Media credits
Image and film credits
Homepage film
The homepage film is AI-generated, not archival footage. Five stills were made with OpenAI gpt-image-2, animated with Google Veo 3.1 image-to-video, then graded and stitched in ffmpeg (32.5 seconds, silent). It is an artistic interpretation of the period and depicts no real people.
Photographs
Images under CC BY-SA are shared under the same license as the originals. Photographs were resized and converted to WebP; some are cropped or color-toned in page layouts.
AI illustrations
 | A 1940s bus on a desert highway at dusk | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | A palm-ringed desert lake at blue hour | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | A mid-century radio studio, microphone lit | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | The resort’s cross of small mineral baths | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | Two sedans at a desert gate at dawn | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | Patent-medicine tins and bottles on a shelf | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | A kitchen radio glowing at night | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | A palm-lined resort boulevard | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | A long resort dining hall set for guests | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | A 1970s federal courtroom | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
 | Small fish in clear spring water among reeds | AI-generated (OpenAI gpt-image-2), Taciturn Studios LLC |
Other
- Book cover © Taciturn Studios LLC.
- Fonts: Fraunces and Barlow Condensed, SIL Open Font License.
- Map: Leaflet with © OpenStreetMap contributors.