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Saturday, October 22, 2022

An Artist’s Phrase: “Form from Morf” — Josefine Lyche

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See also . . .

Illustration . . .

Metadata —

Friday, May 13, 2022

Lyche in Norwegian Wikipedia

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A new article on Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche was added
to the Norwegian Wikipedia on May the Fourth, 2022.

Meanwhile . . .

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Women’s History:  Lyche’s 3:4:5 Revisited

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Saturday, March 14, 2020

News for Josefine Lyche

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Artnet.com yesterday on "previously unsung or undersung
female artists working in esoteric or occult traditions" —

Thursday, October 9, 2014

October Nine: Lyche at Bodø

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Click to enlarge.

See also Apollo in this  journal.

“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.”

Katherine Neville, who deserves some sort of prize for literature.

IMAGE- Heidegger quote continued, ending with reference to Hölderlin's 'night of lunacy'

— Heidegger, “Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry,”
translated by Douglas Scott, in Existence and Being  ,
Regnery, 1949

Monday, September 30, 2013

Interview with Josefine Lyche

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For those who understand spoken Norwegian.

I do not. The interview apparently gives some

background on Lyche’s large wall version of

The 2×2 Case (Diamond Theorem) II.

(After Steven H. Cullinane)” 2012

Size: 260 x 380 cm

See also this work as displayed at a Kjærlighet til Oslo page.

(Updated March 30, 2014, to replace dead Kjaerlighet link.)

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Conceptual Acrobatics

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For Josefine Lyche . . .

Log24 on March 19, 2017

"… and all I  got was this lousy sweatshirt" —

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Interweaving

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In memory of the "Thomas Crown Affair" director, who
reportedly died at 97 on Saturday, Jan. 20 —

See as well . . .

'The Eddington Song'

Afterglow

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In memory of Penzias, who reportedly died
yesterday at 90 in San Francisco —

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Art Selfies

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marcela 211110

josefine 200815

Josefine Lyche, pentagram pony — Nov. 30, 2013

emily 240113

steven 240115

See as well "Night, Youth, Paris and the Moon" by John Collier.

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Text/Context

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Text:

"So excuse me forgetting
But these things I do
You see, I've forgotten
If they're green or they're blue"

Context:

See also . . .

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Basque Country Art Book

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Book description at Amazon.com, translated by Google —

Las matemáticas como herramienta
de creación artística

Mathematics as a tool
for artistic creation

by Raúl Ibáñez Torres

Kindle edition in Spanish, 2023

Although the relationship between mathematics and art can be traced back to ancient times, mainly in geometric and technical aspects, it is with the arrival of the avant-garde and abstract art at the beginning of the 20th century that mathematics takes on greater and different relevance: as a source of inspiration and as a tool for artistic creation. Let us think, for example, of the importance of the fourth dimension for avant-garde movements or, starting with Kandisnky and later Max Bill and concrete art, the vindication of mathematical thinking in artistic creation. An idea that would have a fundamental influence on currents such as constructivism, minimalism, the fluxus movement, conceptual art, systematic art or optical art, among others. Following this approach, this book analyzes, through a variety of examples and activities, how mathematics is present in contemporary art as a creative tool. And it does so through five branches and the study of some of its mathematical topics: geometry (the Pythagorean theorem), topology (the Moebius strip), algebra (algebraic groups and matrices), combinatorics (permutations and combinations) and recreational mathematics (magic and Latin squares).

From the book ("Cullinane Diamond Theorem" heading and picture of
book's cover added) —

Publisher:Los Libros de La Catarata  (October 24, 2023)

Author: Raúl Ibáñez Torres, customarily known as Raúl Ibáñez

(Ibáñez does not mention Cullinane as the author of the above theorem
in his book (except indirectly, quoting Josefine Lyche), but he did credit
him fully in an earlier article, "The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle"
(translation by Google).)

About Ibáñez (translated from Amazon.com by Google):

Mathematician, professor of Geometry at the University of the Basque Country
and scientific disseminator. He is part of the Chair of Scientific Culture of the
UPV/EHU and its blog Cuaderno de Cultura Cientifica. He has been a scriptwriter
and presenter of the program “Una de Mates” on the television program Órbita Laika.
He has collaborated since 2005 on the programs Graffiti and La mechanica del caracol
on Radio Euskadi. He has also been a collaborator and co-writer of the documentary
Hilos de tiempo (2020) about the artist Esther Ferrer. For 20 years he directed the
DivulgaMAT portal, Virtual Center for the Dissemination of Mathematics, and was a
member of the dissemination commission of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
Author of several books, including The Secrets of Multiplication (2019) and
The Great Family of Numbers (2021), in the collection Miradas Matemáticas (Catarata).
He has received the V José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination
(national modality, 2010) and the COSCE Prize for the Dissemination of Science (2011).

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Patterning

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

“Omega is as real  as we need it to be.”
— “The Osterman Weekend”

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For art more closely related to the title "Alpha and Omega,"
see a different view of the above Hoyersten exhibition.

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Working Blue

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Norwegian Spaceball Express

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Also on December 13, 2018  (St. Lucia's Day) —

Saturday, September 9, 2023

Introibo

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"He peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call,
then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth
glistening here and there with gold points. Chrysostomos.
Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm.

—Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely.
Switch off the current, will you?"

— Opening scene of  Ulysses

Sunday, August 20, 2023

The Little Mushroom Song

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"Weep, all you little rains,
  Wail, winds, wail,
  All along, along, along

  The Psilocybin Trail."

