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Monday, February 13, 2023

At Play in the Fields

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:22 pm

Friday, December 25, 2015

At Play in the Fields

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

See Fields of Force  and recent posts.

From PR Newswire  in July 2011 —

Campus Crusade for Christ Adopts New Name: Cru
60-year-old Int’l Ministry Aims to Increase
Relevance and Global Effectiveness

Related material:

Yin + Yang —

Diamond Theory version of 'The Square Inch Space' with yin-yang symbol for comparison

Sunday, March 9, 2014

At Play in the Fields of Brazil

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

From Facebook, a photo from the Feast of St. Francis, 2013:

Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, author of the 1976 paper  “Finite
Geometries in the Theory of Theta Characteristics,”  in Brasilia—

On the same date, art from Inception  and from Diamonds Studio
in Brazil —

Saturday, September 11, 2010

At Play in the Field

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:24 am

For Bent Larsen, Danish chess Grandmaster, who died on Thursday, September 9, 2010—

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See also "Patrick Blackburn, meet Gideon Summerfield" in Building a Mystery.

"As you read, watch for patterns." — Nabokov

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

For Storyholics: Distilled Fire Water

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:43 pm

". . . The last of the river diamonds . . . .
bright alluvial diamonds,
burnished clean by mountain torrents,
green and blue and yellow and red.

In the darkness, he could feel them burning,
like fire and water of the universe, distilled."

At Play in the Fields of the Lord ,
by Peter Matthiessen (Random House, 1965)

Related Log24 posts are now tagged Fire Water.

See as well, from posts tagged Heartland Sutra

♫   "Red and Yellow, Blue and Green"

— "Prism Song," 1964

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Annals of Embedded Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:55 am

Max Maxfield: 'What's Happening in Embedded Space,' April 13, 2017

This  journal on the above date —

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Space

Tags:  — m759 @ 7:00 PM 

See "Smallest Perfect" in this journal.

 

Making Space

— m759 @ 6:00 PM 

The New York Times  online today:

At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction

In Zoe's fall, we sinnèd all.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Making Space

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

The New York Times  online today:

At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction

" The famous flowchart of Modern art's evolution simply doesn't apply
in 'Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction.' "

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

It’s 10 PM

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

At Play in the Fields of the Lord.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Savage Solstice

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:20 pm

In memory of kaleidoscope enthusiast Cozy Baker, who died at 86, according to Saturday's Washington Post , on October 19th.

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101221-BrewsterSociety.jpg

This journal on that date — Savage Logic and Savage Logic continued.

See this journal on All Saints' Day 2006 for some background to those posts—

“Savage logic works like a kaleidoscope whose chips can fall into a variety of patterns while remaining unchanged in quantity, form, or color. The number of patterns producible in this way may be large if the chips are numerous and varied enough, but it is not infinite. The patterns consist in the disposition of the chips vis-a-vis one another (that is, they are a function of the relationships among the chips rather than their individual properties considered separately). And their range of possible transformations is strictly determined by the construction of the kaleidoscope, the inner law which governs its operation. And so it is too with savage thought. Both anecdotal and geometric, it builds coherent structures out of ‘the odds and ends left over from psychological or historical process.’

These odds and ends, the chips of the kaleidoscope, are images drawn from myth, ritual, magic, and empirical lore. (How, precisely, they have come into being in the first place is one of the points on which Levi-Strauss is not too explicit, referring to them vaguely as the ‘residue of events… fossil remains of the history of an individual or a society.’) Such images are inevitably embodied in larger structures– in myths, ceremonies, folk taxonomies, and so on– for, as in a kaleidoscope, one always sees the chips distributed in some pattern, however ill-formed or irregular. But, as in a kaleidoscope, they are detachable from these structures and arrangeable into different ones of a similar sort. Quoting Franz Boas that ‘it would seem that mythological worlds have been built up, only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments,’ Levi-Strauss generalizes this permutational view of thinking to savage thought in general.”

– Clifford Geertz, “The Cerebral Savage: the Structural Anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss,” in Encounter, Vol. 28 No. 4 (April 1967), pp. 25-32.

Related material  —

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See also "Levi-Strauss" in this journal and "At Play in the Field."

Friday, September 10, 2010

Only Connect

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:01 pm

For Julie Taymor on Fashion's Night Out

This morning's post had a link to a video meditation from the director of
the 1985 film "Kiss of the Spider Woman"—

Image-- Plane flying into sun, from 'At Play in the Fields of the Lord'

This film clip is echoed by lyrics, broadcast this morning, from Taymor's new Spider-Man musical—

You can fly too high and get too close to the sun.
See how the boy falls from the sky.

This morning's post and the "At Play" film it linked to featured class conflict and Brazilian natives.

For a more down-to-earth approach to these topics, see Fox Broadcasting's new series "Running Wilde."

Dead Viking

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:30 am

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

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