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Notes: (pic needs more work...and photo has colors wrong)...it's gotten to the point that I wait for game to start before making the post!...this one hundred ninth in a series...see previous...it's a 'limit'...and I'm not sure what I mean by limit...never sure of words I come up with for things!...comes to mind that book, Power of Limits...brb...
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The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns—ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made—by the dynamic union of opposites—as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant.
https://www.shambhala.com/the-power-of-limits-1203.html
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don't know but that logline/caption for the book is what I'm on about too!...anyway...I saw a chess playing 'limit'...the opponents had to dive down in a swimming pool and make each move on the chessboard underwater before they needed to come up to breath...could stay high and dry and just use a timer, but, where's the fun in that?...game on...on the radio...Angels and White Sox in Chicago...my strada easel 'cosmic seashell' paintings have become a curio...to me...as it has occurred to me all along I'm likely lifting from artistries I've seen...seashells a popular subject...but, but let me explain how I came to them, and sort of defend myself against a notion that I'm lifting...not that I need to defend myself...but one likes to be original...so, reading about the Mesoamericans/Andeans and their fascination with seashells--their shapes, (step frets)--I wanted to get one like the Strombus seashell from a souvenir shop in Balboa...and on the roll out to Michaels Art Store in Costa Mesa for framing, I continued out to Balboa for my routine...a stroll out the pier, snack at Ruby's at pier's end, a wander through the stores and fun zone, where I found a sort of strombus shell, and too a basket full of shells...picked those up thinking (as it turned out I did), to use them for the strada easel painting a day for September contest...at Michaels I had priced small square like 10x10 canvases...this too a carry over from the posts...thought to use the tocapu 'square' format...most paintings are done on rectangular canvases (which are close, if not the same, as the golden rectangle in proportion)...but they were too expensive...so I just got some 8x10 canvas boards, and thought I'll just black out two inches on the bottom...even use that area for a caption...thought was to make detailed illustrations, and look up each seashell's name, and scribe that in the two inch bottom border...but that all went south when I began doing the first one...I can't control acrylics well enough to do a detailed rendering!...Fletcher up...long foul fly out...two out Trout up...so I just winged it, wet in wet...made the bottom border dark, made the shell with limited blues and whites and reds, and made the background with ambiguous brush strokes--see this a lot in the background of portraits...and, wala, a kind of neat, I think!, painting...what?, Trout made out and I don't know how...to bottom of 1st...and something happened...painting the bottom border became like the ocean paintings I did last September...many of those were 'flag' paintings...flag paintings have bands crossways...foreground, midground, background...beach, waves, ocean, sky...that's about what all ocean paintings are!...add clouds, and seashells, and waves, and fishermen, and sailboats, and things get complicated...modern abstract painters have simplified things to fundamental optical effects...so, sometimes paintings that are just two bands, or three...it's all our sky and land sense...everyday we see horizon line dividing sky and land...and, that's what the bottom black border is doing in my seashell paintings...it makes a dividing horizon line, so, there's land and sky...'certain proportions occur'...White Sox make out...Ohtani up...0-2...1-2...Ohtani does well when he fouls off one or two...gets the measure of things...ground out...fc...Upton was on base, now out...so, so I have the square, the bottom border, both together make the ratio for golden rectangle, the seashells have natural sacred geometries, as does it being inside a square...I'm not calculating these out when I paint, but note they are there...and, it just fell out, that the line between the border and the square became a horizon line, and I could make perspective with it...that's all it takes to make atmospheric perspective...Simmons with a single...going vertically, if I blend from light to dark with the border, and with the square, from dark to light top to bottom, my painting pops, it has depth...this all I saw from the start of the contest...but, but there is something else!...worried that I am lifting from something I've seen, it popped into my head in the middle of the night the spaceship hanging in the air in moveArrival!...hmmph...another hit bases loaded...Ward strikes out for second out...high fastball out of the zone...Bresino ground to third for force out...to bottom of 2nd...White Sox with a home run...White Sox 1-0...there's 12 different posters for the movie...each the same design, with the spaceship hanging over a city or landscape...the horizon line/sky and land optical effect gives the ship monumental size...I've seen this in Nature...we all have/do...when the Moon comes up over the horizon, it looks bigger...like fifty per cent bigger...White Sox make out...to top of 3rd...
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The Moon illusion is an optical illusion which causes the Moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky. It has been known since ancient times and recorded by various cultures.[1][2] The explanation of this illusion is still debated.[
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When we see objects such as clouds, birds, and airplanes in the sky, those near the horizon are typically farther away from us than those overhead. This may result in the perception of the sky itself as a comparatively flat or only gently curving surface in which objects moving towards the horizon always recede away from us.
