#futurama exhibition

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Designs by Norman Bel Geddes (1930s)

[humanoidhistory]

Visiting the year 2024 in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

[vegaduke]

General Motors Futurama Exhibit. New York Worlds Fair - 1964

[mielivalta1]

Thinking about the way humans and robots (or at least Fry and Bender) relate to each other in Futurama. They both seem to think that the other one is like... their pet or child, or something in general to "awww" at. Of course, for this to work they are sometimes in the role of a pet or a child, but Idk if they're as aware of that! For example, I remember that Bender directly compared himself to Fry's parents at least once ("Sometimes I wish your real parents were still alive") but Idk if he like. registers that he is also sometimes exhibiting some real dog-with-separation-anxiety behavior.

Reminds me of the theory that elephants think humans are cute, except these guys are coworkers and friends so it's more fucked up and funny

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omg hi

5. 5 tv shows that cheer you up

doctor who, red dwarf, NEW GIRL, joe pera talks with you, and a tie between futurama and scrubs

10. something you’ve created in the last year that you’re proud of (a playlist, a piece of art, some writing, a craft hobby, a social media account, etc)

the art I did for my art show!!! i'm so happy I made a coherent exhibition out of 4 years of work. that and a few sketches I've written that I hope to perform next year

11. a tip or hack you’ve learned that makes cleaning or tidying easier

well this is gonna make sounds like gods biggest idiot but I just learned this past month that your dishwasher has a filter that you should clean every couple months, and if you do that, you don't actually have to scrub and rinse every plate and dish unless it's got something burnt/super sticky on there. I've been treating dishwashers like glorified disinfectants my entire life.

so there's that + my go to cleaning tip which is: when you're making dinner, clean as you go! you're already up and in the mood to do stuff, and it makes clean up when you're full and tired soooooo much easier

17. a bath, shower, beauty or toiletry product that makes you feel revived, or that you always re-order when it’s running out

nexxus therappe moisturizing shampoo. it's expensive but worth it and a little goes a looooong way. I tried going back to $6 shampoo and I just. Couldn't deal lmao.

[scifiseries]

Riding in a comfy chair and viewing a city of the future: General Motors Futurama exhibit at the World's Fair in Queens, New York, 1939

[orchidblack]

Norman Bel Geddes' Futurama exhibition at the New York World's Fair (1939)

[nicklloydnow]

“Road safety films point to a specific shift in representations of the highway starting in the 1950s and 60s: from Jackson’s odological approach, concerned primarily with the efficient organization of space, to what Paul Virilio calls “dromology,” the science of speed. If odology is about the tension between centripetal and centrifugal highways—between roads that navigated the local landscape and those that created a powerful network that constituted “a disregard of local landscape features” (Jackson, Discovering the Vernacular Landscape 23)—dromology is about the complete collapse of space through speed, what Virilio calls “the negation of space” (149). Along with this technologically driven negation of space comes the negation of the human body, so that “[t]o invent the family automobile is to produce the pile-up on the highway”

Road safety films represented a fissure in the early dream of the perfected highway. The 1964-1965 World’s Fair exhibition of the Futurama II had chosen to ignore the movement from odology to dromology, clinging instead to 1939’s original “Futurama” narrative and its insistence on superhighways as a safer infrastructure for drivers. But the new dromology ditched the landscape altogether, instead aligning speed with the immediate satisfaction of consumer desires. Science fiction author J.G. Ballard observes that

. . . the car crash differs from other disasters in that it involves the most powerfully advertised commercial product of this century, an iconic entity that combines the elements of speed, power, dream and freedom within a highly stylized format that defuses any fears we may have of the inherent dangers of these violent and unstable machines.

