Sunday, July 17, 2022
For Marrific: Evil S3 E6 – The TipTop Algorithm
Friday, March 22, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
Crimson Top News: Art Heart
"It's pretty, but is it Art?" — Harvard Philosophy Department
graduate student quoting Kipling in Aeon, February 2024
"Through my art, I aim to offer more than just visual delight;
I seek to share a piece of my heart…."
"I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it,
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby"
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Aaron
See earlier Log24 posts now tagged Aaron, about
the clash of Aaron Swartz and JSTOR, as well as
JSTOR in today's previous post, and an enthusiastic
post by @marrific yesterday on a different Aaron.
See also "A Tale of Two Intersections," about Venice,
CA, and St. Augustine's Church, New Orleans, LA.
For a connection to the phrase "Where Madness Lies,"
used recently as a podcast title by Aaron Webman,
see the life of St. Augustine's parishioner George Herriman,
creator of "Krazy Kat."
Monday, February 26, 2024
Time as Space: Area 15, If the Whole Pie Is 60
A Latin Club slogan:
"We put the sex in sexagesimal."
Midrash for Bilbo and Miller's Girl —
"Some dragons like riddles."
Outpost Vegas: A Different Hook Man
Friday, February 23, 2024
Annals of Artistic Integrity
Maintaining artistic integrity —
Harder than you might think.
"I can feel the Devil walking next to me"
— Song lyric from the musical "Chess"
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
“One of those bells that now and then rings”
See marcelanow.art and marcelathen.art.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Sunday, January 28, 2024
“Another Day, Another Couch”* —
The Color Out of Vegas
Related image for Twin Peaks fans … The Maroon Bells —
* Instagram motto of Marcela Nowak (as marcelanow).
The Color Out of Vegas
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Art Selfies
marcela 211110
josefine 200815
emily 240113
steven 240115
See as well "Night, Youth, Paris and the Moon" by John Collier.
Monday, January 1, 2024
Thirst Trap Review
Stewart's recent thirst trapping reportedly began on Instagram in July 2020.
Of course, Martha Stewart was never a thirst trap like this.
Saturday, December 30, 2023
December 2023, Day XXX
It was in connexion with his discovery of the solution of the problem _To move a given weight by a given force_ that Archimedes uttered the famous saying, "Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth" ([Greek: dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen], or in his broad Doric, as one version has it, [Greek: pa bo kai kino tan gan]). The Project Gutenberg EBook of Archimedes, by Thomas Little Heath
Related material . . .
"The southwest furthers."
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023
“On Hold”
"Moats, and boats, and waterfalls
Alleyways, and pay phone calls
I've been everywhere with you"
— "Home" lyrics,
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros,
from an album recorded in Laurel Canyon
and released in July 2009 (Wikipedia).
It does sometimes seem that way.
A related remark —
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Art Update
Related travel writing . . .
The Boondocks – Lone Pine &
The Alabama Hills, California
See as well Lone Pine in this journal.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Today’s Science Sermon
"Quantum accidents happen all the time.
Why haven’t I simply vanished into a quantum fizz
like Schrodinger’s cat, both dead and alive
at the same time? I can only conclude that
there is safety and stability in the astronomical
numbers of which we are composed.
Perhaps the large numbers constitute a bulwark
against quantum uncertainty. So I am here — I think."
— Dennis Overbye in the New York Times ,
Update of 1:20 p.m. ET the same day —
"And what is your bulwark against the Heisenberg group?"
Sunday, November 20, 2022
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Yom Kippur 2023 (Ending at Nightfall Mon. Sept. 25) —
Boozin’ N Schmoozin’
Earlier in this journal . . .
Crossing Pico Boulevard . . .
♫ "I like to walk in the shade, with the blues on parade . . . ."
— Adapted from the great American songbook.
Meanwhile, in a cartoon graveyard . . .
Boozin’ N Schmoozin’
Saturday, September 23, 2023
“We almost made our poem rhyme, didn’t we?” — Song lyric
Metaverse art — "View to a Screw"
(Not inspired by the Duran Duran "View to a Kill" lyrics
"The first crystal tears
fall as snowflakes on your body…."
