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A space fan in Tomorrowland  knocks on one door-panel of a 3×3 array —

Related image from Hereafter —

Matt Damon with his  3×3 door-panel array.

Yesterday’s flashback to the “Square Ice” post of
St. Francis’s Day, 2016 —

This suggests a review of the July 16, 2013, post “Child Buyers.”

Related images from “Tomorrowland” (2015) —

An ignorant, but hopeful, space fan —

The space fan knocks on one door-panel of a 3×3 array —

Related image from “Hereafter” (2010) —

Matt Damon with his  3×3 door-panel array.

The IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair

"Bad news on the doorstep…." — American Pie

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie 
Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an
alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,'
he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in,
sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

Jeff Nichols, director of Midnight Special  (2016) —

"When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney
movie Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world
that exists in an alternative dimension, Nichols sighed.
'I was a little bummed, I guess,' he said of when he first
learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that
we're all dabbling in, sometimes you're not the first one
out of the gate.' "

See also Jung's four-diamond figure and the previous post.

Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst
in "Spider-Man 2" (2004) —

Spoilers for another Kirsten Dunst film,
"Midnight Special" (2016) —

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie 
Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an
alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,'
he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in,
sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

From another obituary for
the "Spider-Man" screenwriter —

“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”

— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times

A story from the NY Times  Sunday morning print edition —

"A version of this article appears in print on March 3, 2019,
on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: 

Kevin Roche, 96, Is Dead; Famed Modernist Architect."

" When Mr. Roche received the Pritzker in 1982, he delivered
an acceptance speech that displayed both his capacity for
self-deprecating humor and his belief that architecture was
a noble pursuit. He quoted from a letter he had received
complaining that his work was 'moribund' and that the Pritzker
jury 'must be out of their minds' to have given him the prize.

He could only respond, he said, by asking: 'Is not the act of building
an act of faith in the future, and of hope? Hope that the testimony of
our civilization will be passed on to others, hope that what we are doing
is not only sane and useful and beautiful, but a clear and true reflection
of our own aspirations. And hope that it is an art, which will communicate
with the future and touch those generations as we ourselves have been
touched and moved by the past.' "

— Paul Goldberger

Goldberger on Roche's earlier career —

". . . He continued to finish projects Saarinen had started, including
the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, designed
in collaboration with Charles Eames . . . ."

Illustration —

The IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair

See also the film "Tomorrowland."

"Bad news on the doorstep…." — American Pie

The word "artifacts" in the above obituary summary
suggests three Log24 posts now tagged with that word.

See as well . . .

"Bad news on the doorstep…." — American Pie

Wikipedia on a George Clooney film released yesterday —

"The studio's major production is Hail, Caesar! ,
an epic set in ancient Rome and starring Baird Whitlock
(Clooney). During a shoot, Whitlock drinks from a goblet
of wine drugged by an extra; he passes out behind the
soundstage and is abducted. A ransom note soon arrives,
written by a group calling itself 'The Future' and demanding
$100,000, which Mannix arranges to have paid. Whitlock
awakens in a beach house and finds his way into a meeting
of The Future, a Communist cell. The members explain their
doctrine to him, and he begins to sympathize with their cause."

See also this morning's post Space Program:

"Bad news on the doorstep…." — American Pie

Putting the X in CRUX —

X Marks the Spot  scene, "The Last Crusade"

For those who prefer the T in SPOT —

Knock, Knock, Knockin' —
A Scene from "Tomorrowland" —

A fan of the declining US space program
knocks on George Clooney's door

For related remarks on the decline of NASA,
see an essay at the World Socialist Web Site 
from August 19, 2011.

The previous post dealt with one of the 64 symbols
(in a redesigned format) of the ancient Chinese classic 
The I Ching .

For those who prefer to be guided by programmed
responses to alphabetical  symbols …

A lyric by Ira Gershwin —

A cinematic "T" —

See also "T for Texas" in this journal and
George Clooney's recent attempt to commercialize
both the space program and the letter Omega: 

From a post of May 13, 2015 —

From "Class of 64 continues… " (March 18, 2014) —

"To see a difficult uncompromising material
take living shape and meaning
is to be Pygmalion…." — Ex-Prodigy

No, you are not the only.

On "Tomorrowland" —

" 'There was one requirement. 'The only thing they were clear
about was they wanted it to be unlike anything anyone had
ever seen before,' Chambliss says. 'Something so fantastic
that Casey (the heroine, played by Britt Robertson) gets
addicted to it.' "

— Peter Caranicas at Variety.com

See notes related to the discussion of the torus within the hypercube
in Thomas F. Banchoff 's 1996 text Beyond the Third Dimension  .
The hypercube torus is more intelligible in the light of an
animation at the weblog post "Gleaming the Hypercube"—

(Animation source: MIQEL.com)