(…)

Just five years after the end of the second Futurama exhibition, J.G. Ballard penned The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), a dreamlike and fractured representation of the consequences of this new dromology brought about by auto-mobility. Ballard’s narratives present near-future highways as the ultimate death machine, not just for transgressors of the road-safety code, but for everybody. These highways are realized in the nightmarish qualities of an abstract system Ballard called “Autogeddon.” In The Atrocity Exhibition, the highway is refigured as a network of sex and death. No longer able to retain its appeal as a glorious vision of a streamlined future, the highway has become, by 1970, a gruesome expression of the contradictions inherent in the fetishization of “violent and unstable machines.” The Atrocity Exhibition describes a dromological world in which human existence is experienced as an extended moment: a car crash that never ends but endlessly repeats. In what is perhaps an inevitable culmination of humankind’s adaptation to speed, people and highways are no longer distinguishable: in Ballard’s Autogeddon, the highway has taken on the properties of a biological body—not just the arterial metaphor, but the “skeleton” of the road itself:

Waking: the concrete embankment of a motorway extension. Roadworks, cars drumming two hundred yards below. In the sunlight the seams between the sections are illuminated like the sutures of an exposed skull.

The book iterates through road accidents, dismemberments, and cut-up women’s bodies to create a crash future with distinctly filmic qualities: “Sequence in slow motion: a landscape of highways and embankments, evening light of fading concrete, intercut with images of a young woman’s body” (72). Aside from the troubling gender implications, Ballard’s Autogeddon offers a disturbing vision of a near-future in which human bodies and machines are inextricably connected by the vertiginous speed of the automobile.

(…)

In a novel where space and time are conquered by dromology, the car is secondary to the space in which it exists: the highway system itself. In fact, Ballard suggests, “[t]he ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible” (98). On the highways time stops: “Looking around, I had the impression that all the cars on the highway were stationary, the spinning earth racing beneath them to create an illusion of movement” (196). In this transformation of the highway into a flattened moment out of time, Ballard creates a stylized tableau owing much to the deco-perfect diorama of Geddes’ Futurama.

In Crash he characterizes the architecture of the highway as a kind of perfect mesh of nature and machine: “Along the elegant motion sculpture of the concrete highway the coloured carapaces of the thousands of cars moved like the welcoming centaurs of some Arcadian land” (166). This scene, calling to mind the tiny colored cars racing through Futurama’s idyllic country landscape, is populated with cars reveling in pure speed with an animal-like innocence: “The marker-lines diving and turning formed a maze of white snakes, writhing as they carried the wheels of the cars crossing their backs, as delighted as dolphins” (196).

(…)

The association of sexual desire and automobiles was not new. As early as 1951, Marshall McLuhan had noted that a component of postwar responses to machines reflected an “interfusion of sex and technology” in advertising that went beyond the simple use of attractive women to sell cars (94). On the one hand, women were paraded and displayed with cars in such a way that a car became like a beautiful woman, with its soft interiors and desirable status markers. But, McLuhan argued, cars also stood in for a deeper desire to form an intimate connection with the machines themselves, a desire to become part of the mechanism of modern technology:

It is not a feature created by the ad men, but it seems rather to be born of a hungry curiosity to explore and enlarge the domain of sex by mechanical technique, on one hand, and, on the other, to possess machines in a sexually gratifying way. (The Mechanical Bride 94)

(…)

But the collapsed space of the car crash intrudes on this dream of the perfect machine. McLuhan notes that the fusion of sex and technology that constitutes the mechanical bride is surrounded by “images of hectic speed, mayhem, violence, and sudden death” (98). The irony of desiring to plug into a machine is that desire is not satisfied, but merely displaced:

. . . for those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes torture, suicide, or murder. (100)

In The Mechanical Bride McLuhan shows that there is a kind of inherent violence in the technological visualization/objectification of a woman’s body, both in our everyday lives and in the less overt but still overwhelmingly present sexist conventions of television and billboard advertising. But in Crash, we find this violence made literal. The victims are women who are physically cut up in automobile accidents in the same way that they are metaphorically cut up in photography and Western art more generally: carefully cropped images of parts of hands, skin, face, leg, or arm. Seagrave, the stunt-driver, fondly imagines film stars being “forced to crash their own stunt-cars” (103), starting with the film star Elizabeth Taylor, about whom he comments gleefully, “I can see those big tits cut up on the dash” (95).

