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Friday, January 26, 2018

Shadows and Reflections

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:27 am

From the post "For Guy Noir" of Wednesday morning, January 24 —

"as privileged viewers of the shadows and reflections"

Related material —

The death on January 24 of a famed ski film maker,
and the Sun Valley icon below (one of a pair of ski
location icons by Wink, a Minneapolis design firm).

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Our Class

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:01 pm

See earlier posts now also tagged O.C.D. .

Related material —

Acme Book Shop  and The Philosophy Section .

Beware of Analogical Extension

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:29 am

"By an archetype  I mean a systematic repertoire
of ideas by means of which a given thinker describes,
by analogical extension , some domain to which
those ideas do not immediately and literally apply."

— Max Black in Models and Metaphors 
    (Cornell, 1962, p. 241)

"Others … spoke of 'ultimate frames of reference' …."
Ibid.

A "frame of reference" for the concept  four quartets

A less reputable analogical extension  of the same
frame of reference

Madeleine L'Engle in A Swiftly Tilting Planet :

"… deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract:
the square squared, and squared again…."

See also the phrase Galois tesseract .

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:40 pm

(Continued)

From a Log24 post of March 4, 2008 —

SINGER, ISAAC:
"Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?"
— Top of the News 29 (Nov. 1972): 32-36.

"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments
'slice of life' and chaos in children's literature. Maintains that
children like good plots, logic, and clarity, and that they
have a concern for 'so-called eternal questions.'"

— An Annotated Listing of Criticism
by Linnea Hendrickson

"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to
her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and to their father,
who were deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract: the square squared,
and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time."

— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
by Madeleine L'Engle

Cover of 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet' and picture of tesseract

For "the dimension of time," see A Fold in TimeTime Fold,
and Diamond Theory in 1937

A Swiftly Tilting Planet  is a fantasy for children 
set partly in Vespugia, a fictional country bordered by
Chile and Argentina.

Ibid.

The pen's point:

Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08

Note the figure on the cover of National Review  above —

A related figure from Pentagram Design

See, more generally,  Isaac Singer  in this  journal.

Stages

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:37 am

The five stages of grief meet
the four stages of design:

For Guy Noir

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:00 am

From a search for Limerick in this journal —

"C A V E S  is an exhibition of three large scale works,
each designed to immerse the viewer, and then to
confront the audience with a question regarding how far
they, as privileged viewers of the shadows and reflections
being played out upon the walls, are willing to allow
themselves to believe what they know to be a false reality."

Occupy Space art exhibitions, Limerick, Ireland

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Le Guin

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:55 pm

Reportedly.

Chilean poet Nicanor Parra

Nieve

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:18 pm

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon

Spielfeld

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:27 pm

For the original Davos icon by Wink-Minneapolis,
see the previous post.  

For related geometry, see posts tagged Barth Art.

Graphic Design

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

By Wink-Minneapolis

Monday, January 22, 2018

Hollywood Moment

Matt B. Roscoe and Joe Zephyrs, both of Missoula, Montana, authors of article on quilt block symmetries

A death on the date of the above symmetry chat,
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

'Love Story' director dies

An Hispanic Hollywood moment:

Ojo de Dios —

Click for related material.

For further Hispanic entertainment,
see Ben Affleck sing 
"Aquellos Ojos Verdes "
in "Hollywoodland."

Sunday, January 21, 2018

At Which Point

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:06 pm

"In 'Sophistry,' a new play by Jonathan Marc Sherman
at the Playwrights Horizons Studio, a popular tenured
professor stands accused of sexual harassment
by a male student."

— Frank Rich in The New York Times , theater review
on October 12, 1993

"At which point another play, inchoate but arresting,
edges into view." — Rich, ibid.

"Johansson began acting during childhood,
after her mother started taking her to auditions.
She made her professional acting debut
at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production
of 'Sophistry' with Ethan Hawke, at New York's
Playwrights Horizons."

— IMDb Mini Biography by: Pedro Borges 

" 'Suddenly, I was 19 again and I started to remember
all the men I'd known who had taken advantage of
the fact that I was a young woman who didn't yet have
the tools to say no, or to understand the value of
my own self-worth,' the Avengers star described. 
'I had many relationships both personal and professional
where the power dynamic was so off that I had to create
a narrative in which I was the cool girl who could hang in
and hang out, and that sometimes meant compromising
what felt right for me . . . . ' "

— Scarlett Johansson yesterday at the 2018 Women's March
in Los Angeles, as reported in E! News .

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in 'Lost in Translation'

Image in a Log24 post
of March 12, 2009.

Spiritual Memoir

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:09 am

In her new spiritual memoir . . . .

Armies of the Night —

Armies of the Day —

Cole Porter —

Night and Day —

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Closed Set

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 am

From "Charmed," a Log24 post of Jan. 13, 2018 :

'The World of A-bar' by A. E. van Vogt, first published as a serial in 1945

The Chaos Symbol of Dan Brown

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:30 am

In the following passage, Dan Brown claims that an eight-ray star
with arrowheads at the rays’ ends is “the mathematical symbol for
entropy.”  Brown may have first encountered this symbol at a
questionable “Sacred Science” website.  Wikipedia discusses
some even less  respectable uses of the symbol.

Related news —

Related symbolism —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110219-SquareRootQuaternion.jpg

A star figure and the Galois quaternion.

The square root of the former is the latter.

Friday, January 19, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:45 am

(Continued)

Jodie Foster in  a Dec. 15, 2017, sketch  with Stephen Colbert —

"People invest in and take ownership of brands,
and they wonder why the brand didn’t
ask their permission to change."

— Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design
in  a Design Week  article  of Jan. 17, 2018

Details

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:04 am

Thursday, January 18, 2018

A Phrase That Might Have Been

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:12 pm

The online New York Times  reports this afternoon
the death of a production designer on January 9th —

"In addition to the two Oscars Mr. Marsh won
(which he shared with others), he was nominated
for two more: for 'Scrooge' (1970), with Albert Finney and
Alex [sic ] Guinness, and 'Mary, Queen of Scots' (1971),
with Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson."

" The Little Broomstick  by  Mary Stewart,
illustrated by Shirley Hughes, published Brockhampton 1971.
The story is about Mary, staying at Great-Aunt Charlotte's house,
bored until she meets the black cat Tib and finds the purple flower
fly-by-night that makes the little broomstick fly. In chapter 10
'gay go up and gay go down' Mary hides in Endor College,
the witch school, after hours and finds Tib transformed into a frog
(Madame Mumblechook had taken him from her as her entry fee).
She recites the Master Spell to release him. ' It was a simple,
gay little rhyme, and it ended on a phrase that might have been
(but wasn't) "the dancing ring of days".'  
"  

"Bah, humbug!" — A Christmas Carol

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Language Game

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:30 am

Continued from Zen and Language Games
(a post of May 2, 2003, written on March 1, 2002)

From The Harvard Crimson  on St. Andrew's Day 2017 —

See also a larger, clearer view of the titles in the above file photo.

Dialogue suggested by the above Harvard Crimson  line
"I am a book today . . . . I know it all." —

A problem child* of sorts in the 2017 film "Gifted"

Mary- "Maybe this school isn't as great as you think it is."

Mary is returned to the place of her examination.

Professor- "Mary, you knew that the problem was incorrect, 
            why didn't you say anything?"

Mary- "Frank says I'm not supposed to correct older people. 
       Nobody likes a smart-ass."

* "Problem Child" was a working title related to a novel
    Heinlein wrote in 1941, Beyond This Horizon —

“Before Time Began, There Was the Cube”

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:00 am

See Eightfold Froebel.

The Paradise of Childhood'-- Froebel's Third Gift

At Heaven’s Gate

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:30 am

(Continued from September 12, 2005)

The previous post contrasted the number-triple 11-7-8 below
with number triples 12-9-5 and 12-5-9.

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

A perhaps more logical counterpart of the triple 11-7-8, based
on opposite  locations of star-points or cube-edges, is
the triple 9-12-5. For a theological interpretation, see 9/12/05.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

An Orison for Ha-Why

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

'Cloud Atlas' book cover illustrating the film

Lines from characters played in the film by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry —

— Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell (2004).

An orison of sorts from a post on Martin Scorsese's
birthday, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 —

BlackBerry with pictures from Log24

Displayed on the BlackBerry are parts
of Log24 posts from October 25, 2007,
and October 24, 2007.

Related pattern geometry 

From a Log24 search for Angleton + Brotherhood:
A photo of Angleton in a post from 12/9/5

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05B/051209-Angleton.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

From a post of 11/7/8

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08A/081107-Tilespuzzle.jpg

A cryptic note for Dan Brown:

The above dates 11/7/8 and 12/9/5 correspond to the corner-labels
(read clockwise and counter-clockwise) of the two large triangles
in the Finkelstein Talisman

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

Above: More symbology for Tom Hanks from
this morning's post The Pentagram Papers.

The above symbology is perhaps better suited to Hanks in his
role as Forrest Gump than in his current role as Ben Bradlee.

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05B/051211-gump.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

For Hanks as Dan Brown's Harvard symbologist 
Robert Langdon, see the interpretation 12/5/9, rather
than 12/9/5, of the above triangle/cube-corner label.

A Moriarty for Sherlock

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:01 am

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:16 am

Other intersection-points-counting material —

The Finkelstein Talisman:

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

See also Hanks + Cube in this journal —

Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube.

Game

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 am

"There was a game we used to play . . . ."

— The Cranberries on "Charmed,"
Season 2, Episode 5 (aired Nov.  4, 1999)

Monday, January 15, 2018

IT Strategy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:06 pm

See also posts tagged Systems Programming.

Boston News

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:14 am

Related material in this  journal —

The final link in a post of 8:07 AM ET on Friday, June 27, 2008, 
pointed to http://www.gateofheavenparish.com. That 2008 link
now leads to a more recent, quite different, webpage.

The page that the link led to in 2008 is now archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20080509125920/
http://www.gateofheavenparish.com/
.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Horizon

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:24 pm

"Wer gab uns den Schwamm, um den ganzen Horizont wegzuwischen?"

— Nietzsche, "Der Tolle Mensch
 

Plea

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 am

Ken Yuszkus, Salem News  staff photo

SALEM — The former MIT professor from Hamilton
accused of trying to swindle his son’s widow and children
out of nearly $5 million pleaded not guilty to the charges
on Friday in Salem Superior Court. 

John Donovan Sr., 75, was clutching a set of rosary beads
as he entered his plea before Judge Timothy Feeley. 

Donovan was indicted last month by an Essex County grand jury
on 13 counts, including larceny, forgery and witness intimidation. 

. . . .


— Julie Manganis, Salem News  staff writer, Jan. 13, 2018

See also other posts tagged Systems Programming.

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Charmed

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 am

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

"John Tunney seemed to have a charmed political life until 1976,
when at age 42 he lost his Senate seat after just one term
to the unlikeliest of Republican challengers, a former Democrat
named Samuel I. Hayakawa."

Topology punchline —

"Sorry, but A is closed."

For more tasteless mathematical humor, see . . .

'Mathemati-Con: A day of free events open to the public

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