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Sunday, October 29, 2023

“By these festival rites, from the age that is past…”

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The Black Thumbnail

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For the source, click here.

The 4/18 refers to the name  of a Warren, PA, film production company,
Four Eighteen Films." The name itself refers to the April 18th birthday
shared by the company's two founders.

For the date  4/18  in this  journal, see "April 18" and the tag "on0418."
Happy belated birthday.

Thursday, October 26, 2023

“Unfathomable” Art

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The previous post displayed the word "unfathomable" in a
summary of the June 15, 2023, Netflix drama "Beyond the Sea."

Vide  "full fathom five" in this  journal.

Light and Space* —  Facilis Descensus Averno

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A scene, at time-remaining 48:22 in "Beyond the Sea,"
that might be titled "The Landing."

* The "Light and Space" phrase is in memory of an artist who
reportedly died yesterday at 95 in La Jolla, California.

Saturday, April 29, 2023

The Long Movie

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"The history of the length of movies takes place in two dimensions—
on the axis of the ordinary and the axis of the extraordinary, or,
of the rule and the exception."

— Richard Brody, The New Yorker , April 24, "In Praise of the Long Movie." 

The Ordinary —

The Extraordinary —

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Our Lady of the Immaculate Valley

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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.

Monday, April 24, 2023

For Sister Simone

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"In the digital cafeteria where AI chatbots mingle,
Perplexity AI is the scrawny new kid ready to
stand up to ChatGPT, which has so far run roughshod
over the AI landscape. With impressive lineage, a wide
array of features, and a dedicated mobile app, this
newcomer hopes to make the competition eat its dust."

— Jason Nelson at decrypt.co, April 12, 2023

What Barnes actually wrote:

"The final scene — the death of Simone most movingly portrayed, 
I understand, by Geraldine Librandi, for the program did not specify 
names — relied on nothing but light gradually dying to a cold
nothingness of dark, and was a superb theatrical coup."

Surreal Singularities

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Mrs. Davis

The New Yorker

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Acronym

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Saturday, September 17, 2016

A Box of Nothing

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(Continued)

"And six sides to bounce it all off of.

For those who prefer comedy —

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Arrival

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See as well this  journal on June 1, 2012 — Matrix Problem Reloaded.

Friday, April 14, 2023

“Apart from that, Mrs. Koren . . .”

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The New York Times  reports an April 14 death.

See as well Vermont as A Metaphysical State .
 

UPDATE:

THE SOURCE:

https://www.newyorker.com/gallery/
cartoons-from-the-april-17-2023-issue
.

The date at the bottom, April 7, was Good Friday.

Eureka!

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Max Bialystock discovers a new playwright

"Magic in every sense of the word!"
 — Variety, April 13 review

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

“Social Networks” . . .

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Continues.

“They’re saying it’s ‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies.’"

— https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/technology/
meta-layoffs-employees-management.html
 .

'Social Network' New York Times front page banner ad

Saturday, April 1, 2023

The Color Out of Nevermore

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Palatinate Purple

A detail from the final Log24 post of March 2023 —

  "Wednesday, some red doors
    should
not be painted black."

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Da Capo: The Iceman Goeth

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The name "Hickey" in last night's post suggested the phrase
"pipe dream" and a search for the opening date of
"The Iceman Cometh" — which was October 9, 1946.

That date, it happens, was the birth date of a video game
executive whose passing was noted here . . .

Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Night Clerk’s Motto

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From "Ready Player Meets the Night Clerk,"
a montage of 12 Aug. 2020 —

"Our credit manager is Helen Hunt.  If you want credit…"

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Redemptive Ephiphanic Impression

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“ Harry decides his chief peacetime duty is to use his
gift for gab to further his ‘overriding purpose,’ namely:
‘By recalling the past and freezing the present he could
open the gates of time and through them see all
allegedly sequential things as a single masterwork
with neither boundaries nor divisions.’ Once he opens
these gates, Harry will flood his audience with his
redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world was
saturated with love.’ ”

— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow  in The New York Times ,
Oct. 5, 2012

“I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”

— Rhymin’ Simon

See as well Kristen Stewart in the
film version of . . .

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111209-Breaking_Dawn_cover.jpg

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Word

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Rosenbaum has a fluent style that can
pivot and change direction on a single word ….”

The above quotation results from a search
in this journal for golem.

That search resulted from today’s previous post,
Clay Risen.

Related conceptual art —

“You’ve got to be carefully taught . . . .” — Oscar Hammerstein II.
See as well the word undoing   in a post of December 6.

Clay Risen

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The title, which suggests a combination of musings by James Joyce
and Gerard Manley Hopkins, is actually a person’s name. See below.

Programming with Windows

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“Program or be programmed.” — Douglas Rushkoff

Detail —

The part of today’s online Crimson  front page relevant to my own
identity work  (see previous post) is the size, 4 columns by 6 rows,
of the pane arrays in the windows of Massachusetts Hall.

See the related array of 6  columns by 4  rows in the Log24 post
Dramarama  from August 6 (Feast of the Transfiguration), 2020.

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Meanwhile . . .

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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Waiting for the Light at the End of Daisy’s Dock

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See also Light History.

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Oasis Midrash

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“A Passion that Kills,” by Markus Pierson (wood sculpture, 1988)

Midrash for the Fockers

“I like to watch.” — Chauncey Gardiner

Midnight at the Oasis Continues.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

For the Legend of Drunken Master

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“I had a little drink about an hour ago,
and it’s gone right to my head.” — Old song

This suggests a review:

Art Lesson

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For those desiring higher definition —

Diana Rigg's character in 'The Hospital'

Curse of the Fire Temple . . .

