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
 7

the opposite view

pantechnicon

8
 9

co-existence
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
 22

freedom
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
 51

traditional grook
cover up

52
historical grook

53
undefinable

54
discipline

55
56
channel grook

57
flaunting

58
 59

floatage
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
 71

self contained grook

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
 81

thinking of the blunders

atomyriades

82
that weary feeling

83
broken grook

84
85
life makes senses

86
 87

self-centered
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
photographies taken in Copenhagen,
Slagelse and surroundings during my short
visit in Denmark in May 2018 - with
scientific purposes.
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.

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