In memory of a graphic-design figure who reportedly died
on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023 — images from a post on that date —
"The great aim is accurate, precise and definite description . . . . "
— T. E. Hulme, Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the
Philosophy of Art, ed. Herbert Read. London and New York:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987. First published 1924.
See box-space.design.
Related cinematic remarks —
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From Third Text , 2013, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 774–785 — "Genealogy of the Image in Histoire(s) du Cinéma : Godard, Warburg and the Iconology of the Interstice" * * * * P. 777 — Godard conceives of the image only in the plural, in the intermediate space between two images, be it a prolonged one (in Histoire(s) there are frequent instances of black screens) or a non-existent one (superimposition, co-presence of two images on screen). He comments: ‘[For me] it’s always two, begin by showing two images rather than one, that’s what I call image, the one made up of two’ [18] and elsewhere, ‘I perceived . . . cinema is that which is between things, not things [themselves] but between one and another.’ [19] 18. Jean-Luc Godard and Youssef Ishaghpour, "Archéologie du cinéma et mémoire du siècle," Farrago ,Tours, 2000, p. 27. The title of this work is reflective of the Godardian agenda that permeates Histoire(s) . 19. Jean-Luc Godard, "Introduction à une véritable histoire du cinéma," Albatros , Paris,1980, p. 145 |
See as well Warburg in this journal.
News item from this afternoon —
The above phrase "mapping systems" suggests a review
of my own very different "map systems." From a search
for that phrase in this journal —
See also "A Four-Color Theorem: Function Decomposition
Over a Finite Field."
And his June 12, 2005, "Connecting the Dots" address at Stanford —
"Design is how it works ." — Steve Jobs. See interality.org.
From this journal at midnight (12 AM ET) on April 4 —
Related material —
From the weblog of Ready Player One author Ernest Cline —
"Recently, a lot of people have asked me if a real person
inspired the character of James Halliday, the eccentric
billionaire video game designer in my book. Steve Jobs
and Steve Wozniak are both mentioned in the text,
because their world changing partnership inspired the
relationship between James Halliday and Ogden Morrow,
with Morrow being a charismatic tech industry leader like
Jobs, and Halliday being the computer geek genius of the
duo like Woz. But the character of James Halliday was
inspired by two other very different people.
As I told Wired magazine earlier this year, from the
beginning, I envisioned James Halliday’s personality as
a cross between Howard Hughes and Richard Garriott.
If I had to break it down mathematically, I’d estimate that
about 15% of Halliday’s character was inspired by
Howard Hughes (the crazy reclusive millionaire part), with
most of the other 85% being inspired by Richard Garriott."
See as well Log24 posts tagged "Space Writer"
and the classic tune "Midnight at the Oasis."
From "The Magis way: Notes on the publishing culture,"
by Giampiero Bosoni, at http://www.magisdesign.com/magis-world/ —
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"… perhaps it is interesting to reflect further on the relationship between a design object and a literary work, by reading (in whatever interpretative key you choose) the illuminating definition given by the great semiologist Roland Barthes of the act of writing and of the literary value of a text. 'Writing,' Barthes tells us, 'is historically an action that involves constant contradiction, based on dual expectations. One aspect of writing is essentially commercial, a means of control and segregation, steeped in the most materialistic aspect of society. The other is an act of pleasure, connected to the deepest urges of the body and to the subtlest and most successful products of art. This is how the written text is woven. All I have done is to arrange and reveal the threads. Now each can add his own warp to the weft.' [3] Magis’ long and highly advanced experience has given evidence, further confirmed by this latest publishing catalogue, of an ever-growing awareness of this necessary interweaving between warp and weft, between the culture of craftsmanship and that of industry, between design culture and business culture, between form and technique, between symbolic codes and practical functions, between poetry and everyday life." — Giampiero Bosoni [3] Barthes R., Variations sur l’écriture (1972), Editions du Seuil, Paris 1994, published in the second volume of the Oeuvres complètes 1966-1975 (freely translated from the Italian translation, Variazioni sulla scrittura seguite da Il piacere del testo , Ossola C. (editor) Einaudi, Turin 1999). |
See as well "Interweaving" in this journal.
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
Symbol —
Monday, November 7, 2011
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"… if your requirement for success is to be like Steve Jobs,
good luck to you."
