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.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Light and Space* — Facilis Descensus Averno
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Saturday, April 29, 2023
The Long Movie
"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 —
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Our Lady of the Immaculate Valley
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…."
"Follow the fellow…." Or the girl.
See posts now tagged Birthday Girls
in honor of a Coachella Valley native
born on September 27, 2002.
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Monday, April 24, 2023
For Sister Simone
"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."
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Acronym
Saturday, September 17, 2016
A Box of Nothing
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For those who prefer comedy —
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
Friday, April 14, 2023
“Apart from that, Mrs. Koren . . .”
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.
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“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
“We said, ‘This is really … the killer example
for visual abstract reasoning, let’s jump in,’”
— "A New Approach to Computation
Reimagines Artificial Intelligence,"
Quanta Magazine , April 13, 2023
See as well . . .
"A neuro-vector-symbolic architecture for solving
Raven’s progressive matrices,"
Nature Machine Intelligence , March 9, 2023.
Click Ravenna for some related posts.
Meanwhile, also on March 9, 2023 —
"Reverting to a more primitive and sensual, almost magical
experience of art is what Sontag desires…." — Wikipedia
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
“Social Networks” . . .
“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 .
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Saturday, April 1, 2023
The Color Out of Nevermore
A detail from the final Log24 post of March 2023 —
"Wednesday, some red doors
should not be painted black."
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
Da Capo: The Iceman Goeth
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 . . .
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Sunday, November 28, 2021
The Night Clerk’s Motto
From "Ready Player Meets the Night Clerk,"
a montage of 12 Aug. 2020 —
"Our credit manager is Helen Hunt. If you want credit…"
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Thursday, January 14, 2021
Redemptive Ephiphanic Impression
“ 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 . . .
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Word
“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.
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Clay Risen
The title, which suggests a combination of musings by James Joyce
and Gerard Manley Hopkins, is actually a person’s name. See below.
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Programming with Windows
“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.
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Waiting for the Light at the End of Daisy’s Dock
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Thursday, August 13, 2020
Oasis Midrash
“A Passion that Kills,” by Markus Pierson (wood sculpture, 1988)
Midrash for the Fockers —
“I like to watch.” — Chauncey Gardiner
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
For the Legend of Drunken Master
“I had a little drink about an hour ago,
and it’s gone right to my head.” — Old song
This suggests a review:
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Hidden Figure: Type Design at the East Village Other
I.e. . . . 
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Monday, August 10, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Stillman
“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.
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