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Continues.

Details from my Instagram account —

“happy and . . . 🔥” suggests . . .

IMAGE- Sting meets his own reflection in a mirror in 'We'll Be Together' video

“My love is a flame . . . .” — Sting

Ready Player Meets the Night Clerk

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Lushly Lensed

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Dry Humor

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Hidden Figure: Type Design at the East Village Other

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    I.e.  . . . 

Monday, August 10, 2020

Meet the Fockers

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Sunday, August 9, 2020

Stillman

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“If Scott Fitzgerald were to return to life,
he would feel at home in a Whit Stillman movie.”

— Roger Ebert reviewing “The  Last Days of Disco”
on May 29, 1998 (link added)

But not, perhaps, in Boogie Nights of the Golden Circle.

Alice in Bohemia

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From an email this morning with a fake spam user address:

If this were the actress  Jessy Holtermann . . .

Aooo.

Friday, August 7, 2020

Enormous Changes at 11:59

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Carver reportedly died on Tuesday, August 4, 2020.

“This is Maggie the Cat” —

“This is not.” 

Yo, Pickle!

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(Continued)

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Dramarama

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From yesterday morning’s post Multifaceted Unities

A related earlier post —

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Rendezvous with Drama

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See as well Arthur C. Clarke in this journal, and today’s news:

Are You Now?

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The New York Times  obituary for Eric Bentley,
drama critic and playwright, who reportedly died today
at 103, says that . . .

“He took up the causes of the left in
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been:
The Investigation of Show Business
by the Un-American Activities Committee,
1947-1958,’ first produced in 1972. . . .”

For that title phrase in this journal, see other posts
now tagged Ekô.

Multifaceted Unities

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Facettenreiche  Grundlage:

Multifaceted Foundation: Facettenreiche Grundlage

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Of Making Many Books There Is No End

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Published today —

Related quotation —

Cover art published today —

Some mathematics related to the The Fixed Stars  cover art,
from a post of May 1, 2020

The Escape from Plato’s Cave to . . .

See also Numberland and Walpurgisnacht Geometry.

Dramarama

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Monday, August 3, 2020

Liquor Tale

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From an obituary in today’s Boston Globe  —

“His father, meanwhile, had retired and hoped
to open a liquor store in Brooklyn.

When bureaucratic hurdles made his goal seem unreachable,
an old friend, Anthony Paterno, who ran a grocery and bottling
business in Chicago, persuaded him to try opening a shop there,
where fewer obstacles existed.

Salvatore Terlato enlisted Anthony to help him, and together
they opened the shop, Leading Liquor Marts, in 1955.” 

See also Sunset Boulevard Revisited  and . . .

“Do not block intersection.” — City of Los Angeles

Celtic Mysteries

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For Kate Beckinsale and the Fair Folk —

Also on Oct. 13, 2014 — For the Church of Synchronology

Sunday, August 2, 2020

The Sword and the Stone

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A post of May 26, 2005, displays, if not the sword,
a place  for it —

Drama of the Diagonal

"The beautiful in mathematics resides in contradiction.
Incommensurability, logoi alogoi, was the first splendor
in mathematics." — Simone Weil, Oeuvres Choisies,
éd. Quarto
, Gallimard, 1999, p. 100

Logos Alogos  by S. H. Cullinane

"To a mathematician, mathematical entities have their own existence,
they habitate spaces created by their intention.  They do things,
things happen to them, they relate to one another.  We can imagine
on their behalf all sorts of stories, providing they don't contradict
what we know of them.  The drama of the diagonal, of the square…"

— Dennis Guedj, abstract of "The Drama of Mathematics," a talk
to be given this July at the Mykonos conference on mathematics and
narrative. For the drama of the diagonal of the square, see

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

A Picture Show for Bogdanovich and Fosse

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Monday, July 27, 2020

A Brown Bunny

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Related material — Under the April Snow  (April 1, 2016).

Author portrait —

To a Daydream Believer and a Homecoming Queen

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“Do not block intersection.” — City of Los Angeles

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Dirty Dancing Disco

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Happy Birthday to Kate Beckinsale from Carl Jung.

Related philosophy —

“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence….”

— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

A Walsh function and a corresponding finite-geometry hyperplane

Monday, July 20, 2020

Happy Birthday…

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Daisy Clover

(i.e., Natalie Wood, b. July 20, 1938.)

Monday, July 6, 2020

Sunset Boulevard Revisited

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The Liquor Locker appears also in  Into the Sunset  (Aug. 24, 2019)
and in  For Devil’s Night  (Oct. 30, 2017).

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Once Upon a Time in Laurel Canyon

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In memory of a screenwriter who reportedly died today —

“Ms. Frank lived in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills….”
The New York Times  today

“Here, under the shadow of the great tree, I have found peace.”
Mike Nichols in 1965

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Kate Date

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Last night’s post for Oct. 30 (Devil’s Night) displayed a dark side
of actress Kate Beckinsale.

On the brighter side: a date which will live in infamy —

December 7 —

A brighter side of Kate, as a nurse on Pearl Harbor Day

Friday, June 1, 2012

Matrix Problem Reloaded

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For Frigg's Day—

"The newest badass fantasy flick to hit theaters is Snow White and the Huntsman , out today, and I believe it proves my theory that Kristen Stewart is the Keanu Reeves of her generation…. With few lines but a lot of convincingly heroic facial expressions, Kristen Stewart does a great job channeling Keanu Reeves in The Matrix  (one of the dwarfs even calls her 'the one'!)."

— Annalee Newitz this morning, "The Awesome Terribleness of Snow White and the Huntsman "

See also yesterday's Matrix Problem.

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