
The Bexa contains the negative space
of 3 Bs rotating clockwise within a
hexagon shape to capture Beamery's
3 pillars of the Talent Operating System."
— Ben Stafford for Focus Lab
"All things serve the Beamery."
— Slogan adapted from Stephen King.
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This flashback to March 7, 2022,
was suggested by a marrific date.
Fans of metadata may consult, in this journal,
the above metadata date — November 20, 2019.
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“Beams could get no keener reception in a beamery”
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
The New York Times today on a film director who reportedly
died on the above Log24 date — Tuesday, August 29, 2023 —
"His directing work included 'Thank God It’s Friday' (1978),
set entirely in a disco, which won the Academy Award for
best original song, 'Last Dance,' sung by the disco diva
Donna Summer, one of its stars."
“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
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Conwell versus Conwell.
Update of 8:16 AM ET —
"And it came to pass . . ."
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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From Log24 on August 29, 2023 —
From the above Foundation website —
This journal on the above Foundation date — 13 July 2023 —
For an attempt of my own at storytelling and
brand innovation, see posts now tagged
Figurate Geometry.
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The above title for a new approach to finite geometry
was suggested by the old phrase "figurate numbers."
See other posts in this journal now tagged Figurate Geometry.
Update of 10 AM ET on Sept. 19, 2023 —
Related material from social media:
Update of 10:30 AM ET Sept. 19 —
A related topic from figurate geometry:
The square-to-triangle mapping problem.
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Sarah Larson in The New Yorker yesterday —
"Having revealed itself, the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC),
designed by Joshua Ramus and his firm, REX, retains an air of mystery:
it’s a giant marble-sheathed cube, beige and opaque by day and warmly
aglow by night, fronted by a two-story staircase that evokes the approach
to a Mayan temple or the gangway to an alien spacecraft. What’s inside?"
Always an interesting question . . .
From "Made for Love" (2021) — Lyle Herringbone:
See as well yesterday's post
"The Mystery Box of Jena Malone."
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Monday, September 18, 2023
A music video:
A dance to that music (Jena Malone, May 13, 2020):
A graphic reaction:
"Open new windows, open new doors."
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The figure above summarizes a new way of looking at
so-called "figurate numbers." The old way goes back
at least to the time of Pythagoras.
A more explicit presentation —
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Sunday, September 17, 2023
A bold dance featuring the art (as paintings and as fabric)
of the talented Marcela Nowak —
A related bold dance —
From this journal on the above YouTube date — June 15, 2011 —
Background: Men in Feminism , edited by Alice Jardine and
published by Taylor & Francis in 1987, "Walking the Tightrope
of Feminism and Male Desire," by Judith Mayne, page 64
Other Hayworth-related chronology —
"Turn to Page Seven."
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"Time is a weapon, it's cold and it's cruel"
— Lyrics: Max D. Barnes. Singer: Ray Price.
The New York Times in September 1949 —
CANNES, France, Sept. 17 (AP) — A. British-made film
with two American stars won the Grand Prize of the
Cannes Film Festival, judges announced today.
The film was "The Third Man," starring Joseph Cotten,
Valli, Orson Welles and Siegfried Breuer.
VIEW FULL ARTICLE IN TIMESMACHINE »
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From posts tagged Field Theology —
Illustration of the Japanese (and Chinese) character for "field"—
From an Instagram ad today —
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Saturday, September 16, 2023
The previous post suggests a phrase by George Mackey from a classic
1980 mathematics paper — "the exploitation of symmetry."
Another approach to exploitation, in a flashback to Sept. 9 last year . . .
See too the 2021 film "Last Night in Soho" and . . .
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Later . . .
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Friday, September 15, 2023
See also this journal on the above April 27, 2016,
art date: "Local and Global."
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From "Knight to Move," by Fritz Leiber
"… You were talking about basic games. Well, the chessboard is clearly a spider’s web with crisscross strands—in Go you even put the pieces on the intersections. The object of the game is to hunt down and immobilize the enemy King, just as a spider paralyzes its victim and sometimes wraps it in its silk. But here’s the clincher: the Knight, the piece most characteristic of chess, has exactly eight crooked moves when it stands in the clear—the number of a spider’s crooked legs, and eyes too! This suggests that all chess-playing planets are Spider-infiltrated from way back. It also suggests that all the chessplayers here for the tournament are Spiders—your shock battalion to take over 61 Cygni 5.”
Colonel von Hohenwald sighed. “I was afraid you’d catch on, dear,” he said softly. “Now you’ve signed your abduction warrant at the very least. You may still be able to warn your HQ, but before they can come to your aid, this planet will be in our hands.”
He frowned. “But why did you spill this to me, Erica? If you had played dumb—”
“I spilled it to you,” she said, “because I wanted you to know that your plot’s been blown––and that my side has already taken countermeasures! We’ve made a crooked Knight’s move too. Has the significance of track games never occurred to you, Colonel? The one-dimensional track, sinuously turning, obviously symbolizes the snake. The pieces are the little bugs and animals the snake has swallowed. As for the dice, well, one of the throws is called Snake Eyes. So be assured that all the k’ta’hra players here are Snakes, ready to counter any Spider grab at 61 Cygni 5.”
