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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Old Art

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:19 pm

A related problem:
"What powers the Velvet Buzzsaw?"

Perhaps the Santa Fe Institute . . .

Logo of the Santa Fe Institute —

Perhaps Morf Vandewalt

Perhaps, as the above Hockney date suggests,
    Louis Menand —

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Area 15 Revisited: The In-Folding

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:41 pm

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."

— T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942)

For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —

The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.

See also this journal on the above opening date — July 23, 2021:

'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Cover illustration:

Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.

Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

"What happens in Canaan, stays in Canaan."

Mere Synchronology

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:25 am

The date — January 9, 2010 — of the Guardian  book review
in the previous post was noted here by a top 40 music list
from that same date in an earlier year.

Update of 4:07 AM ET the same morning:

Fans of Cormac McCarthy's recent adventures in unreality
might enjoy interpreting the time — 3:25 AM ET — of this post
as the date  3/25, and comparing the logos, both revisited
and new, in a Log24 post from 3/25 . . .

Helen Mirren with plastic Gankyil .

. . . with the logo of a venue whose motto is

"Reality is not enough."

 

Thursday, November 3, 2022

“A Lot”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:47 am

"In a typical Booth cartoon, a lot happens at once."

Cartoonish news from yesterday . . .

New Yorker  cartoon caption, not  by Booth —

"What part of Noh don't you understand?"

Scholium

The H — and …

The Crimson Abyss.

 

Saturday, October 15, 2022

A Box of Nothing . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:16 am

Continues.

"And the Führer digs for trinkets in the desert."

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Literary Symbolism: Math for Roundheads

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:47 am

"The Virginia Cavalier is a concept that attaches the qualities
of chivalry and honor to the aristocratic class in Virginia history
and literature. Its origin lies in the seventeenth century, when
leading Virginians began to associate themselves with the
Royalists, or Cavaliers, who fought for and remained loyal to
King Charles I during the English Civil Wars (1642–1648)."

— https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/virginia-cavalier-the/

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Orthogonal Latin Triangles

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:38 am

From a 1964 recreational-mathematics essay —

Note that the first two triangle-dissections above are analogous to
mutually orthogonal Latin squares . This implies a connection to
affine transformations within Galois geometry. See triangle graphics
in this  journal.

Affine transformation of 'magic' squares and triangles: the triangle Lo Shu 

Update of 4:40 AM ET —

Other mystical figures —

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

— Optimus Prime in "Transformers" (Paramount, 2007)

Friday, September 2, 2022

Kyoto Prize

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:43 pm

Related material —

Wittgenstein and Fly from Fly-Bottle

Fly from Fly Bottle

Monday, June 13, 2022

Lexical Note

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:59 am

The material linked to in the previous post
has NO connection to . . .

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Blancanieves Waltz*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:10 am

* Title suggested by the above suit of lights and the film Blancanieves . 

Sunday, May 29, 2022

“Code and Theory” Image

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:50 am

220529-Logo-like-image-codeandtheory.jpg (449×640)

For some material much more on the theory  side,
see a Log24 post from the above IG date — Nov. 18, 2020 —
in posts tagged Qubes

220529-Qubes-tab-Log24.jpg (500×256).

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Gogol Dotwork

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:06 pm

The new URL gogol.work forwards to . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=logos-and-branding .

Sunday, May 15, 2022

“Ready on the Left… Ready on the Right…”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:56 am

See also posts tagged "Will the Circle" and a Carter family song.
(The YouTube upload date on that song is not without interest.)

Friday, April 8, 2022

Souls at Stanford

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 am

Friday, February 11, 2022

Space, Piled High and Deep

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:59 pm

"… out of all things there comes a unity,
and out of a unity all things . . . . "

— Heraclitus, according to de Beer quoting McKirahan

An image we may regard as illustrating 
the group-identity symbol "e" for "Einheit " —

Simplex Sigillum Veri.

De Beer’s Consolidated Mine

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101202-DreidelAndStone.jpg

The misleading image at right above is from the cover of
an edition of Charles Williams's classic 1931 novel 
Many Dimensions  published in 1993 by Wm. B. Eerdmans.

But seriously . . .

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Architectural Record: The Dots Came

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:33 pm

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Decepticon Festival!

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

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Greek-Letter Structures

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:29 pm
 

Α, ϴ, Ω 

Alpha,    Theta,    Omega

Related line

"Falls  the  Shadow."
 

