Browsing Boing Boing Video Notes

maddow.jpgRachel Maddow did a segment on her always-superb show tonight about Ralph Lauren's recent bogus legal threats against various blogs -- including this one. Those DMCAs sent by lawyers for Lauren demanded the removal of a badly photoshopped ad which morphed a model into a lollipop-headed stick figure. The Rachel Maddow Show segment is embedded above, and is also here: Photoshop of Horrors.

P.S.: And here's Rob on ABC's Nightline. No embed, unfortunately!

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Richard Metzger writes:

When Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin and I interviewed Throbbing Gristle in Los Angeles, during the sound-check we were talking to Charlie Poulet, TG’s brilliant sound engineer. There was an insanely trippy song coming over the PA system and I asked him what it was. “Oh, THAT. That is a Buddha Machine—ever hear of one?”

A Buddha Machine is a little plastic box that resembles a cheap transistor radio. It has a built-in speaker and runs continuous tape loops of chanting or soothing, natural, trippy, etc, sounds. They are hipster remakes of the Tibetan prayer loop boxes (they’re ubiquitous all over China) and are manufactured by a company called FM3.

Charlie was running several of them at once to create the amazing sound-scape going on in the background as we spoke. A little while later, Chris Carter hinted that soon TG would be announcing a “special musical project” that involved no CD or MP3s whatsoever. I suspected at the time he was hazily describing something similar to a Buddha Machine. TG-stylee and I was right. Check it out!

Metzger has details here on Dangerous Minds. You can order your very own GRISTLEISM here.

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(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Jesse Thorn: I'm so disappointed that they left this crazy Russian sailor version of "Let It Be" off that Beatles box set. Link
  • Richard Metzger: It's good to see that Papa John Phillips didn't fuck up all his kids! Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Apparently Tracy Morgan was "the invisible fourth Tony! Toni! Tone!, also called Tony." Link
  • Richard Metzger: Margaret Thatcher Calls the House of Lords, genius funny Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Finally, someone is standing up for the real heroes in the health care reform debate: insurance companies. Link
  • Richard Metzger: Meet Kent French, champion hand clapper! Link
  • Sean Bonner: 28 Days Later reenacted in one minute Link (via @rudy)
  • Jesse Thorn: The Godfather of Soul ripping it up on Letterman in 1982. Link
  • Richard Metzger: Alan Arkin apeshit on Muppet Show Link
  • Sean Bonner: To Live and Ride in LA (on bikes!) Link
  • Richard Metzger: Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day out today in Canada (this and they get free healthcare, too?) Link
  • Richard Metzger: Star Maidens (1975) The security guards wear go-go boots and mini-skirts Link
  • Richard Metzger: Sarah Palin's Running Mate in 2012? The Skoal Rebel think Obama should be impeached! Link (warning: includes generous use of the n-word.)

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Buy Coilhouse #3 right here. We're big fans of Coilhouse Magazine over here at Boing Boing, so it was a special honor and delight when the gothtastically beautiful ladies who run the publication told us they were planning a feature on me/BB. I swear I'm not just vanity-blogging here -- this whole issue is awesome, and the insane illustrations by Stuntkid (aka Norfolk, VA-based artist Jason Levesque), including the unicorny one above, are the coolest ever. I love his work!

300.jpgThe physical thing itself is gorgeous: rich colors, lush print quality, embossed glossy cover, beveled corners. The articles are wonderful stuff, and the same sort of material we'd cover here on any given blog-day: a photo-essay on the "pirate ghetto," Walled City of Kowloon; an avatar fashion spread shot by Gustavo Lopez MaƱas (this is the cover shot), Marina Bychkova's creepy ball-jointed porcelain dolls, and an interview with Battlestar Galactica's conceptual captain Ron Moore. There's lots more.

I know the Coilhouse folks have been struggling of late to keep putting out such a high-quality, densely-packed publication in this crappy economy. Y'know how, some magazines, you buy 'em, then toss 'em right when you're done reading them -- but others, you stick on your bookshelf and keep 'em forever? Coilhouse is a keeper. They're doing amazing work in the true Boing Boing spirit of Happy Mutantry, and I hope you'll support them by buying a copy (or a t-shirt!) today.

* Link to Coilhouse issue #03 preview
* Flickr set with details of Stuntkid's illustrations.

(Special thanks to photographer Clayton Cubitt, whose work appears in the aforementioned feature; to Courtney Riot, who did the graphic design on this issue, and to Nadya Lev, Meredith Yayanos, and Zoetica, the co-editrix trifecta behind Coilhouse.)

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Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

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Boing Boing fan art video

Strangpork sez, "Boing Boing fan art created with Quartz Composer, using appropriate iconography." Nice work! Love the repurposed Boing Boing video art!