(…)

Perhaps, though, Ballard’s novels are better thought of as a response to the impulses so clearly laid out by McLuhan’s The Mechanical Bride: a world in which cultural narratives are driven by human adaptation to the modern machine and not the other way around. Rather than existing on an axis between moralism and aestheticism, or as examples of “guerilla interventions,” Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition point out the ways in which the very creation of auto-mobility, the infrastructure of car culture itself, creates violence against the human body, echoing Virilio’s claim that “to invent the family automobile is to invent the pile-up on the freeway.” Indeed, recurring images of children, such as Patty, broken by car wrecks suggest a “family dimension” absent in Ballard’s gruesome technological landscapes.”

[timetravellersguide]

Timely Notice:

The management office wants to clarify that Agent X’s ghostly, nearly transparent 1940 Pontiac touring sedan is definitely NOT the famously missing Ghost Pontiac.

Absolutely not. Definitely not the Ghost.

Definitely a different car. Besides, Agent X’s Pontiac has glowing Neothane tires, and the missing vehicle’s tires are white.

Now, management would appreciate it if we could all stop calling the police to report the rediscovery of a long lost auto icon.

These reports are unsubstantiated and hurtful. So hurtful, in fact, that every time the cops show up Agent X has to abruptly leave work for a mental health day.

We will just have get comfortable with the fact that, while the breathtaking 1940 Ghost Pontiac may never be found, it is surely in the hands of someone who loves it. Maybe even someone who tenderly washes it with ammonia-free cleaner in the Time Agency parking lot every Friday afternoon. Maybe.

V/r,

Agent Kay

[mizenkay]

In the year 2024, tourists visit the underwater Hotel Atlantis, as seen in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

@HumanoidHistory

[dankusner]

Haas Brothers: Moonlight May 11, 2024 - August 25, 2024 | Exhibition

The Haas Brothers, fraternal twins who launched a collaborative practice in 2010, create playful environments populated with fantastical flora and fauna.

Imbued with curiosity, humor, and passion for nature, their furniture, objects, and, most recently, large-scale sculptural installations awaken our imaginations and transport us to another fertile, fanciful, and futuristic world. 

Haas Brothers: Moonlight is presented across three spaces inside and outside the Nasher Sculpture Center, with whimsical and powerful installations that highlight the artists’ distinctive fusion of art, design, and technology. In front of the museum, two Moon Towers—inspired by the iconic streetlamps the brothers remember from their childhood in Austin, Texas—greet visitors from the sidewalk.

The tall, glowing sculptures function as streetlamps, recalling both the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí’s organic architecture and the French designer Hector Guimard’s sinuous art nouveau forms.  

The Moon Towers create a visual connection to a majestic cast-bronze tree in the Nasher’s Public Gallery, visible inside and from the street-facing window.

With a cast-bronze patinated trunk and hand-beaded leaves and limbs laden with illuminated blown glass strawberries, The Strawberry Tree (2023) evokes a moonlit garden. Visitors are invited to enjoy this serene garden of far-from-earthly delights. 

In the sculpture garden, an eight-foot-tall Emergent Zoid from one of the artists’ newest bodies of work will join sculptures from the Nasher’s permanent collection.

The Emergent Zoids are a series of curvaceous sculptures made through an ingenious combination of computation and craft. Using 3D computer graphics software, the Haas Brothers created simulated shapes reminiscent of one of their favorite childhood toys, the Wooden Wiggly Snake, and choreographed their movements digitally.

The brothers call the shapes Zoids, in homage to Dr. Zoidberg, a central character in Matt Groening’s animated television series “Futurama.”

Computer simulations will be shown in the Entrance Gallery, showing the biomorphic shapes writhe, wriggle, undulate, and intertwine, in infinite permutations of the initial form.  

The Nasher Sculpture Center's 2024 exhibitions are made possible by leading support from Frost Bank. 

Haas Brothers: Moonlight is made possible by leading support from Melanie and Alvaro Leal. Generous support is provided by Citizens of Humanity, the Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District (DTPID), Jennifer and John Eagle, Nancy C. and Richard R. Rogers, and Cindy and Howard Rachofsky. Additional support is provided by Jenny and Richard Mullen. 