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Star Cube Variations

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

The Cassirer in the Rye

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From the American Mathematical Society today —

Robert Earl Tubbs (1954-2023)
May 15, 2023

"Tubbs, associate professor of mathematics at
the University of Colorado Boulder, died April 11, 2023,
at the age of 69. He received his PhD in 1981 from
Penn State University under the supervision of 
W. Dale Brownawell. His research interests included
number theory, especially transcendental number theory,
the intellectual history of mathematical ideas and mathematics,
and the humanities."

This  journal on the dies natalis  of Tubbs had the third of three
posts tagged "Space and Form."  Those posts dealt with European
cultural history related to Tubbs's interests. The "Space and Form"
posts, along with today's previous Log24 post, suggest a review of
the Nov. 10, 2021 post titled European Culture.  An image from that post —

Those who share Cassirer's enthusiasm for myth may regard the
above Josefine Lyche version of my work as a sort of "secret writing,"
to quote a phrase of Cassirer's I find very distasteful. But there is nothing
secret  about it, although there is some resemblance to written characters.

This  post's title was suggested by a Salinger quote in the European Culture post.

Update on the next day, May  17 —

Further reading in Cassirer's Mythical Thought  indicates that in the
passages above, on Schelling, he may be presenting a parody of
Schelling when he writes "a poem hidden behind a wonderful
secret writing."  Later, on page 10, he asks, sensibly, 

"… is there, perhaps, a means of retaining the question
put forward by Schelling's Philosophie der Mythologie
but of transferring it from the sphere of a philosophy of
the absolute to that of critical philosophy?"

There has reportedly been "an upsurge of interest" in Cassirer —

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Compare and Contrast

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Chris Ware, visual crossword puzzle clue, New Yorker issue dated Dec. 26, 2022.

http://www.log24.com/log/pix23/230408-NYer-crossword-puzzle-urn.jpg

"The two cover characters, who I’ve been thinking of as  and  . . ."

— Chris Ware on his New Yorker  cover for the issue dated Dec. 26, 2022.


A current art exhibition in Norway —


"Ashes to ashes ,  dust to dust ."

The Harrowing

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Excerpt of Google Book Search results tonight —

(The search, suggested by a current art exhibition, was for
"Josefine Lyche" + Cullinane . See also a 2017 post titled
"So Set 'Em Up, Jo.")

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Relief Pitcher

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Ice Medley

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"Gabriel Ice is supposed to be an 'amiable geek' 
whose greed and success as a tech entrepreneur
have turned him to the dark side, but it’s hard to
believe that this kid billionaire and his wife would
choose to live in 'deep hairband country' on the
Upper East Side, in a grand dwelling boasting a
Bösendorfer Imperial in the corner of one of its
public rooms, 'at which generations of hired piano
players have provided hours of Kander & Ebb,
Rodgers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber
medleys.' "

— Michiko Kakutani,
review of Pynchon's Bleeding Edge

Related Internet material —

See also LARB on Pynchon's fictional DeepArcher program.

Sunday, March 19, 2023

For Your Consideration

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Mank, Baez, Collins — A trip back to Christmas Eve, 2021.

Related art (via Baez) for Josefine Lyche —

See also Lyche in Log24 posts tagged Star Cube.

Thursday, December 8, 2022

Centrality Continued

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Alicia — "Gödel never says outright that there is a covenant to which all of mathematics subscribes but you get a clear sense that the hope is there. I know the allure. Some shimmering palimpsest of eternal abidement. But to claim that numbers somehow exist in the Universe with no intelligence to enable them does not require a different sort of mathematics. It requires a different sort of universe." 

Psychiatrist — "Is there such a universe?"

— McCarthy, Cormac. Stella Maris  (p. 180).
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

   A palimpsest from Oslo artist Josefine Lyche —

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Ay Que Bonito… Continues.

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Click to enlarge.

Josefine Lyche, sketch for a sculpture: "Truth, Knowledge, Belief."
The sketch itself appears to be in a transparent plastic envelope,
and the triangle figure from Finnegans Wake  is apparently from
the envelope, not from the sketch proper.

See also Epistemology in Norway.

Monday, October 3, 2022

The Abstract and the Concrete

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Counting symmetries with the orbit-stabilizer theorem

The above art by Steven H. Cullinane is not unrelated to
art by Josefine Lyche. Her work includes sculpted replicas
of the above abstract  Platonic solids, as well as replicas of
my own work related to properties of the 4×6 rectangle above.
Symmetries of both the solids and the rectangle may be
viewed as permutations of  parts — In the Platonic solids,
the parts are permuted by continuous  rotations of space itself.
In the rectangle, the parts are permuted by non-continuous 
transformations, as in the I Ching . . . i.e., by concrete  illustrations
of change.

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Epistemology in Norway

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Monday, September 19, 2022

Through a Grid, Darkly

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Techie Wordplay: “Lynx”

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On the  Lynx  web browser

"As of 2022, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained,,,,"

"The speed benefits of text-only browsing are most apparent
when using low bandwidth internet connections, or older computer
hardware that may be slow to render image-heavy content."
— Wikipedia [“Older” link added.]

And then there is . . .

See as well the LYNX of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche.

Update of June 30, 2022 —

Lyche, whose art often incorporates mathematical notions,
has not yet, as far as I know, explored the Borromean  link
(three rings, linked mutually but not pairwise) in her art.

Remarks by a different math fan, Evelyn Lamb

"I have had a thing for the Borromean rings for years now.
There’s something so poetic about them. The three rings
are strong together, but they fall apart if any one of them
is removed. Alternatively, the three rings are trapped together
until one of them leaves and sets the others free. I’m kind of
surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or 
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings." — Scientific American , Sept. 30, 2016.

