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Sunday, April 29, 2018

Amusement

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 7:00 pm

From the online New York Times  this afternoon:

Disney now holds nine of the top 10
domestic openings of all time —
six of which are part of the Marvel
Cinematic Universe. “The result is
a reflection of 10 years of work:
of developing this universe, creating
stakes as big as they were, characters
that matter and stories and worlds that
people have come to love,” Dave Hollis,
Disney’s president of distribution, said
in a phone interview.

From this  journal this morning:

"But she felt there must be more to this
than just the sensation of folding space
over on itself. Surely the Centaurs hadn't
spent ten years telling humanity how to 
make a fancy amusement-park ride
.
There had to be more—"

Factoring Humanity , by Robert J. Sawyer,
Tom Doherty Associates, 2004 Orb edition,
page 168

"The sensation of folding space . . . ."

Or unfolding:

Click the above unfolded space for some background.

Sermon

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

'Imprisoned in a tesseract' in a 1998 science fiction novel

Sunday School

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am

From a search in this journal for Desmic 

"As the chaos grew . . . ."

IMAGE- Illuminati Diamond, pp. 359-360 in 'Angels & Demons,' Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 2005, 448 pages, ISBN 0743412397

"We have, in fact, the corners of a cube . . . ."

Saturday, April 28, 2018

RIP: The Peace of Pi

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:45 pm

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/100907-WickerManFireLeapScene.jpg

The Great Rift: Numerator Versus Denominator

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:20 pm

The previous post, "Ask a Stupid Question," 
suggests some vocabulary review —

Let's not forget the slash ("rift," in the terminology of
the previous post) separating numerator from denominator.

See Separatrix in this journal.

Ask a Stupid Question …

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:02 am
  • Hardcover: 520 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (April 16, 2018)

Related material — Alma Maman .

Friday, April 27, 2018

Journals

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:12 pm

"Keep your Journals. I will collect your
entire semester’s work on 12/12."

The late University of Montana humanities 
professor Michael Kreisberg in 2002.

See also this  journal on 12/12, 2002.

Elegy for Missoula

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Part I — From 1:30 AM Tuesday

Tom Wolfe in The Painted Word   (1975) 

“I am willing (now that so much has been revealed!)
to predict that in the year 2000, when the Metropolitan
or the Museum of Modern Art puts on the great
retrospective exhibition of American Art 1945-75,
the three artists who will be featured, the three seminal
figures of the era, will be not Pollock, de Kooning, and
Johns-but Greenberg, Rosenberg, and Steinberg.
Up on the walls will be huge copy blocks, eight and a half
by eleven feet each, presenting the protean passages of
the period … a little ‘fuliginous flatness’ here … a little
‘action painting’ there … and some of that ‘all great art
is about art’ just beyond. Beside them will be small
reproductions of the work of leading illustrators of
the Word from that period….”

Part II — Hollywood Moment

Part III — The Kreisberg Syllabus

Part IV — Montana Sunset

Mountain View

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:25 am

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Defining Form

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Images related to the previous post

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

A Deathly Triangle

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:27 pm

'Imprisoned in a Tesseract,' a study of novelist James Blish

Triangle Publications

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Notes related to Shakespeare's Birthday, 2018

An Idea

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

"There was an idea . . ." — Nick Fury in 2012

". . . a calm and objective work that has no special
dance excitement and whips up no vehement
audience reaction. Its beauty, however, is extraordinary.
It’s possible to trace in it terms of arithmetic, geometry,
dualism, epistemology and ontology, and it acts as
a demonstration of art and as a reflection of
life, philosophy and death."

New York Times  dance critic Alastair Macaulay,
    quoted here in a post of August 20, 2011.

Illustration from that post —

A 2x4 array of squares

See also Macaulay in
last night's 10 PM post.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Dance, Music, Space

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:00 pm

". . . dance, fueled by music, opens up space."

—  Alastair Macaulay in the online New York Times  today

Putting aside the unfortunate fuel metaphor, this suggests a review —

A video published on the above date —

The video has six-plus-two dancers, a more concise arrangement
than the eight-plus-two discussed by Macaulay.

Another approach to six plus two:  the diamond-theorem correlation.

Alma Maman

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:16 pm

"Almost 9 meters tall, Maman  is one of the most ambitious
of a series of sculptures by Bourgeois that take as their subject
the spider, a motif that first appeared in several of the artist's
drawings in the 1940s and came to assume a central place in
her work during the 1990s. Intended as a tribute to her mother,
who was a weaver, Bourgeois's spiders are highly contradictory
as emblems of maternity: they suggest both protector and predator—
the silk of a spider is used both to construct cocoons and to bind prey—
and embody both strength and fragility."

A Guggenheim Bilbao page

Illustrators of the Word

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

Tom Wolfe in The Painted Word  (1975) 

“I am willing (now that so much has been revealed!)
to predict that in the year 2000, when the Metropolitan
or the Museum of Modern Art puts on the great
retrospective exhibition of American Art 1945-75,
the three artists who will be featured, the three seminal
figures of the era, will be not Pollock, de Kooning, and
Johns-but Greenberg, Rosenberg, and Steinberg.
Up on the walls will be huge copy blocks, eight and a half
by eleven feet each, presenting the protean passages of
the period … a little ‘fuliginous flatness’ here … a little
‘action painting’ there … and some of that ‘all great art
is about art’ just beyond. Beside them will be small
reproductions of the work of leading illustrators of
the Word from that period….”

