Related dramatic dialogue from FUBAR —
Hero — I guess I'll take the pill, and get it over with. (Dramatic music playing.)
Villain — This will be fun. (Music intensifies.) Cheers … Nothing's happening.
Hero — Come to think of it, I might have taken the antidote.
Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/… .
Related synchronology check —
Source data for an Instagram story this evening —
An image from the story itself —
Related reading — "Flame Alphabet" in this journal.
From that link . . .
See also . . .
Underlying Structure of the Design —
Schoolgirl Problem —
In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —
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From Log24 on May 29
"When the men on the chessboard Don't take the Brown acid!
Sunday, May 28, 2023
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See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.
The New York Times on a set designer who
reportedly died at 83 on Monday (Feb. 6, 2023) —
"Adrian Hall, the founding artistic director,
brought him in as resident designer.
(Mr. Hall died on Feb. 4 in Van, Texas.)"
Hall was the founding artistic director of
Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, R.I.
Not-so-holy writ ….
Panthers — "Dimensions," Log24, Feb. 5, 2023.
Beast Belly — Tonight's previous post, "Gutter Mathematics."
The previous post displayed part of a page from
a newspaper published the day Olivia Newton-John
turned 21 — Friday, September 26, 1969.
A meditation, with apologies to Coleridge:
In Xanadu did Newton-John
A stately pleasure-square decree
Where Aleph the sacred symbol ran
Through subsquares measureless to man.
A related video —
Beware, beware, her flashing eyes, her floating hair:
Set design —
As opposed to block design —
See the signature link in last night's post for a representation of Madison Avenue.
For a representation by Madison Avenue, see today's New York Times—
"As a movement Pop Art came and went in a flash, but it was the kind of flash that left everything changed. The art public was now a different public— larger, to be sure, but less serious, less introspective, less willing or able to distinguish between achievement and its trashy simulacrum. Moreover, everything connected with the life of art— everything, anyway, that might have been expected to offer some resistance to this wholesale vulgarization and demoralization— was now cheapened and corrupted. The museums began their rapid descent into show biz and the retail trade. Their exhibitions were now mounted like Broadway shows, complete with set designers and lighting consultants, and their directors pressed into service as hucksters, promoting their wares in radio and television spots and selling their facilities for cocktail parties and other entertainments, while their so-called education programs likewise degenerated into sundry forms of entertainment and promotion. The critics were co-opted, the art magazines commercialized, and the academy, which had once taken a certain pride in remaining aloof from the blandishments of the cultural marketplace, now proved eager to join the crowd— for there was no longer any standard in the name of which a sellout could be rejected. When the boundary separating art and fashion was breached, so was the dividing line between high art and popular culture, and upon all those institutions and professions which had been painstakingly created to preserve high art from the corruptions of popular culture. The effect was devastating. Some surrendered their standards with greater alacrity than others, but the drift was unmistakable and all in the same direction— and the momentum has only accelerated with the passage of time."
— Hilton Kramer, The Triumph of Modernism: The Art World, 1985-2005 , publ. by Ivan R. Dee on Oct. 26, 2006, pp. 146-147
Related material— Rubik in this journal, Exorcist in this journal, and For the Class of '11.
Best Set Design, Vegas ACM Awards, Sunday Night—
Related literature— Knoxville: Summer of 1915—
"The stars are wide and alive, they seem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very near."
For Mary Gaitskill,
continued from
June 21, 2008:
This minimal art
is the basis of the
chess set image
from Tuesday:
Related images:
“The key is the
cocktail that begins
the proceedings.”
— Brian Harley,
Mate in Two Moves
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