Boing Boing Iconography / Plaid TV (Thanks, Strangpork!)

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(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Sean Bonner: This might be the most important video you will ever watch in your life: Link
  • Xeni Jardin: Police And Thieves / in the street / fightin' the nation with the / guns and ammunition Link
  • Richard Metzger: Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was Link
  • Andrea James: Would-be meal jumps up and headbutts lion half a dozen times: Link
  • Xeni Jardin: "Simulation of a typhoon, to be experienced individually on a chair in the centre of the storm." Link (via @EthanZ)
  • Richard Metzger: Funkadelic performing "I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody Got a Thing" on TV in 1970 Link
  • Andrea James: Carla U. Kelly's astonishing intaglio egg carving of Thumbelina: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Trippy NEW video of William Shatner doing Lucy in the Sky w Diamonds Link
  • Sean Bonner: Glenn Beck: 1964 - 2009 Link Goodnight sweet prince
  • Richard Metzger: Unheard 70s punk band, KONGRESS w/ video Trust me, it's WEIRD Link

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(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Andrea James: "Ave Maria" soloist on musical saw: Link
  • Richard Metzger: The Beatles do their own special version of The Barber of Seville (1965) Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Thomas Haden Church failed to heed the warnings: never follow Norm MacDonald on a late-night talk show. Link
  • Richard Metzger: The Soul Rock Sound of PP Arnold Link
  • Richard Metzger: Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner: The 2000 Year Old Man on video! Link
  • Xeni Jardin: RT @ericwareheim: new video from The Bird and the Bee "Diamond Dave" Link
  • Xeni Jardin: Anyone who can deliver an *11 minute* monologue on "fevah," donuts, divas + bitches is a true performer. Link
  • Sean Bonner: God bless Terry Techno, he can find anything to rave to Link
  • Richard Metzger: You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to figure this one out!! Link

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(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)


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(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Jesse Thorn: Patton Oswalt does some great material from his new comedy album on Letterman. Link
  • Sean Bonner: Yokai and Yurei on NHK part 1 - Link
  • Jesse Thorn: New York Public TV of the 1970s: "Soul!" featuring Earth Wind & Fire, Ron Carter, Max Roach & more... Link
  • Richard Metzger: Sesso Matto: Greatest Seventies Italian Sex Comedy Soundtrack of All? Link
  • Jesse Thorn: A few beautiful videos of the Chicago (and Detroit) partner dance style known as "Steppin'" Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Albert Brooks presents "Comedy School" (via @lonelysandwich): Link
  • Andrea James: "Flowers" by Emilie Simon: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Uninsured US Citizen Posts Video About Health Care on Sarah Palin's FB Page Link
  • Andrea James: Boing Boing cultural exchange. Brazil's Sabrina Boing Boing primarily covers Silicone Valley: Link
  • Andrea James: 'American Psycho' meets Talking Heads. Miles Fisher covers "This Must Be The Place": Link
  • Andrea James: You know you're culturally significant when... 30 Rock, the porno (some language, no n00dz): Link
  • Richard Metzger: Sex Crazy Cop Link
  • Xeni Jardin: The Porpoise Driven Life. Link (thanks, Mark Kleiman)

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(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Xeni Jardin: LOL-larious: French metaprankster RemĆ­ Gaillard. Astronaut on golf course. Link + nimportequi.com (via my old pal Doug Dobey)
  • Andrea James: It's loose, it's angry, and it's getting hungry. God help us. (thx RobSchrab) 1982 trailer for Humongous: Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Timmy from The Whitest Kids U Know just eats too many hot dogs. That's all there is to it. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Fred Armisen needs an "Intervention" intervention. Link
  • Xeni Jardin: Graduates of Bob Fossil's Dance Academy perform Mod Wolves dance: Link (#mightyboosh via @mightybooshDVD)
  • Sean Bonner: Just try to tell me this giant water slide jump isn't your dream come true - Link (via @shamalman)
  • Sean Bonner: RT @Agent_M: Goat that sounds like a dude yelling! My insides hurt from laughing so hard. YES! Link
  • Richard Metzger: Photograph of Jesus Link
  • Andrea James: DMCA travesty! "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in RIP Tribute to WWE Wrestlers replaced with "weird" version: Link
  • Sean Bonner: Top 10 cutest cat moments Link

