"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
M. C. Escher
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/m_c_escher_109035
Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels at the Dodgers...Angels won last night...Mariners broke on top, 1-0 in first inning, but Fletcher came up for the Angels leading off, and first pitch wapped a home run!...Angels never looked back on way to 11-2 win...Calhoun up...fly out to center...big crowd...almost didn't get my Ohtani double bobble head...they were running low when I finally got in the stadium around anthem time...these bobble heads can pay for themselves, if I was inclined to sell them on ebay...save them for gifts someday...toys are for kids...sorta...Simmons with a hit...Trout has a hit...first and third...but Ohtani wasn't in the lineup...chants of 'we want Ohtani' in the late innings...but game was in the bag...Pujols had two home runs, and is now on DL...bad knee...and tonight Ohtani isn't playing either...I dunno...K...Valbuena up...6 for his last 46...put Ohtani on first, or right field...forget the pitching...apparently, if there is a left handed pitcher on the mound, Ohtani is benched...analytics...hmmph...so, so I've gone and gathered too many things; 'things', Easter eggs, wanting to get in the post...WOW, World of Warcraft video game, has an Easter egg hunt around Easter time...you gather them up with your toon, and win awards...get enough and you turn into a rabbit...and when you pick up an egg, a little melody plays...the card readers at Target use to go 'aank aank annk' when you were done, so as not to forget your card...now they play a little melody...'where did I hear that before?' I commented to the cashier...and later it came to me...it's like the melody in World of Warcraft...that, that sort of thing, setting things side by side, a stepping stone I might call it, in movie making is called a 'match-cut'...Angels made out... to bottom of 1st...from scene of toon gathering eggs in WOW, and song, cut to scene of customers removing their credit cards from card reader, and song...a match-cut!...Dodgers wap a home run...Dodgers 1-0...Pena on mound for Angels...
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A bone-club and a satellite in orbit, the two subjects of the iconic match cut in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_cut
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I saw 2001 at the Pantages theater in LA when it first came out...think it was the Pantages...theater had undergone renovation...old timey inside...don't know if it is even still there...it, and the Chinese Grauman theater, were where films came out first...and the films were beautiful as the prints were brand new...none of the lines and scratches...folk don't remember now, or experience, the dust, and lines, and scratches, that marred films back then...I had only been to the Pantages once before, and saw 'It's A Mad Mad Mad World', which is just the funniest movie experience I ever had...oddly, one can match-cut from the plot of Mad World, to 2001...both are treasure hunts of sorts...one looking for the Big W...the other for the Black Monolith...double play gets Angels out of trouble...but what a difference in mood!...I'm a big fan of movieForbiddenPlanet, a match-cut from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, though I had no idea that was the case when I was like ten years old!...2001 is a lift from Forbidden Planet...and nearly every 'knowledge quest' science fiction film since!...top of 2nd...Kinsler has a hit...wiki's take on 2001 has religious like reverence...an on and on about its secrets...and a personal curio...a match-cut...:)...
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Openness to interpretation[edit]
Kubrick encouraged people to explore their own interpretations of the film, and refused to offer an explanation of "what really happened" in the movie, preferring instead to let audiences embrace their own ideas and theories.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_2001:_A_Space_Odyssey
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OTI:Open To Interpretation...:)...I'm probably under Hollywood's spell...some of the Black Monolith likely found its way into my Black Deck Tales, though I had other things in mind when I came up with the Black Ships...and still do!...the crews languish while I divert in this series...this post fiftyseventh in a series...see previous...a lot of wiki's exegesis/take is like explaining songByeByeMissAmericanPie....I like that song, but have never really thought to 'un-pack' it, or 2001 for that matter...I'm not much, really, for decoding things...Angels made out...Dodgers with a double in bottom of 2nd...least wise in all their details!...there are a lot of rock and roll songs that I like that I don't even know the lyrics too...but they are full of curios...'things change, people are changing'...wanted to look that up...thought to use it in a comeback in a facebook back and forth...well, for sometime...may not have the exact words...search is turning up all kinds of songs about change!...Calhoun waps a home run!...Angels 1-1...Trout fly out...
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The Monolith as it appears in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Other than the Monoliths bearing TMA labels, there are many other Monoliths that are seen in the series. In two instances, millions of Monoliths are generated for a limited time purpose.
