Florentin Smarandache PHOTOGROOKS
snapshots from Denmark in homage to Piet Hein Piet Hein (1905-1996) 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. https://www.piethein.com/
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. Florentin Smarandache
PhotoGrooks
Mingir Suceava, Romania, 2018 MUSIC Artist: Nicolai Heidlas Songtitle: Morning Sun https://soundcloud.com/nicolai-heidlas https://www.nicolai-heidlas.com
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, http://www.zephyrfoto.com/about.html
Mingir Publishing House 11, str. Ștefan cel Mare Suceava, România
ISBN 978-1-59973-569-6 drawing near
5 cure for exhaustion 6 the opposite view the
7 pantechnicon
8 co - existence
9 Hamlet Anno Domini
10 thoughts and things
11 prolific chatters
12 remedies’ remedies 13 a diplomatic compromise
14 portrait of nobody in particular
15 commutative law
16 similarity
17 the marvels and the wonders
18 a rule for proper doses
19 small things & great
20 on wheels
21 freedom
22 neatly stumbled over
23 sun above the clouds 24 conform and conceal
25 timing
26 a homage to finity
27 buildings grook
28 twenty seconds less
29 blue grook
30 blurriness
31 abreast
32 reflection on size
33 philo-sophisticism
34 there's a lifetime in a second
35 exclamation marks in brackets
36 standing tall
37 city grook
38 a definition
39 mankind
40 old clock
41 circumscripture
42 the tyranny of things
43 down to fundamentals
44 the case for obscurity 45 obscure, esoteric, symbolic
46 road sense
47 another grook
48 past pluperfect
49 vikingia
50 t raditional grook
51 cover up
52 historical grook
53 undefinable
54 discipline
55 56 channel grook
57 flaunting
58 floatage
59 shine at any rate
60 two views
61 hint and suggestion
62 constructing
63 losing face
64 glass & waters
65 time
66 rhyme and reason
67 paramount truth
68 reproof
69 waves and more
70 s elf contained grook elf contained
71 a bit beyond perception's reach
72 presence of mind
73 bounty
74 75 76 lenient and mild
77 ultimate wisdom
78 philosophistry
79 simply assisting God
80 thinking of the blunders thinking the of
81 atomyriades
82 that weary feeling
83 broken grook
84 85 life makes senses
86 self - centered
87 meeting the eye
88 art-
lessness
89 memento vivere
90 love is like a pineapple
91 relativistic grook
92 the shaping of the question
93 the other angle
94 subdividing diurnity
95 social mechanism
96 dream interpretation
97 glibly talks
98 This photoalbum follows the instant photovideojournal VENI, VIDI, VIKING (in Romanian, 2018), and consists in a set of DENMARK photographies taken in Copenhagen, Denmark seen from a foreign land Slagelse and surroundings during my short looks but like a grain of sand. visit in Denmark in May 2018 - with Denmark as we Danes conceive it scientific purposes. is so big you won’t believe it.
The photographies here hold as “title” Grook by almost exclusively a line, a few words, or a — Piet Hein title extracted from Piet Hein’s grooks, and they should be consequently connectedly “read”&”regarded”.
The grooks created by Piet Hein are spirit- snapshots from Denmark building mental improvisations, small aphoristic verses, revealing in a minimum in homage to Piet Hein of words basic truths about the human condition. Grooks are tangential with paradoxism.
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