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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Richard Metzger: Learn Jamaican Patois w/ Dr Seuss! Link
  • Sean Bonner: Shane MacGowen, drunk. (Pretty sure this is Popes era, not Pogues) Link
  • Sean Bonner: Footage from The ZEROS from 1977, w/ a discussion about what "punk rock" is at the end. Link
  • Sean Bonner: More attack cats. This time from 1977! Link
  • Sean Bonner: Once again, it's time for "how long can you watch this without eating a bullet?" Link #jesus
  • Xeni Jardin: ACLU: Demand that the Attorney General appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate those who committed and authorized torture:Link
  • Sean Bonner: This is the toughest cat in the world. Watch it kick this rottweiler's ass. Link
  • Xeni Jardin: via Bruce "@bruces" Sterling: "Roomba with a Taser opens a can o' whoop-ass." Link
  • Xeni Jardin: RT @Glinner: Dolphin wedding YOU'RE WELCOME! Link
  • Xeni Jardin: "Sunbeam," Paul Vester's 1980 homage to early cel animation Link (via @tubatron)
  • Sean Bonner: Mental Exam for Man Accused of Sex with Horse Link
  • Andrea James: Impressive morsing player (India's version of the lamellophone or mouth harp): Link

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Boing Boing and Boing Boing Video are partnering with Institute for the Future and Sun to support the Digital Open, in which youth around the world are invited to submit technology projects "that will change the world--or even just make life a little easier or more fun."

The final deadline for submissions is August 15, 2009, but projects posted before the deadline will benefit significantly from feedback from the Digital Open community. We are giving away more than $15,000 worth of very cool prizes including laptops, video cameras, recycled billboard backpacks, solar-powered gear and more. We've already received 49 projects from eight countries: Argentina, Canada, India, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, the UK and the US!
More online: digitalopen.org
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The Mighty Boosh, Roxy, July 28 2009

Here's a hastily-uploaded set of video stills from the Boing Boing Video shoot of The Mighty Boosh (Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Dave Brown, Michael Fielding, and Rich Fulcher) performing live at the Roxy on Sunset tonight. We'll be publishing a little mini-documentary about the Boosh's voyage to Hollywood next week, but I thought these quick snaps would be fun to share now. The show was a lot of fun, and all those trufans lined up for blocks, many in character costumes? Pretty amazing to witness. Related, from earlier today: Boing Boing Video shoot notes: The Mighty Boosh

The Mighty Boosh,  Roxy, July 28 2009

The Mighty Boosh, Roxy, July 28 2009

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Boing Boing Video shoot: The Mighty Boosh

A quick set of snaps from today's Boing Boing Video shoot in Hollywood with Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh.

We'll be bringing you the video interview soon, and it includes a spontaneous and very special Boing Boing crimp, courtesy of Messrs. Fielding and Barratt. But it was so much fun, I had to share the personal snaps now.

Our crew for this shoot: the lovely Tara McGinley (above, with me and los del Boosh), the inimitable Richard Metzger, Eric Mittleman, SeƱor Ehrich Blackhound, and Mr. David "Simpsons" Silverman.

Barratt and Fielding are visiting the US to promote the release of all three seasons of their hit BBC show on DVD (their show is also on Adult Swim now, in the asscrack timeslot of 1am on Sundays, which really ought to be corrected). They're playing an intimate gig tonight for some 500 fans at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They are huge huge huge in the UK, and as a friend also said, I hope they find the audience they deserve here in the states. That seems inevitable, though, and well under way.

As I began this blog post, I started typing "I am their biggest fan in the world," but that's demonstrably not true. Let us say this: I am their biggest fan among the subset of fans who are not willing to dress up as Tony Harrison, don Bollo drag, or perform amateur crimping in public. Among the fans who will not attempt these things, yes, I am surely the most ardent.

Noel Fielding's reenactment of Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp" album cover.At left, from the shoot -- as Metzger put it: "Noel Fielding's reenactment of Joe Jackson's 'Look Sharp! ' album cover."

Boing Boing Video snaps: The Mighty Boosh (@ Flickr, mostly shot by Tara, special thanks to S. Weiner, A. Carlson, and @MightyBooshDVD.)

You really ought to buy the DVDs. Just trust me on this one:
* The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Season 1
* The Mighty Boosh: Season 2
* The Mighty Boosh: Season 3

