Utopia or Dystopia? Discuss.
Related scenes for storyboarders —
See the city in the Amy Adams film "Her."
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Harvard’s Science Complex
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
Tribal Art
Welcome to the towel room.
From a Log24 post of February 26, 2024 —
The URL https://tri.be
of the design firm Modern Tribe . . .
Some will prefer other digital gateways . . .
Amy Adams in The Master
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Cartoon Graveyard
The following horrific images —
— were suggested by two pieces I read yesterday in
The Harvard Crimson —
"On Belonging and 'Steven Universe'" and
"Wise Words from the King."
See also a more realistic daydream, starring Amy Adams,
in the previous post, Ornamental Language.
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Friday, December 12, 2014
Vocational Education
This post was suggested by today's Harvard Crimson story
Protest at Primal Scream Leads to Chaotic Exchange.
Frederick Seidel in the September 3, 2012, New Yorker —
"Biddies still cleaned the student rooms."
Above, Amy Adams and Emily Blunt in
"Sunshine Cleaning" (2008).
The Cleaner:
A scene from Bridget Fonda's "Point of No Return" (1993)
in a video uploaded six years ago on this date.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Crimson Passion…
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Taormina Dualism
"At some point in Greek history, it was noticed that the capital upsilon—Y—
looked like a path branching left and right. The comparison, like so much
traditional material, was ascribed to the Pythagoreans, in accordance with
the dualism just mentioned; our earliest source for it, however, is as late as
the Roman poet Persius (Satires, 3.56)."
— "The Garden of Forking Paths" in the weblog
Varieties of Unreligious Experience, Nov. 21, 2006
Amy Adams at the Lancia Café in Taormina, Sicily, on June 15, 2013.
Adams was in Taormina for the Italian premiere of her Superman film.
See also this journal on that date— June 15, 2013.
Posts related to the Garden of Forking Paths: Witch Ball (Jan. 24, 2013),
Sermon for Harvard (Sept. 19, 2010), and Amy Adams + Craft.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Grim Joke
"It's a grim joke." — Amy Adams in "The Master"
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling…
Click diagram for some background from 3/17.
See, too, some background on Amy Adams and on Leap Day.
For related Harvard humor, see Venn Diagram.
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Monday, September 3, 2012
High Anxiety
IDEAS OF REFERENCE Department
New York Times online front page, 11 PM EDT today—
NOTE:
The above Times teaser on
"my obsessive-compulsive brain"
does not refer to the initials "O.C.D."
in this morning's Log24 post "Hashtag E."
The source of those initials was not
"Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," but
rather the phrase "Our Class, Dear"
in a Sept. 3, 2012, New Yorker poem —
See also an August 30 post for Amy Adams.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Translation
"Translation in the direction
conceptual -> concrete and symbolic
is much easier than
translation in the reverse direction…."
— The late William P. Thurston
(See also "Atlas to the Text," Harvard Crimson , March 8, 2011).
Related cinematic imagery
Conceptual (thanks to Don DeLillo and The New York Times )—
Concrete and symbolic (thanks to Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, as well as
Frederick Seidel in the September 3, 2012, New Yorker )—
"Biddies still cleaned the student rooms."
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