Thursday, September 23, 2021
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Friday, October 30, 2020
Rare Shells and Stratagems
Patricia Lockwood quoting Nabokov —
‘I saw the board as a square pool of limpid water
with rare shells and stratagems rosily visible
upon the smooth tessellated bottom, which
to my confused adversary was all ooze and
squid-cloud.’ Conceptions of space, dimension,
movement, strategy.
— London Review of Books ,
Vol. 42 No. 21 · 5 November 2020
Related images —
From this journal on October 26:
From this journal this morning:
A dancer forms a heart shape with her hands. Finishing the gesture,
she recovers the point missing from the bottom of the above shield . . .
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Thursday, October 29, 2020
Images in posts are down.
The service hosting my Log24 images is down. I do not know
when it will be up again.*
Meanwhile, a WordPress Media workaround image —
Related narrative for a Code Girl —
“Tickle: Change, Shift, Reveal.”
* Update at 5 AM Oct. 30: Images are back.
To celebrate their return . . . .
“Dance Practice Video,” still and detail.
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Switchin’ the Positions*
“C24 is the list of codewords of the extended
binary Golay code C24. Each codeword is expressed
by a subset of the set M of the positions [1, . . . , 24]
of MOG.”
— From Shimada’s notes on computational data at
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shimada/
preprints/Edge/PaperEdge/compdataEdge.pdf .
* Related material — A new Ariana Grande video and . . .
a recent digital artwork, “Code Girl,” with accompanying story —
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Riddle for a Code Girl*
Space People Lightbulb Puzzle
by presentationgo.com
“How many space people does it take
to screw in a lightbulb?”
* I.e. , the code girl of the previous post.
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Arrangement in Gray and Black
See also The Spelman Trick.
The image above, from an Oct. 15 Harvard Crimson article, is not credited.
But see the Crimson’s “Code Girl” page and the website of Margot Shang.
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Meditation in Red and Gray
See also Red and Gray in this journal.
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