(As opposed to the new Ford Mustang Mach-E)
Not to be confused with …
"I would drop the keystone into my arch . . . ."
Click the Auto Body image for some backstory.
* For the church, see Transformers in this journal.
"The transformed urban interior is the spatial organisation of
an achiever, one who has crossed the class divide and who uses
space to express his membership of, not aspirations towards,
an ascendant class in our society: the class of those people who
earn their living by transformation— as opposed to the mere
reproduction— of symbols, such as writers, designers, and
academics"
— The Social Logic of Space ,
by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson,
Cambridge University Press, 1984
For another perspective on the achievers, see The Deceivers .
Related material —
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Exhibit C:
"Transformations , Anne Sexton’s 1971 collection of poems, is a portal."
— "A Poisonous Antidote," by Nick Ripatrazone, at themillions.com
at noon on October 22, 2015
"You see, opening dimensional portals is a tricky business."
— The librarian in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," season 1, episode 2
See also Transformers in this journal.
Synchronology —
"Objective Quality" in this journal on the date of the above review,
October 22, 2015, at 2:26 AM ET.
Accentuating the positive —
"Among Mr. Grey’s accomplishments is
the enormously lucrative “Transformers” franchise;
a new installment is scheduled for this summer."
See as well (Click to enlarge) . . .
Friday, March 10, 2017
The Transformers
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A link, observablehq.com/demo, (not functioning in my Chrome
browser at the present time but apparently OK in Firefox) in the
previous post suggests . . .
"Physically meaningful observables must also satisfy
transformation laws which relate observations
performed by different observers in different
frames of reference. These transformation laws are
automorphisms of the state space, that is
bijective transformations which preserve certain
mathematical properties of the space in question."
— Wikipedia, Observable
Those who prefer narrative to mathematics may read
"automorphisms" as "auto morphisms."
"Before time began . . . ." — "Transformers" first line, 2007
" … this beautiful love story . . . ."
An image from the previous post:
The above line "From the producer of Transformers " suggests
a story from March 18, 2019 . . .
Misreading the words of di Bonaventura
yields a phrase that might be applied to
the Church of Rome . . .
"A franchise based on release dates."
See dies natalis in this journal.
For the Church of Synchronology, see
the above di Bonaventura date, March 18.
Then there is the Church of Cubism . . .
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime, Transformers , 2007
Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —
Not so useless —
The caption in fine print below says
"Download Blender and install it.
I won't show you how to do that
because I don't want to insult your
intelligence…."
Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —
Related art —
Click image for further details.
The opening lines of Eliot's Four Quartets —
"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."
Perhaps.
Those who prefer geometry to rhetoric may also prefer
to Eliot's lines the immortal opening of the Transformers saga —
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
One version of the Cube —
The New Yorker reviewing "Bumblebee" —
"There is one reliable source for superhero sublimity,
and it’s all the more surprising that it’s a franchise with
no sacred inspiration whatsoever but, rather, of purely
and unabashedly mercantile origins: the 'Transformers'
series, based on a set of toys, in which Michael Bay’s
exhilarating filmmaking offers phantasmagorical textures
of an uncanny unconscious resonance."
— Richard Brody on December 29, 2018
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
Some backstory — A Riddle for Davos, Jan. 22, 2014.
From religionnews.com —
"The word 'Hanukkah' means dedication.
It commemorates the rededicating of the
ancient Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C. . . . ."
From The New York Times this morning —
Related material —
From this journal on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 —
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
From a Google image search this morning —
The image search was suggested by recent posts tagged Aitchison
and by this morning's previous post.
The Finkelstein Talisman —
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime in "Transformers" (Paramount, 2007)
Wikipedia on Hasbro —
Three American Jewish brothers,[6] Herman, Hillel, and Henry Hassenfeld[7]
founded Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island in 1923 . . . .
The Hassenfeld Auction —
Also on September 16, 2015 —
The Hindman Image —
The Hood Warenkorb —
Under the Hood —
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
This Way to the Egress —
The previous post, "Mind," suggests a search for "n+1" in this journal.
From that search —
The above psychoanalytic remarks suggest . . .
See also "Transformers" (2007).
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
Background from January 25, 2017 —
"Remembering speechlessly we seek
the great forgotten language,
the lost lane-end into heaven,
a stone, a leaf, an unfound door.