Also from a Culture Desk  of sorts:

Related art — Background colors for the letters in the NPR logo

Monday, October 18, 2021

Get Star

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:13 pm

From Log24 on July 19, 2021

Screenshots today from a social media site I joined last night —

The star in the previous post, "Logo," I drew last night for tchop use —

Thursday, October 7, 2021

The Hunt for Brechtian October  Continues:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:35 am

Diamond and Chessboard

(For Crystal Field)

"… Mr. Ferencz was a favorite of Crystal Field,
the co-founder and artistic director of Theater for the New City.

'He had the political and historical understanding that is a necessity
for socially relevant theater,' she said in a statement.

'He was a Brechtian director….' " 
Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times

"In the first trailer for The Hunt … we meet a woman by the name of
Crystal (Betty Gilpin) who discovers that although she's been told
she's in Arkansas, when she pulls a license plate off a car, she
discovers a Croatian one underneath."

     See also the previous post, featuring work by a filmmaker from Zagreb.

Saturday, September 18, 2021

In memory of Sir Clive Sinclair…

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:36 pm

… who reportedly "died at home in London on Thursday morning" —

From a Log24 post of May 25, 2005

"We will go to Asgard...now," he said.

Color Matrix

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:14 am

Thursday, August 26, 2021

The Usual Suspects

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:58 am


 

A prequel: The Coffee Detective 
 

Related images —


A logo for Stephen King . . .

… and an earlier version of that logo
    for Quentin Tarantino —

Monday, August 16, 2021

At McDonald’s

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:30 pm

Click for a webpage on McDonald.

See also . . .

                            http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101125-McDonaldLogoSm.jpg

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101125-DayTheEarth.jpg

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Risin’ Up to the Challenge of Our Rival

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:41 pm

(Short story by Charles Beaumont, "Traumerei" (Feb. 1956).)

Thursday, June 24, 2021

No Joke

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:35 pm

From posts tagged No Joke

 

Thursday, May 27, 2021

The Four  Posters

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         Diamond arrangement of the four elements

and   

Logo by Steven H. Cullinane for website on finite geometry

Monday, May 24, 2021

Frontiers of Minimal Art

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:46 pm

"… Denis fashioned a minimalist chamber
that derives eroticism from its sparseness."

HuffPost  on April 11, 2019

That remark describes a film, "High Life,"
that stars Juliette Binoche.

Binoche, along with other minimalist art, appeared here
in the post "The Triangle Induction" on May 11, 2021 —

The logo of a news site that yesterday 
[i.e., May 10, 2021] 
covered a Colorado Springs story:

Related material: 

From a 2014 review, remarks by a noted minimalist sculptor
who reportedly died at 85 on the above date … May 11, 2021.

I personally prefer remarks by Munari —

For the Church of Synchronology:

This  journal on the above HuffPost date — April 11, 2019.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The Triangle Induction (Attn: Harlan Kane)

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:23 am

Related material from Wikipedia

Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born
American novelist, journalist, and literary translator.
He is co-founder and co-editor of American literary magazine

n+1

and an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism.
Early life and education
Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen into a Jewish family in Moscow….

Some related images —

The logo of a news site that yesterday
covered a Colorado Springs story:

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Bounty Hunter: Q is for Quality

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:05 pm

The Nation  (May 7)  on Larry McMurtry's bookstore —

"It was as if a tornado had swept up Charing Cross Road
and plopped it down next to a rural Dairy Queen."

Or swept up Buckingham Palace and . . .

News story: Quality Markets will shut down 53 stores

Related philosophy —

And . . .

Friday, April 2, 2021

Another Abstract Signature

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:59 am

(See “Abstract Signature,” March 15, 2021.)


Maybe.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Significant Form

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 10:53 am


Related material —

The Teacup of Experience

Bartley's Gourmet Burgers, the former Harvard Spa

 

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Adoration of the Cube . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:53 am

Continues.

Related vocabulary —

See as well the word facet in this journal.

Analogously, one might write . . .

A Hiroshima cube  consists of 6 faces ,
each with 4 squares called facets ,
for a total of 24 facets. . . ."

(See Aitchison's Octads , a post of Feb. 19, 2020.)

Click image to enlarge.  Background: Posts tagged 'Aitchison.'"

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Ellery Queen’s Gambit

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:57 pm

In memory of a mystery writer who reportedly died on Dec. 27, 2020 —

Posts tagged "Logo Animation" from around that date in this  journal,
along with yesterday's post "Enchantments," suggest… a link.

Sunday, December 27, 2020

V

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:17 pm

From today’s post “Logo Animation” —

Related material from the art world —

Related entertainment —

“V. is whatever lights you to
 the end of the street:  she is
 also the dark annihilation
 waiting at the end of the street.”
 (Tony Tanner, page 36,  "V. and V-2," in
  Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays,
  ed. Edward Mendelson.
  Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55).

Midrash — Other posts tagged Annihilation.

