Friday, May 17, 2024
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Grey Advertising
Clay Risen memorializes an advertising executive —
“Ms. Young rose to prominence as an executive with Grey Advertising,
where she began in 1959, standing out as one of the few women and
one of the few Asian-Americans at the firm, which was then a power
in its field.”
Related art from Log24 on the date of Ms. Young’s death —
“A colour is eternal.
It haunts time like a spirit.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Memorial
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Studies in Gray and Black
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Sunday, May 3, 2015
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Gray Space
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.
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Household Name
Detail from yesterday's post—
Surrealistic Alarm Clock
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THE SEQUEL:
"…and Surrealistic Pillow became
a household name
in the house of rock ‘n’ roll."
— Denise Sullivan in Crawdaddy,
October 8, 2009
Related material:
"Which Dreamed It?"
— Title of final chapter,
Through the Looking Glass
"Go ask Alice…
I think she'll know."
— Grace Slick, 1967
The Crawdaddy date Oct. 8, 2009
leads to the Log24 post
Graphic Austerity.
Clicking on those words
in that post will lead you to…
The Logic of Dreams.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Tuesday October 7, 2008
The Color Grey
The previous two entries mention,
and illustrate, the color grey.
Another illustration, on the cover
of one of my favorite books:
"A colour is eternal.
It haunts time like a spirit."
— Alfred North Whitehead
From John Lahr's
winter 2002 review
of "Our Town"–
"We all know that something is eternal," the Stage Manager says. "And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even stars– everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings."
The Stage Manager was played by Paul Newman. The review was subtitled "Getting the Spirit Onstage."
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Sunday, October 1, 2006
Sunday October 1, 2006
Tales of Philosophy:
Recipe for Disaster
according to Jerome Kagan,
Harvard psychologist emeritus
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| "'Humans demand that there be a clear right and wrong,' he said. 'You've got to believe that the track you've taken is the right track. You get depressed if you're not certain as to what it is you're supposed to be doing or what's right and wrong in the world.'" | "People need to divide the world into good and evil, us and them, Kagan continued. To do otherwise– to entertain the possibility that life is not black and white, but variously shaded in gray– is perhaps more honest, rational and decent. But it's also, psychically, a recipe for disaster." |
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Shades of Gray: |
The above Kagan quotes are taken
from a New York Times essay by
Judith Warner as transcribed by
Mark Finkelstein on Sept. 29.
See also Log24 on
Sept. 29 and 30.
Related material:
Kagan's book
Surprise, Uncertainty,
and Mental Structures
(Harvard U. Press, April 2002)
and Werner Heisenberg–
discoverer of the
uncertainty principle—
as Anakin Skywalker
being tempted by
the Dark Side:
George Lucas, who has profited
enormously from public depictions
of the clash between
good and evil, light and dark,
may in private life be inclined
to agree with Hercule Poirot:
"It is the brain, the little gray cells
on which one must rely.
One must seek the truth
within– not without."
(This is another version of the
"Descartes before dehors" principle–
See "A Table," Sept. 28.)