For some obelisk versions, see the previous post and a Log24 search.
Monday, December 25, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
An Obelisk for Stephen
From this journal on July 6, 2023 —
A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.
From The New York Times today, a different Stephen —
A Log24 flashback from the date of Silverman's reported death —
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Santa vs. the Obelisk
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The New York Times this evening— Horacio Coppola, Evocative By DENISE GRADY Published: June 30, 2012 Horacio Coppola, whose black-and-white photographs of the cafes, side streets and neon-lit boulevards of Buenos Aires in the 1930s, and of ordinary objects like a typewriter and a doll, introduced avant-garde photography to Argentina, died on June 18 in Buenos Aires. He was 105. more >> |
Related story—
Coppola photographed the new Obelisk of Buenos Aires in 1936.
"Where the Obelisco stands, a church dedicated to St. Nicholas
of Bari [or of Myra] was previously demolished."
Related images—
Wikipedia image
"And if you should survive to a hundred and five,
look at all you'll derive …" —Sinatra
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Thursday, July 6, 2023
Pictures at 11
A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.
In this website, a search for "Obelisk" yields . . .
Among fictional Stephens, I prefer Dedalus.
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Monday, August 17, 2020
Art School Confidential . . .
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Monday, March 16, 2020
Models and Monuments
". . . recognizing the bias in your models
and sharing it with clients, users, and engineers
is monumental . . . ."
— Made Lapuerta, Sept. 23, 2019, on AI
"Is this an obelisk I see before me?"
— m759, from a Log24 search for Obelisk
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Easily
"Watch the trailer." — This journal on Eliza Doolittle Day, 2012.
Midrash — March 14 remarks on geometry from Christchurch, New Zealand —
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Again
See also "Cornerstone" in this journal and …
A sidebar from a Google search today —
This suggests a review of posts now tagged Obelisk,
which include …
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Riddle for the Mall of America*
* See the film "The End of the Tour."
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Saturday, February 4, 2017
The Rothko Conundrum
Photo: J. Griffis Smith
By Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle , February 3, 2016
“At night, over Rothko Chapel’s reflecting pond, ‘Broken Obelisk’
looks particularly dramatic.
The great American sculptor Barnett Newman once said his
monumental sculpture ‘Broken Obelisk’ was intended to transform
ideas about life and tragedy into a glimpse of the ‘sublime.’ ”
. . .
See as well Rothko
in this journal.
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Monday, January 30, 2017
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Roman Road
"All roads lead to Rome."
— Xi Jinping, President of the
People's Republic of China,
at Davos today
In memoriam Harvard art historian
James S. Ackerman, who reportedly
died on New Year's Eve 2016 —
"Is this an obelisk* I see before me?"
— Adapted from a play by William Shakespeare
* See the previous post and "The Cherished Gift."
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Title
Google search result at 1 PM ET April 24, 2013:
New York Stage and Film 2013 Musicals – EPA – Playbill
www.playbill.com/jobs/find/job_detail/51922.html
14 hours ago – BRIGHT STAR
Casting: Howie Cherpakov
Music by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin
Lyrics by Edie Brickell Book by Steve Martin…
The musical is set in North Carolina.
From Howie Cherpakov:
From North Carolina:
Archibald Henderson monument, Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, NC
Henderson died in 1963 on the Feast of St. Nicholas.
Related material: Santa vs. the Obelisk.
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