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Associative Logic

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:14 am

“The bureaucratic innovations of the New Deal
fed into the powerful associative logic
of commonsense reasoning,
leading a number of Americans to equate science
with the technocratic, managerial liberalism
of Roosevelt and his allies.”

http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/
andrew-jewett-how-americans-came-distrust-science

From a Log24 search for “Notes Toward” —

Steven H. Cullinane, 'The Line'

“Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
Incipit and a form to speak the word
And every latent double in the word….”
— Wallace Stevens,
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Q is for Quelle

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

Compare and contrast (data from Amazon.com) — 

Update of 9:47 PM ET the same day —

Logo of the above publisher:

For remarks from the most recent equinox,
see posts tagged Abrams Eight.

Monday, October 19, 2020

A Moritat for Macalester

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:13 am

The previous post, "Frame Analysis," was about a death
related to Macalester College.

Wikipedia on the man for whom the college was named —

"In the 1870s, Rev. Dr. Edward Duffield Neill turned to
Macalester  for sponsorship for the failing institution
in Minnesota known as Jesus College. "

Logos —

"On the sidewalk Sunday morning …"

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Sprechen Sie Neutsch?

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:06 pm

Related images —

Springer logo - A chess knight

Chess Knight
(in German, Springer)

See also…

Katherine Neville's 'The Eight,' edition with knight on cover, on her April 4 birthday

Sunday, August 2, 2020

The Sword and the Stone

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:42 pm

A post of May 26, 2005, displays, if not the sword,
a place  for it —

Drama of the Diagonal

"The beautiful in mathematics resides in contradiction.
Incommensurability, logoi alogoi, was the first splendor
in mathematics." — Simone Weil, Oeuvres Choisies,
éd. Quarto
, Gallimard, 1999, p. 100

Logos Alogos  by S. H. Cullinane

"To a mathematician, mathematical entities have their own existence,
they habitate spaces created by their intention.  They do things,
things happen to them, they relate to one another.  We can imagine
on their behalf all sorts of stories, providing they don't contradict
what we know of them.  The drama of the diagonal, of the square…"

— Dennis Guedj, abstract of "The Drama of Mathematics," a talk
to be given this July at the Mykonos conference on mathematics and
narrative. For the drama of the diagonal of the square, see

Friday, July 24, 2020

Social Prisms

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:37 am

IMAGE- 'American Hustle' and Art Cube

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

“The Pattern of the Thing Precedes the Thing” — Nabokov

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:51 am
 

Subtitles from “Laurel Canyon,” a 2002 film —

7
00:01:05,732 –> 00:01:07,651
Oh, God.

8
00:01:07,818 –> 00:01:11,905
Oh, Lord. Oh, Jesus.

Related logo with “Fork me on GitHub” ribbon

When you come to a fork . . .” — Yogi Berra

Friday, June 19, 2020

Searching for Pinter. . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:56 pm

In memory of an actor who in films played Bilbo Baggins,
but on the stage was most closely identified with works by
Harold Pinter, especially “The Homecoming.”

A search for Pinter in this journal yields, as well as the playwright,
some posts tagged The Pinterest Directive.  These include . . .

Related image — The square and circle pictured here yesterday

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Sister Act

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:53 pm
Maria Shriver, a contributor for NBC’s “TODAY,” remembered her aunt as an “extraordinary woman.”

Smith “had a great career on behalf of this country as ambassador to Ireland promoting peace there and also started very special arts for people with intellectual disabilities,” Shriver said on the 3rd hour of “TODAY.”

“So I take solace in the fact that she is joining every other member of her family up in heaven. So it’s nice for her,” she added.

Smith was born on Feb. 20, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts to Rose and Joseph Kennedy.

Related graphic design:

Feb. 20 square and June 17 Circle.

Related entertainment: “The Foreigner” (2017 film) and . . .

Devs Crown

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:12 am

https://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=GFX2IP0RMJR7

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Compare and Contrast

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:42 pm

From  IACSCW Journal ,  Issue 1,  Winter 2013 ,
Published on Mar 14, 2014  —
http://chinaandthewest.org/ —

Related material —

Saturday, May 16, 2020

Bullshit Studies

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:59 pm

From https://www.mathunion.org/outreach/logos/versions-all-logos

Click the logo for some IMU history.

Related bullshit —

Hegel’s Conceptual Group Action

Click the banner below for the background of the logo

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Raumkraft

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:35 am

A logo that appeared in the above 2014 photo —

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Compare and Contrast.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:38 pm

 

Logos —

 

 

See also Devs .

Friday, February 21, 2020

To and Fro, Back and …

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:44 pm

Also on January 27, 2017 . . .

For other appearances of John Hurt here,
see 1984 Cubes.

