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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.

From mathematician Izabella Laba today —

From Harry T. Antrim’s 1967 thesis on Eliot —

“That words can be made to reach across the void
left by the disappearance of God (and hence of all
Absolutes) and thereby reestablish some basis of
relation with forms existing outside the subjective
and ego-centered self has been one of the chief
concerns of the first half of the twentieth century.”

… And then there is the Snow White void  —

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)).

Click images for some backstories.

Related material: The Wet Hot Summa.

From "A Piece of the Storm,"
by the late poet Mark Strand —

"A snowflake, a blizzard of one…."

Previous references in this journal to the "Church of Synchronology"
suggest a review of that phrase's source —

"The fine line between hokum and rational thinking
is precisely the point of The Lost Time Accidents ;
a brick of a book not just because of its length but
because of the density of both the prose and the
ideas it contains.

It is, in a nutshell, a sweeping historical novel that's
also a love story but is rooted in time-travel
science fiction and takes on as its subject
the meaning of time itself. This is no small endeavor."

— Janelle Brown in The Los Angeles Times
     on February 4, 2016

See also … 

• the previous post,
• DeLillo's new novel Zero K , and
• posts now tagged Black Diamond Logo …

For Galatea 2.2 on Eliza Doolittle Day

My Google searches are set to ignore my own private
search history. Still, I am not sure whether others would
see the same results as those below, which do  seem to
reflect rather closely my own interests.  Google-as-Galatea
perhaps based the search results partly on associations
from this weblog. An exception: the "Family Circus " novel
in the list below. I have not heard of this book before, but
it seems to be a tale analogous to Stephen King's It ,
from which the searched-for quotation below is drawn.

I prefer a different Family Circus.

* A phrase coined by the late John Archibald Wheeler.

(A sequel to today's earlier posts Cube for Berlin and Midnight for Paris.)

See London in this journal.

That search yields …

“The more intellectual, less physical,
the spell of contemplation
the more complex must be the object,
the more close and elaborate
must be the comparison
the mind has to keep making
between the whole and the parts,
the parts and the whole.”

— The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins , 
ed. by Humphry House (London: Oxford University Press, 1959),
as quoted by Philip A. Ballinger in The Poem as Sacrament 

(From the post The Inscape of 24, April 24, 2014. The 14 blocks in
the design S(3, 4, 8) of today's previous post are analogous to the 759
blocks in the design S(5, 8, 24).)

A post at 1 PM last Sunday had a link to the above image.

                                                               Album cover by Richard Ward

From the New York Times  philosophy column "The Stone"
yesterday morning —

"Our knowledge of the universe and ourselves expands
like a ripple surrounding a pebble dropped in a pool.
As we move away from the center of the spreading circle,
its area, representing our secure knowledge, grows.
But so does its circumference, representing the border
where knowledge blurs into uncertainty and speculation,
and methodological confusion returns. Philosophy patrols
the border, trying to understand how we got there and to
conceptualize our next move.  Its job is unending."

— Scott Soames, "Philosophy's True Home"

Related ripples —

       From the previous Log24 post:

From a passage by Nietzsche quoted here on June 9, 2012:

For Soames's "unending" job of philosophy and Nietzsche's 
"maieutic and educational influences on noble youths," 
consult the lyrics played over the end credits of "Monster" —

"Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on, and on, and on, and on"

On film director Stanley Kubrick:

On physics writer Peter Woit:

Illustration from a post of
Schicksalstag  2009

Continues, in memory of author Harper Lee.

For some structures, see Logo and Windows.

"Eight is a gate." — Mnemonic rhyme

Girard reportedly died at 91 on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.

(Continued)

Santa Fe Institute logo (see previous post) —

Symmetry , by Hermann Weyl —

Related material:  Bat Signal.