In 1813, Schopenhauer wrote about this, that the moon illusion is "purely intellectual or cerebral and not optical or sensuous."[11] The brain takes the sense data that is given to it from the eye and it apprehends a large moon because "our intuitively perceiving understanding regards everything that is seen in a horizontal direction as being more distant and therefore as being larger than objects that are seen in a vertical direction."[12] The brain is accustomed to seeing terrestrially–sized objects in a horizontal direction
and also as they are affected by atmospheric perspective, according to Schopenhauer.
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Extensive experiments in 1962 by Kaufman and Rock showed that a crucial causative factor in the illusion is a change in the pattern of cues to distance, comparable to the Ponzo illusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion
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Trout hit by pitch, and bases loaded again!...Upton up...should be Ohtani!...Trout Ohtani back to back!...hmmph...maybe a way out of this thicket is that Ponzo illusion...sac fly...Ohtani up..."and that ball, we're waiting here, is a home run!!!"...Terry hesitated announcing to see if ball was caught!...lol...3rbi home run!...Simmons waps one to the track...long fly out...windy at the stadium...bloop fly out...Angels 4-1...to bottom of 3rd
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The Ponzo illusion is a geometrical-optical illusion that was first demonstrated by the Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo (1882–1960) in 1911.[1] He suggested that the human mind judges an object's size based on its background
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Cross-cultural differences in susceptibility to the Ponzo illusion have been noted, with non-Western and rural people showing less susceptibility.[4] Other recent research suggests that an individual's receptivity to this illusion, as well as the Ebbinghaus illusion, may be inversely correlated with the size of that individual's primary visual cortex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzo_illusion
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The three blue crosses are exactly the same size; however, the one on the left (fig. 1) tends to appear larger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbinghaus_illusion
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White Sox make out...Pena on mound for Angels...to top of 4th...for the most part the ancients didn't use optical illusions...I think...I dunno...seeing those squares reminds me of the tacapu square designs...the ancient sculptures and potters had no trouble rendering 3 dimensions...doing that is the same kind of seeing as making a two dimensional ground look like 3-D...I think!...more on this in a sec...there's a couple curios about the movieArrival...the spaceship has the lens shape of lenses in our eyes!...which I went on about in last two posts...and the plot, which begins with a vignette from the future which is explained as the aliens showing the future to the protagonist in an 'alien moment'...'alien moments' I conjecture are like 'nature moments'!...Calhoun up...this harks to what I went on about Robert Graves and his proleptic and analeptic memory of past and future...Calhoun to third with Fletchers two out double...and, of course they walk Trout...and now Upton up again with bases loaded...instead of Ohtani!...fump...they would not have walked Trout with Ohtani behind him...maybe...first base open is a standard deliberate walk circumstance...2-0...broken bat ground out...to bottom of 4th...hope that wasn't a pivot...when opponents get out of scrapes, they come back...anyway...the lens ship...line out to Calhoun...
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One of the aliens is dying from the explosion; the other explains that they have come to help humanity, for in 3,000 years they will need humanity's help in return, and the "weapon" is their language, which changes humans' linear perception of time, allowing them to experience 'memories' of things that have yet to happen. It is revealed that Louise's visions of the young girl are premonitions of her yet-to-be-born daughter, Hannah, whose name is a palindrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)
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that, that's kind of goose bumpy!...the tocapus are amigrams/palindromes...two out hit rbi...Angels 4-2...White Sox make out...to top of 5th...W...two of the pitches high and tight!...:)...Simmons up...I cant find it again...but there is a little animation of all twelve Arrival posters...turns out the ship can be made to look to be rotating from poster to poster...Marte up...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=movie+arrival+12+posters&rlz=1T4TSNJ_enUS440US440&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivrJHToardAhUE0KwKHZDgCukQ_AUICigB&biw=1038&bih=407
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links to google images of all the posters...a search will turn up the parodies...
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same wiki
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two out hit for Ward...Ohtani goes to second...having gone on about lenses, I noticed right away the spaceship resembles/harks to the lenses in our eyes...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(anatomy)
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I don't know if the resemblance is by the design of the Arrival movie makers...they've lifted a lot of things...and one thing could be sacred geometry...and the plot follows the self same plots of movies like Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind...and too Stargate...in Arrival a linguist, in Stargate a linguist...and too in Stargate the giant spaceship hovering over the horizon/Pyramid...and too in Close Encounters a giant space ship hovering over the horizon/Devils Postpile...Hollywood, I've gone on about, has like a clip art book of special effects...one effect might be to set something in the sky near a horizon to lend the illusion of giant size...spaceships in movie Independence Day another example...another clip art, while I'm at it, is the amorphous black ooze...in Arrival the aliens scribble with it on their 'window pane'...so, now I'm very far afield from my cosmic seashells!...and I thought to go about and find if others have put 'seashell floating in a sky over a horizon'...searches turn up a few, but thinking on it, I thought to look up the surrealist Salvador Dali...and, a fit...Dali often has a foreground/horizon/sky, arrangement...and then sets wild things floating/walking about...
