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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Deconstructing Alice

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Cullinane Cube, Modernism, Pitch Fork, Solomon's Cube — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Alyssa is Wonderland

Manohla Dargis in The New York Times yesterday—

“Of course the character of Carroll’s original Alice is evident in each outrageous creation she dreams up in ‘Wonderland’ and in the sequel, ‘Through the Looking-Glass,’ which means that she’s a straight man to her own imagination. (She is Wonderland.)”

Alyssa Milano as a child, with fork

From Inside the White Cube—

“The sacramental nature of the space becomes clear, and so does one of the great projective laws of modernism: as modernism gets older, context becomes content. In a peculiar reversal, the object introduced into the gallery ‘frames’ the gallery and its laws.”

From Yogi Berra–

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Related material: For Baron Samedi and…

Symbology
Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube
Jacques Derrida on the Looking-Glass garden, 'The Time before First,' and Solomon's seal

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Symbology

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Cullinane Cube, Solomon's Cube, Solomon's Mines — m759 @ 9:00 pm

From this journal:

Friday December 5, 2008

m759 @ 1:06 PM

Mirror-Play of
the Fourfold

For an excellent commentary
on this concept of Heidegger,

View selected pages
from the book

Dionysus Reborn:

Play and the Aesthetic Dimension
in Modern Philosophical and
Scientific Discourse

(Mihai I. Spariosu,
Cornell U. Press, 1989)

Related material:
the logo for a
web page–

– and Theme and Variations.

Transition to the
Garden of Forking Paths–

(See For Baron Samedi)–

The Found Symbol
Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube

and Dissemination, by Jacques Derrida,
translated by Barbara Johnson,
London, Athlone Press, 1981–

Pages 354-355
On the mirror-play of the fourfold

Pages 356-357
Shaking up a whole culture

Pages 358-359
Cornerstone and crossroads

Pages 360-361
A deep impression embedded in stone

Pages 362-363
A certain Y, a certain V

Pages 364-365
The world is Zeus's play

Page 366
It was necessary to begin again

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

For Baron Samedi

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Cullinane Cube, Solomon's Cube — m759 @ 9:00 am

Yesterday's Times —

Today's Times —

Annals of Deconstruction —

Click on image for background.

Related material
for Baron Samedi —

The Found Symbol
Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube
Jacques Derrida on the Looking-Glass garden, 'The Time before First,' and Solomon's seal

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Wednesday September 16, 2009

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Cullinane Cube, Solomon's Cube — m759 @ 11:07 am

The Found Symbol
Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube

Jacques Derrida on the Looking-Glass garden, 'The Time before First,' and Solomon's seal

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Saturday May 10, 2008

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Antonelli, Cube School, Cullinane Cube, Design Cube, Eightfold Cube, Geometry, Kidshapes, Solomon's Cube, Solomon's Mines, The Building-Block Metaphor — m759 @ 8:00 am

MoMA Goes to
Kindergarten

"… the startling thesis of Mr. Brosterman's new book, 'Inventing Kindergarten' (Harry N. Abrams, $39.95): that everything the giants of modern art and architecture knew about abstraction they learned in kindergarten, thanks to building blocks and other educational toys designed by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who coined the term 'kindergarten' in the 1830's."

— "Was Modernism Born
     in Toddler Toolboxes?"
   by Trip Gabriel, New York Times,
     April 10, 1997

RELATED MATERIAL

Figure 1 —
Concept from 1819:

Cubic crystal system
(Footnotes 1 and 2)

Figure 2 —
The Third Gift, 1837:

Froebel's third gift

Froebel's Third Gift

Froebel, the inventor of
kindergarten, worked as
an assistant to the
crystallographer Weiss
mentioned in Fig. 1.

(Footnote 3)

Figure 3 —
The Third Gift, 1906:

Seven partitions of the eightfold cube in 'Paradise of Childhood,' 1906

Figure 4 —
Solomon's Cube,
1981 and 1983:

Solomon's Cube - A 1981 design by Steven H. Cullinane

Figure 5 —
Design Cube, 2006:

Design Cube 4x4x4 by Steven H. Cullinane

The above screenshot shows a
moveable JavaScript display
of a space of six dimensions
(over the two-element field).

(To see how the display works,
try the Kaleidoscope Puzzle first.)

For some mathematical background, see

Footnotes:

1. Image said to be after Holden and Morrison, Crystals and Crystal Growing, 1982
2. Curtis Schuh, "The Library: Biobibliography of Mineralogy," article on Mohs
3. Bart Kahr, "Crystal Engineering in Kindergarten" (pdf), Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2004, 3-9

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Sunday, July 9, 2006

Sunday July 9, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:00 am

Today’s birthday:
Tom Hanks, star of
“The Da Vinci Code”

Ben Nicholson
and the Holy Grail

Part I:
A Current Exhibit

“Kufi Blocks“*

by Ben Nicholson,
Illinois Institute of Technology

Part II:
Some Background

A. Diamond Theory, a 1976 preprint containing, in the original version, the designs on the faces of Nicholson’s “Kufi blocks,” as well as some simpler traditional designs, and

B. “Block Designs,” a web page illustrating design blocks based on the 1976 preprint.

Part III:
The Leonardo Connection

See Modern-Day Leonardos, part of an account of a Leonardo exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry that includes Ben Nicholson and his “Kufi Blocks.”

Part IV:
Nicholson’s Grail Quest

“I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.”

— Ben Nicholson in a 2005 interview

Nicholson’s quest has apparently lasted for some time. Promotional material for a 1996 Nicholson exhibit in Montreal says it “invites visitors of all ages to experience a contemporary architect’s search for order, meaning and logic in a world of art, science and mystery.” The title of that exhibit was “Uncovering Geometry.”

For web pages to which this same title might apply, see Quilt Geometry, Galois Geometry, and Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.

* “Square Kufi” calligraphy is used in Islamic architectural ornament. I do not know what, if anything, is signified by Nicholson’s 6×12 example of “Kufi blocks” shown above.

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