[humanoidhistory]

Antarctic research station in the year 2024, imagined in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964.

[playypause]

A city of the future offers a dazzling finale to the Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair.

[brookston]

Holidays 4.20

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Post Office Day (Japan)

Radium Day

Robanukah begins (Futurama)

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Sumardagurinn First (1st Day of Summer; Iceland)

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Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day

3rd Saturday in April

California Poppy Festival begins [3rd Saturday]

Hardware Freedom Day [3rd Saturday]

Husband Appreciation Day [3rd Saturday]

International Reconciliation Day [3rd Saturday]

National Auctioneers Day [3rd Saturday]

Record Store Day [3rd Saturday]

World Circus Day [3rd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 20 (3rd Week)

International Wildlife Film Week [thru 4.25]

National Park Week [thru 4.28]

National Stop Snoring Week [thru 4.26]

Independence & Related Days

Arlandia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Arnerea (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Flammancia (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Morland (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

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West Korea (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

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Festivals Beginning April 20, 2024

Arkansas State Chili Championships (Eureka Springs, Arkansas)

BBQ & Blues Festival (Barnesville, Georgia)

Blacksburg Fork and Cork (Blacksburg, Virginia)

Blessing of Sonoita Vineyards (Elgin, Arizona)

Bluebird Music Festival (Boulder, Colorado)

Butter & Egg Days (Petaluma, California)

California Nut Festival (Chico, California)

Catersville BBQ & Brews Festival (Catersville, Georgia)

Columbus International Film & Animation Festival (Columbus, Ohio) [thru 4.21]

Connecticut Craft Beer Fest (Hartford, Connecticut)

Crawfish Cook-Off (Slidell, Louisiana)

Dessert Wars (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

East Coast She Crap Soup Classic (Virigina Beach, Virginia)

East Maui Taro Festival (Maui, Hawaii)

Ferguson Brewing 14th Anniversary Beer Festival (Ferguson, Missouri)

Fort Pierce Oyster Festival (Fort Pierce, Florida)

Glens Falls Briefest (Glens Falls, New York)

Great Plains Renaissance & Scottish Festival (Wichita, Kansas) [thru 4.21]

High Water Festival (North Charleston, South Carolina) [thru 4.21]

Massachusetts Craft Brewers Festival (Boston, Massachusetts)

Mile High 420 Festival (Denver, Colorado)

Moors and Christians of Alcoy Festival (Alcoy, Spain) [thru 4.22]

Pennsylvania Maple Festival (Meyersdale, Pennsylvania) [thru 4.21 & 4.24-28]

Ramp Festival (Sherman, Connecticut)

Scallop Festival in Brittany (Paimpol, France) [thru 4.21]

Schram Haus’ Goast Fest (Chaska, Minnesota)

Shad Fest (New Hope/Lambertville, New Jersey)

Stuttgart Spring Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) [thru 5.12]

SweetWater 420 Fest (Atlanta, Georgia) [thru 4.21]

Venice Art Biennale (Venice, Italy) [thru 11.24]

Weifang International Kite Festival (Weifang, China) [thru 4.22]

West End Beer Fest (Spokane, Washington)

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World Class Crab Races & Crab Feed (Westport, Washington)

World’s Biggest Fish Fry (Paris, Tennessee)

Feast Days

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Daniel Chester French (Artology)

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Artology)

Frontinus (Positivist; Saint)

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Intergalactic Alien Solidarity Day (Pastafarian)

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Marcellinus of Gaul (a.k.a. Embrun; Christian; Saint)

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Ridván begins (until May 2; Bahá'í)

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Fortunate Day (Pagan) [16 of 53]

Historically Bad Day (Hitler born, Columbine massacre, Deepwater Horizon explosion & 7 other tragedies) [2 of 11]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Hitler's birthday. Plus, everyone's high.)

