“X marks the spot” — Indiana Jones.
Indiana Jones’s love interest in “The Last Crusade” was Alison Doody.
See as well . . .
Howdy, Doody.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The 35-Year Wait
From the Web this morning —
A different 35-year wait:
A monograph of August 1976 —
Thirty-five years later, in a post of August 2011, "Coordinated Steps" —
"SEE HEAR READ" — Walt Disney Productions
Some other diamond-mine productions —
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Castles in the Air
"… the Jews have discovered a way to access a fourth spatial dimension."
— Clifford Pickover, description of his novel Jews in Hyperspace
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
"King Solomon's Mines," 1937—
The image above is an illustration from "Romancing the Hyperspace," May 4, 2010.
Happy birthday to the late Salomon Bochner.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Requiem for Georgia Brown
Paul Robeson in
"King Solomon's Mines," 1937—
The image above is an illustration from
"Romancing the Hyperspace," May 4, 2010.
This illustration, along with Georgia Brown's
song from "Cabin in the Sky"—
"There's honey in the honeycomb"—
suggests the following picture.
"What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present."
— Four Quartets
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Mathematics and Narrative, continued
Romancing the
Non-Euclidean Hyperspace
Backstory —
Mere Geometry, Types of Ambiguity,
Dream Time, and Diamond Theory, 1937
For the 1937 grid, see Diamond Theory, 1937.
The grid is, as Mere Geometry points out, a non-Euclidean hyperspace.
For the diamonds of 2010, see Galois Geometry and Solomon’s Cube.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Thursday September 17, 2009
Jennifer's Body
The following remark this evening by Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post serves as an instant review of today's previous cinematic Log24 offering starring the late Patrick Swayze:
"Watch it, forget it, move on."
A perhaps more enduring tribute:
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Friday March 10, 2006
Women’s History Month continues…
Raiders of the Lost
Stone
In honor of the upcoming program
on Women and Mathematics
at the Institute for Advanced Study
and of Sharon Stone’s 2005 lecture
at Harvard’s Memorial Church,
here are links to reviews of
two Sharon Stone classics:
“King Solomon’s Mines” (1985),
said to be inspired by the
1981 box-office success of
“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and
Stone as a teacher of mathematics
at St. Anselm’s School for Boys.
See also yesterday’s entry
and Log24, Jan. 1-15, 2006.
In honor of the upcoming program
on Women and Mathematics
at the Institute for Advanced Study
and of Sharon Stone’s 2005 lecture
at Harvard’s Memorial Church,
here are links to reviews of
two Sharon Stone classics:
“King Solomon’s Mines” (1985),
said to be inspired by the
1981 box-office success of
“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and
“Diabolique” (1996), starring
Stone as a teacher of mathematics
at St. Anselm’s School for Boys.
For related material on St. Anselm
and mathematics at Princeton, see
Modal Theology and the
April 2006 AMS Notices
on
See also yesterday’s entry
and Log24, Jan. 1-15, 2006.
Today’s birthdays:
Sharon Stone and
Gregory La Cava.
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