The Colonel’s mouth almost gaped.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023
The following image is in memory of a woman who reportedly
died at 70 on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 —
Bruce Chatwin on Lisa Lyon, the woman who died —
“The photographer and his model have conspired
to tell a story of their overlapping obsessions.
Their glorification of the body is an act of will,
a defiance of nihilism and abstraction, a story of
the Modern Movement in reverse.”
See as well Working Backwards.
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(Continued)
Marcela Nowak's art as a fabric —
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
On "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" —
"… second unit began shooting the tuk-tuk chase in Morocco.
'It’s scripted as Tangier in the movie, but it was actually shot in Fez'…."
— https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/indiana-jones-duncan-broadfoot/
See as well, from 12 AM ET Sept. 10, "Plan 9 from Death Valley."
For other remarks about Archimedes and Death, see Hidden Structure.
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The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
A product of that edgelord's school —
See a design by Prince-Ramus in today's New York Times —
Remarks quoted here on the above San Diego date —
A related void —
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Monday, September 11, 2023
Chess art from January 25, 2021 —
Log24 on January 25, 2021 —
Hat tip to the rimshot muse.
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Jill Lepore of Harvard in The New Yorker today —
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"In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the Year: 'This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.' Right about when Time was preparing that giddy announcement, three women whose ovaries and uteruses were involved in passing down the madcap man-god’s genes were in the maternity ward of a hospital in Austin. Musk believes a declining birth rate is a threat to civilization and, with his trademark tirelessness, is doing his visionary edgelord best to ward off that threat."
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Some vocabulary background —
See also this journal on that date —
The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
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— Adapted in 2021 from art at the home of Marcela Nowak. A variation:
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Sunday, September 10, 2023
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From "Knight to Move," by Fritz Leiber
"… You were talking about basic games. Well, the chessboard is clearly a spider’s web with crisscross strands—in Go you even put the pieces on the intersections. The object of the game is to hunt down and immobilize the enemy King, just as a spider paralyzes its victim and sometimes wraps it in its silk. But here’s the clincher: the Knight, the piece most characteristic of chess, has exactly eight crooked moves when it stands in the clear—the number of a spider’s crooked legs, and eyes too! This suggests that all chess-playing planets are Spider-infiltrated from way back. It also suggests that all the chessplayers here for the tournament are Spiders—your shock battalion to take over 61 Cygni 5.”
Colonel von Hohenwald sighed. “I was afraid you’d catch on, dear,” he said softly. “Now you’ve signed your abduction warrant at the very least. You may still be able to warn your HQ, but before they can come to your aid, this planet will be in our hands.”
He frowned. “But why did you spill this to me, Erica? If you had played dumb—”
“I spilled it to you,” she said, “because I wanted you to know that your plot’s been blown––and that my side has already taken countermeasures! We’ve made a crooked Knight’s move too. Has the significance of track games never occurred to you, Colonel? The one-dimensional track, sinuously turning, obviously symbolizes the snake. The pieces are the little bugs and animals the snake has swallowed. As for the dice, well, one of the throws is called Snake Eyes. So be assured that all the k’ta’hra players here are Snakes, ready to counter any Spider grab at 61 Cygni 5.”
The Colonel’s mouth almost gaped.
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"Having seen Labyrinth at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church,
it's time to have a rest at this restaurant."
— https://restaurantguru.com/Bar-Le-Cote-Los-Olivos-California
"It's wine country , after all." — "All the Old Knives"
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Two examples from the Wikipedia article "Archimedean solid" —
Iain Aitchison said in a 2018 talk at Hiroshima that
the Mathieu group M24 can be represented as permuting
naturally the 24 edges of the cuboctahedron.
The 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron are labeled
naturally by the 24 elements of S4 in a permutahedron —
Can M24 be represented as permuting naturally
the 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron?
Related material from the day Orson Welles and Yul Brynner died —
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Related reading —
Lo Shu and Death Valley.
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Saturday, September 9, 2023
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— The New York Times today,
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/world/africa/ …
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"He peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call,
then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth
glistening here and there with gold points. Chrysostomos.
Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm.
—Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely.
Switch off the current, will you?"
— Opening scene of Ulysses
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"We need the word 'metaphor' for the whole double unit, and to use it sometimes for one of the two components in separation from the other is as injudicious as that other trick by which we use 'the meaning' here sometimes for the work that the whole double unit does and sometimes for the other component–the tenor, as I am calling it–the underlying idea or principal subject which the vehicle or figure means. It is not surprising that the detailed analysis of metaphors, if we attempt it with such slippery terms as these, sometimes feels like extracting cube-roots in the head."
— I. A. Richards, The Philosophy of Rhetoric .
Oxford University Press, 1936.
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* Nowak: See the central image in "An Art Director's Top Nine," Log24 yesterday.