See also the Lamb date Sept. 30, 2016, as well as work 
by Lyche, in Log24 posts tagged Star Cube.

Related material — The Log24 post Borromean Generators.

Friday, June 24, 2022

Groundwork

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See as well a more complete rendition of the above text.

"Some cartoon graveyards are better than others."

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Border Station

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USA Today —  "Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia."

Also bordering Russia Norway. See the art of Josefine Lyche
at the only legal land Russia-Norway border crossing.

Monday, November 1, 2021

ROY G. BIV

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Hoisting the Colours —

From www.amazon.com/Qoalips-Diamond-Painting-Meditating-Colorful/dp/B08HL7D77C

"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 in Brygg Magazine on artist Josefine Lyche, 
    December 9, 2017

"I used her, she used me, but neither one cared." — Bob Seger

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Compare and Contrast

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From the previous post

For the connection between His Dark Materials  and The Four Elements ,
see Darkness at Noon (Log24, Jan. 31, 2011).

Monday, September 6, 2021

Ripples Spread from Castle Rock*

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* Line from a poem, as interpreted by Cailee Spaeny and Josefine Lyche.

Friday, September 3, 2021

Accounting for Taste

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Risin' Up to the Challenge of Her Rival —

Art School Confidential —

Some context: The Power of the Center  in this journal.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Key

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An image from the opening of the Netflix series “Locke & Key” —

See also Omega in this journal.

Image- Josefine Lyche work (with 1986 figures by Cullinane) in a 2009 exhibition in Oslo

The key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings.”

– Brian Harley, Mate in Two Moves

Nordic Art

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“… motifs that look like Monet on acid. This particular mode
of expression has been in Lyche’s repertoire ever since she
graduated from the art academy in 2004.”

Monet-related entertainment —

Wrap that rascal!

170703-The_Forger-Christopher_Plummer-2015-500w.jpg (500×336)

Monday, November 30, 2020

Omega

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Image- Josefine Lyche work (with 1986 figures by Cullinane) in a 2009 exhibition in Oslo

See also Straightforward + Overarching.

Monday, September 7, 2020

A Discovery of Space

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Fiction set in Duke Humfrey's Reading Room at
the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford:

"I walked quickly through the original, fifteenth-century part of the library, past the rows of Elizabethan reading desks with their three ascending bookshelves and scarred writing surfaces. Between them, Gothic windows directed the reader’s attention up to the coffered ceilings, where bright paint and gilding picked out the details of the university’s crest of three crowns and open book and where its motto, 'God is my illumination,'  was proclaimed repeatedly from on high."

 

— Harkness, Deborah. A Discovery of Witches:
A Novel
  (2011) (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1 ) (p. 2).
Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Related non-fiction about an event on Jan. 26, 2019 —

Meanwhile, elsewhere —

A later ad for the Lyche exhibition —

See as well some posts about the Eddington song

'The Eddington Song'

Saturday, August 15, 2020

“Add a Comment” (Instagram, St. Andrew’s Day 2013)

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Josefine Lyche, pentagram pony — Nov. 30, 2013

Thursday, August 13, 2020

“Mixing Memory and Desire”

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“Oh I want to take you down to Kokomo,
we’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we want to go, way down in Kokomo”
Beach Boys (1988), with images in memory of Jeffrey Epstein:

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Hot

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Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .

Sunday, June 28, 2020

The Nirvana Shirt

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For the shirt, see Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche in

A Search for Cobain.

Related material — A pyramid by Lyche and erotic Picasso:

Those who enjoy the occult may be entertained by the number 347 in
“Pablo Picasso. Suite 347.”  That number appeared in this  journal,
notably, on Christmas Eve 2005 as a page number from the classic
The Club Dumas , a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

Monday, June 1, 2020

The Gefter Boundary

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“The message was clear: having a finite frame of reference
creates the illusion of a world, but even the reference frame itself
is an illusion. Observers create reality, but observers aren’t real.
There is nothing ontologically distinct about an observer, because
you can always find a frame in which that observer disappears:
the frame of the frame itself, the boundary of the boundary.”

— Amanda Gefter in 2014, quoted here on Mayday 2020.

Image- Josefine Lyche work (with 1986 figures by Cullinane) in a 2009 exhibition in Oslo

See as well the previous post.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Dance 101: A Leg Up

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Monday, January 13, 2020

Twenty-Four Quartets

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For the source of these figures in pure mathematics, see
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9660064/mediaviewer/rm4265298176.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Mathematical Theology (“Art School Confidential” continues.)

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Detail of artwork by Josefine Lyche, 2010

Related academic remarks:

Monday, November 4, 2019

Euclid Revisited

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The version of Euclid I.47 in the previous post
suggests a work from a recent Oslo gallery show:

 

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

“And after it rains . . .” — Paul Simon

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Friday, July 12, 2019

Holloway Today

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"The area is home to many artists and people who work in
 the media, including many journalists, writers and professionals 
working in film and television." — Wikipedia

Tusen takk to My Square Lady —

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Crystals for Dabblers

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The title was suggested by the "Crystal Cult" installations
of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche and by a post of May 30 —

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Dabbling

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Jeff Nichols, director of Midnight Special  (2016) —

"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.' "

See also Jung's four-diamond figure and the previous post.

Writers of fiction are, of course, also dabblers in the collective unconscious.
For instance . . .

A 1971 British paperback edition of The Dreaming Jewels,  
a story by Theodore Sturgeon (first version published in 1950):

The above book cover, together with the Death Valley location
Zabriskie Point, suggests . . .