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A small Monolith appears before Heywood Floyd in 2061 on board the Galaxy spacecraft. He nicknames it "Minilith" for its small size compared to other observed Monoliths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey)#Minilith
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The front face of iPhone X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
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a 'life imitates art' match-cut!...line drive nabbed...two runners left...to bottom of third...I got to thinking about the Monolith because of its sidedness!...at first look, it has four sides, but on second, it has eight...well, wait...eight corners...and...six faces...it was the corners I was after...I had done this search: ogdoad mayans...I wanted to see if the Mayans have a group of eight paired gods like the Egyptians' Ogdoad...came upon the Ogdoad because of their frog and snake heads....and their fourness...there were four male gods, and they were given four female gods...(I'm reaching for more about 'frogs', the 'frog pose', and 'quadrapartite')...my on and on in the last few posts!...El Castille, the Mayan Pyramid, is emblematic of the four directions, its squareness of this, especially the box on top, which I have just learned, represents the witz monster...an open mouth...I'm never going to get all this in one post!...anyway, I did that search: Ogdoad Mayans, with another 'fourness' in mind...earth, wind, fire water...thinking the pyramid El Castillio is a static match-cut of the four directions and the four elements....I need a word for 'static match-cut'!...all I'm coming up with is 'optical illusion'...you see one thing, but the illustration has two things, which you have to shift your attention to see...'M. C. Eschers'...
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http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/most-popular/
the optical illusion is like a match-cut...tocapus are full of this...I called it 'bouncing'...your attention is bounced about by the stylizations...
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Their remarkably well-preserved condition offers the opportunity to discuss the complexity of Andean thought as it is demonstrated by the textile medium, a medium of consummate importance to the ancient peoples of the Andes. The three-dimensionality of these hats distinguishes them from other Andean fabrics and invites the insight into Andean spatial concepts that Ms. Frame details here.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/andean_four_cornered_hats_ancient_volumes
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went on about this before...and haven't really yet found a way to nail down the idea!...sometimes I see something called the 'non-linear' thinking of the Andeans/Mesoamericans...brb...Calhoun waps another home run!...Angels 2-1...Trout up...K...
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Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in cartoons such as Lost Consonants or The Far Side as well as in Dutch gable stones. For instance the "Batenburg" stone from Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, shown here, puns on the words baten (to profit) and burg (castle) which together make up the name of a village near Nijmegen. European heraldry contains the technique of canting arms, which can be considered punning.
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In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the final scene of Luke Skywalker standing on a cliff is a cliffhanger.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_pun#Gallery
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Angels made out...to bottom of 4th?...
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Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms
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are tocapus 'canting'???...
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This began in 1981 when 15-year-old budding Mayanist David Stuart (left, with Linda Schele) discovered that individual Maya words could be written in multiple ways, using different symbols for the same sounds, as in "faze" and "phase." Eric Thompson's theory had been that the Maya wrote in rebus, in which symbols are used for whole words. A modern rebus of the phrase "I can see" might include pictures of an eye, a tin can, and the sea.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/time-nf.html
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Angels made out...Alverez on mound...Pena is given brief outings as he hasn't been a starter, or something...bottom of 4th?...sheessh...to top of 6th...anyway, in looking up the Ogdoad, I happened on passages from a book that goes on and on about earth fire water air, and how the Ogdoad shows up world wide, in families of gods, and in things like the Pyramids...it's a reach, but the author points out that the Great Pyramid in Egypt is 'eight sided'...seen from above, when the light is just right, one can see that each side has an indentation running down it...which divides the side...
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The base of the Great Pyramid of Giza is a square, right? Well, not quite. Despite what you may think about this ancient structure, the Great Pyramid is an eight-sided figure, not a four-sided figure. Each of the pyramid's four side are evenly split from base to tip by very subtle concave indentations.
https://curiosity.com/topics/the-eight-faces-of-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-curiosity/
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the book author has an odd take on things...around 3,000 B.C., around when the Mayan calendar, one of them, begins...about when the Pyramids were built, and the Ogdoad depicted...people around the world received a 'hologram mind' sort of down load...this hologram mind, the minds we have now!, could perceive straight lines/geometric shapes...this, the author proposes, didn't exist before...our minds before this 'before and after' were in like a dream state, or natural state, or something, where everything is curvy...'no straight lines in Nature' is a statement' I often see...which is true enough, if one nit picks...but there are plenty of sort of straight lines...but, author has a point...in ancient monuments and art there is a reverential refrain for geometries/straight lines...though, oddly, they never, or seldom, draw with a ruler...like an architect's or engineers drawing...well, a close study of that notion for sometime...but, anyway, the author looks to have borrowed from 2001 and the Monolith...the Monolith would down load notions to people: the bone as weapon becomes the space station weapon...this, I'd say, is a lift from movieWarlordsOfAtlantis!...no time for that on and on!...one explanation for humanity's development is that it has been a stepping stone/match-cut advance from one weapon invention to another...one war to another...odd things do happen in Nature...
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There's a price for blindly following those in front of you. Take army ants for instance. These aggressive insects have a dangerous tendency to commit mass suicide just because they're following the leader.
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Army ants — unlike most other ant species — are blind. They also lack permanent nesting sites. Instead of living at a single site, army ant colonies are constantly on the march en masse looking for food. As the first ant in line travels it leaves behind a pheromone trail that other ants sniff out and follow. When this system works well, it allows foraging parties lead larger groups back to food. When it doesn't work, the ants follow these pheromone trails as they flow back into each other, ending up in an endless loop that they follow to their doom. If the circle isn't broken for some reason, they will probably never escape.
