Month: July 2005

  • Looney Tunes

     

    LOS ANGELES, July 30 (AP) - Kayo Hatta, an independent filmmaker... died on July 20. She was 47.

    She accidentally drowned at a friend's home in the San Diego area, her sister Julie Hatta said....

    Ms.
    Hatta graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and
    received a master's degree in film from the University of California,
    Los Angeles.

    She recently completed a 30-minute
    coming-of-age film called "Fishbowl," based on the writings of Hawaiian
    author Lois-Ann Yamanaka.

    From Log24 on Moon Day, July 20,
    the date of Hatta's death:


    Quote from an earlier entry:

    "In honor of Roger Cooke's review of Helson's Harmonic Analysis, 2nd Edition, today's site music is "Moonlight in Vermont."

    Quote from July 20: 

    "And if the band you're in
       starts playing different tunes
     I'll see you on
       the dark side of the moon."

    Quote from Lois-Ann Yamanaka:

    Blu's Hanging

       ... Poppy still plays "Moon River" in the background.
       He sings aloud:
       "Old dreammaker, you heartbreaker, wherever you're going, I'm going your way."
       He makes me afraid.
       I know where he wants to go.
       And who the dreammaker is.

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    The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05A/050731-Moon.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

    There will be a public memorial service in Honolulu
     open to friends and the general public:
    Date: Sunday, July 31st
    Time: 1:00 pm
    Location: Moiliili Hongwanji Buddhist Church,
     902 University Avenue

    In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to:
    Asian Improv aRts / Kayo Hatta Fund
    201 Spear St., Ste 1650
    San Francisco, CA 94105

  • Born today: Laurence Fishburne

    Matrix

    "The nine-fold square
    has centre, periphery, axes and diagonals. But all are
    present only in their bare essentials. It is also a sequence
    of eight triads. Four pass through the centre and four do
    not. This is the garden of Apollo, the field of Reason,
    sheltered by the Gate from the turmoil of the Delta, with
    its endless cycles of erasure and reinscription. This is the
    Temple of Solomon, as inscribed, for example, by a nine-fold
    compartmentation to provide the ground plan of Yale...."

    -- Architects John Outram Associates
        on work at Rice University

    Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001:  

        "When New Haven was founded, the city was laid
    out into a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness.
        Last year History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully said the
    original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city should be
    sacred.
        Scully said the colony's founders thought of their new
    Puritan settlement as a 'nine-square paradise on Earth, heaven on
    earth, New Haven, New Jerusalem.'"

    "Real and unreal are two in one:
        New Haven
     Before and after one arrives...."

     -- Wallace Stevens,
        "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,' XXVIII

    Related material:
     Log24 entries on
    St. Peter's Day, 2004

  • Born today: Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Staircase

     

    Frame not included in
     Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    "...Mondrian and Malevich are not
    discussing canvas or pigment or
    graphite
    or any other form of matter.
    They are talking about
    Being or
    Mind or Spirit.
    From their point of view, the grid
    is a staircase to
    the Universal...."

    -- Rosalind Krauss, "Grids"

  • Born today: Hilary Swank

     
    E is for Everlast

     

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    "The grid is a staircase to the Universal."
    -- Rosalind Krauss

    "To live is to defend a form."
    -- attributed to Hölderlin

  • Anatomy of a Death

    From today's New York Times:

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    From the Washington Post    :

    "Al Held, an American artist who painted large-scale abstract works... was
    found dead July 27, floating in a swimming pool at his villa.... The cause of death was not reported, but Italian
    police said he died of natural causes. He was 76."

    From the Associated Press,
    filed at 4:34 PM ET July 27, 2005:

    "Held once described his work this way: 'Historically, the priests
    and wise men believed that it was the artist's job to make images of
    heaven and hell believable, even though nobody had experienced these
    places.'

    'Today,' he went on, 'scientists talk about vast worlds and
    universes that the senses cannot experience. The purpose of the
    nonobjective artist is to create these images.'"

    Another view:

    "Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there."