Those less enchanted by the collective unconscious may prefer a
different weblog's remarks on the same date as the above Borax post . . .

Monday, May 13, 2019

Star Cube

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"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

Doris Day at the Hudson Rock

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" 'My public image is unshakably that of
America’s wholesome virgin, the girl next door,
carefree and brimming with happiness,' 
she said in Doris Day: Her Own Story
a 1976 book . . . ."

From "Angels & Demons Meet Hudson Hawk" (March 19, 2013) —

From the March 1 post "Solomon and the Image," a related figure —

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Vocabulary for SXSW:

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Foursquare, Inscape, Subway 

Foursquare —

Inscape —

Subway —

Art installation, "Crystal Cult" by Josefine Lyche, at an Oslo subway station —

See also today's previous post.

Review

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Related material —

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

Nietzsche on Heraclitus— 'play in necessity' and 'law in becoming'— illustrated.

Friday, March 1, 2019

Solomon and the Image

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"Maybe an image is too strong
Or maybe is not strong enough."

— "Solomon and the Witch,"
      by William Butler Yeats

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Exceeding His Grasp

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See also Hudson Hawk in this  journal.

Monday, February 18, 2019

The Joy of Six

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__________________________________________________________________________

See also the previous post.

I prefer the work of Josefine Lyche on the smallest perfect number/universe.

Context —

Lyche's Lynx760 installations and Vigeland's nearby Norwegian  clusterfuck.

Friday, February 15, 2019

A Simple Interlacing

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Paul Valéry, "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci,"
La Nouvelle Revue , Paris, Vol. 95 (1895)—

"Regarded thus, the ornamental conception is to the individual arts
what mathematics is to the other sciences. …the objects chosen
and arranged with a view to a particular effect seem as if disengaged
from most of their properties and only reassume them in the effect,
in, that is to say, the mind of the detached spectator. It is thus
by means of an abstraction that the work of art can be constructed,
and is more or less easy to define according as the elements borrowed
from reality for it are more or less complex. Inversely it is by a sort of
induction, by the production of mental images, that all works of art are
appreciated, and this production must equally be more or less active,
more or less tiring, according as it is set in motion by a simple interlacing
on a vase or a broken phrase by Pascal."

— Translated by Thomas McGreevy (Valéry's Selected Writings,
     New Directions, 1950)

Related art —

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Installasjon

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'Josefine Lyche,' 'Interlock, Interlac, Interweave'

The above cryptic search result indicates that there may
soon be a new Norwegian art installation based on this page
of Eddington (via Log24) —

See also other posts tagged Kummerhenge.

Friday, January 11, 2019

Permutations at Oslo

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Webpage at Oslo of Josefine Lyche, 'Plato's Diamond'

See also yesterday’s  Archimedes at Hiroshima  and the
above 24 graphic permutations on  All Souls’ Day 2010.

For some backstory, see Narrative Line (November 10, 2014).

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Space Art

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For Oslo artist Josefine Lyche, excerpts
from a Google image search today —

Material related to Lyche's experience as an adolescent with a ZX Spectrum computer —

Click "Hello World" for a larger image.

Monday, November 5, 2018

High Life at Sils Maria

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Related art —

Monday, October 22, 2018

For Connoisseurs of Conceptual Art

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In related news . . .

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Icon

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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Symmetric Generation, by Curtis

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Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche —

Lyche's shirt honors the late Kurt Cobain.

"Here we are now, entertain us."

Monday, June 11, 2018

Glitter

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A Scientific American  headline today —

Glittering Diamond Dust in Space
Might Solve a 20-Year-Old Mystery

Related art —

"Never underestimate the power of glitter."

Glitter by Josefine Lyche, as of diamond dust

Background:  "Diamond Dust" + Glitter in this journal.

Friday, May 25, 2018

Dirty Dating

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A background check of a date from the previous post —
March 12, 2013 — yields . . .

A Wikipedia check of Porter yields . . .

This  date from Wikimedia — 3 March 2007 — leads to
a post in memory of Myer Feldman, presidential advisor
and theatrical producer.

"It's been dirty for dirty
Down the line . . ."

— Joni Mitchell,
"For the Roses" album (1972)

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Wall

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The glitter-ball-like image discussed in the previous post
is of an artwork by Olafur Eliasson.

See the kaleidoscopic  section of his website.

From that section —

Eliasson, 'When Love Is Not Enough' wall, 2007

Related art in keeping with the theme of last night's Met Gala —

See also my 2005 webpage Kaleidoscope Puzzle.

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).

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Logos for Sunday, February 4

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 am

"The walls in the back of the room show geometric shapes
that remind us of the logos on a space shuttle. "

Web page on an Oslo art installation by Josefine Lyche.

See also Subway Art posts.

The translation above was obtained via Google.

The Norwegian original —

"På veggene bakerst i rommer vises geometriske former
som kan minne om logoene på en romferge."

Related logos — Modal Diamond Box in this journal:

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

Logos for Philosophers
(Suggested by Modal Logic) —

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

Friday, January 5, 2018

Subway Art for Plato’s Ghost

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Suggested by the previous post

See also the post Plato's Ghost of March 3, 2010.

Monday, November 6, 2017

Castle Rock…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

According to a comment on the latest Instagram
post of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche —
 

🏰💎.


See also "Castle Rock" in this  journal.

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Lost

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:32 am

Scarlett Johansson, opening of 'Lost in Translation' (2003)

From a site suggested by a comment of Josefine Lyche

"You grab your experiential richness where you find it."

