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Friday, June 8, 2012

For Ravenna

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:59 pm

Click to enlarge:

IMAGE- NY Times June 8, 2012, on Bertrand Russell (Jim Holt discusses physicists' churlishness) and on Queen Ravenna (A.O. Scott, 'The Darker Side of the Story')

… And why is  a raven like a writing desk?

Friday, April 14, 2023

Sunday, August 7, 2022

For the Church of the Wicked Stepmother:

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

Progressive Matrices

A sample Raven's Progressive Matrices  test item —

IMAGE- Raven's Progressive Matrices item with symbols from Cullinane's box-style I Ching

IMAGE- Charlize Theron as Ravenna with raven in poster for 'Snow White and the Huntsman'

Update of 10 AM ET Sunday, August 7, 2022 —

See as well Siobhan Roberts on geometry in The New York Times
on March 22, 2022, and a Log24 post on geometry on that date.

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Logos

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:23 am

Charlize Theron in “Young Adult” (2011) —

Related material for older adults: Ravenna and Nietzsche.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Harrowing Cuteness

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:22 am

The title is a phrase from yesterday's post.

An example of harrowing cuteness:

Charlize Theron in "Young Adult" (2011) —

Related material for older adults: Ravenna and Nietzsche.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Multispeech

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

IMAGE- The 3x3 ('ninefold') square as Chinese 'Holy Field'

     Click image above
     for some background.

IMAGE- Snow White Imprisoned- An image for the Snow Queen

IMAGE- Charlize Theron as Ravenna: 'She drifted.'

Friday, October 19, 2012

Torpedo… LOS!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:00 pm

"Hitchcock made movies with many actresses
who had the aloof, Nordic beauty he admired."

— Alessandra Stanley in today's NY Times

Aloof, Nordic…

Freeze Frame

IMAGE- Charlize Theron as Ravenna with raven in poster for 'Snow White and the Huntsman'

Related material:

Fermata

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Matrix Problem

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 7:20 pm

IMAGE- Charlize Theron as Ravenna with raven in poster for 'Snow White and the Huntsman'

Poster from Walpurgisnacht 2012

Raven’s Progressive Matrices problem:

IMAGE- Raven's Progressive Matrices problem based on triangular quarter- and half-diamonds

Click the problem for a related story.

For some related geometry, see Elements Diamond.
See also a post (Dream Time, May 3, 2010)
about geometry and an earlier Walpurgisnacht.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

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