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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Xeni Jardin: Five-year-old singing Folsom "Pwison" Blues. Link "Aren't ya little young to be shooting men in Reno?" asks @maggiekb1.
  • Jesse Thorn: Classic Late Night: Conan helps writer Andy Blitz find a NYC apartment. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Armand Iannucci aka @AIannucci, director of the spectacularly hilarious new film In the Loop, on Charlie Rose. Link
  • Susannah Breslin: Mirrors soothe phantom limb pain: Link
  • Richard Metzger: The Turkey Revolution Will Not Be Televised Link
  • Andrea James: Groovy 1979 news brief and program promos: Link
  • Sean Bonner: I have this Slap Chop remix song stuck in my head. Can't decide if that is a WIN or FAIL Link
  • Sean Bonner: Joy Division as covered by a Caribbean steal drum band: Link
  • Sean Bonner: This may or may not be SFW, it's definitely not safe for people with vision. Drunk tits. Link
  • Sean Bonner: Wu-Tang's Mystery of Chessboxing, in LEGO! Link
  • Sean Bonner: Dogs love jazz. Seriously. Here's proof: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Freaky Manimal dude (is this a sexual thing? I can't tell) Link
  • Richard Metzger: Famous People on Drugs: Dylan vs Lennon Link
  • Jesse Thorn: The great @robcorddry only does hard sci-fi. R-rated trailer for his new project: "Hot Tub Time Machine." Link
  • Susannah Breslin: Lissy Trullie, "Ready for the Floor," Richard Kern: Link
  • Andrea James: It just keeps getting better each year. Ultimate tractor square dancing: Link



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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Richard Metzger: Pink Floyd jammed live on the BBC during Apollo Moon landing! Link
  • Andrea James: Cool total eclipse footage from NHK: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Zany (and very catchy!) space disco from Italy (1980) Link
  • Robin Sloan: Steam-punk stop-motion! I can't believe how much personality these camera parts have: Link (via @shamptonian)
  • Susannah Breslin: Antony and the Johnsons cover Beyonce's "Crazy in Love": Link
  • Andrea James: Dan Meth's visual influences, set to "Ca Plane Pour Moi" by Plastic Bertrand (thx @gwenners): Link
  • Jesse Thorn: The Human Giant and Reno 911 take on "Point Break," the classic Busey/Swayze/Keanu vehicle:Link
  • Sean Bonner: This bird will kick your ass. With karate! Link
  • Richard Metzger: Emotional Japanese Fangirls Shock Harry Potter and Ron Weasley Link #harrypotter
  • Jesse Thorn: Tales of Fraud and Malfeasance in Railroad Hiring Practices. Probably the most important comedy sketch ever. Link
  • Xeni Jardin: Darth MC Hammer + Stormtrooper backup dancers: U Cant Touch This on stage at Disneyworld.Link


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Andrea James: Not everyone was happy 40 years ago. Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon": Link
  • Richard Metzger: Emotional Japanese Fangirls Shock Harry Potter and Ron Weasley Link #harrypotter
  • Jesse Thorn: Tales of Fraud and Malfeasance in Railroad Hiring Practices. Probably the most important comedy sketch ever. Link
  • Andrea James: Before the Civic-Minded Five was the Civic-Minded One: James Norcross, aka Super President! (thx Cal): Link
  • Jesse Thorn: How much do I love this clip of P. Diddy dancing at the Q-Tip show in New York? Very much. Summer fun! Link
  • Richard Metzger: Robot French Disco Pop inspired by Star Wars (1977) Have Daft Punk seen this? Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Cheech & Chong discuss the economy, and then for some reason do a Tron parody of some kind. Brand new! Link
  • Richard Metzger: The Lolita Question: Who was the real Humbert Humbert? Link
  • Richard Metzger: The OFFICIAL video (30 years later) of "88 Lines about 44 Women" by The Nails' Marc Campbell NSFWish Link
  • Jesse Thorn: I've been jamming to Bemba Colora by Celia Cruz & the Fania All Stars for about two weeks. Here's a great vid Link
  • Andrea James: Mr. Tim does a live-looping demo: Link
  • Richard Metzger: John Lennon on Monday Night Football w/ Howard Cosell (1974) Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Buzz Aldrin punches Bart Sibrel, BS conspiracy theorist, in the face. (I don't think it was a sole puncher.) Link


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Xeni Jardin: Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone), David Silverman (Simpsons) other freaks play oompah + squeezebox in H'wd: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Pat Buchanan and Rachel @Maddow Demonstrate Why You and Your Grandpa Will Never Understand Each Other Link
  • Richard Metzger: Is this first public performance of Madonna? Little watched YT clip. Danceteria, NYC Link
  • Richard Metzger: Psychoville: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Link
  • Jesse Thorn: The Whipmaster! Link
  • Jesse Thorn: People on Youtube, singing "Not Gonna Cry" by Mary J. Blige. Link
  • Richard Metzger: Karl-Heinz Stockhausen is not amused Link
  • Jesse Thorn: This is an amazing episode of the amazing/hilarious/nightmarish "Wonder Showzen," called "Ocean." NSFW or you. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Rock and Roll God Andrew WK goes on Fox News, makes a funny face. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: 29 minutes with Ze Frank on The Sound of Young America. Link
  • Andrea James: Tribute to North Carolina's own World's Largest Twins, the McCrary brothers: Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Clip from a new animated series on F/X called "Archer," with Jon Benjamin and Jessica Walter. Looks hilarious. Link
  • Andrea James: Dr. David Gliza confronts Mercedes, a Same Outfit Wearer, on a very special episode of 'Stop It':Link

