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.
"I am trying to introduce a narrative,
something magical and seductive…."
— Oslo artist Josefine Lyche, translated
from the Norwegian by Google
Perhaps something like Arcade Fire or
Taylor Swift? (Click links for related posts.)
“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.”
— Katherine Neville, The Magic Circle
See also Arcade Fire in this journal.
“You’ve got to pick up every stitch…”
— Donovan, song on closing credits of To Die For
“…’Supersymmetry’ was originally written
specifically for Her ….” — Pitchfork
“Eventually we see snow particles….”
— Her screenplay by Spike Jonze
This journal on January 24, 2006:
Context: See Free-Floating Signs.
Backstory: Digital Member and Uneven Break.
"It was our old friend Pythagoras who discovered
that the pentagram was full of mathematics."
— Narrator, "Donald in Mathmagic Land," Disney, 1959
… and it was Peter J. Cameron who discovered that
mathematics was full of pentagrams.
From Log24 on May 3: Gray Space —
Robert J. Stewart (left) and a pentagram photo posted May 2
by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche. See also Lyche in this journal.
From Log24 on May 13: An Artist's Memorial —
The death mentioned in the above May 13 post occurred on
May 12, the date of a scheduled Black Mass at Harvard.
Related material:
Or: Three Shades of Gray
(Continued from previous Gray Space posts.)
Click the above image for some related mathematics.
Those who prefer “magic” approaches to mathematics*
may consult the works of Robert J. Stewart and his
mentor William G. Gray.
Robert J. Stewart (left) and a pentagram photo posted yesterday evening
by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche. See also Lyche in this journal.
* See the April 2014 banners displayed at the websites
of the American Mathematical Society and of the
Mathematical Association of America, as well as
a mathematician’s remarks linked to here last evening.
See also, in this journal, Arcade Fire and Witch Ball.
This post was suggested by remarks today of mathematician
Peter J. Cameron, who seems to enjoy playing the role of
Lord Summerisle (from The Wicker Man , a 1973 horror classic).
A link to a Nov. 22 post on Arcade Fire was added today
to yesterday's "Dating an OS" post.
That Nov. 22 post suggests a review related to a new film —
"If the spy wars of the later 20th century were fought
in 'a wilderness of mirrors,' beset by paradox and
moral uncertainty— evil done in the name of good—
then John le Carré, or, rather, the narrative voice that
went by the name John le Carré, was the perfect
choice to polish those mirrors. It was the voice of the
urbane, upper-class Englishman: courteous, opaque
and chilly, with a ruthless, penetrative intellect and
razor wit for the delivery of its insights."
— Alan Furst in The New York Times Sunday
Book Review on October 12, 2008
For other material on mirrors, see all posts tagged Arcade Fire.
Amy Adams in the new film “Her” —
“You’re dating an OS? What is that like?”
— Question quoted in a Hollywood Reporter
story on the film’s second trailer
From the same story, by Philiana Ng —
” The trailer is set to Arcade Fire’s
mid-tempo ballad ‘Supersymmetry.’ “
Parts of an answer for Amy —
Nov. 26, 2012, as well as
Dec. 24, 2013, and
The Hollywood Reporter story is from Dec. 3, 2013.
See also that date in this journal.
From David Lavery's weblog today—
It is? Then a check of the rest of the poem seems in order.
In the poem, Stevens speaks of…
The impossible possible philosophers' man,
The man who has had the time to think enough,
The central man, the human globe, responsive
As a mirror with a voice, the man of glass,
Who in a million diamonds sums us up.
Compare and contrast with a rather silly recent music video—
Perhaps Stevens's "human globe" could be portrayed by the
versatile Philip Seymour Hoffman, who stars in a new film directed
by Anton Corbijn, the perpetrator of the above Arcade Fire video.
See also Log24 posts on and just before the video's upload date.
(Saturday's Dream Girls, continued)
"How would you touch me?"
— The computer in the new film Her
For some remarks on Arcade Fire, see Saturday's 10 PM post
and Sunday's 10:10 AM post.
In related news…
See also posts with Slow Art and Amy Adams
shooting pool (scroll to the bottom).
(Continued from last Sunday)
For some background, see Permutahedron in this journal.
See also…
* Jews may prefer to retitle this post "Sunday Shul with Josefine"
and stage it as a SNL sketch, "Norwegian Disco," with
The Sunshine Girls. (For the Norwegian part, see Kristen Wiig,
of Norwegian ancestry. For the disco part, see Amy Adams,
who stars in a new disco-era movie.)
Click on the image for a video.
See also Josefine Lyche's "Grids, you say?"
I prefer Lyche's versions of the diagonal
3×3 grid. Her versions have no lettering.
(This post was suggested by a photo of magical sigils
that Lyche posted a few hours ago at Facebook.
The above seems to be another such sigil that may
or may not be intended to function like those posted
today by Lyche.)
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