Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Klostermann Weekend
Sunday, May 6, 2018
The Osterman Omega
From "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —
Counting symmetries of the R. T. Curtis Omega:
An Illustration from Shakespeare's birthday —
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Kummerhenge Illustrated
“… the utterly real thing in writing is the only thing that counts…."
— Maxwell Perkins to Ernest Hemingway, Aug. 30, 1935
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in "The Osterman Weekend"
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Manifest O
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
It’s 10 PM…
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Point Omega
“Am I still on?” — Ending line of The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Sunday, January 11, 2015
The XYZ of Being
From a recent Gitterkrieg post:
"The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon,
The A B C of being…." — Wallace Stevens
See also the cover of the February 2015
Notices of the American Mathematical Society .
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in The Osterman Weekend
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Remarks on Reality
Wallace Stevens in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
(1950) on "The Ruler of Reality" —
"Again, 'He has thought it out, he thinks it out,
As he has been and is and, with the Queen
Of Fact, lies at his ease beside the sea.'"
One such scene, from 1953 —
Another perspective, from "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Omega Post
In memory of radio personality Steve Post,
a link to some remarks on the date of his death.
Monday, August 4, 2014
Bunch vs. Bunch
“This is a divorce case that was before us on an earlier occasion.”
Wild:
From the director of The Wild Bunch —
Brady:
From The New York Times —
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Unplatonic Dialogue
Dialogue from “The Osterman Weekend”—
01:57:22 “Why did he make us try to believe Omega existed?”
01:57:25 ….
01:57:26 “The existence of Omega has not been disproved.
01:57:28 Don’t you understand that?
01:57:31 Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
See also Omega elsewhere in this journal.
Update of 9:15 PM ET —
Monday, July 14, 2014
Conversations with an Empty Chair
Continued from August 20, 2013
In honor of Sam Peckinpah, the closing shot of his last film:
“Am I still on?” — Ending line of The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Saturday, November 28, 2020
A Poster for Doctor Manhattan
A nostalgia pill for Watchmen fans.
For Harvard Watchmen fans, a link to 2346:
http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=2346 —
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Omega Matrix
Monday, March 14, 2016
Lead Bun
Sausage Party* Humor
On Seth Rogen —
"He has described his parents, who met in Israel
on a kibbutz, as 'radical Jewish socialists.' [a] "
* "The film will have its world premiere at the
South by Southwest Film Festival on March 14, 2016. [b] "
Notes from Wikipedia —
a. Patterson, John (September 14, 2007). "Comedy's new centre of gravity".
The Guardian (London: Guardian News and Media Limited).
b. D'Alessandro, Anthony (March 1, 2016).
"Sony Is Throwing A ‘Sausage Party’ At SXSW…". Deadline.com.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Sunday Dinner
See "Sunday Dinner" in this journal as well as "Standing Still"
(also in this journal) and "Sausage Party" (on the Web).
Space-Time Sermon
Time Sermon
"In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together,
and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church
examines more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions."
— Nostra Aetate , by Pope Paul VI
For one such examination, see today's noon post.
For another, see a story from yesterday's Washington Post .
Space Sermon
In memory of the late architect Patrick Hodgkinson
Harvey Court at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
For the architect, see yesterday's post "Brick-Perfect."
See as well a meditation on the numbers 9 and 13
in the post "Space" on day 13 of May, 2015.
Saturday, March 12, 2016
For the Church of Synchronology*
From the Wikipedia article Bauhaus (band) —
"On 31 October 2013 (Halloween), David J and Jill Tracy released
'Bela Lugosi's Dead (Undead Is Forever),' a cinematic piano-led
rework of 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'"
Halloween 2013 here (click to enlarge) —
* See "synchronolog…" in this journal.
Hunger Game
Dancing about Architecture
(Continued from November 26, 2002.)
Masonic Melody
"Button your lip baby
Button your coat
Let's go out dancing
Go for the throat"
Read more: Rolling Stones – Mixed Emotions Lyrics | MetroLyrics
This melody was suggested by a post of February 25, 2016,
by tonight's previous post "Brick-Perfect," and by
the post "Cube Bricks 1984" of March 4, 2016.
"Only connect." — E. M. Forster.
“Brick-Perfect”
Patrick Hodgkinson, a British architect, reportedly died at 85 on
February 21, 2016. From his March 4 obituary in the Telegraph —
|
Before Brunswick, came Harvey Court for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Colin St John Wilson, exLCC, his senior in the Martin studio, had done a scheme with four freestanding ranges in concrete. Hodgkinson radically transformed this at short notice into the final version presented to the College, a tight, connected square finished in local brick with a stepped section and impressive close-spaced brick columns on the exterior faces where the section overhung. Never afflicted by modesty, Hodgkinson called it “designed to a brick-perfect, three-dimensional grid clear of ugly moments: the builders enjoyed making it”. It was attributed to Martin, Wilson and Hodgkinson jointly, but Hodgkinson felt that his contribution was under-appreciated, and again with the Law Library at Oxford, normally credited to Martin and Wilson. The theory of compact medium-rise courtyard forms derived from the Harvey Court design became central to Martin’s research programme at Cambridge in the 1960s; Hodgkinson felt that he deserved more credit for this too. |
Friday, March 11, 2016
Spacey
Adam’s Eve
"We're entering Weimar, baby." — Peggy Noonan
A photo from the eve of the above exhibition's opening —
A Log24 post from the day of the above exhibition's opening —
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Harvard Cinco de Mayo
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015
The Starbird Manifesto
"But what was supposed to be the source of a compound's
authority? Why, the same as that of all new religious movements:
direct access to the godhead, which in this case was Creativity."
— Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House
"Creativity is not a matter of magical inspiration."
— Burger and Starbird, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking (2012)
Video published on Oct 19, 2012
"In this fifth of five videos, mathematics professor
Michael Starbird talks about the fifth element
in his new book, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking ,
co-authored with Williams College professor
Edward B. Burger."
For more on the Starbird manifesto, see Princeton University Press.
An excerpt —
See also a post for Abel's Birthday, 2011 —
Midnight in Oslo — and a four-elements image from
the Jan. 26, 2010, post Symbology —
.Yale Mot
From a New York Post review of "Clouds of Sils Maria,"
a film that opened yesterday —
"Assayas [the writer-director] evidently thinks he’s
being daring and original and avant-garde in leaving
so much open-ended. But you can tell what really
interests him isn’t doing the work of a serious artist
but the comfy trappings of one — the swank dining
rooms, the posh cars with drivers always at the ready.
What’s French for bourgeois? Never mind.
'Clouds' isn’t a film but an idea for a film —
unfinished, unsatisfying, undergraduate."
From this date last year:
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
Friday, April 10, 2015
Living Theater
Immaculate Inception
See also Midnight Purple
and today's previous post.