— "Transformation at Yahoo Foiled by Marissa Mayer’s
Inability to Bet the Farm," New York Times online yesterday
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
Related material: Posts tagged Ambassadors.
"The close of trading today will spell a new era for Google
as the search giant becomes a part of new holding company
Alphabet Inc." — ABC News, 1:53 PM ET today
From an Aug. 10, 2015, letter by Larry Page announcing the change:
Other business philosophy:
Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from
Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
by David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano
On Sale: 04/14/2015
A not-so-timeless lesson: a synchronicity check
(of this journal, not of the oeuvre of Joseph Jaworski) —
04/14/2015 — Sacramental Geometry.
Review:
Monday, November 7, 2011
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See also the phrase "a dance results" in the original
source and in yesterday's Valentine Dance.
“Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs
“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”
— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer (Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746),
Section 16 (p. 716) of Handbook of Combinatorics, Vol. I ,
MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel,
and László Lovász)
For some background on that Steiner system, see the footnote to
yesterday’s Christmas post.
For those who prefer a cinematic approach…
"I was alone, I took a ride…"
— Sound track of the 2010 film Steve Jobs on Flash
A search tonight for material related to the four-color
decomposition theorem yielded the Wikipedia article
Functional decomposition.
The article, of more philosophical than mathematical
interest, is largely due to one David Fass at Rutgers.
(See the article's revision history for mid-August 2007.)
Fass's interest in function decomposition may or may not
be related to the above-mentioned theorem, which
originated in the investigation of functions into the
four-element Galois field from a 4×4 square domain.
Some related material involving Fass and 4×4 squares—
A 2003 paper he wrote with Jacob Feldman—
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
An assignment for Jobs in the afterlife—
Discuss the Fass-Feldman approach to "categorization under
complexity" in the context of the Wikipedia article's
philosophical remarks on "reductionist tradition."
The Fass-Feldman paper was assigned in an MIT course
for a class on Walpurgisnacht 2003.
"Design is how it works." —Steve Jobs
Website logo—
Screenshot from How Stuff Works—
(Click image for details.)
From "A Device Worthy of a Gothic Novel,"
Chapter XVI of The Club Dumas,
by Arturo Perez-Reverte (1993),
Vintage International, April 1998….
the basis of the 1999 Roman Polanski film
The Ninth Gate —
Aren't you going to give me a document to sign?"
"A document?"
"Yes. It used to be called a pact. Now it would be a contract
with lots of small print, wouldn't it? 'In the event of litigation,
the parties are to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of…'
That's a funny thing. I wonder which court covers this."
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
From a commercial test-prep firm in New York City—
From the date of the above uploading—
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From a New Year's Day, 2012, weblog post in New Zealand—
From Arthur C. Clarke, an early version of his 2001 monolith—
"So they left a sentinel, one of millions they have scattered
throughout the Universe, watching over all worlds with the
promise of life. It was a beacon that down the ages has been
patiently signaling the fact that no one had discovered it.
Perhaps you understand now why that crystal pyramid was set…."
The numerical (not crystal) pyramid above is related to a sort of
mathematical block design known as a Steiner system.
For its relationship to the graphic block design shown above,
see the webpages Block Designs and The Diamond Theorem
as well as The Galois Tesseract and R. T. Curtis's classic paper
"A New Combinatorial Approach to M24," which contains the following
version of the above numerical pyramid—
For graphic block designs, I prefer the blocks (and the parents)
of Grand Rapids to those of New York City.
For the barbed tail of Clarke's "Angel" story, see the New Zealand post
of New Year's Day mentioned above.
Religion for stoners,♦ in memory of Horselover Fat
Amazon.com gives the publication date of a condensed
version* of Philip K. Dick's Exegesis as Nov. 7, 2011.
The publisher gives the publication date as Nov. 8, 2011.
Here, in memory of the author, Philip K. Dick (who sometimes
called himself, in a two-part pun, "Horselover Fat"), is related
material from the above two dates in this journal—
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 m759 @ 12:00 PM …. Update of 9:15 PM Nov. 8, 2011— From a search for the word "Stoned" in this journal—
See also Monday's post "The X Box" with its illustration
Monday, November 7, 2011
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs, quoted in
For some background on this enigmatic equation,
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Merry Xmas.
