December 15, 2008
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Church of the Forbidden Planet:
Happy Birthday,
Julie Taymor
“Julie Taymor… will be directing Helen Mirren in a big-screen adaptation of The Tempest. Dame Helen, in a gender-switch from the original, will be playing Prospera, the usurped Duchess possessed of a vast library and magical powers.”– John Murphy at Bardolatry.com on November 21, 2008
A vast library…
On searching for Garden of Eden patterns (GEP’s):
“The grid is a staircase to the Universal….”
– Rosalind Krauss, quoted here on Weyl’s birthday, 2004
“I find the whole topic of GEPs a deeply interesting one, from many viewpoints: mathematical, philosophical, physical….
… the obvious problem is, that the required computational time is growing rapidly with the size of the grid, and even for a small grid, like 4×4 (=16 cells) there are 216=65536 possible patterns….”
– cateye at RichardDawkins.net
… and magical powersThe date of cateye’s post was Sunday, October 21, 2007.
For related material see Log24 on Sunday, October 21, 2007.