— Roberta Smith, "Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover"
     in the online New York Times  today

Monday, August 28, 2017

April 1 Instagram

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:00 pm

Friday, May 26, 2017

Power Tools …

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:22 pm

… at the Church of Synchronology

See also Lyche in this journal on April 13.

Thursday, May 25, 2017

In the Bag

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:56 pm

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Stone Logic

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:48 pm

See also “Romancing the Omega” —

Image- Josefine Lyche work (with 1986 figures by Cullinane) in a 2009 exhibition in Oslo

Related mathematics — Guitart in this journal —

From 'Moving Logic, from Boole to Galois,' by René Guitart, 2005

See also Weyl + Palermo in this journal —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110922-TriquetrumCube.jpg

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Making Space

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

The New York Times  online today:

At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction

" The famous flowchart of Modern art's evolution simply doesn't apply
in 'Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction.' "

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Dead Reckoning

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:20 am

From The New York Times  online yesterday evening:

“You need firm ground to stand on,”
Mr. Bolles told an interviewer in 2000.
“From there you can deal with the change.”

Mr. Bolles, who reportedly died Friday (March 31, 2017),
was the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? .

See also a Log24 search for Lyche + Rainbow.

Related material — A poster for "Dead Reckoning" (1947).

Saturday, April 1, 2017

ART WARS Koan*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:09 pm

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110301-Inception256w.jpg

Show me all  the blueprints.”
— Howard Hughes, according to Hollywood

From an old Dick Tracy strip —

This journal in April 2006

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06/060414-Finis.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Cleaning out her studio, Oslo artist Josefine Lyche 
has found some frames from an old art-school audition video —

(Click to enlarge.)

      * Search for "st.+peter"+eve+adam+"first+words"

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Pulp Fiction Incarnate

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:20 pm

From Log24 earlier —

More recently, an image from the above March 18 VUDU date —

'Loop De Loop,' Johnny Thunder, Diamond Records, 1962

So Set ’Em Up, Jo

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:40 pm

“Danes have been called the happiest people.
I wonder how they measure this.”

Copenhagen designer in today's online New York Times .
A version of this article is to appear in print on March 26, 2017,
in T Magazine  with the headline: "Gray Matters."

See also last night's quarter-to-three post as well as
the webpage "Grids, You Say?" by Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche.

Sunday, March 19, 2017

For the Church of Synchronology*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:00 pm

"… and all I  got was this lousy sweatshirt" —

Some posts related to the above Rasmus Hungnes exhibition 
opening date — Feb. 10, 2017 — are now tagged Bewitchment.

* See Synchronology in this journal.

Saturday, March 4, 2017

At 74

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

New York Times  headline about a death
on Friday, March 3, 2017 —

René Préval, President of Haiti
in 2010 Quake, Dies at 74

See also

This way to the egress.

Friday, March 3, 2017

PSI

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:56 pm

(Notes for Josefine, continued from December 22, 2013) 

From a prequel to The Shining , by Stephen King—

You had to keep an eye on the boiler
because if you didn’t, she would creep on you. 

What did that mean, anyway? Or was it just
one of those nonsensical things that sometimes
came to you in dreams, so much gibberish?
Of course there was undoubtedly a boiler
in the basement or somewhere to heat the place,
even summer resorts had to have heat sometimes,
didn’t they (if only to supply hot water)? But creep ?
Would a boiler creep ?
You had to keep an eye on the boiler.
It was like one of those crazy riddles,
why is a mouse when it runs,
when is a raven like a writing desk,
what is a creeping boiler? 

The boiler room from Kubrick's 'The Shining'

A related figure —

Adventure

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:40 pm

The New York Times  on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 —

This  journal on the previous afternoon —

For greater artistic depth, see Tetrads in this journal.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Border Station

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:33 am

Thursday, September 15, 2016

The Smallest Perfect Number/Universe

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 6:29 am

The smallest perfect number,* six, meets
"the smallest perfect universe,"** PG(3,2).

IMAGE- Geometry of the Six-Set, Steven H. Cullinane, April 23, 2013

  * For the definition of "perfect number," see any introductory
    number-theory text that deals with the history of the subject.
** The phrase "smallest perfect universe" as a name for PG(3,2),
     the projective 3-space over the 2-element Galois field GF(2),
     was coined by math writer Burkard Polster. Cullinane's square
     model of PG(3,2) differs from the earlier tetrahedral model
     discussed by Polster.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The Eightfold Cube in Oslo

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:04 pm

A KUNSTforum.as article online today (translation by Google) —

The eightfold cube at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo

Update of Sept. 7, 2016: The corrections have been made,
except for the misspelling "Cullinan," which was caused by 
Google translation, not by KUNSTforum.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Big Meeting

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 pm

Grosses Treffen

 

See also Log24 on the above Berlin date — April 16, 2016 —

For some historical background, see
the post ABC Art of November 8, 2015.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Installation: Area 51 Meets Apollo

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:45 pm

Ben Lerner on Judd's art at Marfa

"as if the installation were waiting to be visited
 by an alien or god" — 10:04: A Novel

Oslo artist Josefine Lyche's public Instagram today

See also Space (May 13, 2015).

Friday, April 29, 2016

Blackboard Jungle…

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

Continues .

An older and wiser James Spader —

"Never underestimate the power of glitter."

Glitter by Josefine Lyche, as of diamond dust

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Interacting

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:31 pm

"… I would drop the keystone into my arch …."

— Charles Sanders Peirce, "On Phenomenology"

" 'But which is the stone that supports the bridge?' Kublai Khan asks."

— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, as quoted by B. Elan Dresher.