♦ See also last night's post and the last words of Steve Jobs.
* Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher, has, deliberately or not, sown confusion
about whether this is only the first of two volumes.
"We need a Steve Jobs of religion. Someone (or ones) who can invent not a new religion but, rather, a new way of being religious. Like Mr. Jobs’s creations, this new way would be straightforward and unencumbered and absolutely intuitive. Most important, it would be highly interactive. I imagine a religious space that celebrates doubt, encourages experimentation and allows one to utter the word God without embarrassment. A religious operating system for the Nones[*] among us. And for all of us."
— Eric Weiner , the author, most recently, of Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine .
[* A term for the religiously unaffiliated. See also the 3 PM hour of prayer.]
For highly interactive flirtations, I prefer Rebecca Larue. ("Skyrockets in flight…")
(Continued from earlier posts.)
See the online New York Times on November 27—
With Blocks, Educators Go Back to Basics
— and related letters, online today—
The Building Blocks of Education
Another back-to-basics illustration—
"Design is how it works."
— Steve Jobs
See also the designer of the above Big apple—
“I’m fascinated with how past designers
had to come up with ideas
and solve problems using limited resources.”
The reported last words of
Apple founder Steve Jobs were
"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
In the spirit of these words, a
Google search from today—
See also…
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs, quoted in
The New York Times Magazine on St. Andrew's Day, 2003
.
For some background on this enigmatic equation,
see Geometry of the I Ching.
''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,''
says Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O. ''People think it's this veneer—
that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!'
That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.''
— "The Guts of a New Machine," by Rob Walker,
New York Times Magazine , Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003
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See also, from the day of the above Anything Box review—
St. Peter's Day, 2011— two Log24 posts—
The Shattered Mind and Rome After Dark.
Related boxes… Cosmic Cube and Design Cube.
(Click logo for details.)
NeXT in action:
This morning's post Opening Act suggests the following scholium—
To Purgatory fire you'll come at last;
And Christ receive your soul.
If ever you gave meat or drink,
Every night and all,
The fire will never make you shrink;
And Christ receive your soul.
See also The Wall Street Journal 's Ice Water in Hell story.
Followup scholium — "Vague but exciting …" —
The New York Times online this evening —
"Mr. Jobs, who died in 2011, loomed over Tuesday’s
nostalgic presentation. The Apple C.E.O., Tim Cook,
paid tribute, his voice cracking with emotion, Mr. Jobs’s
steeple-fingered image looming as big onstage as
Big Brother’s face in the classic Macintosh '1984' commercial."
Review —
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
How It Works
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See also 1984 Bricks in this journal.
Del Toro and the History of Mathematics ,
Or: Applied Bullshit Continues
For del Toro —
For the history of mathematics —
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
How It Works
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Continued from the April 1 posts
Apple Gate and Wonders of the Invisible World
Background music: "Like a rose under the April snow…." — Streisand
The Emergence of Harlan Kane continues from yesterday —
This time it's personal.
"Mr. Clark's designs built a bridge … ."
— The New York Times today on a computer designer
who reportedly died on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016.
From Log24 on the reported date of Mr. Clark's death —
and versions of "Both Sides Now"
See a New York Times version of "Both Sides Now."
I prefer a version by Umberto Eco.
Related material for storytellers and the Church of Synchronology —
This journal on the date of the above shooting script, 03/19/15.
"The old, slow art of the eye and the hand, united in service
to the imagination, is in crisis. It’s not that painting is 'dead'
again—no other medium can as yet so directly combine
vision and touch to express what it’s like to have a particular
mind, with its singular troubles and glories, in a particular
body. But painting has lost symbolic force and function in a
culture of promiscuous knowledge and glutting information."
— Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker ,
issue dated Jan. 5, 2015
Cover of a 1980 book on computer music that contains a
helpful article on Walsh functions —
See, in this book, "Walsh Functions: A Digital Fourier Series,"
by Benjamin Jacoby (BYTE , September 1977). Some context:
Symmetry of Walsh Functions.
Excerpts from a search for Steve + Jobs in this journal —
For Aaron Sorkin and Walter Isaacson —
Related material —
Bauhaus Cube, Design Cube, and
Nabokov's Transparent Things .
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.
