Log24

Sunday, July 17, 2022

For Marrific: Evil S3 E6 – The TipTop Algorithm

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

Friday, March 22, 2024

Banana Republic* Ghost Song

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D-Day 2018

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"If it's a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo."

Margaret Atwood on tricksters.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Tools

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:07 pm

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Deep Snow at Donner Pass

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:38 pm

Some irrelevant Super Tuesday literary background
for spring songbirds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus .

Related social media from New Year's Eve 2021 —
A 3×3 Instagram array, and a Reno parking lot.

Monday, March 4, 2024

Crimson Top News:  Art Heart

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:27 pm

"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…."

Marcela Nowak, August 2023

"I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it,
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby"

Janis Joplin, August 1968

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Abstract Art*

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* And art that is somewhat less abstract —

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Aaron

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:01 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:34 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:09 pm

An Instagram post from Thanksgiving Day 2022 —

This  journal on that day

A different Hook Man

Friday, February 23, 2024

Annals of Artistic Integrity

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:11 pm

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”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:01 am

See marcelanow.art and marcelathen.art.

Saturday, February 10, 2024

For Venice Beach Barbie

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:50 am

From this journal on Saturday, September 23, 2023:

“We almost made our poem rhyme, didn’t we?” — Song lyric

Metaverse art — "View to a Screw"

Sunday, January 28, 2024

“Another Day, Another Couch”* —
The Color Out of Vegas

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:56 am

Related image for Twin Peaks fans … The Maroon Bells —

* Instagram motto of Marcela Nowak (as marcelanow).

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.

Monday, January 1, 2024

Thirst Trap Review

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:57 pm

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

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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

Color Fields

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:54 pm

The source: Marcela Nowak's TikTok page.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Red Riding Hood: The Katowice Version

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:47 pm

Comment:

The above date — Jan. 3, 2021 — suggests posts now tagged "Ice Stone."

See also the comments below (click to enlarge).

Erewhon Devs

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A perhaps more subtle vibe —

Wikipedia on Erewhon

The novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines.

Saturday, November 25, 2023

“On Hold”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:14 am

"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 Song

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Art Update

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:17 am

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

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"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

The Passenger

Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am
 

See as well The Passenger  in this journal.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Yom Kippur 2023 (Ending at Nightfall Mon. Sept. 25) —
Boozin’ N Schmoozin’

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:00 am

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 . . .

Saturday, September 23, 2023

“We almost made our poem rhyme, didn’t we?” — Song lyric

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:00 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:36 pm

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

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

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

Figurate Geometry.

Monday, September 11, 2023

Variation on a Theme of Marcela Nowak

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:39 am

— Adapted in 2021 from art at the home of Marcela Nowak. A variation:

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Midnight Entertainment: Plan 9 from Death Valley

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Related reading —
Lo Shu and Death Valley.

Saturday, September 9, 2023

“Fez” as Metaphor in Nowak* and in Levinson**

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 9:47 am
 

"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 .
Oxford University Press, 1936.

* 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

An Art Director’s Top Nine

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Sunday, September 3, 2023

Iconic Manic Pixie Tongue

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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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:34 pm

* Vide  other posts tagged "Music of the Spheres."

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

BOOOOOOOM Art

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Another Web debut by talented artist Marcela Nowak —

Trademark from shop.booooooom.com

Click the above profile for images of the art itself.

Related verbiage: 
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Spare+OOM"

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Links

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Monday, August 21, 2023

Art Benchmarks

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

The Elderbrook Palette

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"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


Related tunes

E is for Energy.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The Underwriting . . . Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:46 pm

"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

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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

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Marcela Nowak on her art. 'datePublished':'2023-08-12T20:17:16.091Z'

This new Medium page inspired me to create my own.

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Cornered

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:27 am

Foursquare philosophy:

"It is better to light one candle . . ."

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Gathering

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:51 am

Vide  posts now tagged Stanley Moss.

For those who prefer not  to gather Moss . . .

Sunday, June 25, 2023

The Club

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:39 pm

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

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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!

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:48 pm

From Burning Man 2022 —

The source: https://www.tiktok.com/@marrific/video/7143118383100300590

From The New Yorker  yesterday —

 

Monday, May 1, 2023

Art School Confidential . . .

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Continues.

 

Saturday, April 29, 2023

The Long Movie

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:50 am

"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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:38 am

A version of "News of the World" I prefer —

For those who prefer facts to Harvard bullshit —

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Art Quiz

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:00 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:58 am

"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 . . .

230323-Runaway-Del_Shannon-1961-metadata-500w.jpg (500×437)

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Palette

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:30 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:57 am

"February made me shiver . . . ." — Song lyric

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Bicoastal Philosophy

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

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

Circle and Square

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Sunday, November 20, 2022

The Passenger

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See as well The Passenger  in this journal.