(B. Elan Dresher. Nordlyd  41.2 (2014): 165-181,
special issue on Features edited by Martin Krämer,
Sandra Ronai and Peter Svenonius. University of Tromsø –
The Arctic University of Norway.
http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd)

Peter Svenonius and Martin Krämer, introduction to the
Nordlyd  double issue on Features —

"Interacting with these questions about the 'geometric' 
relations among features is the algebraic structure
of the features."

For another such interaction, see the previous post.

This  post may be viewed as a commentary on a remark in Wikipedia

"All of these ideas speak to the crux of Plato's Problem…."

See also The Diamond Theorem at Tromsø and Mere Geometry.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

The Thing and I

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:01 pm

The New York Times  philosophy column yesterday —

The Times's philosophy column "The Stone" is named after the legendary
"philosophers' stone." The column's name, and the title of its essay yesterday
"Is that even a thing?" suggest a review of the eightfold cube  as "The object
most closely resembling a 'philosophers' stone' that I know of" (Page 51 of
the current issue of a Norwegian art quarterly, KUNSTforum.as).

The eightfold cube —

Definition of Epiphany

From James Joyce’s Stephen Hero , first published posthumously in 1944. The excerpt below is from a version edited by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon (New York: New Directions Press, 1959).

Three Times:

… By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments. He told Cranly that the clock of the Ballast Office was capable of an epiphany. Cranly questioned the inscrutable dial of the Ballast Office with his no less inscrutable countenance:

— Yes, said Stephen. I will pass it time after time, allude to it, refer to it, catch a glimpse of it. It is only an item in the catalogue of Dublin’s street furniture. Then all at once I see it and I know at once what it is: epiphany.

— What?

— Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the object is epiphanised. It is just in this epiphany that I find the third, the supreme quality of beauty.

— Yes? said Cranly absently.

— No esthetic theory, pursued Stephen relentlessly, is of any value which investigates with the aid of the lantern of tradition. What we symbolise in black the Chinaman may symbolise in yellow: each has his own tradition. Greek beauty laughs at Coptic beauty and the American Indian derides them both. It is almost impossible to reconcile all tradition whereas it is by no means impossible to find the justification of every form of beauty which has ever been adored on the earth by an examination into the mechanism of esthetic apprehension whether it be dressed in red, white, yellow or black. We have no reason for thinking that the Chinaman has a different system of digestion from that which we have though our diets are quite dissimilar. The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

— Yes …

— You know what Aquinas says: The three things requisite for beauty are, integrity, a wholeness, symmetry and radiance. Some day I will expand that sentence into a treatise. Consider the performance of your own mind when confronted with any object, hypothetically beautiful. Your mind to apprehend that object divides the entire universe into two parts, the object, and the void which is not the object. To apprehend it you must lift it away from everything else: and then you perceive that it is one integral thing, that is a  thing. You recognise its integrity. Isn’t that so?

— And then?

— That is the first quality of beauty: it is declared in a simple sudden synthesis of the faculty which apprehends. What then? Analysis then. The mind considers the object in whole and in part, in relation to itself and to other objects, examines the balance of its parts, contemplates the form of the object, traverses every cranny of the structure. So the mind receives the impression of the symmetry of the object. The mind recognises that the object is in the strict sense of the word, a thing , a definitely constituted entity. You see?

— Let us turn back, said Cranly.

They had reached the corner of Grafton St and as the footpath was overcrowded they turned back northwards. Cranly had an inclination to watch the antics of a drunkard who had been ejected from a bar in Suffolk St but Stephen took his arm summarily and led him away.

— Now for the third quality. For a long time I couldn’t make out what Aquinas meant. He uses a figurative word (a very unusual thing for him) but I have solved it. Claritas is quidditas . After the analysis which discovers the second quality the mind makes the only logically possible synthesis and discovers the third quality. This is the moment which I call epiphany. First we recognise that the object is one  integral thing, then we recognise that it is an organised composite structure, a thing  in fact: finally, when the relation of the parts is exquisite, when the parts are adjusted to the special point, we recognise that it is that  thing which it is. Its soul, its whatness, leaps to us from the vestment of its appearance. The soul of the commonest object, the structure of which is so adjusted, seems to us radiant. The object achieves its epiphany.

Having finished his argument Stephen walked on in silence. He felt Cranly’s hostility and he accused himself of having cheapened the eternal images of beauty. For the first time, too, he felt slightly awkward in his friend’s company and to restore a mood of flippant familiarity he glanced up at the clock of the Ballast Office and smiled:

— It has not epiphanised yet, he said.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The Green Night

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:29 pm

A search from the previous post (The Zero Obit) yields
two lines from Wallace Stevens that are echoed as follows

"That elemental parent, the green night,
Teaching a fusky alphabet."

See also this journal on St. Patrick's Day 2016.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

On the Eightfold Cube

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

The following page quotes "Raiders of the Lost Crucible,"
a Log24 post from Halloween 2015.

Discussion of Cullinane's eightfold cube as exhibited by Josefine Lyche at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo

From KUNSTforum.as, a Norwegian art quarterly, issue no. 1 of 2016.

Related posts — See Lyche Eightfold.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

15 Projective Points Revisited

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

A March 10, 2016, Facebook post from KUNSTforum.as,
a Norwegian art quarterly —

Article on Josefine Lyche's Vigeland Museum exhibit, which included Cullinane's eightfold cube

Click image above for a view of pages 50-51 of a new KUNSTforum 
article showing two photos relevant to my own work — those labeled
"after S. H. Cullinane."

