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Friday, December 23, 2022

Was ist Raum?” — Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:43 am

"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
 erfassen und gestalten?"

Walter Gropius,

The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus
  (1923)

A relevant illustration:

At math.stackexchange.com on March 1-12, 2013:

Is there a geometric realization of the Quaternion group?” —

The above illustration, though neatly drawn, appeared under the
cloak of anonymity.  No source was given for the illustrated group actions.
Possibly they stem from my Log24 posts or notes such as the Jan. 4, 2012,
note on quaternion actions at finitegeometry.org/sc (hence ultimately
from my note “GL(2,3) actions on a cube” of April 5, 1985).

These references will not appeal to those who enjoy modernism as a religion.
(For such a view, see Rosalind Krauss on grids and another writer's remarks
on the religion's 100th anniversary this year.)

Some related nihilist philosophy from Cormac McCarthy —

"Forms turning in a nameless void."

Monday, June 21, 2021

The Bauhaus Dance

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:04 pm

"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

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110714-BauhausRoof.jpg

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

From Our House to Bauhaus

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:30 am

Street view in Oslo, August 2014 (thanks to Google):

Vennligst benytt fortau pa andre siden =
Please use the sidewalk on the other side

Take a walk on the wild side… or not.

This post was suggested by a Log24 post, Gaze, of May 21, 2015, and by
an Instagram photo that Oslo artist Josefine Lyche posted today.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Niche Worlds: Motley and Perplexed

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:30 am
 

There is nothing more irritating to enthusiasts than when the mainstream tries to portray their niche world and gets it wrong. And The Brutalist gets an awful lot wrong. Just as Gladiator II recently vexed classicists with its inaccurate portrayal of the emperors and its anachronistic scenes of people reading the newspaper and drinking at cafes (neither of which, apparently, existed at the time), so too has director Brady Corbet riled the architecture world by playing fast and loose with his interpretation of brutalism, the Bauhaus, postwar immigration and the basic process of architecture itself.

Oliver Wainwright in The Guardian,
Wed 29 Jan 2025 08.29 EST

Chrysler Building Niche Worlds:

'Under the Volcano,' Burton, and 'Right through hell there is a path.'

See also Alec Baldwin in "The Aviator" . . .

" 'There  is  a  game  of  puzzles,'  he  resumed,
'which  is  played upon a map.  One  party  playing
requires another to find a given word — the  name
of  town,  river,  state,  or  empire —
any word,  in short, upon the motley and perplexed
surface  of  the  chart.' "  — Edgar  Allan  Poe

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

For the Still Point: “Congregated Light”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:28 am

An instance of T. S. Eliot's poetic "still point" is the
center of a 3x3x3 Galois  cube made up of 27 subcubes
Not  Rubik's puzzle, whose center is a mere mechanical contrivance.

Associated with that Galois cube is the set of
13 symmetry axes of its central subcube.

The figure above is not unrelated to the so-called "free will theorem."

Mathematician Peter J. Cameron's recent quotation of St. Bernard*
on free will and grace, while not impressive as a philosophical
statement, is at least preferable to the TV sitcom "Will and Grace."

See also the notion of free will in other posts tagged "Congregated Light."

Some context:  Tom Wolfe, below, on the word "clerisy." It seems that the
word applies to many academics besides those in areas named by Wolfe.

* Vide  http://www.catholictradition.org/Tradition/efficacious-grace3.htm#67
"De gratia et Libero arbitrio, chaps. 1 and 14."

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Edgelord School

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , , — m759 @ 9:20 am
 

Monday, May 8, 2017

New Pinterest Board

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 9:29 PM 

https://www.pinterest.com/stevenhcullinane/art-space/

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 —

IMAGE- The 13 symmetry axes of the cube

Monday, September 11, 2023

Cool Kids’ Vocabulary… Edgelord!

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 8:10 am

Jill Lepore of Harvard  in The New Yorker  today

"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."

Some vocabulary background —

See also this  journal on that date —

Monday, May 8, 2017

New Pinterest Board

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 9:29 PM 

https://www.pinterest.com/stevenhcullinane/art-space/

The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Revolutionizing the Public Image

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:51 pm

See as well . . .

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Gropius Moritat…

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:00 am

Continued from other posts so tagged.

"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
 erfassen und gestalten?"

Walter Gropius,

Another approach to changing the game

See also a search here  for a phrase related to 
last night's Country Music Association awards 
speech by Reba McEntire — "Rule the World."