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/why-do-army-ants-commit-suicide
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http://enigmasolution.blogspot.com/2016/03/spiral-of-death-ants-and-humans-100.html
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top of 7th one out...Fletcher pinch hit...
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Edward Gibbon suggested that the Kaaba was mentioned by ancient Greek writer, Diodorus Siculus, before the Christian era:
The genuine antiquity of Caaba ascends beyond the Christian era: in describing the coast of the Red sea the Greek historian Diodorus has remarked, between the Thamudites and the Sabeans, a famous temple, whose superior sanctity was revered by all the Arabians; the linen or silken veil, which is annually renewed by the Turkish emperor, was first offered by the Homerites, who reigned seven hundred years before the time of Mohammad.
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the Kaaba likely lifted by Arthur C. Clarke for his 2001 tale...if I remember right, the end of Childhood's End, has people gathered circling about...brb...Angels made out...bottom of 7th...Bedrosan on mound...well, in Childhood's End a hive mind kind of thing takes hold...I think in one of 2001 related tales, it ends with humanity kind of grouping up in a non-technological pursuit!...heck...bases loaded hit, and wild throw from Calhoun...two runs score...Dodgers 3-2...but, a match cut from the Monolith, to the iphone, to the Kaaba cube...maybe there is something to the author's notion of the hologram download, which I've sketched poorly...here is the book:
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The mound is simply the new global mind that was emerging from the Earth.
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In my book I also go into detail about how the geometry of this pyramid is connected to the global mind. It seems like the Great Pyramid was a representation of the new global mind described by the Maya but built in stone by the Egyptians.
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To answer this we may first note that similarly to the eight Mayan and Aztec deities in Figure 1, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (especially in the city of Hermopolis) honored a set of eight gods referred to as the Ogdoad, which consisted of four male and female pairs: Nu and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Kuk and Kauket, Huh and Hauhet. These were associated with frogs and serpents, respectively and symbolized the chaos of the primordial waters and were most likely parallels to the pairs we saw in figure 1.
July 24, 2016 (2 Chuen, 3 rd day in the 55 th night of the Ninth Wave)
The idea that the rise of human civilization was caused by a shift in consciousness in the global mind is a central idea in my most recent book The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization (Inner Traditions, 2016).
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well, I was able to copy/paste...earlier I'd been reading from book on line, pages offered to read...difficult to quote...Calleman is a busy Mysterion...lots on web...but there/here I'm back at the frog heads/frog pose...and can show off my prize!...don't know but I'm just being a show off with my Easter egg finds!...Dodgers make out...to top of eighth...
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Tiwanaku spiral carvings
note stylized frog head and eyes in the frets...that, that's from a follower of Graham Hancock, the famous Mysterion...doubt they see in that what I see!...the 'prize' is a 'paired element',...Upton is on base...a match-cut to:...
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The statuary pieces recovered from Ubaid, in Mesopotamia, are among the oldest known. And, surely, among the strangest. It is nearly impossible for us to understand what led these ancient Mesopotamians to represent snake headed women, with such prominent keloid scars on their shoulders.
the Ubaid snake people, so called, figurines, aren't snake headed...they're frog headed!...and the keloid scars are the bumps one sees on frogs and toads--warts...and they have the frog pose/frogs fertility visual pun...I'd say!...:)...Angels made out...bottom of eighth...two out walk...there's more!...I learn the famous Sapa-Inca's name is derived from Inca word for frog--sopa...so, there is the step fret with the frog/toad...and it relates to Sapa Inca, and royalty/nobility from the Andeans to Mesoamericans--step frets...thought to do a whole series of match-cuts of images without words to show this!...Dodgers made out...Kinsler out top of 9th...Ohtani up...pinch hitting...0-1...2-2...hitting .143 against lefties...a double!!!...one out...
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An Ancient legend tells that in the Inca sacred Lake Titicaca, the royal Inca King, son of the Sun God would travel to Lake Titicaca and try to catch the attention of a Sapo by throwing gold pieces into the lake. In those days “El Sapo” (frog/Toad) was know for their magical powers and the Incas believed that if a frog caught the gold piece in its mouth, the peron would be instantly awarded a wish and the frog would turn into solid gold. To honor all the wishes that had been granted by the Sapo, the Inca King built a golden statue of a great Sapo in the gardens of his palace in Cusco. There members of the royal court invented the game, It was a game of suspense and dexterity, where dance and happiness would be mixed in one shout: PUKLLAY SAPU (Playing Sapo, or Frog).
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0-2 to Breseno...late throw on bouncer off pitcher...a hit...no review...Ohtani on third...pinch runner on first...Fletcher up...oh...a double play...on a ripped grounder...cue the frogs...
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