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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Richard Metzger: Fabulously flamboyant Italian mega-star Renato Zero! Makes Freddie Mercury seem butch! Link
  • Richard Metzger: MJ's hair on fire, the video! Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Comedian Bill Burr is the kind of guy who can't stop poking a sore. But he's fantastic at it. (NSFW-Swearing) Link
  • Andrea James: Buddy Guy lays it out there on "Let Me Love You Baby" circa 1967: Link
  • Jesse Thorn: I love comedian Marc Maron as the Angry Chef making bran muffins. Link
  • Robin Sloan: What fast looks like -- in cars, on trains, through the air! Completely awesome video curation: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Thunderball opening credits with the song Johnny Cash submitted. Link
  • Xeni Jardin: I, for one, welcome our bipedal bunny overlords. Link
  • Richard Metzger: Obscure 80s synthpop duo from Germany channel Tim and Eric Link (via @ericwareheim @timheidecker)
  • Andrea James: Hooping to Suntoucher. Degree of difficulty +1 for hooping in small apartment. Link
  • Andrea James: Earth's Easter eggs: Google Earth hidden images part 2: Link
  • Laughing Squid: "Skipper Dan", the latest animated music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic Link
  • R. Stevens: I rewatch this every few months to check my sanity : Alternate Ducktales Intro : Link


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Richard Metzger: Cheese Zone Link RT @GreatDismal
  • Jesse Thorn: "Buy Me That: A Kid's Survival Guide to TV Advertising", and its weird reverse effect. Link
  • Andrea James: Poisonous platypus part purges predators: Link
  • Jesse Thorn: The future of comedy is Raaaaaaaandy! This dude is about to make you laugh your d**k off. Link
  • Sean Bonner: Hey Ladies! How to pee in public. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Some serious insight on Michael Jackson from @jsmooth995's The Ill Doctrine: Link
  • Jesse Thorn: New Weird Al: "Skipper Dan" about broken dreams. Link
  • Richard Metzger: This lady will make you feel so smart. The Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy Link
  • Richard Metzger: Supervan! Charles Bukowski as 'Wet T-Shirt Contest Water Boy (uncredited)' according to IMDB Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Video recorded by Edison of people on the waterslide at the legendary Sutro Baths in San Francisco in 1897: Link


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)



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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Jesse Thorn: Count Arthur Strong discusses creationism and creation. Amazing insights. Link
  • Richard Metzger: Wonderful selection of Pina Bausch videos on Coilhouse.net Link
  • Sean Bonner: I'm kinda tired today, I think I need some Powerthirst!!! Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Another clip from Armando Iannucci's hilarious new film "In the Loop": ("Warning: contains exotic swearing"): Link
  • Sean Bonner: Live action Spanish language Simpsons. It's every bit as creepy as it sounds. Link
  • Sean Bonner: This is Pickle Surprise. What Pickle Surprise is, I have no idea. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: "In the Loop" comes out in the US in about two weeks. It is one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. Link
  • R. Stevens: I saw a friendly kitty chased by skunks today. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: The full run of Dave Hill's series "The King of Miami" is now available on Hulu: Link
  • Andrea James: Bill Bailey analyzes leitmotifs in 'Starsky & Hutch' incidental music: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Bleeding Billboard in NZ Link
  • Andrea James: Plate spinning with JugglerForJesus, set to an 80s John Carpenter action soundtrack ripoff: Link
  • Susannah Breslin: Auster talks writing: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Todd Rundgren performs 'Hello It's Me' on The Midnight Special 1973 Link
  • Andrea James: Police fursecution caught on video, set to "Horndog" by Overseer: Link


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)