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [22 of 60]

Premieres

African Diary (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Aggretsuko (Anime TV Series; 2018)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Song; 1967)

American Idiot (Broadway Musical; 2010)

Annie Hall (Film; 1977)

The Barnyard Five (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

Boyhood Daze (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Buccaneer Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)

Buddy in Africa (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)

Charming (Animated Film; 2018)

The Company of Women, by Mary Gordon (Novel; 1981)

Dawn of the Dead (Film; 1979)

The Diplomat (TV Series; 2023)

Disappointment, of the Force of Credulity, by Samuel Adler (Comic Ballad Opera; 1762) [1st American Opera; Performance canceled at last minute; wasn’t performed until 1976]

Duck Duck Goose (Animated Film; 2018)

Dummy (TV Series; 2020)

El Capitan, by John Philip Sousa (March; 1896)

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, recorded by Judy Garland (Song; 1944)

Hot Fuzz (Film; 2007)

Jazz Samba, by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (Album; 1962)

Jumping’ Jack Flash, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1968)

Just a Clown (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle (Novel; 1968)

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)

Make Mine Music (Animated Disney Film; 1946)

The Man Who Lived Underground, by Richard Wright (Novel; 1942)

Mexican Cat Dance (WB LT Cartoon; 1963)

Miami Blues (Film; 1990)

My Boy Jack (Film; 2007)

Panhandle Scandal (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1959)

Puppy Love, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1959)

A Rainy Day (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton (Novel; 1992)

The Robber Kitten (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1935)

Roman Punch (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Salem (TV Series; 2014)

The Spirit of St. Louis (Film; 1957)

Sunny South (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

Thrill of Fair (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1951)

The Velveteen Rabbit (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1985)

When It’s Sleepy Time Down South, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1931)

Today’s Name Days

Hildegund, Odetta, Wilhelm (Austria)

Berta, Loen, Marta (Croatia)

Marcela (Czech Republic)

Sulpicius (Denmark)

Orvi, Urbe, Urva, Urve, Urvi (Estonia)

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Teotim (Romania)

Marcel (Slovakia)

Inés (Spain)

Amalia, Amelie (Sweden)

Svyatoslav, Svyatoslava (Ukraine)

Ramsey, Rosco, Roscoe, Ross (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 111 of 2024; 255 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 12 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 12 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 11 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 21 Cyan; Sevenday [20 of 30]

Julian: 7 April 2024

Moon: 90%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Archimedes (4th Month) [Plutarch]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 33 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Taurus (The Bull) begins [Zodiac Sign 2; thru 5.20]

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 4.20

Holidays

Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten What It Was Day

Chinese Language Day (UN)

Columbine Anniversary Day

Cuckoo Day (Medieval Europe)

Daffodil King Day

Day of Shame (Elder Scrolls)

Deepwater Horizon Anniversary Day

Doge Day

Dushanbe Day (Tajikistan)s

Environment Day (Ukraine)

420 [April 20] (a.k.a. ... 

Cannabis Culture Day

Four-Twenty

International Cannabis Day

Global CRSwNP Awareness Day

Go Around Humming "You Light Up My Life" Until Everybody Screams Day

Grain Rains Day (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Indian Day (Brazil)

International Cli-Fi Day (a.k.a. Climate Fiction Day)

International Peter Tosh Day

Jose de Diego’s Birthday (Puerto Rico)

Justice Authorities Employees Day (Tajikistan)

Knife Day (French Republic)s

Look Alike Day

L. Ron Hubbard Exhibition Day (Scientology)

National Administrative Professional Day

National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day

National Canadian Film Day (Canada)

National Consumer Day (Indonesia)

National Day of Action Against Gun Violence in Schools

National Death Doula Day

National Donor Day (Russia)

National Erection Day (South Africa)

National Foot Job Day

National Goal Buddies Day

National Oil Price Day

National Pot Smoking Day

National Seaweed Day

National Squat Day

National Stop Snoring Day

National Weed Day

Palindrome Day

Pastele Blajinilor (Memory/Parents’ Day; Moldova)

Post Office Day (Japan)

Radium Day

Robanukah begins (Futurama)

Rose Day (French Republic)

Sumardagurinn First (1st Day of Summer; Iceland)

