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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Our Lady of the Immaculate Valley

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 5:19 pm

This journal on April 19, 2004

"Follow the fellow who follows a dream."

Melissa Errico
in Finian's Rainbow

"Give her a song like … 'Look to the Rainbow,'
and her gleaming soprano effortlessly flies it
into the stratosphere where such numbers belong.
This is the voice of enchantment…."

— Ben Brantley, NY Times

"Follow the fellow…."  Or the girl.
See posts now tagged Birthday Girls
in honor of a Coachella Valley native
born on September 27, 2002.

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Shadowhunters: Turning 18*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:59 pm

See this journal on January 1, 2011, said to be the day that
an interesting Czech girl (see "Blue Czech Marks") turned 18. 

* For the title, see an appealing 2013 fantasy starring Lily Collins.
Collins herself turned 18 on March 18, 2007.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Bit by Bit, Putting It Together…

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

This morning's earlier post linked to a 2009 essay by the late Denis Dutton on Damien Hirst and Acheulian Hand Axes.

Related material on hand axes —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110101-AcheulianDetails.jpg

Related material on Damien Hirst —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110101-HirstSkull500.jpg

The large stone of the Hirst diamond skull —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110101-SkullStone.jpg

 

Related philosophy — "And that  is the state  of the art ." — Stephen Sondheim

See also this  journal on the date of the above Hirst skull post.

Christchurch Philosophy

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:48 am

In memory of Denis Dutton, a professor of philosophy at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand, who reportedly died in Christchurch on Tuesday, December 28, 2010. (This date presumably refers to New Zealand Daylight Time, 18 hours ahead of Eastern Standard time; both U.S. and New Zealand sources say Dutton died on Dec. 28.)

The New York Times reports his death today —

"A version of this article appeared in print on January 1, 2011, on page A17 of the New York edition."

Dutton's academic specialty was the philosophy of art.

For some remarks on philosophy and on art from the day of Dutton's death, see "Church Diamond" in this journal, 3:09 PM EST December 27 (9:09 AM December 28, New Zealand Daylight Time).

See also Dutton's essay "Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank?" that was linked to here on St. Luke's Day, 2009.

For some context, see the recent Log24 posts Dry Bones and Canterbury Tale.

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