Old-fashioned music with an old-fashioned twist as Cappy Crepuscule and his Rhythm Boys reprise a classic old Australian song in their uniquely idiosyncratic ‘Like it or not and see if we give a hoot’ fashion, with illustrations by Emile Mercier, Sydney’s most popular cartoonist from the 1940s to the 1980s, together with paintings and drawings by Linzee Nold and Michael Armstrong.
Month: May 2024
Thylacines Out of Season
The Thylacine (or the Tasmanian Tiger) was Tasmania’s top predator but it was hunted to extinction with the last known of the species dying at the Hobart Zoo in 1936, seen here in this photo from the Australian National Museum. Its passing came about through farmers’ suspicions that it preyed on livestock and bounty hunters were authorised.
But what if, wonders Lindsay Arnold, instead of exterminating we’d succeeded in domesticating? Here’s the first series of moments showing the elusive marsupial in the wild and in its imagined role as a desirable companion animal. Many more to come as Lindsay Arnold’s thylacine dreamworld moves between the possible and the outright weird.