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The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, and also in The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Swans Reflecting Elephants.
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The obelisks on the backs of the elephants are believed to be inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture base in Rome of an elephant carrying an ancient obelisk,[6] and was mentioned in several communications of the artist, so can be considered a reliable claim.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephants
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well, one could lose themselves captioning Dali's paintings!...and then, then there's Paul Klee...Angels up...Calhoun up...radio keeps going off and on...not sure where things are!...Fletcher up...two out...Trout up...base hit...goes to second on the e6...under review...Upton K...to bottom of 6th...
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His works often have a fragile childlike quality to them and are usually on a small scale. He often used geometric forms and grid format compositions as well as letters and numbers, frequently combined with playful figures of animals and people. Some works were completely abstract. Many of his works and their titles reflect his dry humor and varying moods; some express political convictions. They frequently allude to poetry, music and dreams and sometimes include words or musical notation. The later works are distinguished by spidery hieroglyph-like symbols. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about Klee in 1921, "Even if you hadn’t told me he plays the violin, I would have guessed that on many occasions his drawings were transcriptions of music."[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee#Style_and_methods
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"In the temporal dimension, the grid is an emblem of modernity by being just that: the form that is ubiquitous in the art of our century, while appearing nowhere, nowhere at all, in the art of the last one. In that great chain of reactions by which modernism was born out of the efforts of the nineteenth century, one final shift resulted in breaking the chain. By "discovering" the grid, cubism, de Stijl, Mondrian, Malevich . .. landed in a place that was out of reach of everything that went before. Which is to say, they landed in the present, and everything else was declared to be the past."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_format
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oh...Pena saves himself with a comebacker double play!...White Sox make out...to top of 7th...I dunno...ancients had grids...been going on and on about that...anyway, these complications all drop away when I pick up a paint brush and do my seashells!...Ohtani up...they shift on Ohtani...three on right side of infield...two fouled off...K...Simmons up...
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pic, Sinbad the Sailor, is from google images page...note 'grid format'...Simmons waps a home run into the wind...Angels 5-2...Angels made out...to bottom of 7th...123...Pena still pitching...to top of 8th...base hit for Bresino...Calhoun up...oh...the Death Star from Star Wars...it's a giant eyeball!...sorta...
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Despite everything that George Lucas says, the Death Star was not modeled after Mimas.
https://www.google.com/search?q=death+star+erebus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihz6PVrqrdAhUBCKwKHZsVB6gQ_AUICigB&biw=1038&bih=407#imgrc=NTyb8ABtPqSRBM:&spf=1536373868192
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go figure!...Sacred Geometry in the Valley...intentional walk to Trout...Angels make out...to bottom of 8th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams#Photographic_books
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a step fret for the collection...was looking for one of AA's Falls pics...oh, this one is upside down, but has the trick...
https://shop.anseladams.com/Yosemite_Falls_and_Meadow_p/1501237.htm
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odd thing about Yosemite is its geometries...suggested geometries I guess...the monoliths all have something about them...next to the Falls is Lost Arrow on the right...a tall rock spire...part of the wall that split off...in shape, it is like a stone waterfall...looks just like the Falls next to it!...the wall on the left of the Falls resembles a Pythagorean Triangle...suggests...oh, Ohtani Ks...one out top of 9th...White Sox made out in the bottom of 8th...there are tiers on either side...on the left on the middle one is the trail up to the Falls which curls around and goes up the hypotenuse!...on the left middle tier is a dangerous trail, recommended just for rock climbers, that takes them to Lost Arrow...turned back myself on this one--too scary...and, it all looks like the Indian rock relief...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_of_the_Ganges_(Mahabalipuram)
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a cleft with two illustrated 'pylons' on either side...the Falls are a triple fall, top, middle cascade, and lower falls...which, as things would have it, is what the tallest waterfall is...Angels made out...to bottom of 9th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls#/media/File:Angel_falls_in_Venezuela_001.JPG
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reachings and whimsies, I know...one out...1-2...2-2...Butry on mound...looking for first big league save for Angels...5-3...two out...both these falls were so isolated that they were basically unknown until modern times...I don't know what the ancients would have made of the Valley, or Angel falls...just as well they didn't...another 5-3...and, Angels win 5-2...time for the cosmic seashell...
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