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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Jesse Thorn: Bill Withers performing "Hope She'll Be Happier" at Zaire '74, from the new documentary "Soul Power": Link
  • Sean Bonner: Bad Dog Bad Hog. I dare you to sit through 30 seconds without clawing your eyes out. Link
  • Richard Metzger: I can't explain it, you really just have to see it for yourself Link
  • Richard Metzger: Give this reporter many raises Link
  • Andrea James: Failed fabricated 50s fad: The Duoped Link
  • Sean Bonner: Bert and Ernie go totally BRUTAL!! Link
  • Robin Sloan: Jeff Scher has a new hand-drawn kaleidoscope of a video up at the NYT! He celebrates tiny, subtle moments: Link
  • Jesse Thorn: "You look like a prostitute's sofa." - Zach Galifianakis to Jordan Morris, (pitching a Vegas "Hangover" revue) Link
  • Susannah Breslin: The Prada Transformer is a Rem Koolhaas-designed building that can change its footprint: Link
  • Andrea James: Reagan-era makeovers. 80s bonus: Facts of Life's Mindy Cohn Link (thx Calpernia)
  • Laughing Squid: "Lego Arcade" by Michael Hickox featuring classic arcade games recreated using stop-motion animation of Legos Link
  • Richard Metzger: Eddie Murphy 'Kill the White People' reggae song Link
  • Jesse Thorn: awesome story of a drunk extra on the set of Being John Malcovich. "Hey Malcovich, think fast!"Link
  • Jesse Thorn: Batman: Number One. Very funny short from Eric Truehart. Link
  • Susannah Breslin: A bunch of dudes pretend to play weird instruments: Link
  • Richard Metzger: Old guy dances for Jesus! Hilarious Link


More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com

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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)


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(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)

  • Sean Bonner: The Crazy Frog Brothers doing Axel F. For great justice. Link
  • Andrea James: Ryan (an animation on an animator) Link
  • Xeni Jardin: From the guy who brought you cult film classic THE ROOM, Tommy Wiseau's "The Neighbors." Link (via @bonniegrrl)
  • Richard Metzger: Pink Slip - I won't describe it, but if you dare, it's NSFWish Link RT @toschie
  • Sean Bonner: Today's Grindcore history lesson: Napalm Death Link
  • Xeni Jardin: Hidden MacBookPro feature: it Transformersifies itself into robo-ship + flies away. OK, not rly but watch. Link
  • Sean Bonner: Santa gets blown up by girls in skimpy outfits with big guns. WIN/FAIL you be the judge. Link
  • Jesse Thorn: First episode of Andrew WK's new show Destroy, Build, Destroy! is currently free in iTunes: Link
  • Andrea James: The most fortuitous engineering disaster in history: The Salton Sea Link
  • Sean Bonner: Can I have my own Japanese coffee making robot too? Link
  • Susannah Breslin: Screw the environment. Gay Talese cares about the cut of his cuff. Link
  • Xeni Jardin: Every Zach Galafianakis clip from Tim + Eric, evar: Link (via @ericwareheim, but blocked outside USA)
  • Jesse Thorn: The hilarious Tig Notaro performs a signature bit, "No Moleste": Link
  • Susannah Breslin: Inside the Erotic House [NSFW]: Link
  • Andrea James: Hypnotic time lapse of balloon festival (worth sitting through the :30 ad) Link
  • Richard Metzger: All-female rock group Fanny on Sonny and Cher circa 1971 Link
  • Susannah Breslin: SuperObama has SuperBig ears: Link

  • More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com


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    (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)


    More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com


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    (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)



    More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com

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    (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)


    More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com

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    (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)


    More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com

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    "Day in the Clouds," The Virgin America + Google in-flight internet gaming competition we published a BB Video piece about today, netted yet another honor for multiple world puzzle championship Winner Wei-Hwa Huang. He's shown above, on our flight, using one of the tools of his win: a notebook. Not the notebook computer, a notebook.

    He has an extensive blog post about his experience at the event here, which includes the impossibly awesome phrase "Parallel slave processor friends," used to describe his seat-mates, off whom he bounced thoughts as he sorted out answers.

    My favorite part of his post? The lyrics he wrote as an answer for one of the puzzles. You should read the whole entry, because it's rare to read such a subjective, intimate account of how genius prepares for a competition in his field. But, I have to just blog the song he wrote, here:


    Enjoy the world
    with the day in the cloud
    Never be bored
    and say this aloud:

    Everything is connected
    when you live in the clouds
    Every line is expected
    when you live in the clouds

    Everyone can do it
    no matter your status
    have fun anywhere
    while flying through a stratus!

    Everything is awesome
    when you live in the clouds
    Everything and then some
    can be found in the clouds

    Don't worry so
    about problems in flight,
    Because you know
    Everything's going to be all right!

    Day in the Cloud -- Virgin America Flight 921 (Onigame livejournal; image via Virgin America)

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    I'm very happy to blog that our two-year-old, Webby-honored video project has undergone a web makeover, thanks to the fine design talents of Boing Boing Gadgets' Rob Beschizza. We have a new url shortcut that's a little easier to remember, too: boingboingvideo.com.

    You'll notice a large Flash video embed at the top of the new layout -- yeah! A big fat 962 pixel doublewide, baby! This is what video on the web is all about! And, a number of new video-centric, visually pleasing ways to search through our archives. You can sort by category, too: "animation," "sci-tech," "music video," and so on.

