(Ed. Note: We just 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: (shown above) Hard Times. Ze Frank sez: "I humped your finger and now it's all pregnant." Link
Boing Boing Video guest correspondent Miles O'Brien updates on the Space Shuttle, new information about the recent Air France crash, and confirmation that geese were responsible for the emergency conditions that led to the "miracle on the Hudson" emergency plane landing.
Sponsor shout-out: This week's Boing Boing Video episodes are brought to you in part byWEPC.com, in partnership withIntelandAsus.WePC.comis a site where users come together to "share ideas, images and inspiration about the ideal PC." Participants' designs, feature ideas and community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and "will influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside."
The debut of a new video from the NASA music project: "A Volta," featuring Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Love Foxxx. Video by Logan, with art by The Date Farmers. Extra videos: A "mockumentary making of" video and a musical montage of Date Farmers art at the blog post.
Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing Gadgets editor Lisa Katayama profile three cool things found at the recent Bay Area Maker Faire: The Yudu personal screen printer, an interactive, collaborative, musical Tesla Coil, and a candy-fabbing device from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
Sponsor shout-out: This week's Boing Boing Video episodes are brought to you in part byWEPC.com, in partnership withIntelandAsus.WePC.comis a site where users come together to "share ideas, images and inspiration about the ideal PC." Participants' designs, feature ideas and community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and "will influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside."
The Open Video Conference takes place June 19-20 in New York, and the event promises ample awesomeness.
Speakers include, NYU's Clay Shirky, Harvard's Yochai Benkler, DVD Jon, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, EFF's Corynne McSherry, and many many more. I'll be delivering a keynote on Saturday afternoon.
The organizers have kindly granted a discount for friends of Boing Boing: 15% off for regular/corporate attendees (you have to sign up before Monday 15th). Use this link. Entry includes access to the two-day event, lunch on both days, and a video remix dance party on Friday night! W00t.
About the Open Video Conference:
At this very moment, in 2009, we have a chance to ensure that internet video retains key characteristics of the internet at large. It's still early and things are looking good, but we need devices that play nice with each other, networks that aren't totally neutered, and playback and production tools that are low-cost (ideally free/open source) and easy to use. Developments like Hulu are interesting for the user, because they can watch what they want, when they want. But we don't want internet video to be a glorified TV on demand service. We want video to be a dynamic medium that invites clipping, archival, remix, collage, repurposing, and many other uses that are currently inhibited by law or by lack of tools.
* BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video: Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen. (Download) We team up with PopSci and Theo Gray to bring you this episode -- in which the MAD SCIENCE author shows you how to make delicious mercury-sicles shaped like fishies and turtles!
* "Olé Cordobes," a 1966 Scopitone via Oddball Film + Video (Download/YouTube) A video from a long-defunct "visual jukebox player" format tells the romantic tale of a Spanish bullfighter, with help from an Amy Winehouse lookalike and mustachioed Flamenco dudes bearing overwrought facial expressions.
Sponsor shout-out: This week's Boing Boing Video episodes are brought to you in part byWEPC.com, in partnership withIntelandAsus.WePC.comis a site where users come together to "share ideas, images and inspiration about the ideal PC." Participants' designs, feature ideas and community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and "will influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside."
* Boiler Bar: "Punk, Hot Rod, Geek, Blue Collar, and Maker Culture mixed together with the Petroleum Golden Age of the last century." (Download MP4 / Watch on YouTube)
Sponsor shout-out: This week's Boing Boing Video episodes are brought to you in part byWEPC.com, in partnership withIntelandAsus.WePC.comis a site where users come together to "share ideas, images and inspiration about the ideal PC." Participants' designs, feature ideas and community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and "will influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside."
Here's a recap of recent episodes of our daily original video program, Boing Boing Video.
* (Embedded Above) - Diving into Space: Miles O'Brien in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab (Download / YouTube). Our esteemed guest space correspondent brings us this special report on the same day NASA astronauts complete their final space walk -- and zero-g repair job -- on the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission #4.
* BB Video: This Week in Space, with Miles O'Brien (Download / YouTube) A recap of this week in space news. The former CNN anchor and reporter is exploring what independent online journalism is all about. In this episode, we learn what life is like for a 26-year broadcast veteran who has become a freewheeling freelancer. The short answer? Pretty good.
* Guatemala Protests: Eyewitness Cellphone Video from Twitterers (Download / YouTube).