Where? When?" — Thomas Wolfe
Why was the Cosmic Cube named the Tesseract
in the Marvel movie series? Is there any specific reason
for the name change? According to me, Cosmic Cube
seems a nice and cooler name.
— Asked March 14, 2013, by Dhwaneet Bhatt
At least it wasn't called 'The AllSpark.'
It's not out of the realm of possibility.
— Solemnity, March 14, 2013
Paul Krugman:
Asimov's Foundation novels grounded my economics
In the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov …
"The Prime Radiant can be adjusted to your mind, and all
corrections and additions can be made through mental rapport.
There will be nothing to indicate that the correction or addition
is yours. In all the history of the Plan there has been no
personalization. It is rather a creation of all of us together.
Do you understand?"
"Yes, Speaker!"
— Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation , Ch. 8: Seldon's Plan
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
See also Transformers in this journal.
Or: An Apple for Marcela
Scene from the college class Astronomy 101 in "Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen" (June 24, 2009) —
Professor— "Space. Time. Gravity. " (Bites apple, drops it and kicks it to students.) Coed (catching apple)— "Thank you." Professor to coed— "Finish that for me." Professor to students—
"We're going on a journey together, you and I, today. |
See also Big Apple in this journal as well as a film by the artist from
the "nubile" link above…
* Title suggested by my viewing last night "Revenge of the Fallen,"
no. 2 in the Transformers series. That film reportedly opened
on this date eight years ago.
Detail from the previous post —
See Space Cross in this journal.
See also Anthony Hopkins' new film
"Transformers: The Last Knight" and …
"For years, the AllSpark rested, sitting dormant
like a giant, useless art installation."
— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider.com yesterday
Related material —
Giant, useless art installation —
Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA. See also LeWitt in this journal.
From a post of last Friday, June 2 —
See also Transformers in this journal.
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Transformers (2007)
Prequel —
Note that Yale's die design and use of the phrase "rigid motions"
differ from those in the webpage "Solomon's Cube."
"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Transformers (2007)
Plot summary — "An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races,
the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with
a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager."
* A post suggested by J. D. Salinger's phrase "a fresh impetus"
in "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" (1955)
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker today reacts to the startling
outcomes of three recent contests: the presidential election,
the Super Bowl, and the Oscar for Best Picture —
"The implicit dread logic is plain."
Related material —
Transformers in this journal and …
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
See also …
The above figure is from Ian Stewart's 1996 revision of a 1941 classic,
What Is Mathematics? , by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins.
One wonders how the confused slave boy of Plato's Meno would react
to Stewart's remark that
"The number of copies required to double an
object's size depends on its dimension."
Transformations acting on Solomon's Cube
furnish a model of poetic order.
Some backstory for Hollywood —
"The deepest strain in a religion is
the particular and particularistic doctrine
it asserts at its heart,
in the company of such pronouncements as
‘Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.’
Take the deepest strain of religion away…
and what remains are the surface pieties —
abstractions without substantive bite —
to which everyone will assent
because they are empty, insipid, and safe."
— Stanley Fish, quoted here on July 3, 2007…
The opening date of the film "Transformers."
The opening pronouncement of "Transformers" —
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
Those who prefer Fish's abstractions may consult
the previous post.
Mathematics —
Hudson's parametrization of the
4×4 square, published in 1905:
A later parametrization, from this date in 1986:
A note from later in 1986 shows the equivalence of these
two parametrizations:
Narrative —
Posts tagged Memory-History-Geometry.
The mathematically challenged may prefer the narrative of the
Creation Matrix from the religion of the Transformers:
"According to religious legend, the core of the Matrix
was created from Solomus, the god of wisdom,
trapped in the form of a crystal by Mortilus, the god
of death. Following the defeat of Mortilus, Solomus
managed to transform his crystal prison into the Matrix—
a conduit for the energies of Primus, who had himself
transformed into the life-giving computer Vector Sigma."
Remarks on fluidity and lucrative ventures in
yesterday evening's post Transformers suggest
a reading in memory of a Catholic philosopher
who reportedly died yesterday at 83 —
Psalm 22: "I am poured out like water . . . ."
The Log24 version (Nov. 9, 2005, and later posts) —
VERBUM
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See also related material in the previous post, Transformers.
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