    The new UI is still under development, and we're sorting out some kinks here and there, so feel free to provide feedback in the comments or by email: boingboingvideo@boingboing.net. By way of that email address, we also welcome suggestions on stuff you'd like us to cover in future episodes, content submissions if you've created something yourself, and, (gotta pay the bills, y'all) -- sponsorship inquiries.

    bbvbox.jpg Here's a feature I'm super excited about: We've launched a guest-curated sidebar blog, @BBVBOX, where people whose taste in internet video we dig can tweet short pointers to web clips they like. The team right now: Sean Bonner, Susannah BreslinAndrea JamesRichard Metzger, R. Stevens, Jesse Thorn, Robin Sloan and Laughing Squid, aka Scott Beale. The @BBVBOX archives are here.

    Huge thanks to all who made the makeover possible -- Rob Beschizza, Dean "mustardhamsters" Putney, Joel Johnson, and our tireless and awesome sysadmin Ken Snider, among them! Big thanks also to our hosting and distribution partners, including YouTube, iTunes, Miro, Plex, Boxee, Dotsub (where we'll begin uploading daily videos soon for foreign language subtitling!), and Episodic.com.

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    Kodachrome finally taken away

    sk8.jpgWe all knew it was coming, but it's still sad -- particularly for photographers who loved the medium. Kodak has discontinued the production of Kodachrome film, and Glen E. Friedman, who shot the classic images above and below, laments its death in a blog post right here.
    As far as quality products that mean something to me this one ranks above all else, even Apple.

    This is like losing your favorite paint brush or camera lens or guitar, forever. Their are others, but none will be the same at all.

    Perhaps one day in the future some one will invent a Kodachrome mode in digital photography....

    These photos from Glen, featured in several Boing Boing Video episodes this year, were shot on Kodachrome.

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    UPDATE: Astronaut Scott Parazynski, the astronaut whose climb we followed in yesterday's episode of Boing Boing Video with Miles O'Brien, has reached the summit of Mt. Everest! Read more about their trumphant ascent here, including the GPS devices they're using to track and publish the effort. He tried this last year, but was injured when he was very, very close to reaching the summit -- so this success, a year later, is all the more sweet. Congrats, Scott!

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    Just as we invite guestbloggers to the Boing Boing blog, we periodically welcome guest correspondents to Boing Boing Video, our daily online video program.

    I am thrilled to announce today that we have the honor of welcoming none other than Miles O'Brien, former CNN anchor and reporter, one of the most esteemed space and science journalists on the home planet, as a Boing Boing Video guest contributor.

    Snip from his bio:

    "Miles is a 26-year broadcast news veteran - with nearly 17 years as CNN's science, aerospace, technology and environment correspondent. He is now on his own - based in New York City - covering the same stuff across various media platforms."
    Since departing CNN, Miles has been doing really interesting experiments in online media, including webcasts, features over at True Slant, live-twittering Space Shuttle launches, and other work we hope to showcase here on BB soon.

    I've been watching him explore what is possible in online, independent news venues with the same sense of adventure that captivated me in his space reporting for CNN. The video he's been producing as a solo journalist is wonderful.

    Miles is a personal hero. He's the best there is at what he does. It is with the absolute deepest respect that we welcome him as a guest colleague.

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    Kittens. Look at him there, the one on the left is Phillip. Until now, he was having a whale of a time. Vote for Boing Boing Video (formerly Boing Boing TV) today in the Webby "People's Voice" Awards, or Phillip gets it.

    Yes, that's right, this is shameless self-whoring, taken to the proverbial "whole 'nother level," fueled with the power of kittens. Tomorrow's the last day to vote, so I am not messing around.

    Here is how it works.
    (1) Mouse on over to The Webby People's Voice voting site.
    (2) Click "Online Film & Video."
    (3) You will be prompted to register in order to vote. This is a pain in the ass, but it's part of their system for accurately counting votes.
    (4) Boing Boing Video is nominated here in three Online Film & Video categories: TECHNOLOGY, VARIETY, and BEST HOST.
    (5) Do the right thing, and the cat lives.

    OK, seriously, there are a lot of great video projects nominated in the People's Voice awards this year, and here's the truth: indie web video is hard work, long long hours, tougher than ever in this economy, doesn't pay well, and I see a lot of dedicated, talented colleagues listed there who are also deserving of your votes. People get excited about this stuff because it makes up for all the late nights in dark studios, subsisting on Red Bull and stale Chex Mix, and it's like the whole world giving your project a friendly pat on the back. So, serious voice here, even if you don't vote for Boing Boing Video, vote for one of the indie web video projects you see here -- it's what Phillip would want.