Some cultural background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Diamond_in_the_Mind:_Live_2011
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=diamond-in-the-mind-concert-date.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Academy Award
The New York Times today on a film director who reportedly
died on the above Log24 date — Tuesday, August 29, 2023 —
"His directing work included 'Thank God It’s Friday' (1978),
set entirely in a disco, which won the Academy Award for
best original song, 'Last Dance,' sung by the disco diva
Donna Summer, one of its stars."
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Returning to the Scene
From Log24 on August 29, 2023 —
From the above Foundation website —
This journal on the above Foundation date — 13 July 2023 —
For an attempt of my own at storytelling and
brand innovation, see posts now tagged
Monday, September 11, 2023
Variation on a Theme of Marcela Nowak
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Midnight Entertainment: Plan 9 from Death Valley
Related reading —
Lo Shu and Death Valley.
Saturday, September 9, 2023
“Fez” as Metaphor in Nowak* and in Levinson**
"We need the word 'metaphor' for the whole double unit, and to use it sometimes for one of the two components in separation from the other is as injudicious as that other trick by which we use 'the meaning' here sometimes for the work that the whole double unit does and sometimes for the other component–the tenor, as I am calling it–the underlying idea or principal subject which the vehicle or figure means. It is not surprising that the detailed analysis of metaphors, if we attempt it with such slippery terms as these, sometimes feels like extracting cube-roots in the head."
— I. A. Richards, The Philosophy of Rhetoric . |
* Nowak: See the central image in "An Art Director's Top Nine," Log24 yesterday.
** Levinson: See Variety on the "Euphoria" character.
Friday, September 8, 2023
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Iconic Manic Pixie Tongue
Instagram post today —
Earlier . . .
Image related to the recent Log24 post
"The Playwright Upstaged by Her Play" —
Friday, September 1, 2023
Stardust Memories…
With E. L. Doctorow* as Woody Allen
With E. L. Doctorow* as Woody Allen
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
BOOOOOOOM Art
Another Web debut by talented artist Marcela Nowak —
Click the above profile for images of the art itself.
Related verbiage:
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Spare+OOM"
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023
Thursday, August 17, 2023
The Elderbrook Palette
"Every shade I choose is intentional, chosen to evoke specific feelings within those who view my work. Blue strokes embody tranquility, a gentle touch that calms the nerves like a whispered secret. Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion, inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions. And then there’s orange — a hue that signifies intelligence, dedication, activity, and enthusiasm — a palette of emotions waiting to be explored." — Marcela Nowak |
Update of 1:18 PM ET August 17, 2023 —
From the current version of the above tweet —
Detail: E-Shapes —
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
The Underwriting . . . Continues.
"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection,
and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
— Written by J. D. Salinger ( as quoted earlier here )
Monday, August 14, 2023
The Palette
Some art prose I like —
"Every shade I choose is intentional, chosen to evoke specific feelings within those who view my work. Blue strokes embody tranquility, a gentle touch that calms the nerves like a whispered secret. Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion, inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions. And then there’s orange — a hue that signifies intelligence, dedication, activity, and enthusiasm — a palette of emotions waiting to be explored." — Marcela Nowak |
A related meditation — "Follow the girl who follows a dream."
An Artist on Her Art
This new Medium page inspired me to create my own.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Gathering
Sunday, June 25, 2023
The Club
Note the above "Clown Club" YouTube upload date: "Sep 5 2008."
See also that date in other Log24 posts tagged Shoe Graveyard.
Monday, June 19, 2023
Cinematic Devices
From a 2023 film, "The Portable Door" —
Image from LA's Koreatown in this journal on July 13, 2022 —
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Keeping Ahead of the New Yorker Penbots:
Runaway Cockrider!
From Burning Man 2022 —
The source: https://www.tiktok.com/@marrific/video/7143118383100300590
From The New Yorker yesterday —
Runaway Cockrider!
Monday, May 1, 2023
Saturday, April 29, 2023
The Long Movie
"The history of the length of movies takes place in two dimensions—
on the axis of the ordinary and the axis of the extraordinary, or,
of the rule and the exception."
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker , April 24, "In Praise of the Long Movie."
