Tuesday, February 6, 2018
|
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Geometric Requiem: Steven Spielberg’s
longtime publicist reportedly died on April 7.
Comments Off on Geometric Requiem: Steven Spielberg’s
longtime publicist reportedly died on April 7.
longtime publicist reportedly died on April 7.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Dialogue for Michener’s April 7
"Horsey Horsey!" — Elizabeth Taylor
"Wakey Wakey!" — Doctor Sleep
Comments Off on Dialogue for Michener’s April 7
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tuesday April 7, 2009
|
Bright Star and Dark Lady “Mexico is a solar country — but it is also a black country, a dark country. This duality of Mexico has preoccupied me since I was a child.” — Octavio Paz, |
||
|
Bright Star
|
Amen.
|
Dark Lady
|
The same story on
May 11, 2005
with a different
dark lady:
Comments Off on Tuesday April 7, 2009
Monday, April 7, 2008
Monday April 7, 2008
A year ago…
(Holy Saturday, 2007) —
From Friedrich Froebel,
who invented kindergarten:
who invented kindergarten:
For further details, see
Gift of the Third Kind
and
Kindergarten Relativity.
Related material:
“… There was a problem laid out on the board, a six-mover. I couldn’t solve it, like a lot of my problems. I reached down and moved a knight…. I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn’t a game for knights.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Comments Off on Monday April 7, 2008
Monday April 7, 2008
“LegacyPlus™:
The Class,
Without the Classes”
The Class,
Without the Classes”
— The New York Times
on the date of
Charlton Heston’s death
“Leave a space.”
— Tom Stoppard
in “Jumpers”
“Heaven is a state, a sort of
metaphysical state.”
— John O’Hara,
Hope of Heaven
Comments Off on Monday April 7, 2008
Monday April 7, 2008
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that
— Charles Williams, Many Dimensions
Comments Off on Monday April 7, 2008
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Saturday April 7, 2007
Today's birthdays:
Francis Ford Coppola
and Russell Crowe
Francis Ford Coppola
and Russell Crowe
Gift of the Third Kind
Background:
Art Wars and
Russell Crowe as
Santa's Helper.
From Friedrich Froebel,
who invented kindergarten:
who invented kindergarten:
From Christmas 2005:
Related material from
Pittsburgh:
… and from Grand Rapids:
Click on pictures for details.
Related material
for Holy Saturday:
Comments Off on Saturday April 7, 2007
Friday, April 7, 2006
Friday April 7, 2006
ART WARS
in Poetry Month
in Poetry Month
Tomorrow is the final day
for the Liza Lou exhibit at
London’s White Cube gallery.
For related material, see
Log24, March 24-26, and
the entries culminating
on Pi Day.
Comments Off on Friday April 7, 2006
Thursday, April 7, 2005
Thursday April 7, 2005
In the Details
Wallace Stevens,
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven:
XXII
Professor Eucalyptus said, "The search
For reality is as momentous as
The search for God." It is the philosopher's search
For an interior made exterior
And the poet's search for the same exterior made
Interior….
… Likewise to say of the evening star,
The most ancient light in the most ancient sky,
That it is wholly an inner light, that it shines
From the sleepy bosom of the real, re-creates,
Searches a possible for its possibleness.
Julie Taymor, "Skewed Mirrors" interview:
"… they were performing for God. Now God can mean whatever you want it to mean. But for me, I understood it so totally. The detail….
They did it from the inside to the outside. And from the outside to the in. And that profoundly moved me then. It was…it was the most important thing that I ever experienced."
"Skewed Mirrors"
illustrated:
|
Click on the above to enlarge.
Details:
The above may be of interest to students
of iconology — what Dan Brown in
The Da Vinci Code calls "symbology" —
and of redheads.
The artist of Details,
"Brenda Starr" creator
Dale Messick, died on Tuesday,
April 5, 2005, at 98.
AP Photo
Dale Messick in 1982
For further details on
April 5, see
Art History:
The Pope of Hope
Thursday April 7, 2005
Nine is a Vine
“Heaven is a state,
a sort of metaphysical state.”