    Previously: Boing Boing Video Nominated for Multiple Webby Awards. Hey, Vote for Us!

    (Special thanks to BB Video hosting partner Episodic, and to everyone at DECA. Thanks for the kitteh pix, R. Stevens.).


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    (Snapshots from the BBV Throbbing Gristle shoot by Chris Cooper).

    Boing Boing Video and Richard Metzger shot an interview with art-damage/industrial music godfathers Throbbing Gristle in Los Angeles. They're on a limited tour of the USA, with a show tonight in San Francisco, and dates scheduled in Chicago and Brooklyn (info on dates, venues, and tickets here).

    The resulting BB Video is yet to come, but I wanted to share some notes, photos, and ephemera from the experience.

    Metzger is a super-mega-otaku fan of TG, and covered their legacy extensively through Disinfo publications and video releases. My knowledge is nowhere near as comprehensive as his (he's even stumped TG members with knowledge of early songs they've forgotten!). But I have been fascinated with them since I was a teenager, when a friend in a punk squat loaned me a beer-stained copy of V. Vale's 1983 RE/Search book about industrial culture.

    When I phoned TG's manager Paul Smith on Monday to ask for permission to shoot for Boing Boing Video, I explained that I believed TG were the cultural ancestors for much of the "mutant" culture we explore here on Boing Boing. Sappy but sincere. Without their early experiments in nihilistic machine song we would not have "industrial music." The projects that split off when TG first disbanded -- Chris And Cosey, Coil, Psychic TV -- only expanded their cultural footprint. Countless acts owe them a huge genetic debt -- everyone from Einsturzende Neubauten to Skinny Puppy to NIN to Aphex Twin to Radiohead to every other act you're likely to type in the comments.

    COUM Transmissions, the experimental performance art collective which preceded Throbbing Gristle, was responsible for legendary shock-events so extreme, they'd make Tubgirl, Goatse, and the Two Girls with One Cup blush.

    The TG show we witnessed (and shot for BBV) this week reflects less of that shock, anger, and taboo-bombing, and was almost entirely instrumental. More moody, doom-y, Faustian. But the physically overwhelming sounds "took the meat off the bones," as Metzger put it. And it was fucking amazing.

    Tuesday night's performance was a reprise of a live, improvised soundtrack TG composed for the 1980 Derek Jarman film In the Shadow of the Sun (you can watch a snip of the original version here).

    "These people are the wreckers of civilisation", said conservative Member of Parliment Nicholas Fairbairn back in 1976. He was talking about Throbbing Gristle. During the BBV interview, we talked about what it's like to go from being "wreckers" of culture to being celebrated as cultural heroes. We talked about Twitter and Flickr. Gen asked what the difference is between blogs and websites, and announced s/he'd recently acquired her first Blackberry.

    Ruth has some snapshots of the shoot and the soundcheck here. TG member Chris Carter is on Twitter here, and his photos are on Flickr here -- don't miss this incredible photoset of historic "lost and found" TG photos. TG member Cosey Fanni Tutti is on Twitter here. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is here. And Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson is here.

    Some archival interviews I've been reading and re-reading, as we edit the interview: This one with Cosey, about her art and her explorations of the sex trade (for her, one and the same). And this amazing interview purportedly from 1978, by an Australian reporter for NME, which was apparently never published in NME. This article in Artlurker by Federico Nessi. And this review of a box set in Artforum.

    Thee Boing Boing Video episode(s) are "coum-ing" soon.

    (Special thanks to Richard Metzger, to Boing Boing Video's production crew, and friends who helped along the way: Ehrich Blackhound, Ruth Waytz, Chris Cooper, Jason Louv, Suzan Jones, and Greg Chong, to name a few. Very special thanks to Paul Smith, and to the members of Throbbing Gristle).

    Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle: Illustration of Twitter/Flickr/BoingBoing recursive meta-bombing

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    Fellow mutants: A number of the residents of greater Boingdom (Boing Boing, Offworld, Boing Boing Gadgets, and Boing Boing Video) are heading to San Francisco from 23-27 March for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), and we're planning to do a comprehensive package of live and produced video reports for your enjoyment.

    Boing Boing Video Live! @GDC09 will be a daily broadcast from our secret headquarters near the GDC, and want to invite you to join the Boing Boing luminaries, video game industry legends, veterans, grunts, Super Mario cosplayers, and telesynced viewers in a riot of awesomeness.

    If you work in the game industry, have strong opinions about the future of gaming, or want to change other people's opinions about any area of game development, publishing, and distribution -- or just want to hang out with us and play Laser Twister(tm), give us some information about yourself and what you would bring to the broadcast here.

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