The Ordinary —
The Extraordinary —
The Kiosk
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Art Quiz
Well, Malika Favre is kind of an odd one . . .
Favre's work also appears with Mary Gaitskill's
March 20 New Yorker story "Minority Report."
Thursday, March 23, 2023
The Pitcher
"Getting to Wow! is the entrepreneur's practical guide
to crafting a clear, compelling, credible pitch."
Shoe, Easter 2003
Musical accompaniment by Del Shannon —
"I wonder" — at 0.44 in the following video . . .
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Palette
Blocking Groups —
A Harvard phrase for a process analogous
to that of the Hogwarts Sorting Hat.
Hat tip to IG's @marrific:
Thursday, March 2, 2023
For Your Consideration
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Bicoastal Philosophy
New York:
“The experience of being hailed by ‘inanimate’ matter—
by objects beautiful or odd, by a refrain, by a piece of cake,
or a buzz from your phone—is widespread.”
— Jane Bennett, quoted in The New Yorker on Feb. 28, 2023
Los Angeles (click to enlarge):
Friday, February 17, 2023
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Friday, September 9, 2022
The Station
On the Way to Burning Man 2022 —
Chevrons serve as a contrast to the more highly symmetric figures
at left in yesterday morning's Analogy in Mathematics illustration —
Poetry enthusiasts might view the brick at left as
symbolizing the scepter'd isle off the west coast
of Europe, and the gap between as the English
Channel. Mind the gap.
Monday, September 5, 2022
“Come into my parlor . . .”
See as well this journal on December 12, 2010 — Sunday Painting —
and an Instagram story this morning by Marcela Nowak:
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Annals of Bulk Apperception: The Lotus Lamp
Monday, May 9, 2022
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
A Sequel to Weaveworld — Tileworld!
The previous post and recent Morocco Instagram photos by marrific
suggest a pair of related images —
Related reading:
Pattern Groups and Mosaic.
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Stein Meets Steiner
"I get no kick from champagne…." — Cole Porter
But . . .
Related literary remarks —
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Monday, January 3, 2022
Trinity, Neo … and Matrix Resurrections
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Dated and Timed: ♫ “It’s Quarter to Three . . .”
The final entertainment above is from NBC on St. Nicholas Day, 2005.
See also Log24 on that date.
Friday, December 24, 2021
Number and Time
Number:
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Time:
This post was suggested by an address from Bloomsday 2021 —
Update —
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Woke Joke
A stupid Jungle Cruise joke for Bergen —
Why are mathematicians a simple group?
No nontrivial normal subgroups.
Some background from St. Olaf —
My own sympathies are with Veblen.
Saturday, December 18, 2021
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Plato’s Retreat
"I've heard of affairs that are strictly Platonic…" — Song lyric
From a photo story by Marcela Nowak, Dec. 15, 2021 —
Asteras eisathreis, Aster emos.
Eithe genoimen ouranos,
‘os pollois ommasin eis se blepo.
Sunday, December 12, 2021
The Mystery of the Pink Umbrella
Louche hymn, to the tune of "One For My Baby" —
"It's ten thirty-one . . ."
— and a (very slightly) related prose passage:
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
’Musement
Related material — Disparate Images :
Joan Didion, The White Album :
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live….
We interpret what we see, select the most workable
of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we
are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon
disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have
learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which
is our actual experience.
Or at least we do for a while. I am talking here about
a time when I began to doubt the premises of all the
stories I had ever told myself, a common condition
but one I found troubling.”
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Disparate Images
Flashback:
Detail of Instagram story last night by marrific:
Quoted here on today's date — Joan Didion's birthday —
Joan Didion, The White Album :
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live….
We interpret what we see, select the most workable
of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we
are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon
disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have
learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which
is our actual experience.Or at least we do for a while. I am talking here about
a time when I began to doubt the premises of all the
stories I had ever told myself, a common condition
but one I found troubling.”
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Sunday, November 28, 2021
“We tell ourselves stories…” — Didion
Related material: Drinking Ochas.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Friday, November 26, 2021
Facets for Snorri
(Who is Snorri? See The Reykjavik Grapevine , Oct. 3, 2018.)
