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Monday, July 31, 2017

Stealth Cars

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:09 pm

From a June 8, 1987, New York Times  review of
Stephen King's novel Misery

"She doesn't like Fast Cars , the manuscript of which she found
in his traveling bag. It's confusing and the language is profane."

From the IMDb biography of film director Rob Cohen —

"He attended Harvard University and graduated
magna cum laude  in the class of '71, concentrating
in a cross major between anthropology and visual studies."

"He is the creator of The Fast and the Furious (2001),
Universal Pictures' biggest franchise of all time."

Cohen also directed Stealth  (2005). See a Sam Shepard fan site.

Sam Shepard Reportedly Died on Thursday, July 27.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:45 pm

Epiphany 2010

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:01 am

As between "No Land" and "No. Land."

See also Conceptualist Minimalism.

Commercial Aspect

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 am

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Sermon: MS R I

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:57 am

From Solomon's Cube

"Here MSRI, an acronym for Mathematical Sciences Research Institute,
is pronounced 'Misery.' See Stephen King [and] K.C. Cole . . . ."

From a manuscript by Mikhail Gromov cited yesterday in MSRI Program —

Quotes from a founder of geometric group theory

Sunday School:

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:01 am

Bullshit Studies  Continued

The remarks by Mikhail Gromov on neuroscience in his papers
cited in the previous post suggest some related remarks —

Saturday, July 29, 2017

MSRI Program

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:29 pm

"The field of geometric group theory emerged from Gromov’s insight
that even mathematical objects such as groups, which are defined
completely in algebraic terms, can be profitably viewed as geometric
objects and studied with geometric techniques."

— Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 2016:

Geometric Group theory at MSRI (pronounced 'Misery')

See also some writings of Gromov from 2015-16:

For a simpler example than those discussed at MSRI
of both algebraic and geometric techniques applied to
the same group, see a post of May 19, 2017,
"From Algebra to Geometry." That post reviews
an earlier illustration —

For greater depth, see "Eightfold Cube" in this journal.

Science News

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:29 am

Continued from the post Aesthetic Distance of July 28, 2017.

Friday, July 28, 2017

Prize Problem

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The last page of a novel published on Sept. 2, 2014 —

Related material —

The 2017 film Gifted  presents a different approach to the Navier-Stokes 
problem.

The figure below perhaps represents the above novel 's Millennium Prize
winner reacting, in the afterlife, to the film 's approach in Gifted .

Bustle  online magazine last April  —

Gifted ’s Millennium Prize Problems
Are Real & They Will Hurt Your Brain

By JOHNNY BRAYSON Apr 11 2017

See also other news from the above Bustle  date — April 11, 2017.

Compare and Contrast

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:40 pm

From an obituary in this afternoon's online New York Times

"Mr. Morris published his autobiography, 
Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism , in 1998."

The obit suggests a review of posts mentioning the film
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," starring Kristen Wiig. 

See as well Wiig and the Louvre Banquet Hall in  L.A. —

The book title Get the Picture  above suggests a review of
a different Louvre picture, starring Audrey Hepburn —

"Take  the  picture,  take  the  picture!"

Creeds

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:21 pm

From a novel featuring the Navier-Stokes problem —

A search for "Creed" in this journal yields
a different sort of Shiva —

For further reviews, click on the Penguin below.

Aesthetic Distance

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:23 am

In memory of a Disney "imagineer" who reportedly died yesterday.

From the opening scene  of a 2017 film, "Gifted":

Frank calls his niece Mary to breakfast on the morning she is 
to enter first grade. She is dressed, for the first time, for school —

- Hey! Come on. Let's move!
- No!
- Let me see.
- No.
- Come on, I made you special breakfast.
- You can't cook.
- Hey, Mary, open up. 
(She opens her door and walks out.)
- You look beautiful.
- I look like a Disney character.
  Where's the special?
- What?
- You said you made me special breakfast.

Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/
movie_script.php?movie=gifted

Cube symmetry subgroup of order 8 from 'Geometry and Symmetry,' Paul B. Yale, 1968, p.21

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Keeping It Simple

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times

"The detective story genre concerns the finding of clues
and the search for hidden designs, and its very form
underscores Mr. Pynchon’s obsession with conspiracies
and the existence of systems too complicated to understand."

Review of Pynchon's Bleeding Edge , Sept. 10, 2013

Background:  "Moss on the Wall," this  journal on that date.

A less complicated system —

"Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead."

— Bill Murray in "Ed Wood"
 

For The Church of Plan 9

(The plan , as well as the elevation ,
of the above structure is a 3×3 grid.)

Voices from a Cartoon Graveyard

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The previous post illustrated 
"Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard."

A search for Psychonauts in
this journal yields

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06/060326-Smith.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

In other news

Hedwig and the Square Inch

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:58 am

'Mix: Hedwig's Theme Variations'- YouTube

From "In the Park with Yin and Yang" (May 10, 2017) —

Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard

In Memoriam —

Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 am

Autobot

or Decepticon?

  .

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:01 pm

See 4x4x4 in this journal.  See also

 

Icon Parking

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For the title, see Icon Parking in a search for 54th  in this journal.