Update of 12:45 AM Feb. 22 —

A check of later obituaries reveals that Hurt may well
have died on January 25, 2017, not January 27 as above.

Thus the following remarks may be more appropriate:

Not to mention what, why, who, and how.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Steam Heat (Pace Stephen King and Bob Fosse)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:23 am

[Steam calliope plays] As a stationary object,
it always needs to be activated.
— Kara Walker at

https://amara.org/en/videos/WyaakarvecMR/info/
kara-walker-jason-moran-sending-out-a-signal-
art21-extended-play/

Backstory —

See also this  journal on the above "catastrophe" weekend.

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Multispeech

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:09 pm

See the title in this journal. Related material —
"Aimee Lucido's New Yorker puzzle" (answers shown)
in Diary of a Crossword Fiend,  and The Demolished Man 
in this  journal.

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Columbus Day 2004

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:02 pm

A followup to the previous post:

Related material — A web page on chess cached for use in a
Log24 post on the date of the above post, Columbus Day, 2004.

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Evening of the Iguana

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:42 pm

Art notes —

See also the "Night of the Iguana" logo by Saul Bass,
a student of Gyorgy Kepes.

Postscript for synchronologists — 

See this  journal on that date:  Nov. 6, 2011.

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Morning of the Iguana

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:03 am

Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker  this morning

" mysteriously durable manner of mythical depiction,
which runs forward to Egyptian wall paintings and,
for that matter, to modern animation. Therianthropes,
it seems, reflect the symbolic practice of giving to
humans the powers of animals, a shamanistic rite
that seems tied to the origins of religion, and here it is,
for the first time, a startup.

 one of the human figures, we’re told, has
'a tapering profile that possibly merges into the base
of a thick tail and with short, curved limbs splayed out
to the side. In our opinion, this part of the body resembles
the lower half of a lizard or crocodile. …' "

Related art

Logo by Saul Bass.

Sunday, November 17, 2019

E-Elements Revisited

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:22 am

The German mathematician Wolf Barth in the above post is not the
same person as the Swiss artist Wolf Barth in today's previous post.

An untitled, undated, picture by the latter

Compare and contrast with an "elements" picture of my own

Logo for 'Elements of Finite Geometry'

and with . . .

“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical.  Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”

Many Dimensions  (1931), by Charles Williams

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Salem Plea

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:25 pm

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Yellow Book

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:37 am

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Stage Direction: “Comments Off.”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:29 am

The previous post dealt with “magic” cubes, so called because of the
analogous “magic” squares. Douglas Hofstadter has written about a
different, physical , object, promoted as “the  Magic Cube,” that Hofstadter
felt embodied “a deep invariant”:

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Black Feathers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:44 am

See also this morning's previous post, Peacock News.

"And all of the colors are black." — Paul Simon

Peacock* News

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

* The title of course refers to the NBC logo. 
   See also other instances of "Peacock" in this  journal.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Tiger’s Leap  to 1905

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:03 pm

Walter Benjamin on 'a tiger's leap into the past'

See other posts
now tagged
Crosswicks Curse.

 

Click to enlarge:

Block Designs?

Friday, August 23, 2019

Baseado

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:31 pm

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Time Fold Revisited

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:01 am

British cover (2011) for 'From Eternity to Here,' by Sean Carroll

(Oneworld Publications, Jan. 3, 2011)

Compare and contrast with an illustration
from "Time Fold," a webpage of Oct. 10, 2003 —

See also the Squarespace logo:

Sunday, July 7, 2019

Mine Games: Six Degrees

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:49 am

From yesterday's post Mythos and Logos

 .

On January 20, 2011 —

Also on January 20, 2011 —

Friday, June 28, 2019

A Velvet Buzzsaw*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:40 pm

Logo of the Santa Fe Institute

* See posts tagged The Malkovich Pictures.

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Burning Bright

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

Gell-Mann's 'eightfold way' as 'a mosaic of simple triangular building blocks' — George Johnson, 1999

Compare and contrast with . . .

The Brightburn Logo:

Related material from the May 12 post

"The Collective Unconscious
in a Cartoon Graveyard
" —

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,' he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast. Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in, sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Fire on the Water

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:13 pm

Related literary remarks from The Crimson Abyss 
(a Log24 post of March 29, 2017) —

Prospero's Children  was first published by HarperCollins,
London, in 1999. A statement by the publisher provides
an instance of the famous "much-needed gap." —

"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children 
steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
  and Clive Barker’s Weaveworld , and
is destined to become a modern classic."

Related imagery from The Crimson Abyss —

See as well posts of June 6, 2004, and May 22, 2004.