"Faced with a larger surface than he had ever provided with facets,
in his desperation he had divided the diamond with imaginary lines,
treating each section as if it were a single small stone and arranging
the clusters of facets so they would interact with one another, as if they
were single facets in a smaller stone. What if the final result lacked fire?"
— A novel* by Noah Gordon, who reportedly died on Monday, Nov. 22.
Related material from Log24 on Feb. 17, 2017 —
Also on Feb. 17, 2017 —
* The Jerusalem Diamond , Random House, April 1, 1979,
republished later in German as Der Diamant des Salomon .
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Soccer Geometry
Two images from a Log24 post of April 14, 2015 —
Image from an marcelanow Instagram story on November 23, 2021 —
Image from marrific (=marcelanow) on November 25, 2021 —
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Turning Nine Continues*
From Log24 on Epiphany 2012 —
A version of the Zemeckis Cube —
* See Turning Nine (Log24, Nov. 8, 2021).
Update of later the same evening —
The subtitle for the hashtag symbol at left is "Explore." Appropriate.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Marcela Continues My Education
Marcela . . .
Continues . . .
My Education . . .
Art candle by Camille Vivier that
suggests the title Waxing Roth
(with apologies to Groucho, who
would likely not recommend most
of the other @structuredmag posts.)
The candle's actual title is lovers.
Monday, November 22, 2021
American Heritage: The Allowance
Reading The Human Stain —
But wait, there's more!
The book , unlike the movie, doesn't have …
See Peplowski and The Human Stain in a post of Sept. 15, 2007.
Related material: "In the desert, you can remember your name" and …
Click image to enlarge.
Addendum of 10:30 PM ET November 22 —
The caption was inadvertently omitted from the above Black Rock City image.
It was as follows:
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Story by a LA-LA Art Director
Stories
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” — Joan Didion
Yes, we do.
" 'Desertion' is the perfect story to make my case
that 1940s science fiction was often about the next
evolutionary step for our species." — James Wallace Harris, 9/18/21
From https://classicsofsciencefiction.com on Sept. 18, 2021 —
In “Paradise,” the mutants are that superior species,
ones who are waiting for normal humans to get their
act together. Mutants arrange for Tyler Webster
to get a kaleidoscope that will trick his brain into
opening its higher functionality. The kaleidoscope
is like the toys from the future in “Mimsy Were the
Borogoves” that trigger evolution in normal human
children.
See as well Mimsy and Kaleidoscope in this journal.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Meta Girl?
For some less Meta material from Marcela, see her Facebook site at
https://m.facebook.com/marrific/photos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 .
Related material from the Web —
". . . coming back to the real . . . ." — Wallace Stevens
— and from this journal —
"Coming Back" .
De Nada
From a thank-you-to-my-25K-followers
Instagram story today:
"The southwest furthers." — Hexagram 40
The story was by Marcela Nowak,
LA-LA Art Director:
Monday, November 15, 2021
Old Joke, New Version… Continued.
Instagram today:
marrific One more fall shot I really enjoyed taking.
It took 162552 attempts ngl.
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Smart Set Design
… Smart Set .
Related detective story . . .
A Cosmic Nod
Related aesthetic puzzle —
What's black and white and red all over?
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Friday, November 12, 2021
Art Theory 101 exercise
Instagram story from yesterday —
Related aesthetic puzzle —
What's black and white and red all over?
Hint:
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
European Culture
A Wroclaw image from 2011 in which a version of my own work appears —
Later … A Wroclaw image posted by marrific on June 2, 2019 —
Recall too the oeuvre of Wroclaw native Ernst Cassirer . . .
Except, perhaps, by some roller-skate fans . . .
From The Catcher in the Rye —
“She was having a helluva time tightening her skate.
She didn’t have any gloves on or anything and her hands
were all red and cold. I gave her a hand with it. Boy, I
hadn’t had a skate key in my hand for years. It didn’t feel
funny, though. You could put a skate key in my hand
fifty years from now, in pitch dark, and I’d still know
what it is. She thanked me and all when I had it tightened
for her. She was a very nice, polite little kid. God, I love it
when a kid’s nice and polite when you tighten their skate
for them or something. Most kids are. They really are.
