"… an abandoned Norwegian space vessel" is a phrase from
a review of the recent film "Ad Astra."
Related material — Bester's "The Stars My Destination."
Book cover (adapted) —
See also the previous post.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Abandoned Norwegian Space Vessel
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Sunday, January 12, 2020
Interconnecting the Meaning Fragments
"Meaning fragments" is a phrase from the previous post.
See Wechsler in this journal.
Related material —
"the liberation of the plastic elements."
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Cross of the Stations
From the previous post —
"… a single station point for naturalistic representation."
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
Cf. The Last Station, not The Finland Station.
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Plastic Elements
"Step by step, Kepes follows the liberation of the plastic elements:
lines, planes, and colors, and the creation of a world of forms of our own.
The spatial conception interconnects the meaning fragments and
binds them together just as in another period perspective did when it used
a single station point for naturalistic representation."
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
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Friday, January 10, 2020
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Universal History (Adapted)
"One of the more fortuitous encounters of late-20th-century popular culture —
almost up there with Lennon meets McCartney and Taylor meets Burton —
took place on Labor Day 1965, at Jane Fonda’s Malibu beach house. The
actress was hosting a daylong bash at which her father, Henry’s,
generation mingled uneasily with her Hollywood hippie friends. The Byrds
played in the backyard. A young comedian-turned-film director named Mike
Nichols was approached by an improv comic-turned-itinerant writer named
Buck Henry, who asked how he was doing. Nichols dourly looked around
at all the proto-Summer of Love vibes and said, 'Here, under the shadow
of the great tree, I have found peace.'
Henry immediately recognized a sardonic East Coast kindred spirit trapped
in Lotusland . . . ."
— Ty Burr, Boston Globe staff, January 9, 2020, 10:34 AM
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Adapt or Die
For Hollywood —
For Emily Yahr (see second item above) —
Buck Henry reportedly died yesterday, January 8, 2020.
This journal on that date a year earlier —
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