For related iconic remarks, click on either image below.

  .

This post was suggested by the Dec. 30, 2016, date of the
death in Nuremberg of mathematician Wolf Barth.  The first
image above is from a mathematics-related work by
John von Neumann discussed here on that date.

See also Wolf Barth in this journal for posts that largely
concern not the above Barth, but an artist of the same name.
For posts on the mathematician only, see Barth + Kummer.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Science Monitor

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:35 pm

The corner being turned in the previous post
is formed by the south wall of a Christian Science
church at 1776 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles.

For a related Christian Science meditation, see

The Corner Trick

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:11 am

"At a visual level a trick is played" —

Or:  Annie Hall Revisited — 

Air date:  January 5, 2017.

For other philosophical remarks from the first eight days of 2017, see
posts now tagged Conceptualist Minimalism.

Related material:  See March 14, 2017, and the 2007 film Waitress .

Monday, July 24, 2017

Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:00 am

The above title was suggested by a film trailer quoted here Saturday

" Jeremy Irons' dry Alfred Pennyworth:
'One misses the days when one's biggest concerns
were exploding wind-up penguins.' "

"Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition" describes, among other books,
an edition of the I Ching  published on December 1, 2015.

Excerpt from this journal on that date

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Verhexung

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 9:00 PM 

(Continued)

"The positional meaning of a symbol derives from
its relationship to other symbols in a totality, a Gestalt,
whose elements acquire their significance from the
system as a whole."

— Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols , Ithaca, NY,
Cornell University Press, 1967, p. 51, quoted by
Beth Barrie in "Victor Turner."

(Turner pioneered the use of the term "symbology,"
a term later applied by Dan Brown to a fictional
scholarly pursuit at Harvard.)

. . . .

Related material —

IMAGE by Cullinane- 'Solomon's Cube' with 64 identical, but variously oriented, subcubes, and six partitions of these 64 subcubes

The I Ching's underlying group has 1,290,157,424,640 permutations.

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Reality Butts

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:00 pm

Continuing the 1984  theme

More about 1984 from the above May 1, 2016, post

 

The Partitioned Self

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Jung's self-symbol

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100615-JungImago.gif

A meditation on Jung's self-symbol

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Comic Con

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

From The Hollywood Reporter  today

" Jeremy Irons' dry Alfred Pennyworth:
'One misses the days when one's biggest concerns
were exploding wind-up penguins.' "

See as well the today's 9 AM (ET) post and

The author —

A Circle of Influence

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am

In memory of Doris Lessing and Clancy Sigal

". . . along with [R. D.] Laing they formed 'a circle
of almost incestuous mutual influence
. . . ."

— Sam Roberts, The New York Times , July 21 obituary of Sigal

"Thus I would wish to emphasize that
our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often
the abdication of ecstasy,
the betrayal of our true potentialities,
that many of us are only too successful
in acquiring a false self
to adapt to false realities.

But let it stand.
This was the work of an old young man.
If I am older, I am now also younger."

— R. D. Laing, London, September 1964,
preface to the Pelican edition of 
The Divided Self: An Existential Study
in Sanity and Madness  
(Penguin Books, 1965)
 

"My Back Pages," by Bob Dylan, Verse 3 —

Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Un-thought of, though, somehow

[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

— From an album released August 8, 1964

Friday, July 21, 2017

Faux News

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:23 pm

"The story is  the message."

The Last Bling King 

(by Mike Hockney, ch. 44)

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Divided Attention

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:54 am

The previous post alluded to the phrase "undivided attention."

An example of divided  attention —

The "Orphan Black" scene (at right above) is from a post, "Art's Space,"
of Saturday, July 15, 2017.  The themes of the Orphan Black series —
in the context of Silicon Valley, not of Orphan Black — were discussed
in the Los Angeles Review of Books  on Monday, July 17, 2017. Other
Silicon Valley themes appear in the recent film "The Circle" (at left above).

Another phrase for divided  attention is "bulk apperception."

Undeniable

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:34 am

From "Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious"

By W. Patrick McCray in the Los Angeles Review of Books
on Monday, July 17, 2017 —

"Whether people are information, chemistry, or indeed
'spirit' or 'soul' has kept stoned undergraduates talking
into the wee hours and philosophers employed, but
there’s now an undeniable commercial aspect to all of
this."

"You have my (divided) attention." — The Singularity.
(See the link on "At" in this  journal on Monday.)

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Death and the Compass

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:06 am

Or:  Emma Watson at the Church of  Synchronology .

Amir Aczel was the author of, among other books,

The Mystery of the Aleph :
Mathematics, the Kabbalah,
and the Search for Infinity
, and 

The Riddle of the Compass :
The Invention That Changed the World .

He reportedly died on November 26, 2015.

See that date in this journal.

Monday, July 17, 2017

Athens Meets Jerusalem . . .

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 am

At the Googleplex .

For those whose only interest in higher mathematics
is as a path to the occult

Plato's Diamond and the Hebrew letter Aleph —

          

and some related (if only graphically) mathematics —

Click the above image for some related purely mathematical  remarks.

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