(The phrase "den pensjonerte Oxford-professoren Stephen H. Cullinane"
on page 51 is almost completely wrong. I have never been a professor,
I was never at Oxford, and my first name is Steven, not Stephen.)

For some background on the 15 projective points at the lower left of
the above March 10 Facebook post, see "The Smallest Projective Space."

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Art and Geometry

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:20 pm

See "Behind the Glitter" (a recent magazine article
on Oslo artist Josefine Lyche), and the much more
informative web page Contact (from Noplace, Oslo).

From the latter —

"Semiotics is a game of ascribing meaning, or content, to mere surface."

Monday, December 28, 2015

Mirrors, Mirrors, on the Wall

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:00 am

The previous post quoted Holland Cotter's description of
the late Ellsworth Kelly as one who might have admired 
"the anonymous role of the Romanesque church artist." 

Work of a less anonymous sort was illustrated today by both
The New York Times  and The Washington Post

'Artist Who Shaped Geometries on a Bold Scale' - NY Times

'Ellsworth Kelly, the master of the deceptively simple' - Washington Post

The Post 's remarks are of particular interest:

Philip Kennicott in The Washington Post , Dec. 28, 2015,
on a work by the late Ellsworth Kelly —

“Sculpture for a Large Wall” consisted of 104 anodized aluminum panels, colored red, blue, yellow and black, and laid out on four long rows measuring 65 feet. Each panel seemed different from the next, subtle variations on the parallelogram, and yet together they also suggested a kind of language, or code, as if their shapes, colors and repeating patterns spelled out a basic computer language, or proto-digital message.

The space in between the panels, and the shadows they cast on the wall, were also part of the effect, creating a contrast between the material substance of the art, and the cascading visual and mental ideas it conveyed. The piece was playful, and serious; present and absent; material and imaginary; visually bold and intellectually diaphanous.

Often, with Kelly, you felt as if he offered up some ideal slice of the world, decontextualized almost to the point of absurdity. A single arc sliced out of a circle; a single perfect rectangle; one bold juxtaposition of color or shape. But when he allowed his work to encompass more complexity, to indulge a rhetoric of repetition, rhythmic contrasts, and multiple self-replicating ideas, it began to feel like language, or narrative. And this was always his best mode.

Compare and contrast a 2010 work by Josefine Lyche

IMAGE- The 2x2 case of the diamond theorem as illustrated by Josefine Lyche, Oct. 2010

Lyche's mirrors-on-the-wall installation is titled
"The 2×2 Case (Diamond Theorem)."

It is based on a smaller illustration of my own.

These  variations also, as Kennicott said of Kelly's,
"suggested a kind of language, or code."

This may well be the source of their appeal for Lyche.
For me, however, such suggestiveness is irrelevant to the
significance of the variations in a larger purely geometric
context.

This context is of course quite inaccessible to most art
critics. Steve Martin, however, has a phrase that applies
to both Kelly's and Lyche's installations: "wall power."
See a post of Dec. 15, 2010.

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Rigorous

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:05 am

A death on Xmas Day

Artist Josefine Lyche

IMAGE- Josefine Lyche bowling, from her Facebook page

Symbol

Monday, November 7, 2011

The X Box

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 10:30 AM 

"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs, quoted in
The New York Times Magazine  on St. Andrew's Day, 2003.

The X-Box Sum .

For some background on this enigmatic equation,
see Geometry of the I Ching.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

American Hustlers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:48 pm

A Log24 Hanukkah from five years ago (Dec. 5, 2010) —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101205-IndependenceDay.jpg

Related material: Oslo artist Josefine Lyche's
private Instagram photo of her adolescence with
a ZX Spectrum, and Symbols, Local and Global.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Design Wars

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:04 pm

"… if your requirement for success is to be like Steve Jobs,
good luck to you." 

— "Transformation at Yahoo Foiled by Marissa Mayer’s 
Inability to Bet the Farm," New York Times  online yesterday

"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs

Related material:  Posts tagged Ambassadors.
 

Sculpture by Josefine Lyche of Cullinane's eightfold cube at Vigeland Museum in Oslo

Friday, October 30, 2015

For Scientific Witch Hunters*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Motto selected by an Oslo artist

Lynx Oslo motto by Alan Moore

Illustration selected by The Boston Globe

Notes on perspective selected at Log24

* I.e. , those who hunt witches scientifically,
   or those who hunt scientific witches —
   a matter of, as it were, perspective.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Oslo Halloween

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 am

(Suggested by the latest Instagram post of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche)

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The Tummelplatz Thesis

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:29 am

The following is an excerpt from
"Tummelplatz: Exploring playgrounds for creative
collaborations — A qualitative study of generative
dynamics within temporary work contexts,"

by Emily Moren Aanes and Dragana Trifunović.
(Master's thesis, Oslo, 2013).

Related material: Josefine Lyche in this journal.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

The Mirror of Understanding

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

From The Snow Queen , by Hans Christian Andersen —

SEVENTH STORY. What Took Place in the Palace of the Snow Queen, and What Happened Afterward

The walls of the palace were of driving snow, and the windows and doors of cutting winds. There were more than a hundred halls there, according as the snow was driven by the winds. The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the powerful Aurora Borealis, and all were so large, so empty, so icy cold, and so resplendent! Mirth never reigned there; there was never even a little bear-ball, with the storm for music, while the polar bears went on their hindlegs and showed off their steps. Never a little tea-party of white young lady foxes; vast, cold, and empty were the halls of the Snow Queen. The northern-lights shone with such precision that one could tell exactly when they were at their highest or lowest degree of brightness. In the middle of the empty, endless hall of snow, was a frozen lake; it was cracked in a thousand pieces, but each piece was so like the other, that it seemed the work of a cunning artificer. In the middle of this lake sat the Snow Queen when she was at home; and then she said she was sitting in the Mirror of Understanding, and that this was the only one and the best thing in the world.

