links/2024w11

And we're back to the weekly list: Squarespace changed up their iPad editor and made it impossible to add links, so it's simpler to do it this way and put it together once a week on the Mac.

• As if the beauty of her work as a whole wasn’t amazing enough, her attention to the smallest detail never ceases to amaze :: Star Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Fashioning Afrofuturism | artnet

• The black and white photos of Macdonald's work are incredible; like PDR, I can only imagine how amazing the color was in reality :: The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905) | The Public Domain Review

• 🤯🤯 :: Immersive Bamboo Installations by Asim Waqif Whirl and Heave in Monumental Motion | Colossal

• The Armored-Knight "Robot" Designed by Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495) | Open Culture

• Better late than never, I suppose :: Keurig Just Killed The Coffee-Pod With Their New Biodegradable Compressed Coffee Pucks | Yanko Design

• At last, an AI with impeccable gaming taste :: Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play 'Goat Simulator 3' | WIRED

• Someone has to have the adaptation option on this story, right? :: The Ghost-Busting 'Girl Detective' Who Awed Houdini | Atlas Obscura

• Very cool :: Teen Titans Live-Action Movie in the Works at DC Studios | The Hollywood Reporter

• And, finally, re-linking / linking within to the teaser for MOUSE, an upcoming game from Fumi Games that takes the CUPHEAD / Tex Avery aesthetic and turns it into an FPS.

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• If it works, an amazing breakthrough: Driving cancer cells to commit suicide | The Economist

• Mysterious Labyrinth Found Hidden Under a Church in Mexico | Science Alert

• Ohio's pretty accurate, at least in my neck of the sticks: I Asked AI What Europeans Think Americans From Every Single State Look Like… | Buzzfeed

• In which I learned the phase "ice cream zombie" and became determined to work it into something: Aichi woman arrested for stealing ice cream from a delivery truck because it was too hot | SoraNews 24

• Take (more of) my money, Criterion: FREAKS / THE UNKNOWN / THE MYSTIC: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers out in October | Criterion Collection

• Dream house = found: Solar-Powered Off-Grid Treehouse Perfectly Combines Nature, Sustainability + Luxury | Yanko Design

• Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836) | The Public Domain Review

• Please let this happen: Anchor Brewing workers trying to save 127-year-old San Francisco institution | Washington Post

• The collision of this with vantablack will cause the destruction of timespace, certainly: Scientists Have Developed the Whitest White Paint Ever Made—So Reflective It Can Cool Surfaces | artnet

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• A teacher-turned-governor willing to use their line item veto pen as a middle finger directed at their opposition-stacked legislature is a grand thing: Tony Evers extends increases for public schools in perpetuity | The Guardian

• Sharing this only because I'm deeply disturbed that WaPo deems NXIVM "cultlike" in the opening when it's clearly, beyond any shadow of a doubt, a cult: Allison Mack released from prison early in NXIVM case | WaPo

• Yet another reason why I remain and will remain a lifelong proponent of amassing a personal, physical library: Disney Deletes Streaming Movie That Only Released In May 2023 | Kotaku

• Mycelium & orange peels were used to create these visually appealing + sustainable partitions | Yanko Design

• Fantastic document: THE AMAZING WORLD OF SUPERMAN: HOW A COMIC MAGAZINE IS CREATED | Tom Brevoort

• This is one beautiful home: Wabi-sabi philosophy guides design of accessible coastal home in Australia | Dezeen

mycelial sarcophagi

With life having made several attempts on my life over the last few years, I’m always fascinated by new ways that my disused husk can be disposed of responsibly. This is intriguing, though not enough to get me give up cremation / hydro cremation (or my dream of said husk being used as a prop for the wood chipper scene in a dinner theatre rendition of FARGO):

For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too.

A Dutch intrepid inventor is now “growing” coffins by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, together with hemp fiber in a special mold that, in a week, turns into what could basically be compared to the looks of an unpainted Egyptian sarcophagus. 

And while traditional wooden coffins come from trees that can take decades to grow and years to break down in the soil, the mushroom versions biodegrades and delivers the remains to nature in barely a month and a half.

Aleksandar Furtula and Raf Casert https://apnews.com/article/nature-burial-mushrooms-netherlands-sustainable-coffin-5b211105cc5566c9ada430f2e2e8e3a0?ref=upstract.com