Monday, September 16, 2019

Gropius Moritat

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:43 pm

Related material

See as well, from the fiftieth anniversary of Gropius's death,
Log24 posts now tagged Gropius Moritat.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Cold Open

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:25 pm

The previous post, on the Bauhaus 100th anniversary, suggests a review . . .

"Congratulations to the leaders of both parties:
The past 20 years you’ve taken us far.
We’re entering Weimar, baby."

Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal
 
   on August 13, 2015
 

Image from yesterday's Log24 search Bauhaus Space.

Saturday, February 9, 2019

Posts

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:48 pm

See also posts in the Log24 search Bauhaus Space.

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Clerisy

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:18 pm

Two images from a post of April 11, 2014

Tom Cruise at the Vatican in MI3

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Michelle Monaghan, star of "The Path," in MI3 —

Hickory Dickory.

Sunday, November 19, 2017

Nightmare for Midsummer

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:36 pm

In memory of a Brooklyn art figure who reportedly killed himself
on November 9, 2017 —

From an obituary linked to here  in a post, "Information from the Middle 
of the Night
," at 2:02 AM ET on June 23, 2017 —

"In 1976, Ms. DeAk, with Mr. Robinson, Sol LeWitt and
Lucy Lippard, helped found Printed Matter, a publisher
and distributor of artists’ books."

"A version of this article appears in print on June 23, 2017,
on Page B15 of the New York edition with the headline:
Edit DeAk, a Champion of Artists Outside the Mainstream,
Dies at 68."

Related material —

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Fiat

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:23 pm
 
T. Lux Feininger (June 11, 1910 Berlin, Germany – July 7, 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a German-American painter, avant-garde photographer, author, and art teacher who was born in Berlin to Julia Berg and Lyonel Feininger, an American living in Germany from the age of sixteen. His father was appointed as the Master of the Printing Workingshop at the newly formed Bauhaus art school in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919.[1] He had two older full brothers, including Andreas Feininger . . . .  Wikipedia

The above passage was suggested by an IMDb release date

— and by a Log24 post, Lux, of the same date:  19 August, 2014.

See also photos by a big brother of Lux Feininger in this journal
on Wednesday, August 30, 2017.

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Sunday Science School

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:45 am

Commentary —

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sunday Dinner Crumbs

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 2:00 pm

From posts now tagged “Memory-History-Geometry” —

“… even the dogs under the table
eat the children’s crumbs.” — Mark 7:28

From a 2015 post

“… Kansas and Harvard officially met
as Kansas wrestled the unsuspecting Harvard
to the ground in a headlock.”

Harvard Heart of Gold , by Dustin Aguilar,
quoted here on April 24, 2015

For the dogs under the table, a note from that same date —

See as well Tom Wolfe on manifestos
and “the creative spirit.”

Friday, August 26, 2016

Wolfe vs. Chomsky

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

1.  Tom Wolfe has a new book on Chomsky, "The Kingdom of Speech."

2.  This suggests a review of a post of Aug. 11, 2014, Syntactic/Symplectic.

To paraphrase Wittgenstein, sentence 1 above is about "correlating in real life"
(cf. Crooked House and Wolfe's From Bauhaus to Our House ), and may be 
compared to sentence 2 above, which links to a sort of "correlating in
mathematics" that is a particular example of the more general sort of
mathematical correlating mentioned by Wittgenstein in 1939.

Monday, May 16, 2016

Sermons

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:06 pm

Click the tweets below for a related news story.

See also this  journal on the same weekend —

Friday, March 11, through Monday, March 14, 2016.

A sample —

From the Wikipedia article Bauhaus (band) —

"On 31 October 2013 (Halloween), 
David J and Jill Tracy released 
'Bela Lugosi's Dead (Undead Is Forever),' 
a cinematic piano-led rework of
'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'"

Saturday, March 12, 2016

For the Church of Synchronology*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:16 pm

From the Wikipedia article Bauhaus (band)

"On 31 October 2013 (Halloween), David J and Jill Tracy released
'Bela Lugosi's Dead (Undead Is Forever),' a cinematic piano-led
rework of 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'"

Halloween 2013 here  (click to enlarge) —

* See "synchronolog…" in this journal.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

New York Values

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

The phrase "experimental techniques" in the previous post
suggests the following words and images.

From The New York Times  online this evening —

"Think 'Barton Fink' meets 'A Serious Man.' 
With dancing."

Okay

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10/100223-Rabbi.jpg

"When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies….
"

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110714-BauhausRoof.jpg

"We're entering Weimar, baby."
— Peggy Noonan

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

How Deep the Darkness

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:29 am

Continues.