Little Kay was quite blue, yes nearly black with cold; but he did not observe it, for she had kissed away all feeling of cold from his body, and his heart was a lump of ice. He was dragging along some pointed flat pieces of ice, which he laid together in all possible ways, for he wanted to make something with them; just as we have little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with, called the Chinese Puzzle. Kay made all sorts of figures, the most complicated, for it was an ice-puzzle for the understanding. In his eyes the figures were extraordinarily beautiful, and of the utmost importance; for the bit of glass which was in his eye caused this. He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted–that word was "eternity"; and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

"I am going now to warm lands," said the Snow Queen. "I must have a look down into the black caldrons." It was the volcanoes Vesuvius and Etna that she meant. "I will just give them a coating of white, for that is as it ought to be; besides, it is good for the oranges and the grapes." And then away she flew, and Kay sat quite alone in the empty halls of ice that were miles long, and looked at the blocks of ice, and thought and thought till his skull was almost cracked. There he sat quite benumbed and motionless; one would have imagined he was frozen to death. ….

Related material:

This journal on March 25, 2013:

Images of time and eternity in a 1x4x9 black monolith

Friday, October 9, 2015

Eightfold Cube in Oslo

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

An eightfold cube appears in this detail 
of a photo by Josefine Lyche of her
installation "4D Ambassador" at the 
Norwegian Sculpture Biennial 2015

Sculpture by Josefine Lyche of Cullinane's eightfold cube at Vigeland Museum in Oslo

(Detail from private Instagram photo.)

Catalog description of installation —

Google Translate version —

In a small bedroom to Foredragssalen populate
Josefine Lyche exhibition with a group sculptures
that are part of the work group 4D Ambassador
(2014-2015). Together they form an installation
where she uses light to amplify the feeling of
stepping into a new dimension, for which the title
suggests, this "ambassadors" for a dimension we
normally do not have access to. "Ambassadors"
physical forms presents nonphysical phenomena.
Lyches works have in recent years been placed
in something one might call an "esoteric direction"
in contemporary art, and defines itself this
sculpture group humorous as "glam-minimalist."
She has in many of his works returned to basic
geometric shapes, with hints to the occult,
"new space-age", mathematics and where
everything in between.

See also Lyche + "4D Ambassador" in this journal and
her website page with a 2012 version of that title.

Saturday, September 12, 2015

At the Still Point (continued)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:07 am

"Now I wanna dance, I wanna win.
I want that trophy, so dance good."

"C'est la vie , say the old folks.
It goes to show you never can tell.
"

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Studio Time

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:55 pm

(The title is a phrase from Oslo artist Josefine Lyche's Instagram page today.)

Note that 6 PM ET is midnight in Oslo.

An image from St. Ursula's Day, 2010

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101021-CelebrationOf.jpg

Related material:

"Is it a genuine demolition of the walls which seem
to separate mind from mind …. ?"

— Clifford Geertz, conclusion of “The Cerebral Savage:
On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Fountain Head …

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:20 am

A mashup for Josefine   from R. Mutt.

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Ayn Sof (continued)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:31 pm

Later …

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Self-Awareness

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

Robots pass "wise-men puzzle" to show a degree of self-awareness

New app … discourages self-awareness on social media —

"Self-awareness is a good thing.
Self-awareness is what tells us
'Hey, maybe just give us the highlights reel….'"

From this journal on July 13, Oslo artist Josefine Lyche —

Lyche's shirt honors the late Kurt Cobain.

"Here we are now, entertain us."

Dance scene from the 2015 film "Ex Machina"

Monday, July 13, 2015

Weaving World

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:45 pm

(The title was suggested by the novel Weaveworld .)

Recent public selfie by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche —

Lyche's shirt honors the late Kurt Cobain.

Not-so-recent image of Hugo Weaving as
Agent Smith in "The Matrix" —

"Smells like teen spirit."

See also Weaving in the new film "Strangerland."

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Welcome to Noplace

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:01 pm

See an informative essay at noplace.no on the work of
Oslo artist Josefine Lyche in connection with her current
(June 12-21) exhibition, "Contact."

A paragraph from that essay —

See also Lyche in this journal.

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.

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Norwegian Woods

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 am

The title appears as a joint heading for three reviews 
of Norway-related books on the front page of the print
version of today's New York Times Sunday Book Review .

See as well Josefine Lyche in this journal.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

High and Low Concepts

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 4:30 pm

Steven Pressfield on April 25, 2012:

What exactly is High Concept?

Let’s start with its opposite, low concept.
Low concept stories are personal,
idiosyncratic, ambiguous, often European. 
“Well, it’s a sensitive fable about a Swedish
sardine fisherman whose wife and daughter
find themselves conflicted over … ”

ZZZZZZZZ.

Fans of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche know she has
valiantly struggled to find a high-concept approach
to the diamond theorem. Any such approach must,
unfortunately, reckon with the following low
(i.e., not easily summarized) concept —

The Diamond Theorem Correlation:

From left to right

http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140824-Diamond-Theorem-Correlation-1202w.jpg

http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140731-Diamond-Theorem-Correlation-747w.jpg

http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140824-Picturing_the_Smallest-1986.gif

http://www.log24.com/log/pix14B/140806-ProjPoints.gif

For some backstory, see ProjPoints.gif and "Symplectic Polarity" in this journal.

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