O AS IS
See also other posts tagged "Is and As."
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
“Ready Player One” Mnemonic:
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Send Your Camel to Bed
đť… đť… "Midnight at the Oasis . . . ."
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Mira and the Intruders* Present …
Epiphany 2012: An Exercise
in Bulk Apperception
This post was suggested by a Marrific photo posted today,
by a New Orleans song as played by Bix Beiderbecke,
by a trailer for a new Zemeckis film that appeared at YouTube
on the way to the New Orleans song, and by
the longing for Bix by Mira Sorvino in "Intruders."
The YouTube Bix date, Jan. 6, 2012, suggested a trip back
to that date via a Zemeckis Cube (see "Ready Player One.")
From Log24 on Epiphany 2012 —
A version of the Zemeckis Cube —
From the Zemeckis trailer —
* See a Log24 search for Mira + Intruders.
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Sunday, July 15, 2018
Jewish Oases
"… Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the Juilliard String Quartet,
and the Strand Book Store remained oases
for cultural and intellectual stimulation."
— John S. Friedman in The Forward , Jan. 21, 2018
Read more:
https://forward.com/culture/392483/
how-fred-bass-dan-talbot-robert-mann
-shaped-new-york-culture/
From the Oasis in Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" (2018) —
I prefer, from a Log24 search for Flux Capacitor …
From "Raiders of the Lost Images" —
"The cube shape of the lost Mother Box,
also known as the Change Engine,
is shared by the Stone in a novel by
Charles Williams, Many Dimensions .
See the Solomon's Cube webpage."
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
“We all float down here.”
Linked to in a Log24 post of Jan. 21, 2008 —
"The Shining" dance scene from the 2018 film "Ready Player One" —
From a Log24 post earlier today —
From a Log24 post of Thursday, July 12, 2018 —
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
The Bell
Three hidden keys open three secret gates
Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits
And those with the skill to survive these straits
Will reach The End where the prize awaits
— Ready Player One , by Ernest Cline
“Look, my favorite expression is,
‘When you go up to the bell, ring it,
or don’t go up to the bell.’ …
We’ve gone too far. We have to ring the bell.”
— Mel Brooks on “The Producers”
in The New York Times today.
A 2016 Scribner edition of Stephen King’s IT —
Related material —
Mystery box merchandise from the 2011 J. J. Abrams film  Super 8Â
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Monday, July 9, 2018
History for Hollywood
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Saturday, July 7, 2018
Easter Eggs for Rosalind
Three hidden keys open three secret gates
Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits
And those with the skill to survive these straits
Will reach The End where the prize awaits
— Ready Player One , by Ernest Cline
Related text —
Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram
aedificabo ecclesiam meam et tibi
dabo claves regni caelorum
Related imagery —
From Steven Spielberg's film "Ready Player One" (2018) —
From this journal on June 17, 2003 —
From The New York Times on Easter night, 2007 —
See as well Rosalind Krauss on LeWitt:
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Thursday, April 5, 2018
Easter Fantasy
From this journal at midnight (12 AM ET) on April 4 —
Related material —
From the weblog of Ready Player One author Ernest Cline —
"Recently, a lot of people have asked me if a real person
inspired the character of James Halliday, the eccentric
billionaire video game designer in my book. Steve Jobs
and Steve Wozniak are both mentioned in the text,
because their world changing partnership inspired the
relationship between James Halliday and Ogden Morrow,
with Morrow being a charismatic tech industry leader like
Jobs, and Halliday being the computer geek genius of the
duo like Woz. But the character of James Halliday was
inspired by two other very different people.
As I told Wired magazine earlier this year, from the
beginning, I envisioned James Halliday’s personality as
a cross between Howard Hughes and Richard Garriott.
If I had to break it down mathematically, I’d estimate that
about 15% of Halliday’s character was inspired by
Howard Hughes (the crazy reclusive millionaire part), with
most of the other 85% being inspired by Richard Garriott."
See as well Log24 posts tagged "Space Writer"
and the classic tune "Midnight at the Oasis."
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