I asked her if she’d care to have a hot chocolate or something
with me, but she said no, thank you. She said she had to meet
her friend. Kids always have to meet their friend. That kills me.
Even though it was Sunday and Phoebe wouldn’t be there
with her class or anything, and even though it was so damp
and lousy out, I walked all the way through the park over to
the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was the museum
the kid with the skate key meant.”
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Aurora Story
The image is from a marrific Instagram post of July 27, 2018.
Earlier, it was uploaded to behance.net on Sept. 5, 2016.
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Thought for Today
"The 'technical support' is an underlying ground
for aesthetic practice that supports the work of art
as canvas supported oil paint."
— MIT Press on the book by Rosalind Krauss
titled Under Blue Cup .
Under Blue Cupola —
by Marcela Nowak and Steven Cullinane —
On photographing LA's Griffith Observatory
in a blue haze . . .
marrific — "I swear I exported this shot
14 times and can’t get the blue right
but it’ll have to do for now."
From a Log24 search for Nanci Griffith —
“But she that says good-by… stood tall in self not symbol, quick And potent, an influence felt instead of seen.” — Wallace Stevens, “The Owl in the Sarcophagus” |
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Friday, November 5, 2021
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Mixed Signal
Maybe UR im possible, but IM not sure. — SHC, 4 Nov. 2021.
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Adaptation
From a Log24 post of June 26, 2021, on Our Viennese Heritage —
A review of the dramatic legacy of Arthur Schnitzler
(La Ronde , Traumnovelle ) seems in order.
From Wikipedia today —
See as well the work of Marcela Nowak (the marrific of today's previous post),
whose CV could use an update. "You've got skills."
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Gates
Quoted here on Augustine's Day 2003 —
"Every city has its gates, which need not be of stone. Nor need soldiers be upon them or watchers before them. At first, when cities were jewels in a dark and mysterious world, they tended to be round and they had protective walls. To enter, one had to pass through gates, the reward for which was shelter from the overwhelming forests and seas, the merciless and taxing expanse of greens, whites, and blues–wild and free–that stopped at the city walls. In time the ramparts became higher and the gates more massive, until they simply disappeared and were replaced by barriers, subtler than stone, that girded every city like a crown and held in its spirit." — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale |
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Monday, October 18, 2021
Get Star
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 —
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Dreams in Black and Orange
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Observatory Blues
On photographing LA's Griffith Observatory
in a blue haze . . .
marrific — "I swear I exported this shot
14 times and can’t get the blue right
but it’ll have to do for now."
From a Log24 search for Nanci Griffith —
“But she that says good-by… stood tall in self not symbol, quick And potent, an influence felt instead of seen.” — Wallace Stevens, “The Owl in the Sarcophagus” |
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Sunday, September 26, 2021
Let Noon Be Flack
Update of 12:50 PM ET the same day —
"There is no o'clock in a cantina."
— William H. Gass on Malcolm Lowry.
Except when there is.
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Tales from the Sportin’ Life: Intellectual Company
The above lap-dance YouTube video was posted on Dec. 1, 2008.
See as well this journal on that date.
Risin' Up to the Challenge —
For Harlan Kane: The Barstool Conundrum
Friday, September 24, 2021
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Annals of Educational Philosophy
"We embrace failure — as long as you learn from it."
— NYU graduate school philosophy
From related Log24 posts tagged Hat Tip —
A version of “News of the World” I prefer —
The Narrow Window
Monday, September 20, 2021
Red Dot Problems
(If a compass were allowed, Euclid I.12 would apply.)
I prefer the red dot supplied tonight in an Instagram story —
"Just like children sleepin'
We could dream this night away" — Song lyric
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Set Design for an 18-Hour Play
Source data for an Instagram story this evening —
An image from the story itself —
Related reading — "Flame Alphabet" in this journal.
From that link . . .
See also . . .
Monday, September 6, 2021
Old Joke, New Version
A screenshot from this evening's viewing —
From an Instagram story posted earlier today . . .
Sense8 fans may make of this what they will.
Monday, July 19, 2021
Monday, March 22, 2021
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Datetime
Brazen Bull from "The Blacklist" —
Brazen Bull from Harvard —
A version of "News of the World" I prefer —