The above group of 322,560 permutations appears also in a 2011 book —

From 'Beautiful Mathematics,' by Martin Erickson, an excerpt on the Cullinane diamond theorem (with source not mentioned)

— and in 2013-2015 papers by Anne Taormina and Katrin Wendland:

Monday, April 23, 2018

Blockbuster Exhibition

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

Mike Hale in The New York Times  online today —

Review ‘Genius’ Paints Picasso by the Numbers

"… the production’s tinselly soul.

For instance, it’s on the record that Picasso’s lovers
Dora Maar and Marie-Thérèse Walter had
a wrestling match in his studio while he was
painting 'Guernica.'  'Genius' includes that
scene, naturally, but adds its own detail:
The altercation helps Picasso overcome a creative block
and gleefully set to work on the gigantic painting.
It may be news to scholars that one of art’s
greatest testaments to the horror of war was
inspired, in part, by the excitement of being
fought over by a pair of jealous women."

Related Art


 

A Creative Block

Super Symmetry Surfing

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:17 am

Midrash —

    

Backstory — Search this journal for Taormina.

Facets

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 am

Counting symmetries with the orbit-stabilizer theorem

See also the Feb. 17, 2017, post on Bertram Kostant
as well as "Mathieu Moonshine and Symmetry Surfing."

Sunday, April 22, 2018

No Joke

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 pm

Dialogue from "All the Money in the World" —

A related video — New Dakotas, "Hold That Pose."

No Point

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:00 pm

"Check out the … unexpected major chord
in the chorus of 'Time of the Season;' 
each moment defies expectations,
but at no point do the surprises themselves
take center stage or detract from the [song’s]
other elements."

— Alasdair P. MacKenzie, April 20 in
     The Harvard Crimson

Illustration —

The Omega Matrix

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

(Continued)

Angels and Demons cross within a diamond (page 306), and Finite Geometry logo

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Kalispell Images

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

A Getty logo —

J. Paul Getty and Minotaur, according to Hollywood —

Michelle Williams on art —

A page on Kalispell, Williams's home town

A book by Vachel Lindsay on the area near Kalispell —

Bottom Line

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:16 am

Remarks on Mr. Nick's Lounge Bar

See also May 19 Gestalt.

Friday, April 20, 2018

Art Death

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:13 pm

The New York Times  this evening at 8:07 PM ET

"Richard Oldenburg, who as the longtime director
of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
oversaw blockbuster exhibitions of Picasso,
Matisse and Cézanne and a transformative
expansion that doubled its exhibition space in the
1980s, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.
He was 84."  — Richard Sandomir  [Link added.]

See also "the crux of the matter" in a Tuesday post
and the crux from 4 PM ET today.

Time and Money

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

Emblematizing the Modern

The Cross of Descartes: coordinate axes

The Cross of Descartes 

Note that in applications, the vertical axis of the Cross of Descartes often symbolizes the timeless (money, temperature, etc.) while the horizontal axis often symbolizes time.

T.S. Eliot

“Men’s curiosity searches past and future
And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend
The point of intersection of the timeless
With time, is an occupation for the saint….”

Once Upon a Matrix

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:01 pm

(Continued)

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Inception

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:18 pm

Peter Woit in his weblog today

"Keating’s book is very much in the tradition of Watson’s The Double Helix, giving a portrayal of himself and others that doesn’t leave out the very human aspects of ambition, competitiveness and jealousy.

Unlike the Watson book, which is about a great scientific achievement, the unusual aspect of Keating’s story is that what he was involved in was not a success, but the biggest fiasco in the history of his field. On March 17th, 2014, the New York Times reported on its front page that Space Ripples Reveal Inflation’s Smoking Gun, and this same story was reported by most media outlets."

This  weblog on that date, St. Patrick's Day 2014 — 

The New York Times  front page story linked to above —

'Ripples in Space-Time Support Big Bang'

Something to Behold

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:45 pm

From a review of a Joyce Carol Oates novel
at firstthings.com on August 23, 2013 —

"Though the Curse is eventually exorcised,
it is through an act of wit and guile,
not an act of repentance or reconciliation.
And so we may wonder if Oates has put this story
to rest, or if it simply lays dormant. A twenty-first
century eruption of the 'Crosswicks Curse
would be something to behold." [Link added.]

Related material —

A film version of A Wrinkle in Time

The Hamilton watch from "Interstellar" (2014) —

See also a post, Vacant Space, from 8/23/13 (the date
of the above review), and posts tagged Space Writer.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

A Missing Link

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:31 pm

Ben Brantley's review  tonight of an Irish Repertory Theater
production of "The Seafarer" suggests a look at an
earlier New York Times  article on the same play.

From that article  (Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007) —

The target of a link in this  journal on the above 2007 date —

Reflection groups in Wikipedia

"You've got to pick up every stitch . . . ." — Donovan

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