— John O’Hara, Hope of Heaven, 1938
“Mathematical realism holds that mathematical entities exist independently of the human mind. Thus humans do not invent mathematics, but rather discover it, and any other intelligent beings in the universe would presumably do the same. The term Platonism is used because such a view is seen to parallel Plato’s belief in a “heaven of ideas”, an unchanging ultimate reality that the everyday world can only imperfectly approximate. Plato’s view probably derives from Pythagoras, and his followers the Pythagoreans, who believed that the world was, quite literally, built up by the numbers. This idea may have even older origins that are unknown to us.” — Wikipedia
Amen.
Related material:
In memory of Jesus of Nazareth,
the “true vine,”
who, some historians believe,
died on this date:
The Crucifixion of John O’Hara.
In memory of the Anti-Vine:
See Dogma and
Heaven, Hell,
and Hollywood.
Related material:
and
Thursday, December 26, 2002:
Holly for Miss Quinn
Tonight’s site music is for Stephen Dedalus
and Miss Quinn, courtesy of Eithne Ní Bhraonáin.
|
Miss Quinn |
Holly |
Eithne |
Comments Off on Thursday April 7, 2005
Thursday April 7, 2005
ART WARS Toys
From Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column of June 9, 2002:
“The shape of the government is not as important as the policy of the government. If he makes the policy aggressive and pre-emptive, the president can conduct the war on terror from the National Gallery of Art.”
Last year’s suggested ART WARS toy:
|
Today’s birthdays: Francis Ford Coppola and From MindfulGroup.com:
|
The Coliseum Builder Block System can be used to recreate the Roman Coliseum. Reenact ancient Gladiator matches and bring Ancient Rome into your home.
This year’s suggested ART WARS toy:
To order, see the
Amazing Music Box & Gifts Company.
Comments Off on Thursday April 7, 2005
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Wednesday April 7, 2004
Today’s birthdays:
Francis Ford Coppola and
Russell Crowe.
From MindfulGroup.com:
|
Welcome to our imaginative and inspiring toy catalog! Today is Wednesday 7-April 2004. On this day in 30 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars’ estimate) What you will discover in this site is what we have been able to find in our everlasting search for the most original, innovative, amusing and mind bending toys from around the world. Have Fun. Coliseum Tell me more |
Comments Off on Wednesday April 7, 2004
Wednesday April 7, 2004
ART WARS:
Mother of Beauty
In memory of architect Pierre Koenig…
Mother of Beauty: A Note on Modernism.
"… Case Study House #22 … was high drama — one in which the entire city becomes part of the architect's composition. Approached along a winding street set high in the Hollywood Hills, the house first appears as a blank concrete screen. From here, the visitor steps out onto a concrete deck that overlooks a swimming pool. Just beyond it, the house's living room — enclosed in a glass-and steel-frame — cantilevers out from the edge of the hill toward the horizon.
The house was immortalized in a now famous image taken by the architectural photographer Julius Shulman. In it, two women, clad in immaculate white cocktail dresses, are perched on the edge of their seats in the glass-enclosed living room, their pose suggesting a kind of sanitized suburban bliss. A night view of the city spreads out beneath them, an endless grid of twinkling lights that perfectly captures the infinite hopes of the postwar American dream….
"My blue dream…"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perhaps no house, in fact, better sums up the mix of outward confidence and psychic unease that defined Cold War America…."
Comments Off on Wednesday April 7, 2004
Monday, April 7, 2003
Monday April 7, 2003
Math Awareness Month
April is Math Awareness Month.
This year's theme is "mathematics and art."
Comments Off on Monday April 7, 2003
Monday April 7, 2003
An Offer He Couldn't Refuse
Today's birthday: Francis Ford Coppola is 64.
"There is a pleasantly discursive treatment
of Pontius Pilate's unanswered question
'What is truth?'."
— H. S. M. Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Richard J. Trudeau's remarks on the "Story Theory" of truth as opposed to the "Diamond Theory" of truth in The Non-Euclidean Revolution
"Then came From Here to Eternity. Sinatra lobbied hard for the role, practically getting on his knees to secure the role of the street smart punk G.I. Maggio. He sensed this was a role that could revive his career, and his instincts were right. There are lots of stories about how Columbia Studio head Harry Cohn was convinced to give the role to Sinatra, the most famous of which is expanded upon in the horse's head sequence in The Godfather. Maybe no one will know the truth about that. The one truth we do know is that the feisty New Jersey actor won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his work in From Here to Eternity. It was no looking back from then on."