Friday, March 22, 2019

Charles Jencks’s Grand Unified Theory

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

"The stars and galaxies seem static, eternal, or moving slowly
in deterministic patterns, becoming the background stage
on which we move. But if we could speed up the sequence,
we would see how dramatic and unpredictable this background
really is — an actor, director, script and stage all at once.
Moreover, it is a unified universe, a single unfolding event
of which we are an embedded part, a narrative of highly
dangerous and fine-tuned events, something more like
a detective thriller with many crimes and last-minute escapes
than the impersonal account of astronomy textbooks.
We are only just beginning to decipher the plot and figure out
the Cosmic Code, as Heinz Pagels puts it."

— Charles Jencks, The Architecture of the Jumping Universe :
A Polemic
  (How Complexity Science is Changing Architecture
and Culture), Academy Editions, 1995, rev. ed. 1997

"A Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is a model in particle physics…."
Wikipedia

"Under the GUT symmetry operation these field components
transform into one another. The reason quantum particles 
appear to have different properties in nature is that the unifying
symmetry is broken. The various gluons, quarks and leptons
are analogous to the facets of a cut diamond, which appear
differently according to the way the diamond is held but in
fact are all manifestations of the same underlying object."

— Heinz Pagels, Perfect Symmetry , Bantam paperback, 1986, p. 284

See also the recent post Multifaceted Narrative.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Design Warmed Over

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Today's announcement of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize
to Arata Isozaki suggests a review.

Isozaki designed the Museum of Contemporary Art building
in Los Angeles in 1986.

A related article from May 19, 2010 —

An excerpt from the Walker article — 

Throwback fun with Chermayeff and Geismar —

Other news published on May 19, 2010 —

See also "Character of Permanence" in this  journal.

Monday, March 4, 2019

Variations on a Theme

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:11 pm

Found on the Web today —

In a Google search:


At Instagram:

Monday, February 18, 2019

For Times Square…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:45 pm

and the Church of Synchronology

The date of the Urban Dictionary "Joy of Six"
article in this afternoon's previous post was Oct. 15, 2016.

A check of that date in this journal yielded a post titled "Word and Object"
that featured an image of a sailor in Times Square.

Related material encountered later this afternoon —

From the "Word and Object" post

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Eleven’s Rosebud

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:16 pm

The previous post suggests a review.

On December 11 (click to enlarge) —

Related image from this  journal on December 11 ("Carried Away") —

The new American Mathematical Society logo suggests 
the Jamaican Bobsled Team:

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Carried Away

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"The word 'ablative' derives from the Latin ablatus ,
the (irregular) perfect passive participle of auferre 'to carry away'.[1]"

Etymology of 'profane'

Example —

See as well Cicero, In Verrem II. 1. 46

He reached Delos. There one night he secretly 46 
carried off, from the much-revered sanctuary of 
Apollo, several ancient and beautiful statues, and 
had them put on board his own transport. Next 
day, when the inhabitants of Delos saw their sanc- 
tuary stripped of its treasures, they were much 
distressed . . . .
Delum venit. Ibi ex fano Apollinis religiosissimo 
noctu clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque anti- 
quissima, eaque in onerariam navem suam conicienda 
curavit. Postridie cum fanum spoliatum viderent ii 
qui Delum incolebant, graviter ferebant . . . .

Monday, December 3, 2018

We See Your Documents.

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Monday, November 5, 2018

High Life at Sils Maria

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Related art —

Sunday, November 4, 2018

“Look Up” — The Breakthrough Prize* Theme This Evening

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Looking up images for "The Space Theory of Truth" this evening —

Detail  (from the post "Logos" of Oct. 14)

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=53323

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Ojos

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

From the Hulu series 'The Path,' the Eye logo

A better term than "phase space" might be "story space."

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Art Trail

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“There’s always a place at the edge of our knowledge,
where what’s beyond is unimaginable, and that edge,
of course, moves.” — Physicist Leon Lederman in
The New York Times  yesterday afternoon.

An image from Florence, SC
 

Click image for related material.

Thursday, September 20, 2018

1971 Mystery Box

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Vincent Canby in The New York Times 
January 28, 1971, reviews the film "The Statue" —

There is not much point in going into the dialogue,
but you'll get the idea from the line spoken by
a little girl who is shown gazing in wonderment
at the copy of Michelangelo's work in the
Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
"Golly," she says, "if that's David, I'd like to see Goliath!"
"The Statue" may have the distinction of being the first
adolescent comedy about penis envy. 

In keeping with filmmaker J.J. Abrams's philosophy of the "mystery box"

Canby's phrase "you'll get the idea" suggests a Log24 review . . .

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100626-Theories.jpg

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Castle Rock

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See the title in a TV review* from io9 this morning and in
this  journal.

