Tag: Story of N

The Story of N…

… Continues. — Marissa Mayer in the current Vogue  online

The Story of N

(Continued from this morning) The above stylized "N," based on an 8-cycle in the 9-element Galois field GF(9), may also be read as an Aleph. Graphic designers may prefer a simpler, bolder…

Plan 9

(Continued from August 28 last year) Backstory—  Reflections from today's date, August 13, in 2003, that included the following remark by Aldous Huxley on an artist's work: "All…

Venus at St. Anne's

The title is that of a chapter in the C.S. Lewis classic  That Hideous Strength . A search suggested by this afternoon's NY Lottery four-digit number, 8002, yields…

Cover Art

The Misalignment of Mars and Venus A death in Sarasota on Sunday leads to a weblog post from Tuesday that suggests a review of Dan Brown's graphic philosophy—…

Sunday School

Apollo and the Tricksters From The Story of N (Oct. 15, 2010)— Roberta Smith on what she calls "endgame art"— "Fear of form above all means fear of…

Mathematics and Narrative, continued

  The Story of N Roberta Smith in the New York Times  of July 7, 2006— Art Review Endgame Art? It's Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition…

Friday January 9, 2009

Stories for Mary Karr "In reality, my prose books probably sit between I Was a Teenage Sex Slave and some other contemporary memoir written in five minutes…." —…