From a note on geometry of April 28, 1985:
Comments Off on Monday April 7, 2003
Friday, June 5, 2026
Portal Figure
IN MEMORIAM
From this journal on April 7, 2026 —
260407-Portal_Fantasies-story-excerpt-by-Alix_E_Harrow.jpg
Comments Off on Portal Figure
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Space Mystery
|
Transcript of NotebookLM video
Okay, so our first clue |
"We did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have these capabilities.
Rather, they emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements
in code, reasoning, and autonomy." — red.anthropic.com, April 7th, 2026
Comments Off on Space Mystery
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.
Comments Off on “Apart from that, Mrs. Koren . . .”
Thursday, April 6, 2023
A Literary Supplement
Religious remarks in the Times Literary Supplement
issue dated April 7, 2023 (Good Friday) suggest a
review of other remarks — from July 1, 2019 —now
tagged The Exploded Cube. Some will prefer more useful
types of explosions.
Comments Off on A Literary Supplement
Monday, April 3, 2023
The Good Friday Film Festival continues.
Comments Off on The Good Friday Film Festival continues.
Friday, May 6, 2022
Interality and the Bead Game
WIkipedia on the URL suffix ".io" —
"In computer science, "IO" or "I/O" is commonly used
as an abbreviation for input/output, which makes the
.io domain desirable for services that want to be
associated with technology. .io domains are often used
for open source projects, application programming
interfaces ("APIs"), startup companies, browser games,
and other online services."
An association with the Bead Game from a post of April 7, 2018 —
|
Glasperlenspiel passage quoted here in Summa Mythologica —
“"I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate A less poetic meditation on the above 4x4x4 design cube —
"I saw that in the alternation between front and back, See also a related remark by Lévi-Strauss in 1955:
"…three different readings become possible: |
The recent use by a startup company of the URL "interality.io" suggests
a fourth reading for the 1955 list of Lévi-Strauss — in and out —
i.e., inner and outer group automorphisms — from a 2011 post
on the birthday of T. S. Eliot :
A transformation:
Click on the picture for details.
Comments Off on Interality and the Bead Game
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Dealing with Cubism continues . . .
Comments Off on Dealing with Cubism continues . . .
Friday, April 8, 2022
The Ugly Lesson: Time Is Money
The above out-of-context quotation illustrates the following lesson,
from the Amazon.com page quoted in this moning's Souls at Stanford —
See as well 1949 in the April 7 post
The Usual Suspects.
Comments Off on The Ugly Lesson: Time Is Money
Thursday, April 7, 2022
The Usual Suspects
In memory of a musical that opened on this date —
April 7 — in 1949 . . .
See the same date in The Source , by James Michener (1965):
Comments Off on The Usual Suspects
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Times Square Logic
Dialogue from Season 1, Episode 8 of "His Dark Materials" —
|
Asriel: And the serpent said, "You shall not surely die, for the Authority doth know that on that day that ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, your daemons shall assume their true form and ye shall be as…" Both: "… gods, knowing good and…" Lyra: "… evil." Asriel: "… Dust ." You see? They have been trying to convince us for centuries that we are born guilty. And that we have to spend a lifetime atoning for the crime of eating an apple. Is there any proof for this heinous stain, this shame, this guilt? No, not at all. We are to take it on faith, and on the word of the Authority. But Dust… Dust is an elementary particle that we can record, measure, study.
Read more at: |
Related material: Times Square Logic. Log24 posts now tagged
"Times Square Logic" include two from April 7, 2015, the date of
Geoffrey Lewis's death.
Lewis played, notably, "Hard Case Williams" in Lust in the Dust (1984).
Comments Off on Times Square Logic
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Friday, November 1, 2019
7 8 9 … Heaven Gate Vine
For the title, see Mnemonic and April 7, 2005.
Comments Off on 7 8 9 … Heaven Gate Vine
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Abschattungen*
“… I realized that to me, Gödel and Escher and Bach
were only shadows cast in different directions
by some central solid essence.
I tried to reconstruct the central object . . . ."
— Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
See also posts of July 23, 2007, and April 7, 2018.
* Term from a visual-culture lexicon —
Comments Off on Abschattungen*