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180822-io9-URL-and-logo.jpg

* Spoiler alert

Monday, July 23, 2018

Now Witness

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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Jewish Oases

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"… Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the Juilliard String Quartet,
and the Strand Book Store remained  oases
for cultural and intellectual stimulation."

John S. Friedman in The Forward , Jan. 21, 2018

Read more: 

https://forward.com/culture/392483/
how-fred-bass-dan-talbot-robert-mann
-shaped-new-york-culture/

From  the Oasis  in Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" (2018) —

I prefer, from a Log24 search for Flux Capacitor

Symbologist Robert Langdon views a corner of Solomon's Cube

From "Raiders of the Lost Images" —

"The cube shape of the lost Mother Box,
also known as the Change Engine,
is shared by the Stone in a novel by
Charles Williams, Many Dimensions .
See the Solomon's Cube webpage."

Monday, May 14, 2018

Blackboard Jungle continues . . .

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… from previous posts on Paul Lockhart.

For more on the new logo of the AMS as a symbol of
politically correct mediocrity, see a post of Jan. 10, 2018.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

A Deathly Triangle

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'Imprisoned in a Tesseract,' a study of novelist James Blish

Monday, April 23, 2018

Super Symmetry Surfing

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Midrash —

    

Backstory — Search this journal for Taormina.

Sunday, April 22, 2018

The Omega Matrix

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(Continued)

Angels and Demons cross within a diamond (page 306), and Finite Geometry logo

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Kalispell Images

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A Getty logo —

J. Paul Getty and Minotaur, according to Hollywood —

Michelle Williams on art —

A page on Kalispell, Williams's home town

A book by Vachel Lindsay on the area near Kalispell —

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Design

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

From a Log24 post of Feb. 5, 2009 —

Design Cube 2x2x2 for demonstrating Galois geometry

An online logo today —

See also Harry Potter and the Lightning Bolt.

 

Monday, April 2, 2018

Review

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See the posts of April 1 three years ago.

Some context from a personal Kindle library —

"Elementary Mathematics from an Ad" suggests . . .

Friday, March 30, 2018

Unorthodox Drama

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:29 pm

The online New York Times  this evening has an obituary
for "an unorthodox … drama scholar" who reportedly died 
on Thursday, March 22, 2018.

Some drama in this journal from around that date — in posts
tagged "The Cubes" — includes the following excerpt from
a graphic novel:

"Program or be programmed."
— A saying by the author of the above graphic novel.

Friday, March 23, 2018

From the Personal to the Platonic

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:01 am

On the Oslo artist Josefine Lyche —

"Josefine has taken me through beautiful stories,
ranging from the personal to the platonic
explaining the extensive use of geometry in her art.
I now know that she bursts into laughter when reading
Dostoyevsky, and that she has a weird connection
with a retired mathematician."

Ann Cathrin Andersen
    http://bryggmagasin.no/2017/behind-the-glitter/

Personal —

The Rushkoff Logo

— From a 2016 graphic novel by Douglas Rushkoff.

See also Rushkoff and Talisman in this journal.

Platonic —

The Diamond Cube.

Compare and contrast the shifting hexagon logo in the Rushkoff novel above 
with the hexagon-inside-a-cube in my "Diamonds and Whirls" note (1984).

Friday, February 23, 2018

Snow Games

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'Origin' (NOT by Dan Brown)

Related material — (Click to enlarge) —

"Risin' up to the challenge of our rival"

Eye of the Tiger

Detail —

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Into the Upside Down

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(Title suggested by the TV series Stranger Things )

" 'Untitled' (2016) is the most recent painting in the show
and includes one of Mr. Johns’s recurring images of a ruler."

— Image caption in an article by Deborah Solomon
     in The New York Times  online, Feb. 7, 2018
 

From a Log24 search for "Ruler"

Related art —

See also, in this journal, Magic Mountain and Davos.

Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

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(Continued)

From a Log24 post of March 4, 2008 —

SINGER, ISAAC:
"Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?"
— Top of the News 29 (Nov. 1972): 32-36.

"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments
'slice of life' and chaos in children's literature. Maintains that
children like good plots, logic, and clarity, and that they
have a concern for 'so-called eternal questions.'"

— An Annotated Listing of Criticism
by Linnea Hendrickson

"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to
her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and to their father,
who were deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract: the square squared,
and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time."

— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
by Madeleine L'Engle

Cover of 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet' and picture of tesseract

For "the dimension of time," see A Fold in TimeTime Fold,
and Diamond Theory in 1937

A Swiftly Tilting Planet  is a fantasy for children 
set partly in Vespugia, a fictional country bordered by
Chile and Argentina.