    -- Review of Malcolm Lowry's novel Under the Volcano (1947)

    Related material:

    The Four Last Things.

     
    Hollywood images:
     

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    And from Mathematics and Narrative:

    By Their Fruits

    Today's (July 22) birthdays:
    Don Henley and Willem Dafoe

    The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05A/050722-Fruits.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

    Related material:

    Mathematics and Narrative    ,

    Crankbuster.

    "And the fruit is rotten;

    the serpent's eyes shine

    as he wraps around the vine

    in the Garden of Allah."
     

  • continued:

    Crank.


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    From Meet Joe Black:

    "Should I be afraid?"

    "Not a man like you."
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    See also Final Arrangements, June 16, 2005.

  • L'Affaire Dharwadker:

    Non-computer proof of 4 color Theorem,
    2000 Oct. 13-Nov. 30,
    sci.math, 23 posts

    Open Directory Abuse,
    2002 Oct. 2-Oct. 14,
    sci.math, 8 posts

    Open Directory Abuse,

    2002 Oct. 2-Oct. 15,

    comp.misc, 2 posts

    Steven Cullinane is a Liar,
    2002 Nov. 1-Nov.16,
    geometry.research, 2 posts

    Four-colour proof claim,
    2003 Aug. 10-Sept.1,
    sci.math, 9 posts

    Proof of 4 colour theorem No computer!!!,
    2003 Aug. 10-Aug. 20,
    alt.sci.math.combinatorics, 8 posts

    Steven Cullinane is a Crank,
    2005 July 5-July 21
    sci.math, 70 posts

    From a Log24 post a year ago today:

    "With a holy host of others
         standing 'round me
    Still I'm on the dark side
         of the moon..."

    -- James Taylor

    From a Log24 post on July 20 this year:


    "And if the band you're in
     starts playing different tunes

    I'll see you on

    the dark side of the moon    ."

    -- Roger Waters


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    From today's New York Times online obituaries:

    The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05A/050723-NYTobits.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

    Related material:

    Four Last Things    ,
    Math Awareness Month,
    Go Ask Alice,
    Meet Joe Black.

  • Go Ask Alice

    From the weblog of Alice:

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    Click to enlarge

    "This is a

    Datura Moonflower    ."

    From Dec. 20, 2002:

    See... my Sermon for St. Patrick's Day. 

    This contains the following metaphysical observation from Mark Helprin's novel Winter's Tale:

    "Nothing is random."

    For those who, like the protagonist of Joan Didion's

    Play It As It Lays,

    feel that they "know what nothing means," I recommend the following readings:

    From Peter Goldman's essay

    "Christian Mystery and Responsibility:
    Gnosticism in Derrida's The Gift of Death" --

    "Derrida's description of Christian mystery implies this hidden demonic and violent dimension:


    The gift made to me by God as he holds me in his gaze and in his
    hand while remaining inaccessible to me, the terribly dissymmetrical
    gift of the mysterium tremendum only allows me to respond and only
    rouses me to the responsibility it gives me by making a gift of death,
    giving the secret of death, a new experience of death. (33)"

    The above-mentioned sermon is a meditation on randomness and page numbers, focusing on page 265 in particular.

    On page 265 of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce,  we find the following remark:

    "Googlaa pluplu." 

    Following Joyce's instructions, and entering "pluplu" in the Google search engine, we find the following:

    "Datura is a delusional drug rather than a hallucinatory one. You
    don't see patterns, trails, or any cool visual effects; you just
    actually believe in things that aren't there....  I remember holding a
    glass for a while--but when I raised it to my mouth to take a drink, my
    fingers closed around nothingness because there was no glass there....

    Using datura is the closest I've ever come to death.... Of all the
    drugs I've taken, this is the one that I'd be too scared to ever take
    again."

    — PluPlu, August 4, 2000

    For those who don't need AA, perhaps the
    offer of Ed Harris in the classic study of gangs of New York, "State of
    Grace," is an offer of somewhat safer holiday cheer that should not be
    refused.




    © Orion Pictures

    Ed Harris in
    "    State of Grace"


      

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