Adapted from posts tagged Cryptomorphisms 
in this journal:

"Hear it not, Craven, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. “

Max von Sydow in Branded  (2012)

Or:  Swan Boat for Kristen

In the recent film "Danny Collins," Al Pacino plays aging
rock star Danny and Christopher Plummer plays his agèd
agent-manager Frank …

"… when Danny tells Frank about his burgeoning relationship
with hotel manager Mary (Annette Bening), he declares happily,
'And she's age-appropriate!' 'Not really,' frowns Frank.
'Baby steps,' Danny replies."

From MAA columnist Keith Devlin yesterday :

"All very depressing. I fear that this state of affairs
will continue all the time US education continues to be
treated as a political football, with our nation’s children
and their teachers treated as pawns while various
groups fight political battles…."

See also Legespiel  in this journal.

For Mark Steinberg, sports agent .

From Field Notes (9:29 AM ET Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009) —

From the heraldic crest of Steinberg's fraternity :

"Remember me to Herald Square."

The Cumberbatch Conundrum

A quote from Benedict Cumberbatch in this journal
on Nov. 15 last year:

"… this film’s been up my ass
      for the last five years.”

The quote, in connection with today's previous post,
suggests a check of this journal five years ago.

The check yields a paper at the new research site InvenZone.

Bogus religion from a bogus "research lab" —

This was quoted approvingly in a recent book by
Joseph Jaworski, Source  (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 
1st ed. Jan. 11, 2012, pp. 2-3).

Jaworski, a lawyer-turned-guru,
in 1980 founded a cult for executives
called the American Leadership Forum.

A synchronicity cult I prefer —
the Roman Catholic Church:

Related material: This morning's NY Times  obituaries—

Scully reportedly died on Dec. 16, 2014.
See that date in this journal —

Moss on the Wall  (Continued)

Tom Cruise at the Vatican in Mission: Impossible III  (2006) —

Starring Tom Cruise as Ezekiel Moss, "a mysterious drifter
with the divine ability to channel and physically inhabit
the spirits of the dead."

— The quote is from "Philip Seymour Hoffman
Project 'Ezekiel Moss' Will Not Be Sold In Berlin*"
at Deadline.com.

See also Hereafter + Damon in this journal, as well as
the upload date for the above clip: Oct. 6, 2011.

* Here "Berlin" refers to the upcoming
    European Film Market, Feb. 6-14

"When will they ever learn?"

— Rhetorical question by the late Pete Seeger

NY Times  logo for its Learning Network  feature —

Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading —

The Times  pieces that inspired the above selection —

See also Mr. Arlington's date of death, January 16,
and Mr. Burns's date of death, January 26.

From the Bacardi website—

"Hamilton, Bermuda, December 13, 2012 —
Bacardi Limited caps off the yearlong celebration
of its 150th anniversary with the creation of a
commemorative time capsule…."

See also this journal on that date.

For Amy Adams, who in a recent
Superman film posed the question…

"What's the S stand for?"

This logo appears on the new game
Beyond: Two Souls . (See this evening's
earlier post on the game.)

In a more appealing sort of computer
entertainment, the S might stand for Scarlett.

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

(From the October 5th post Dream Girls.) 

Continues.

A Brainstorm  for Jo Lyxe :

Swastika logo of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind 
at the University of California, San Diego.

Soundtrack:  Under the Iron Sky .

Andrew Rosenthal on a government official
in "Taking Note," the New York Times  editorial
page editor's blog, at 3:12 PM today:

"… we are going to have to parse his meanings
of complex words like 'yes' and 'no.'"

Parse this, Rosenthal:

For some help, do a Google image search on "semaphore."

Google search result at 1 PM ET April 24, 2013:

New York Stage and Film 2013 Musicals – EPA – Playbill
www.playbill.com/jobs/find/job_detail/51922.html
14 hours ago – BRIGHT STAR
Casting: Howie Cherpakov
Music by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin
Lyrics by Edie Brickell Book by Steve Martin…

The musical is set in North Carolina.