Ibid.

The pen's point:

Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08

Note the figure on the cover of National Review  above —

A related figure from Pentagram Design

See, more generally,  Isaac Singer  in this  journal.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Graphic Design

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By Wink-Minneapolis

Friday, January 19, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

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(Continued)

Jodie Foster in  a Dec. 15, 2017, sketch  with Stephen Colbert —

"People invest in and take ownership of brands,
and they wonder why the brand didn’t
ask their permission to change."

— Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design
in  a Design Week  article  of Jan. 17, 2018

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Plea

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Ken Yuszkus, Salem News  staff photo

SALEM — The former MIT professor from Hamilton
accused of trying to swindle his son’s widow and children
out of nearly $5 million pleaded not guilty to the charges
on Friday in Salem Superior Court. 

John Donovan Sr., 75, was clutching a set of rosary beads
as he entered his plea before Judge Timothy Feeley. 

Donovan was indicted last month by an Essex County grand jury
on 13 counts, including larceny, forgery and witness intimidation. 

. . . .


— Julie Manganis, Salem News  staff writer, Jan. 13, 2018

See also other posts tagged Systems Programming.

Monday, December 18, 2017

Wheelwright and the Dance

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:00 pm

The page preceding that of yesterday's post  Wheelwright and the Wheel —

See also a Log24 search for 
"Four Quartets" + "Four Elements".

A graphic approach to this concept:

"The Bounded Space" —

'Space Cross' from the Cullinane diamond theorem

"The Fire, Air, Earth, and Water" —

Logo for 'Elements of Finite Geometry'

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Wheelwright and the Wheel

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Wheelwright on 'the still point' at the center of a turning wheel, in 'The Burning Fountain'

From the 1968 "new and revised edition" —

See also the previous post.

For the phrase "burning fountain," see Shelley's "Adonais,"
as well as Logos (a post of Dec. 4) and The Crimson Abyss.

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Triptychs

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:24 am

Two readings by James Parker —

From next year’s first Atlantic  issue

New Testament 'logos' in a review of a David Bentley Hart translation.

From last month’s Atlantic  issue

“Let’s return to that hillside where Clayton exited his Mercedes.
In the gray light, he climbs the pasture. Halfway up the slope,
three horses are standing: sculpturally still, casually composed
in a perfect triptych of horsitude.”

James Parker in The Atlantic , Nov. 2017 issue

Logos-related material 

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Trends

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"The philosopher Jerry Fodor was important for the same reason
you’ve probably never heard of him: he was unimpressed,
to put it politely, by the intellectual trends of the day."

—  Stephen Metcalf in The New Yorker , Dec. 12, 2017

See also "The French Invasion," a Dec. 11 Quarterly Conversation
essay about Derrida in Baltimore in 1966, and the Dec. 10 posts
in this  journal tagged Interlacing Derrida. (The deplorable Derrida
trend is apparently still alive in Buffalo.)

According to Metcalf, Fodor's "occasional review-essays in the L.R.B. 
were masterpieces of a plainspoken and withering sarcasm. To Steven
Pinker’s suggestion that we read fiction because ' it supplies us with a
mental catalogue of the fatal conundrums we might face someday,' for
instance, Fodor replied, ' What if it turns out that, having just used the ring
that I got by kidnapping a dwarf to pay off the giants who built me my
new castle, I should discover that it is the very ring that I need in order to
continue to be immortal and rule the world? ' "

In the Fodor-Pinker dispute, my sympathies are with Pinker.

Related material — Google Sutra (the previous Log24 post) and earlier posts
found in a Log24 search for Ring + Bear + Jung —

Four Colours and Waiting for Logos.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Google Sutra

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Suggested by a Diamond Sutra webpage, by a recent Log24 post . . .

Logos for Philosophers
(Suggested by Modal Logic) —

Nietzsche, 'law in becoming' and 'play in necessity'

. . . and by the Google Play Store logo —

For further details, see . . .

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/
Gemmell_William_The_Diamond_Sutra_Chin_kang_ching?
id=VufuAgAAQBAJ
.

Pivot

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A Web search for "diamond pivot bright" yields . . .

Page 103 of 'Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry,' by L. S. Dembo


An "irrational image" from Log24 (Nov. 26, 2002) —
 

"The beautiful in mathematics resides in contradiction.  
Incommensurability, logoi alogoi , was the first splendor
in mathematics."

Simone Weil, Oeuvres Choisies , 
éd. Quarto, Gallimard, 1999, p. 100

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Goethe on All Souls’ Day

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David E. Wellbery on Goethe

From an interview published on 2 November 2017 at

http://literaturwissenschaft-berlin.de/interview-with-david-wellbery/

as later republished in 

https://thepointmag.com/2017/dialogue/
irreducible-significance-david-wellbery-literature-goethe-cavell
 —

 

The logo at left above is that of The Point .
The menu icon at right above is perhaps better
suited to illustrate Verwandlungslehre .