See Bauhaus remarks on space and Devil's Night Eve.

See also Klein Group and, for the Harvard Graduate
School of Design, an appropriate Calvin Klein label —

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Event

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:30 pm

"Bauhaus Designs for Modern Life
Come to the Harvard Art Museums
for this Gallery Talk at 12:30."

Another design —

Street view in Oslo, August 2014 :  

Take a walk on the wild side… or not.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Cube Design

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

For Aaron Sorkin and Walter Isaacson

Related material — 
Bauhaus CubeDesign Cube, and
Nabokov's Transparent Things .

Friday, June 12, 2015

Space

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:37 pm

Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
erfassen und gestalten?”

Walter Gropius,

The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus
  (1923)

This post was suggested by the Bauhaus song
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" at the beginning of the
1983 Tony Scott classic "The Hunger."

Sign

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm


"Now we're partners in crime" — Ace of Base, "The Golden Ratio"

Or not.

"The Hunger" (1983) was directed by Tony Scott.

See also Tony Scott in this journal.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The Lindbergh Manifesto

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:24 am

"Creation is the birth of something, and
something cannot come from nothing."

— Photographer Peter Lindbergh at his website

From a biography of Lindbergh —

" it took Lindbergh awhile to find his true métier.
Born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1944….
Barely out of his teens, he became a painter who
embraced conceptual art and — for reasons he
has since forgotten — adopted the professional
name « Sultan. »   Lindbergh was a few years
short of his 30th birthday when he turned to
photography."

— "The Man Who Loves Women," by Pamela Young,
Toronto Globe & Mail , September 19, 1996

A Lindbergh work (at right below) from his conceptual-art days —

For a connection between the above work by Paul Talman and the
above "Mono Type 1" of Lindbergh, see…

Saturday, April 11, 2015

The Starbird Manifesto

"But what was supposed to be the source of a compound's
authority? Why, the same as that of all new religious movements:
direct access to the godhead, which in this case was Creativity."

— Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House

"Creativity is not a matter of magical inspiration."

— Burger and Starbird, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking  (2012) 

Video published on Oct 19, 2012

"In this fifth of five videos, mathematics professor
Michael Starbird talks about the fifth element
in his new book, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking ,
co-authored with Williams College professor
Edward B. Burger." 

For more on the Starbird manifesto, see Princeton University Press.

An excerpt —

See also a post for Abel's Birthday, 2011 —  
Midnight in Oslo — and a four-elements image from
the Jan. 26, 2010, post Symbology —

Logo for 'Elements of Finite Geometry'.

Yale Mot

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:01 pm

From a New York Post  review of "Clouds of Sils Maria,"
a film that opened yesterday —

"Assayas [the writer-director] evidently thinks he’s
being daring and original and avant-garde in leaving
so much open-ended. But you can tell what really
interests him isn’t doing the work of a serious artist
but the comfy trappings of one — the swank dining
rooms, the posh cars with drivers always at the ready.
What’s French for bourgeois? Never mind.
'Clouds' isn’t a film but an idea for a film —
unfinished, unsatisfying, undergraduate."

Kyle Smith, Yale '89

From this date last year:

"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Halloween Manifestos, 2013:

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Here and at Catholics for Classical Education.

See also Tom Wolfe on manifestos —

Wolfe on manifestos in 'From Bauhaus to Our House'

— and part of an interesting Sept. 2, 2014, manifesto by
Common Core supporter Keith Devlin:

“Graduate students of mathematics are introduced to further
assumptions (about handling the infinite, and various other issues),
equally reasonable and useful, and in accord both with our everyday
intuitions (insofar as they are relevant) and with the rest of
mainstream mathematics. And on the basis of those assumptions,
you can prove that

1 + 2 + 3 + … = –1/12.

That’s right, the sum of all the natural numbers equals –1/12.

This result is so much in-your-face, that people whose mathematics
education stopped at the undergraduate level (if they got that far)
typically say it is wrong. It’s not. Just as with the 0.999… example,
where we had to construct a proper meaning for an infinite decimal
expansion before we could determine what its value is, so to we
have to define what that infinite sum means. ….”

For a correction to Devlin’s remarks, see a physics professor’s weblog post —

“From a strictly mathematical point of view,
the equation 1+2+3+4+ … = -1/12 is incorrect,
and involves confusing the Dirichlet series with
the zeta function.”  — Greg Gbur, May 25, 2010

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