From Howie Cherpakov:

From North Carolina:

Archibald Henderson monument, Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, NC

Henderson died in 1963 on the Feast of St. Nicholas.
Related material: Santa vs. the Obelisk.

The Square Fish logo was designed by Filomena Tuosto.

… In gratitude for his book Real Presences—

Will and Idea:

A related shell game:

Ad for a talk at Harvard by Nick Bostrom in April 2010—

Click ad for background on the April 10 , 2010, symposium.

See also Bostrom on the The Simulation Argument
and the Log24 April 12, 2010, Shell Game post above.

Note the black diamond logo of Bostrom's Oxford institute.

The title refers to today's previous post,
"In the Widening Gyre."

"In modal logic, specifically when representing
possible worlds, @ is sometimes used as
a logical symbol to denote the actual world 
(the world we are 'at')." —Wikipedia

"What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present."

— Four Quartets

Click the gyre on the book cover above for further details.

Leading this morning's online New York Times  
obituaries list is one for a leftist Episcopal priest.

That obituary contains a link to a 1996 Times  story — 

Old Friends, New Foes:
President and a Preacher;
One 60's Activist Runs Columbia;
One Fights It

A check for background on the Columbia president
in that story yields the following from a leftist journalist's
website in a 2012 post dated October 26 (date of the
1917 October Revolution in Russia)—

Click for further details of this leftist allegation, which is
clearly false (because based on a ludicrously bad
misreading of a Rice University puff piece), and would
be libelous if its target were alive.

See a Rice University obituary for the "Nazi spy"
in question, who died on May 25, 2010. (See also
 this journal on that date.)

The same leftist webpage contains a link to another leftist's
attack on a respected charitable organization that may
or may not have, or have had, CIA connections—

The International Rescue Committee (IRC).

In the spirit of Leonard Cohen's "then we take Berlin" lyric,
here is a note on how the IRC logo

might be rendered in a way that is, though less visually appealing,
more logical— i.e., more purely an example of Bauhaus style—

See also the recent  Black October post
on a Columbia enthusiast of the October Revolution—

(Continued from July 22)

Manhattan, July 22, 2012 — "Once upon a time, in a quiet corner
of the Middle East, there lived a shepherd named Gyges.  Despite
the hardships in his life Gyges was relatively satisfied with his meager
existence. Then, one day, he found a ring buried in a nearby cave."
Read more…

Wilson Pickett and the Holy…

L'Chaim

(Not Olympus )

(Continued from Mythopoetic, a post of April 12)

This post was suggested by a 2010 film about fictional Olympians,
by today's New York Times obituaries, and by a bar brawl at the Olympian
New York Athletic Club in "the wee hours of April 13."

Rick Riordan in the image below advertises another large
"Demigod Gathering" on October 12, 2010.

The Riordan image is from a post at ComposersCave.com
made on October 3, 2010.

Applying Jung's principle of synchronicity to this demigod material,
we find the October 3, 2010, Log24 post Search for the Basic Picture
and the October 12, 2010, Log24 post King Solomon's Mind.

Note that the latter October date is that of the traditional
Columbus Day, and that the 2010 film of The Lightning Thief   
was directed by Chris Columbus of 1492 Pictures.

The film's release was earlier in 2010, on February 12.

For Autism Awareness Month—

See George Steiner on Autistic Enchantment, as well as…

(Click images for further details.)

This year, Autism Awareness Day  was April 2.

"But even if the religious note is dissonant to some of us,
 it seems hard to come up with a better formulation
 of what a college should strive to be: an aid to reflection…."

— Andrew Delbanco, Chronicle of Higher Education , Feb. 26, 2012

Another aid to reflection—

The logo of an institution that advertised today in the Chronicle
next to Delbanco's article—

Click logo for context.  The institution's original name
was Hesperian  College. 

For some background, see Evening Star in this journal.