Friday, September 9, 2022

The Station

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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 . . .”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:07 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:39 pm

Another "Back 15" from Joan DIdion's birthday, 2021 —

Monday, May 9, 2022

Warsaw Concerto

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:05 am

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

A Sequel to WeaveworldTileworld!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:11 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:43 pm

"I get no kick from champagne…." — Cole Porter

But . . .

Related literary remarks —

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Show Tune

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:36 pm

Greenery:

Beanery:

Monday, January 3, 2022

Trinity, Neo … and Matrix Resurrections

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:31 am

Trinity —

Neo —

Matrix Resurrections —

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Dated and Timed: ♫ “It’s Quarter to Three . . .”

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

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:58 am

Number:

 
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Time:

This post was suggested by an address from Bloomsday 2021

Update —

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Woke Joke

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:24 am

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

The Geometry of Dreams

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:50 pm

(Continued from Oct. 9, 2021)

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Plato’s Retreat

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:15 am

"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.

Quoted on New Year's Eve, 2002.

Sunday, December 12, 2021

The Mystery of the Pink Umbrella

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:31 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:37 pm

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

Production Notes

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:23 pm
 

Yesterday —

 

 

 

Today —

 

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Disparate Images

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:29 pm

Flashback:

Detail of Instagram story last night by marrific:


Quoted here on today's date — Joan Didion's birthday — 

15 years ago:

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

Data for the Blob:

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:10 pm

"As Above, So Below"

Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Omega Gate

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:52 pm

From The Chronicle of Higher Education

"It's a Mirror!"
"It's a Window!"

It's … The Omega Gate!


 

“We tell ourselves stories…” — Didion

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:31 pm

Related material:  Drinking Ochas.

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Tag Shopping on Black Friday

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:02 pm

Marcela Nowak today

See as well Polite Number.

Scholium:

"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."

—  Jerome Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Friday, November 26, 2021

Facets for Snorri

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:31 pm

(Who is Snorri? See The Reykjavik Grapevine , Oct. 3, 2018.)

From this  journal yesterday

"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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:18 am

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*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:20 pm

From Log24 on Epiphany 2012 —

IMAGE- Cathy Hull, detail from cover of Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:01 pm

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:45 pm

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:25 pm

We tell ourselves stories 
  in order to live.” — Joan Didion

See as well Match Tip and Multispeech.

Stories

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:05 pm

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?

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:20 pm

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:35 pm

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.

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

Instagram today: 
marrific One more fall shot I really enjoyed taking.
It took 162552 attempts ngl.

  "Come and go with me"

October Surprise!

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:42 am

Prelude to 99 Red Balloons

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Smart Set  Design

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:46 am

Smart Set .
 

Related detective story . . .

A Cosmic Nod 
 

Related aesthetic puzzle —

What's black and white and red all over?

Saturday, November 13, 2021

On the Road

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:26 pm

Prelude to 99 Red Balloons

Click for some related music.

Friday, November 12, 2021

Art Theory 101  exercise

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

Instagram story from yesterday —

Related aesthetic puzzle —

What's black and white and red all over?

Hint:

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

European Culture

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:59 pm

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.”

Split Screen

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:05 pm

See as well Babylon.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Aurora Story

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:45 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:40 am

"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


Nanci Griffith

Friday, November 5, 2021

Cool Rider

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:42 am

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Mixed Signal

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:23 pm

Maybe UR im possible, but IM not sure. — SHC, 4 Nov. 2021.

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Adaptation

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:58 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:55 am

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

In Memoriam

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:31 pm

Monday, October 18, 2021

Get Star

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

From Log24 on July 19, 2021

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

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

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Cat Tale

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:11 am

"This is how we charge the cat."

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Dreams in Black and Orange

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:18 am

Image taken from an Instagram story
by marrific, artist not named.

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Found

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:28 pm

Found.

See as well —

Surrealistic Pillow Talk

(Log24, May 14, 2019)

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Observatory Blues

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:37 pm

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


Nanci Griffith

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Let Noon Be Flack

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:07 pm

 

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:32 pm

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:10 am

See as well . . .

Rouge + Noir .

Friday, September 24, 2021

Annals of Philately

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:55 pm

For fans of "Hyde Park on Hudson" —

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Annals of Educational Philosophy

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:57 pm

"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 —

For Language Animals

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:18 pm

The Narrow Window

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:53 pm

 "Forever" by Labrinth (see below) is from the Euphoria score.

Monday, September 20, 2021

Red Dot Problems

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:42 pm

(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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:25 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:33 pm

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

Big Sur

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:18 am

A Log24 post from 2020 —

An Instagram story from yesterday —

Monday, March 22, 2021

Photo Story

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:50 am

Dark Passage:

Not So Dark:

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Datetime

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:25 pm

Brazen Bull from "The Blacklist" —

Brazen Bull from Harvard —

A version of "News of the World" I prefer —

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