Weyl on symmetry, the eightfold cube, the Fano plane, and trigrams of the I Ching

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Review

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 7:04 pm
 

Sunday, October 29, 2017

File System… Unlocked

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. . . .

"Wikipedia's first true logo . . . . included a quote from the preface
of Euclid and His Modern Rivals  by Lewis Carroll . . . ." 

. . . .

Related dialogue from the new film "Unlocked" —

1057
01:31:59,926 –> 01:32:01,301
Nice to have you back, Alice.

1058
01:32:04,009 –> 01:32:05,467
Don't be a stranger.

See as well Chloë Grace Moretz portraying  a schoolgirl problem.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

File System… Unlocked

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Logo from the above webpage

See also the similar structure of  the eightfold cube,  and

Related dialogue from the new film "Unlocked"

1057
01:31:59,926 –> 01:32:01,301
Nice to have you back, Alice.

1058
01:32:04,009 –> 01:32:05,467
Don't be a stranger.

Sunday, October 15, 2017

An Interesting Symbol

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"His story is tragic and fascinating, but also
an interesting symbol for the 20th century."

"Pawn Sacrifice" review by Jordan Hoffman,
     Sept. 18, 2015

See as well William J. Lombardy's obituary in 
today's online New York Times .

Other symbols —

Logo for a current New York Times  series

A 1989 New York Times  illustration for Florence King's review of The Eight , 
a  novel by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4 —

Illustration by Rodrigo Shopis

See also recent posts now tagged Five Movements for Lombardy.

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Origin

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 12:07 pm

'Origin' (NOT by Dan Brown)

http://www.log24.com/log/pix12/120108-CardinalPreoccupied.jpg

"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Seeking Stillness

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The title is that of an exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
that opened on Sunday, September 24.

See the previous post and some Chinese background
from The Cornell Daily Sun  today —

"John W. Lewis, the University’s first professor of Chinese government
and one of the first major China specialists who came out against the
Vietnam War, died on Sept. 4 in Stanford, California. He was 86."

Still enough for you?

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Found …

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:02 pm

( A sequel to the previous post, Lost )

From a link, "A Little Boy and a Little Girl," found in a Log24
search for Andersen + Atlantic

"A few flakes of snow were falling, and one of them, rather larger
than the rest, alighted on the edge of one of the flower boxes.
This snow-flake grew larger and larger, till at last it became
the figure of a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze,
which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together.
She was fair and beautiful, but made of ice—
shining and glittering ice." — "The Snow Queen"

Related material —

Analogue of the little boy from "The Snow Queen" in "Equals" (2015) —

"Nice piece of ice." — Brendan Fraser in
"The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" (2008).

See also the concept that everything adds up to nothing in
"The Zero Theorem" (2013) 

and the Conway-Norton-Ryba theorem (2017).

Friday, September 8, 2017

Smell

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:35 pm

(Continued from the post on Vanity Fair  of September 7 with that title.)

Nivea  comes from the Latin word 
niveus/nivea/niveum , meaning 'snow-white.' "

Wikipedia

Monday, September 4, 2017

Identity Revisited

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:00 pm

From the Log24 post "A Point of Identity" (August 8, 2016) —

A logo that may be interpreted as one-eighth of a 2x2x2 array
of cubes —

The figure in white above may be viewed as a subcube representing,
when the eight-cube array is coordinatized, the identity (i.e., (0, 0, 0)).

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Limit Sermon

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 am

See also last night's post Logos .

Friday, July 28, 2017

Creeds

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:21 pm

From a novel featuring the Navier-Stokes problem —

A search for "Creed" in this journal yields
a different sort of Shiva —

For further reviews, click on the Penguin below.

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Knowing

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:31 am

"Knowing is good but knowing everything  is better."

— Tom Hanks in "The Circle"

"OK " — The Singularity

Friday, June 16, 2017

All-Spark Notes*

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

* See All Spark in this journal.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Graphical Interfaces

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:52 am

Thacker reportedly died on Monday, June 12, 2017.

This journal on that date —

Images including Plato's diamond on a tombstone

Thacker retired from Microsoft in February.

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Sequel to “The Square”* —

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:03 pm

The Cube

CodePen logo, pictured here on May 28, 2017

From YouTube, "The Cube," published on April 6, 2016

Meanwhile, also on April 6, 2016, at 2:01 AM ET 

* See The Pinterest Directive and Expanding the Spielraum.

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