Dick Tufeld, Robot Voice in TV’s ‘Lost in Space,’ Dies at 85
    Wed Jan 25, 2012 23:42 from NYT Obituaries  By Bruce Weber

   "Mr. Tufeld possessed one of Hollywood’s most often-heard
   disembodied voices, especially from the 1950s through the 1970s."

In memoriam— A link from the date of Tufeld's death

"Design is how it works." —Steve Jobs

Website logo—

Screenshot from How Stuff Works—

(Click image for details.)

From "A Device Worthy of a Gothic Novel,"
Chapter XVI of The Club Dumas,
by Arturo Perez-Reverte (1993),
Vintage International, April 1998….
the basis of the 1999 Roman Polanski film
The Ninth Gate —

Aren't you going to give me a document to sign?"
"A document?"
"Yes. It used to be called a pact. Now it would be a contract
with lots of small print, wouldn't it? 'In the event of litigation,
the parties are to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of…'
That's a funny thing. I wonder which court covers this."

Perhaps the best obituary for the late Morris Philipson

(see Nov. 10) is this text, by writer W.P. Norton
(not to be confused with the publishing firm W.W. Norton).
For the text in context, see a screenshot of the Norton
weblog (which was very slow to load this morning).

The Blogspot loading logo that did  appear at Norton's
weblog suggests the following image—

LOGOS

The logo on the right is that of
The New York Times 's
philosophy weblog "The Stone."

Philipson, incidentally, reportedly died on the morning of November 3.

See the remarks of Tom Wolfe quoted here on that date.

(Click logo for details.)

NeXT in action:

This morning's post Opening Act suggests the following scholium—

To Purgatory fire you'll come at last;
And Christ receive your soul.

If ever you gave meat or drink,
Every night and all,
The fire will never make you shrink;
And Christ receive your soul.

See also The Wall Street Journal 's Ice Water in Hell story.

Followup scholium — "Vague but exciting …" —

Click on the logo for a story about
witches' response to Charlie Sheen's
"warlock" campaign.

Related material—

Dennis Overbye on the manipulation
of science news.

(Link thanks to Not Even Wrong .)

From "Mathematicians and Poets," by Cai Tianxin, in the April 2011 AMS Notices—

Gauss, “the prince of mathematics”, wrote to tell a
friend, after solving a problem (symbols of Gaussian
summation) that had been bothering him for
years, “Finally, two days ago, I succeeded—not on
account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the
Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle
was solved. I am unable to say what the conducting
thread was that connected what I previously knew
with what made my success possible.”

Gauss appears also in the results of the search for the phrase "only connect"
in this morning's Ides of Art post.

See as well the Grateful Dead logo in that post, and the following ad
shown today at Secret Blogging Seminar's Oct. 11, 2008, post
"The Sign of the Gauss Sum"—

Meditation for the Ides of March—

   Only connect.

Continued from May 18, 2010.

Previous logo for the New York Times  feature "The Stone"—

Today's new logo, appearing retroactively—

Comparison—

From the October 3 "The Stone," Hegel on Wall Street—

The “Phenomenology” is a philosophical portrait gallery that presents depictions, one after another, of different, fundamental ways in which individuals and societies have understood themselves.  Each self-understanding has two parts: an account of how a particular kind of self understands itself and, then, an account of the world that the self considers its natural counterpart.  Hegel narrates how each formation of self and world collapses because of a mismatch between self-conception and how that self conceives of the larger world.  Hegel thinks we can see how history has been driven by misshapen forms of life in which the self-understanding of agents and the worldly practices they participate in fail to correspond.  With great drama, he claims that his narrative is a “highway of despair.”

— J.M. Bernstein of the New School for Social Research

A two-part self-understanding that is not  from Hegel—

1. An account of how a particular kind of self understands itself:

2. An account of the world that the self considers its natural counterpart:

“Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
Incipit and a form to speak the word
And every latent double in the word….”

– Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

(Quoted here four years ago on October 2, 2006.)

Himmelfahrt