In recent weeks, Guatemalan citizens have been gathering to protest the assassination of an attorney who blamed president Álvaro Colom for his imminent murder in a posthumously-released YouTube Video.
Boing Boing Video viewer (and BB blog reader) Maria Figueroa (@thevenemousone on Twitter) participated in the demonstrations with friends, and she sent us this eyewitness report captured on her cellphone.
Sponsor shout-out: Boing Boing Video is brought to you in part byWEPC.com, in partnership withIntelandAsus.WePC.comis a site where users come together to "share ideas, images and inspiration about the ideal PC." Participants' designs, feature ideas and community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and "could influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside."
* "TO." An ambient animated short by filmmaker Bob Jaroc and the band Plaid (Warp Records). Best enjoyed with stereophonic supersonic headphones, so you can appreciate the shift from one channel to another, while you watch thousands of starlings take flight in a burnt sunset sky. (DOWNLOAD / YOUTUBE)
* "SEBASTIAN'S VOODOO." We revisit a beautiful animated work by UCLA student Joaquin Baldwin, which we first featured on our daily video program about a year ago. It's up for an award at Cannes! Vote for it! (DOWNLOAD)
"$5 COVER." Director Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow , Black Snake Moan) talks to us about his latest project: the MTV online series $5 Cover, which chronicles the internet-age lives and dreams of struggling musicians in Memphis, Tennessee. (DOWNLOAD / YOUTUBE)
ARPANET turns 40 this year, so we're celebrating internet history in the months to come with a look back at the people, devices, and places that are part of our shared internet history. We revisit an episode hosted by monochrom'sJohannes Grenzfurthner at the "Cyberpipe" museum of internet history in Slovenia, where computers and networking devices from those early years can be found.
Academy Award winning visual effects guru John Gaeta (Matrix, Speed Racer) offers a sneak peek inside his newest project, Ninja Assassin. Along the way, we explore a broader realm of questions about the future of games, movies, and interactive entertainment. Includes super badass stunt footage!
Sponsor shout-out: Boing Boing Video is brought to you in part byWEPC.com, in partnership withIntelandAsus.WePC.comis a site where users come together to "share ideas, images and inspiration about the ideal PC." Participants' designs, feature ideas and community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and "could influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside."
* Revisiting TechShop, as Portland Site Launches (Download MP4). TechShop is an open-access public workshop that's kind of like a health club with heavy machinery and sparks instead of treadmills. They've just opened a new branch in Oregon, so we're revisiting a classic Boing Boing episode we shot on a visit to their flagship location in Silicon Valley.
Tricaster, and the Future of Live Video Online (Download MP4). We review the Tricaster, a compact device that facilitates high-quality live internet video broadcast production for a lot less dough than the equivalent amount of traditional TV production gear. A number of web video productions are now using the Tricaster, including Leo Laporte's TWIT.tv, and Mahalo's newly launched Kevin Pollak chat show.
I'm back in the US after a few weeks on the road in Africa, just now personally catching up on all of daily Boing Boing Video episodes I missed -- internet was too thin where I was to stream or download video. You may have missed some BBV, too! So below, a recap of recent episodes blogged by my BBV colleague Derek Bledsoe (big round of applause -- thanks, Derek, for keeping the blog warm while I was gone!). Our YouTube channel is here, you can subscribe to our daily video podcast on iTunes here.
* WATCHMEN preview. Xeni interviews the film's director, Zack Snyder, and VFX head "DJ" Des Jardin about the CGI tech wizardry that created the characters in this motion picture adaptation of the hallowed comic. download the MP4 here.
The Boing Boing Video crew is taking President's Day offline, but I thought I'd recap some of our most recent episodes. If you're in the US and having a slow holiday day, or, heck, wherever you are -- perhaps now is a good time to kick back and watch what you've missed...
At long last, Joel, Rob, Brownlee, and the Boing Boing Video team (myself included) have departed CES and arrived at our respective homes. While we bathe in espresso this morning, and shake off the accumulated Vegas cruft, here's a recap of our video coverage produced from the floor of the annual electronics show last week. I hope you enjoy watching our "work" as much as we enjoyed all that "hard work" together producing them. Do also check out this blog post from Q-Burns Abstract Message, whose work we used in those episodes. He runs a label called Eighth Dimension Records, and we featured other artists from that label, too. - XJ
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