Foursquare, Inscape, Subway
Foursquare —
Inscape —
Subway —
Art installation, "Crystal Cult" by Josefine Lyche, at an Oslo subway station —
See also today's previous post.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Monday, August 14, 2023
Friday, August 11, 2023
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
The Favicon
A Midrash For Friedkin — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=SXSW .
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Monday, August 7, 2023
Exorcist Director Dies
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Los Angeles Times today BY CHRISTI CARRAS, STAFF WRITER
"William Friedkin, a master of suspense and leading figure of the 1970s New Hollywood movement who was known for directing films such as 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' has died. Friedkin died Monday in Los Angeles, his widow, Sherry Lansing, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. CAA, which represents Lansing, said Friedkin died at home from heart failure and pneumonia. He was 87." |
Update at 8:42 PM ET —
A French Connection for Friedkin, from
the SXSW opening date of one of his films —
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Saturday, March 26, 2022
Friday, March 24, 2017
The Southwest Furthers
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
Gamers
A search for Gamers in this journal yields …
This is not unrelated to the title of a 2008
book by Jeremy Gray:
Plato's Ghost:
The Modernist Transformation
of Mathematics .
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Gaming
Taking place from March 16 – 18, 2017
in the Austin Convention Center . . . .
See also the previous two posts.
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Hexagram 64 in Context
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Notes towards a Dark Tower*
Or: Shema, SXSW
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The doors open slowly. I step into a hangar. From the rafters high above, lights blaze down, illuminating a twelve-foot cube the color of gunmetal. My pulse rate kicks up. I can’t believe what I’m looking at. Leighton must sense my awe, because he says, “Beautiful, isn’t it?” It is exquisitely beautiful. At first, I think the hum inside the hangar is coming from the lights, but it can’t be. It’s so deep I can feel it at the base of my spine, like the ultralow-frequency vibration of a massive engine. I drift toward the box, mesmerized.
— Crouch, Blake. Dark Matter: A Novel |
Related reading —
"Do you know there is a deliberate sinister conspiracy at work?"
"No, but hum a few bars and I'll fake it."
A few bars —
* Not the Dark Tower of Stephen King, but that of the
University of Texas at Austin, back in time 50 years and a day.
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Monday, March 14, 2016
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.
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