"Design is how it works." — Steven Jobs
A comment on the life of Jobs —
Paola Antonelli
Photo Credit: Andrea Ciotti
Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York—
“NeXT was a risk and a beautiful failure."
Related material—
and 2008 posts of
“Design is how it works.” — Steven Jobs (See Symmetry and Design.)
“By far the most important structure in design theory is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”
— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
The name Carmichael is not to be found in Booher’s thesis. A book he does cite for the history of S(5,8,24) gives the date of Carmichael’s construction of this design as 1937. It should be dated 1931, as the following quotation shows—
From Log24 on Feb. 20, 2010—
“The linear fractional group modulo 23 of order 24•23•11 is often represented as a doubly transitive group of degree 24 on the symbols ∞, 0, 1, 2,…, 22. This transitive group contains a subgroup of order 8 each element of which transforms into itself the set ∞, 0, 1, 3, 12, 15, 21, 22 of eight elements, while the whole group transforms this set into 3•23•11 sets of eight each. This configuration of octuples has the remarkable property that any given set of five of the 24 symbols occurs in one and just one of these octuples. The largest permutation group Γ on the 24 symbols, each element of which leaves this configuration invariant, is a five-fold transitive group of degree 24 and order 24•23•22•21•20•48. This is the Mathieu group of degree 24.”
– R. D. Carmichael, “Tactical Configurations of Rank Two,” in American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Jan., 1931), pp. 217-240
Epigraph from Ch. 4 of Design Theory , Vol. I:
“Es is eine alte Geschichte,
doch bleibt sie immer neu ”
—Heine (Lyrisches Intermezzo XXXIX)
See also “Do you like apples?“
"Design is how it works." — Steven Jobs (See yesterday's Symmetry.)
Today's American Mathematical Society home page—
Some related material—
The above Rowley paragraph in context (click to enlarge)—
"We employ Curtis's MOG …
both as our main descriptive device and
also as an essential tool in our calculations."
— Peter Rowley in the 2009 paper above, p. 122
And the MOG incorporates the
Geometry of the 4×4 Square.
For this geometry's relation to "design"
in the graphic-arts sense, see
Block Designs in Art and Mathematics.
Export Janet.
“… on behalf of the
Entertainment Industry Coalition
for Free Trade (EIC),
we appreciate the opportunity
to appear before you….”
— Testimony before the
U. S. International
Trade Commission
at mpaa.org
From the CNN transcript of Lou Dobbs Tonight, Friday the 13th of February, 2004…
DOBBS: Joining us tonight… Steve Forbes, the editor and chief of “Forbes”…. Mark Morrison, managing editor of “Businessweek”……..
MORRISON: We’d all like to see more job creation and less exporting of jobs. But coming to the right answer as to achieving that, what policy changes, can we make? We don’t want to go down a protectionist road.
DOBBS: Why not?
MORRISON: What would you suggest?
DOBBS: Why not?
You want to know what I would suggest? You go first.
FORBES: I don’t want another depression.
DOBBS: You don’t want a Great Depression. Do you think Smoot-Hawley caused the depression?
FORBES: It certainly contributed to it.
DOBBS: Oh, for crying out loud. The fact of the matter is, that…
FORBES: Do you want to go to North Carolina and say to the BMW workers send the jobs back to Germany?
DOBBS: I haven’t made a proposal yet and Forbes is all over me here.
FORBES: You want to have a lively show, keep your ratings up.
(LAUGHTER)
DOBBS: Yes, we’ll do that talking about Smoot-Hawley.
The fact of the matter is…
FORBES: Culture… Janet Jackson Act.
DOBBS: The fact of the matter is, we’re exporting our wealth at an alarming rate. We simply cannot continue this. And we’ve got 3 trillion dollars in IOUs. You tell me, at some point you are going to have to make a decision, either you are going to have free trade that has mindlessly led us to this point, or you are going to have fair, managed, mutual trade and build the economy back up.
FORBES: The trouble with managed trade it’s managed by politicians.
DOBBS: Well, I’d rather it be managed by politicians…
FORBES: Managing anything is something to be avoided and deplored. There — our economy today.
DOBBS: There are politicians who care about working men and women in this country. Who care about long-term wealth of this economy [more] than heads of multinationals who are indifferent.
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