Sunday Links

Whale Bus

France in the Year 2000, as Envisioned in 1899 Too bad the whale bus didn’t work out. (image above)

A fascinating chronicle of the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island. 

This ad shows how to transport a body in a Toyota trunk. If you need this information, I urge you to turn yourself in. Via Memo Of The Air

Silent Sunday: Leanne Cole’s gorgeous images taken around Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne. Via Tacky Raccoons

What Easter Is Called Across Europe  

Infinite Digest: 30 years after the publication of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest an interactive companion to the book by Christian Swinehart of Samizdat Drafting Co. has been released. I have tried three times to read the novel and had to put it down - too much tennis, so many philosophical conversations and way too many footnotes. Maybe I need this guide to navigate it? I’ll let you know how it goes.

This husband was very, very patient

Slowjamastan: The new 'nation' where Crocs and reply-all emails are forbidden.

The apéritif dînatoire, a cocktail-and-dinner-party hybrid, looks like a sensible way to entertain. (NYT gift article)

Things you can actually buy: A David Byrne  'Jumping Jack' Puppet  Via Blort

A Radio That Tunes to the Past The project was developed with one of Japan’s largest elderly care operators, and is rooted in Reminiscence Therapy, a well-documented approach in cognitive health research. What a great idea!

A testimonial to man’s best friend: Theodorus Gaza, Laudatio Canis, 1482

Brilliant British illustrator Glen Baxter has died at 82. His drawings featured cowboys, gangsters, explorers and schoolchildren with sly references to social issues. (image below)

Some Pysanky for Easter.

After a diet of crape from doorbells the lace and smilax were good. Via Miss Cellania

The name is Panther, Pink Panther. Listen to music from the era of playboy espionage at Spy Vibe Radio: Pink Panther Via PfRC

Vancouver looks like it’s floating on clouds.

This was news to me: Funeral Bread

Designing in the Glitch: Anton Elfilter blends collage, digital tools, and AI to create surreal compositions.

Last but not least: Watch out for the frillies 

Music For Sunday Morning

Gary Burton - Las Vegas Tango (1970)

Via The Listening Post Blog

The Perfect English Rabbit

“The image above details the aesthetic requirements for achieving the "Ideal English Rabbit", the benchmark of perfect markings for a particular breed of rabbit first developed in the middle of the nineteenth century.”

(Public Domain Review)

Strandbeest Evolution

Theo Jansen has been building his PVC wind powered beach beasts since 1990.  The strandbeests come from twelve periods, each period being characterized by its own developments.

Link via everlasting blort

This Might Give You Nightmares

 

THE AI DOC: or how i became an apocaloptimist - Trailer

 A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. 

Turning a Clock Into a Macintosh Mini

This Does Not Compute wanted more out of his Macintosh replica clock, so he ripped out its insides and turned it into a working Macintosh Mini. 

In A Quiet Room

This is a very touching film that summons all the emotions. 

 

Artwork Of The Day

 

Nataliya Bagatskaya (Ukrainian b.1967), What Times, Such Stars, 2026

via Duck Soup

The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva performed at the 2009 Deaflympics

The Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara is one of the Four Great Bodhisattvas of Chinese Buddhism and represents the Buddha’s great compassion. What makes this performance by the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe (CDPPAT) even more exceptional is that the twenty-one dancers are deaf and mute and cannot hear the music.

Via everlasting blort