Sylvester the Cat Day

Take a Break to Rest Your Mind Day

Volunteer Recognition Day

World Animal Vaccination Day

World Armwrestling Day

World Durood Day

World Orphans Day

Zipper Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Milk Tea Dumpling Day

Lima Bean Respect Day

National Cheddar Fries Day

National Cold Brew Day

National Cold IPA Day

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day

3rd Saturday in April

California Poppy Festival begins [3rd Saturday]

Hardware Freedom Day [3rd Saturday]

Husband Appreciation Day [3rd Saturday]

International Reconciliation Day [3rd Saturday]

National Auctioneers Day [3rd Saturday]

Record Store Day [3rd Saturday]

World Circus Day [3rd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 20 (3rd Week)

International Wildlife Film Week [thru 4.25]

National Park Week [thru 4.28]

National Stop Snoring Week [thru 4.26]

Independence & Related Days

Arlandia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Arnerea (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Flammancia (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Morland (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Rome (Founded by Romulus & Remus; 735 BCE; 3961 Julian Period; 4th Year of 6th Olympiad)

West Korea (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

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Festivals Beginning April 20, 2024

Arkansas State Chili Championships (Eureka Springs, Arkansas)

BBQ & Blues Festival (Barnesville, Georgia)

Blacksburg Fork and Cork (Blacksburg, Virginia)

Blessing of Sonoita Vineyards (Elgin, Arizona)

Bluebird Music Festival (Boulder, Colorado)

Butter & Egg Days (Petaluma, California)

California Nut Festival (Chico, California)

Catersville BBQ & Brews Festival (Catersville, Georgia)

Columbus International Film & Animation Festival (Columbus, Ohio) [thru 4.21]

Connecticut Craft Beer Fest (Hartford, Connecticut)

Crawfish Cook-Off (Slidell, Louisiana)

Dessert Wars (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

East Coast She Crap Soup Classic (Virigina Beach, Virginia)

East Maui Taro Festival (Maui, Hawaii)

Ferguson Brewing 14th Anniversary Beer Festival (Ferguson, Missouri)

Fort Pierce Oyster Festival (Fort Pierce, Florida)

Glens Falls Briefest (Glens Falls, New York)

Great Plains Renaissance & Scottish Festival (Wichita, Kansas) [thru 4.21]

High Water Festival (North Charleston, South Carolina) [thru 4.21]

Massachusetts Craft Brewers Festival (Boston, Massachusetts)

Mile High 420 Festival (Denver, Colorado)

Moors and Christians of Alcoy Festival (Alcoy, Spain) [thru 4.22]

Pennsylvania Maple Festival (Meyersdale, Pennsylvania) [thru 4.21 & 4.24-28]

Ramp Festival (Sherman, Connecticut)

Scallop Festival in Brittany (Paimpol, France) [thru 4.21]

Schram Haus’ Goast Fest (Chaska, Minnesota)

Shad Fest (New Hope/Lambertville, New Jersey)

Stuttgart Spring Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) [thru 5.12]

SweetWater 420 Fest (Atlanta, Georgia) [thru 4.21]

Venice Art Biennale (Venice, Italy) [thru 11.24]

Weifang International Kite Festival (Weifang, China) [thru 4.22]

West End Beer Fest (Spokane, Washington)

Wine & Food Festival (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Wine Stroll (Westminster, Maryland)

World Class Crab Races & Crab Feed (Westport, Washington)

World’s Biggest Fish Fry (Paris, Tennessee)

Feast Days

Afanc Day (Giant Beaver; Celtic Book of Days)

Agnes of Monte Pulciano (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Anicetus, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten What It Was (Shamanism)

Beuno (Christian; Saint)

Blodeuedd Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Caedwalla of Wales (Christian; Saint)

Daniel Chester French (Artology)

Eastre (Teutonic Goddess of Spring)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Artology)

Frontinus (Positivist; Saint)

Gabriel of Bialystok (Orthodox Christian; Poland)

Hildegund (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Hugh of Anzy le Duc (Christian; Saint)

