Related material from Log24:
Illustration from the post Rota on Beauty (May 21, 2017).
Friday, September 1, 2017
Harvey’s Tulips
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Truly Tasteless* Tulips
Excerpt from the above story —
"The project could also be a new frontier for Mr. Koons.
'It’s superconceptual,' said Judith Benhamou-Huet,
a French art critic and blogger, in that 'he’s giving
the concept but not the realization.' She compared
the approach to that of Sol LeWitt, who sold wall drawings
that buyers then executed on their own."
See also the previous post and Rota on Beauty.
* A reference to Truly Tasteless Jokes , by Blanche Knott
(Book 1 of 11, Ballantine Books paperback, May 1985, page 50).
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Monday, December 30, 2024
December XXX: Yellow Brick Road Meets Mania Lane
My Windows 11 lockscreen tonight —
"Tulip mania swept this land way back in the 17th century . . . ."
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Some historical background —
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Sunday, October 6, 2024
For Students of the Archimedes Screw
For a Hollywood version of Archimedes, see . . .
A related image from what Ray Bradbury called "October Country" —
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Saturday, June 4, 2022
Spectral Valhalla … Continues.
C. S. Lewis on myth —
"The stories I am thinking of always have a very simple narrative shape—
a satisfactory and inevitable shape, like a good vase or a tulip."
The image and quote are from posts tagged Spectral Valhalla.
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Gifted Continues
Related material — See Gifted in this journal.
See as well Tulips.
Yesterday was the International Day of the Girl Child . . .
A related archived Wikipedia article on Kirkman's schoolgirl problem :
See also the previous post— "IPFS Version"— and https://ipfs.io/.
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
The Spectre of Capitalism
Christoph Waltz stars in the new film "Tulip Fever" —
Related material — Another Waltz film, and a document commemorated
by a Boston University professor in the previous post —
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Friday, September 1, 2017
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Rota on Beauty
Tiptoe through the tulips with Rota and Erickson:
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Attempts have been made to string together beautiful mathematical results and to present them in books bearing such attractive titles as The One Hundred Most Beautiful Theorems of Mathematics. Such anthologies are seldom found on a mathematician’s bookshelf. The beauty of a theorem is best observed when the theorem is presented as the crown jewel within the context of a theory. — Gian-Carlo Rota in Indiscrete Thoughts |
See also Martin Erickson in this journal . . .
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Friday, May 2, 2014
From Rune
” ‘Harriet Burden has been really great to me,’
Rune says in an interview, ‘not only as a collector
of my work but as a true supporter. And I think of her
as a muse for the project … ‘ “
— In The Blazing World , the artist known as Rune
(See also Rune + Muse in this journal.)
Lily Collins in a Log24 post of Jan. 15, 2014— “Entertainment Theory“—
Related material from Trish Mayo—
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Sunday, November 3, 2013
YouTube Music Award
From a book by Harvard mathematician Barry Mazur —
"Part of the self leaves the body when we sleep…"
See also the Saturday evening post "Fingo."
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Spectrum
From the weblog of Dr. David Justice today :
C.S. Lewis somewhere (in time, in retirement, I might recover
the passage) surveys the spectrum of plot-outlines, and notes
that that of Orpheus retains its power to spellbind, even in a
bare-bones form, whereas that of almost all worthy modern novels,
become as dust upon such summary.
We venture now upon that territory where words fail ….
Related material :
C. S. Lewis on Orpheus (click to enlarge) —
Lewis, according to Justice, "surveys the spectrum of plot-outlines."
A related image (see, too, today's previous post) —
C. S. Lewis on myth —
"The stories I am thinking of always have a very simple narrative shape—
a satisfactory and inevitable shape, like a good vase or a tulip."
Conceptual Art
For concepts of prism, spectrum, and tulip combined, see Sicilian Reflections.
"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross."
— Gravity's Rainbow
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Friday, June 7, 2013
For Donut Day
A predecessor to the Max Barry novel Lexicon .
(The latter will be published on June 18.)
See, too, an MAA Spectrum book:
Click on images for details.
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