Florentin Smarandache PHOTOGROOKS. snapshots from Denmark. in homage to Piet Hein

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1 Florentin Smarandache PHOTOGROOKS snapshots from Denmark in homage to Piet Hein

2 Piet Hein ( ) was a Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, game inventor, poet). Hex, Tangloids, Morra, Tower, Polytaire, TacTix, Pyramystery, Soma cube are creative games developed by Hein. He created a new form of poetry, 'Grook' ("gruk" in Danish, short for 'GRin & suk' - "laugh & sigh", in Danish), characterized by irony, paradox, brevity. He wrote over 10,000 of grooks, most in Danish or English, published in more than 60 books. Grooks are tangential with paradoxism. Piet Hein advocated the use of the super ellipse curve in city planning (later in furniture design and other realms), which became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture. Hein defined art as a way of thinking about all subjects. He asserted that the great cultural divide is not between the haves and the have-nots, but between the knows and the know-nots.

3 Florentin Smarandache PhotoGrooks Mingir Suceava, Romania, 2018

4 MUSIC Artist: Nicolai Heidlas Songtitle: Morning Sun COVER The Super-egg at the town of Skjern. The largest Super-egg in the world: 4 meters tall. A sculpture by Piet Hein PEER REVIEWERS Dr. Saeid Jafari, Vestsjaelland-Sud, Slagelse, Denmark Călin Leucuța, Mingir Publishing House 11, str. Ștefan cel Mare Suceava, România ISBN

5 drawing near 5

6 cure for exhaustion 6

7 the opposite view 7

8 pantechnicon 8

9 co-existence 9

10 Hamlet Anno Domini 10

11 thoughts and things 11

12 prolific chatters 12

13 remedies remedies 13

14 a diplomatic compromise 14

15 portrait of nobody in particular 15

16 commutative law 16

17 similarity 17

18 the marvels and the wonders 18

19 a rule for proper doses 19

20 small things & great 20

21 on wheels 21

22 freedom 22

23 neatly stumbled over 23

24 sun above the clouds 24

25 conform and conceal 25

26 timing 26

27 a homage to finity 27

28 buildings grook 28

29 twenty seconds less 29

30 blue grook 30

31 blurriness 31

32 abreast 32

33 reflection on size 33

34 philo-sophisticism 34

35 there's a lifetime in a second 35

36 exclamation marks in brackets 36

37 standing tall 37

38 city grook 38

39 a definition 39

40 mankind 40

41 old clock 41

42 circumscripture 42

43 the tyranny of things 43

44 down to fundamentals 44

45 the case for obscurity 45

46 obscure, esoteric, symbolic 46

47 road sense 47

48 another grook 48

49 past pluperfect 49

50 vikingia 50

51 traditional grook 51

52 cover up 52

53 historical grook 53

54 undefinable 54

55 discipline 55

56 56

57 channel grook 57

58 flaunting 58

59 floatage 59

60 shine at any rate 60

61 two views 61

62 hint and suggestion 62

63 constructing 63

64 losing face 64

65 glass & waters 65

66 time 66

67 rhyme and reason 67

68 paramount truth 68

69 reproof 69

70 waves and more 70

71 self contained grook 71

72 a bit beyond perception's reach 72

73 presence of mind 73

74 bounty 74

75 75

76 76

77 lenient and mild 77

78 ultimate wisdom 78

79 philosophistry 79

80 simply assisting God 80

81 thinking of the blunders 81

82 atomyriades 82

83 that weary feeling 83

84 broken grook 84

85 85

86 life makes senses 86

87 self-centered 87

88 meeting the eye 88

89 art- lessness 89

90 memento vivere 90

91 love is like a pineapple 91

92 relativistic grook 92

93 the shaping of the question 93

94 the other angle 94

95 subdividing diurnity 95

96 social mechanism 96

97 dream interpretation 97

98 glibly talks 98

99 This photoalbum follows the instant photovideojournal VENI, VIDI, VIKING (in Romanian, 2018), and consists in a set of photographies taken in Copenhagen, Slagelse and surroundings during my short visit in Denmark in May with scientific purposes. The photographies here hold as title almost exclusively a line, a few words, or a title extracted from Piet Hein s grooks, and they should be consequently connectedly read & regarded. The grooks created by Piet Hein are spiritbuilding mental improvisations, small aphoristic verses, revealing in a minimum of words basic truths about the human condition. Grooks are tangential with paradoxism. DENMARK Denmark seen from a foreign land looks but like a grain of sand. Denmark as we Danes conceive it is so big you won t believe it. Grook by Piet Hein snapshots from Denmark in homage to Piet Hein While in Denmark, in my mind - the images fused with Hein s grooks, also giving me a chance to honor his original personality. Florentin Smarandache