** Levinson: See Variety on the "Euphoria" character.
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"Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find"
— Song by Crosby, Stills & Nash
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Friday, September 8, 2023
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Lilydale and Rain , by Like No. 90 (Rain is the one on the left) —
A perhaps more useful coach . . .
Some prose by Harrington —
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By 1956, Fromm was dining at Suzuki’s part-time home in New York City, and talking with him about ways in which Zen could contribute to a wholesale reimagining of psychoanalytic therapeutics and theory (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). By this time, also, Fromm was himself spending considerable periods of time at a new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At one point he suggested that Suzuki consider moving in with him permanently. When Suzuki politely declined, Fromm conceived instead a major conference based in Mexico that would try to take stock of the entire current state of the conversation between Zen and psychotherapy (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). In 1957, some fifty psychotherapists—double the original expected number—participated in a week of presentations and discussions. Fromm later recalled the event as a magical time: what began as a traditional conference with the usual ‘over-emphasis on thoughts and words' changed over a few days, as people 'became more concentrated and more quiet.'
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See as well a web page on what is now called "shadow work" —
an activity completely different from the "shadow work" described
some years ago by Ivan Illich, the so-called "Prophet of Cuernavaca."
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The Totême bag in the above image suggests an article from Feb. 6, 2020:
"How Totême Used A Uniform Concept To Create A Cult Label."
Log24 posts from the two following days, sans cult label —
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
For the relentlessly artsy-fartsy at the Santa Fe Institute…
Continued from remarks on Schoenberg on March 10, 2001 —
"First movement from John Adams’ Harmonielehre conducted by
Sir Simon Rattle, performed at BMW Classics, which took place
in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, 10 June 2023." — YouTube
Also on 10 June 2023 —
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Saddles Meet World.
See as well "Merve Emre’s Vinduet Lecture,
held in the Hamsun Hall at Gyldendal Norsk
Forlag in Oslo, September 4th 2023."
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“ 'Harmonious Resonance' is a art piece that
captures the iconic Rolling Stones logo . . . ."
— Marcela Nowak describes her work at
https://marcelanowak.com/port/harmonious-resonance/ .
See as well The Billboard Project and the billboards of
the new Rolling Stones video "Angry."
"Don't get angry with me
I never caused you no pain
I won't be angry with you
But I can't see straight (Yeah)"
— https://genius.com/The-rolling-stones-angry-lyrics
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
“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
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Later . . .
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Caption from Getty Images (Wikipedia links added) —
"Philosophers James O Urmson (1915 – 2012, left), a fellow of
Christ Church, Oxford, and Professor James** Langshaw Austin
(1911 – 1960) of Magdalen College, Oxford, at a joint session of
the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birmingham
University, August 1952. Original publication: Picture Post – 6001 –
It All Depends On What You Mean – pub. 16th August 1952
(Photo by George Douglas/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"
* Paul Simon song lyric
** Getty Images error. Should be John Langshaw Austin.
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Welcome to 9/6 — "Too Clever by Half" Day.
Related imagery … "ABC Art."
Related philosophy … "Krell Lab."
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
* At Black Rock City — 2023 — For interpretations
of the above W and A, see Gaugin and Cool Rider.
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See "language animal" in this journal.
Update of 8:36 AM ET — Related reading …
The phrase of Blake Chandler in "Irreconcilable Differences" —
"I'm gonna find myself a brand new Santa!"
One candidate for that role — See "Out of Nothing, Everything."
Update of 8:45 AM ET — Related imagery …
April 28, 2018, and November 27, 2021.
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Monday, September 4, 2023
"Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get the show on, get paid"
— Lyrics from . . .
And for the Church of Synchronology … Log24 on
the above YouTube date — Dec. 25, 2009.
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Windows lockscreen, 6:08 AM ET, Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 4, 2023 —
"Come discover hundreds of new games
that are free to play whenever you want!"
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Sunday, September 3, 2023
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Instagram post today —
Earlier . . .
Image related to the recent Log24 post
"The Playwright Upstaged by Her Play" —
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Saturday, September 2, 2023
"Peopled with pirates, smugglers, beach bums and barflies,
Mr. Buffett’s genial, self-deprecating songs conjured a world
of sun, salt water and nonstop parties animated by the
calypso country-rock of his limber Coral Reefer Band."
— Bill Friskics-Warren reports a Friday death.
Related material: http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Chat+Chill
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For the late Bill Richardson, a child of Mexico City —
Meanwhile, back at The New York Times . . .
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The combination of Shakespeare and Frankenstein
in the previous post suggests a more potent combination —
Hypnotic and Propaganda.
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Friday, September 1, 2023
Beneath the balcony, Mark Ruffalo, in Brando style, cries "Bella! "
I find a real balcony scene from Cuernavaca more interesting —
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Shakespeare Meets Frankenstein —
The Obligatory Balcony Scene
* Vide other posts tagged "Music of the Spheres."
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With E. L. Doctorow* as Woody Allen
An animated GIF that shows the basic unit for
the "design cube" pages at finitegeometry.org —
From a post of Dec. 8, 2010, the (somewhat) related Stella Octangula —
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