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Friday, August 29, 2014

Reducibly Jimi Hendrix: Proper/Improper & Reciprocated

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If six turned out to be nine...I don't mind








Then two would be three...Reciprocally
I would be... Me-and-a-half    
with a mirthematical laugh    
























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Once upon a time
I "raised my freak flag high!"
but Time + Experience
changes things 
Footnote
For many years, a very large poster of  Jimi Hendrix
graced the walls  of an inner-city classroom.

A balloon caption in the framed poster
mathematically corrupted the lyrics to  If 6 Was 9.

In the background of a photograph featured
in the  March 13, 1996  Los Angeles Times,
the Hendrix poster is visible.

The  2nd-Generation photographs above
are the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

But this website welcomes inquiries
regarding usage or purchase
of both images.

As Jimi might have said:
Proper & Improper are only 
the names of fractions.

And now...possibly prefaced by an advert
6 + 9   seconds in length... I present a song
from the Jimi Hendrix Experience:
© If 6 Was 9.

Once upon a time, there was the GodFather of Math.
It features a handful of pages about Jimi Hendrix.

Those pages can be found by searching for–
verbatim– Jimi Hendrix "Godfather of Math"
But the most interesting of those pages is  here.

You may preface that link with this hint:
Once upon a time,  Jimi Hendrix–a superstar in England–
was virtually unknown in these good old United States.  
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8 comments:

  1. Who is that handsome man, facing right!
    Facing dancing tap dancing smiling right!

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    1. That rotated photo...appeared on front page of Metro Section
      of L.A. Times...I cropped it to fit over the page 2 title
      HEARTS OF THE CITY.
      Thanks for the compliment.

      I appear to be doing a one-legged "dance."
      Either that or I had just tripped over
      a student's foot.

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  2. Well designed page.
    Artistic photographs,
    artistically composed.
    A fraction of all your talent,
    Mr. Handsome-nosed.

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    1. I am certainly not the first person to make a composite photo
      of Jimi Hendrix but the "artistic" copyrighted page
      naturally segues into a footnote-worthy memory,
      with or without a handsome nose.

      Thanks for another compliment
      but I do not have anywhere near
      two-thirds (or six-ninths)
      of Jimi's talent.

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  3. There is an art to putting together
    a composite, as any chosen were
    smooth or awkward

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  4. I agree...
    sometimes composites are just composites...
    sometimes...they magnify the real thing!

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    1. Sometimes an assemblage is organized for clarity only
      and sometimes a collage has a magic of its own, as here.

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    2. Thank you and i hope it
      expands yr appreciation
      of Jimi's genius...

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