Intergalactic Alien Solidarity Day (Pastafarian)

James of Sclavonia (Christian; Saint)

Joan Miró (Artology)

Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran)

Marcellinus of Gaul (a.k.a. Embrun; Christian; Saint)

Marcian (a.k.a. Marian; Christian; Saint)

Oda of Brabant (Christian; Blessed)

Odilon Redon (Artology)

Peter S. Beagle (Writerism)

R. Bud Dwyer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Ridván begins (until May 2; Bahá'í)

Sebastian Faulks (Writerism)

Serf or Servanus of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Theotimos (Christian; Saint)

Tuktuki (Muppetism)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Shabbat HaGadol [12 Nisan]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 8 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [8 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [16 of 53]

Historically Bad Day (Hitler born, Columbine massacre, Deepwater Horizon explosion & 7 other tragedies) [2 of 11]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Hitler's birthday. Plus, everyone's high.)

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [22 of 60]

Premieres

African Diary (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Aggretsuko (Anime TV Series; 2018)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Song; 1967)

American Idiot (Broadway Musical; 2010)

Annie Hall (Film; 1977)

The Barnyard Five (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

Boyhood Daze (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Buccaneer Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)

Buddy in Africa (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)

Charming (Animated Film; 2018)

The Company of Women, by Mary Gordon (Novel; 1981)

Dawn of the Dead (Film; 1979)

The Diplomat (TV Series; 2023)

Disappointment, of the Force of Credulity, by Samuel Adler (Comic Ballad Opera; 1762) [1st American Opera; Performance canceled at last minute; wasn’t performed until 1976]

Duck Duck Goose (Animated Film; 2018)

Dummy (TV Series; 2020)

El Capitan, by John Philip Sousa (March; 1896)

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, recorded by Judy Garland (Song; 1944)

Hot Fuzz (Film; 2007)

Jazz Samba, by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (Album; 1962)

Jumping’ Jack Flash, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1968)

Just a Clown (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle (Novel; 1968)

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)

Make Mine Music (Animated Disney Film; 1946)

The Man Who Lived Underground, by Richard Wright (Novel; 1942)

Mexican Cat Dance (WB LT Cartoon; 1963)

Miami Blues (Film; 1990)

My Boy Jack (Film; 2007)

Panhandle Scandal (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1959)

Puppy Love, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1959)

A Rainy Day (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton (Novel; 1992)

The Robber Kitten (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1935)

Roman Punch (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Salem (TV Series; 2014)

The Spirit of St. Louis (Film; 1957)

Sunny South (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

Thrill of Fair (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1951)

The Velveteen Rabbit (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1985)

When It’s Sleepy Time Down South, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1931)

Today’s Name Days

Hildegund, Odetta, Wilhelm (Austria)

Berta, Loen, Marta (Croatia)

Marcela (Czech Republic)

Sulpicius (Denmark)

Orvi, Urbe, Urva, Urve, Urvi (Estonia)

Lauha, Neela, Nella (Finland)

Odette, Théotime (France)

Hildegund, Odetta (Germany)

Zakhaios (Greece)

Tivadar (Hungary)

Adalgisa (Italy)

Amula, Armands, Mirta, Ziedīte (Latvia)

Agnė, Eisvydė, Gostautas, Marcijonas (Lithuania)

Kjellaug, Kjellrun (Norway)

Agnieszka, Amalia, Czech, Czechasz, Czechoń, Czesław, Florencjusz, Florenty, Nawoj, Sulpicjusz, Szymon, Teodor (Poland)

Teotim (Romania)

Marcel (Slovakia)

Inés (Spain)

Amalia, Amelie (Sweden)

Svyatoslav, Svyatoslava (Ukraine)

Ramsey, Rosco, Roscoe, Ross (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 111 of 2024; 255 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 12 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 12 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 11 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 21 Cyan; Sevenday [20 of 30]

Julian: 7 April 2024

Moon: 90%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Archimedes (4th Month) [Plutarch]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 33 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Taurus (The Bull) begins [Zodiac Sign 2; thru 5.20]