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BB Video - $5 Cover: Craig Brewer's New MTV Series on Local Indie Music Life
(Download MP4, or watch on YouTube) In today's Boing Boing Video (brought to you in part by WEPC.com), director Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow , Black Snake Moan ) talks to us about his latest project:...
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Miles O'Brien: The Hubble Constant
Miles "Intergalactic Space Badass" O'Brien, whose work we've been featuring as a guest contributor on Boing Boing Video, has a must-read piece at True Slant about the recent end of NASA's mission to...
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Iran: More on the life and death of Neda Agha-Soltan
An amazing piece by Borzou Daragahi, in Tehran, from today's LA Times on the life and death of Neda Agha-Soltan (shown above in a family photo). Her death, documented on cellphone video and spread...
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Citizen Engineer: open source hardware comic and kits
Our pals at Adafruit Industries have launched a new series of kits that include a full color comic book/zine. The first volume of Citizen Engineer is all about SIM card hacking and has the parts to...
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Jasmina Tešanović: "The Murder of Natalya Estemirova."
Image above: Natalya Estemirova, courtesy Human Rights Watch. The following guest essay was written by Jasmina Tešanović. Full text of essay continues after the jump, along with links to previous...
View ArticleTibetan documentary filmmaker faces trial in eastern Tibet for "inciting...
Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, who directed and filmed the documentary "Leaving Fear Behind" (excerpt embedded above) has been charged with "inciting separatism" and is awaiting trial in Siling...
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Keeping the Googling Good Life Going in a Post-Box Store era: Doug Fine
We covered Doug Fine's radical off-the-grid lifestyle experiment last year on Boing Boing TV -- embed above. He is the author of Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living, and he's still...
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Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi gadget...
Snip from an essay by artist Michaela Melián on Hedy Lemarr, the Austrian-born American scientist and actress who was once described as the most beautiful woman in the world by MGM's Louis B. Mayer....
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NYC skateboarding legend Andy Kessler has died.
Glen E. Friedman, a photographer who chronicled the birth of skate culture, shares sad news: If skateboarding was a town, this guy was its mayor. Andy Kessler, one of the good ones, died yesterday...
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Jim Carroll interview from 1987
Here's a scanned copy of an interview with the recently-departed punk poet icon Jim Carroll, by Joseph Menn in the Boston Globe. The article is not available anywhere online, and it's a fascinating...
View ArticleGriddleville: amazing cartoon made entirely by one dude.
Jesse Brown, a BoingBoing guest-blogger, is the host of TVO's Search Engine podcast. The most creative guy I knew in high school was this kid Ba Blackstock. He drew hilarious cartoons, directed...
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The Lessons of Lindsay
A powerful and beautiful photo-essay by Matt Mendelson about a powerful and beautiful young woman from my home town named Lindsay Ess, a fashion major at Virginia Commonwealth University. Same school,...
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Radio Free Africa
"Freedom of expression and of thought was not invented by the West. It has existed in traditional societies -- even primitive ones -- for centuries. Human progress would not have been possible without...
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John Muir, naturalist and maker of odd inventions
John Muir, Sierra Club founder and Yosemite savior featured in the new Ken Burns docoumentary, was a fantastically creative maker too! The Sierra Club has posted details about several of his...
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Indian farmer's daughter is most bad-ass woman in the world
A quick-thinking farmer's daughter disarmed a man who broke into her home in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In a phenomenally bad-ass series of moves worthy of a Tarantino screenplay,...
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Art is People! It's People!
When I saw this picture last summer on the Awkward Family Photos blog, I had to know where it came from. Most of the commenters were convinced the answer was "a really freaky, messed-up hippie...
View ArticleShe's Got It
"It", in this case, referring to "The Right Stuff". Brandon Keim at Wired Science had a great post yesterday about attempts by NASA contractors to get women into the space program during the late...
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Collecting Solar Power, the Black Hole Way
Not pictured: A convenient terrestrial solar panel. Image from thebadastronomer Flickr stream, via CC. Light can't escape a black hole. Some people look at this fact and get the shudders. Others...
View ArticleHappy Saganseve, Everybody
November 9 would have been Carl Sagan's 75th birthday. To celebrate the man, his work and the awesome wonderment of science, Broward College in Davie, Florida is hosting the first ever Carl Sagan Day...
View ArticleColton Harris-Moore has a posse.
Momma Tried: Colton Harris-Moore has a posse. And t-shirts. (previous post / thanks Jason Weisberger)
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Transvestite had sex with dog in English castle moat
From Britain's Daily Telegraph: The cross-dressing man was caught with the animal in the dry moat of King Henry VIII's Pendennis Castle overlooking Falmouth Bay in Cornwall. ... As the two ladies...
View ArticleDr. Franklin Ruehl's promo tape and channel
Some of you may recall that I am a big fan of physicist Dr. Franklin Ruehl. I previously mentioned an episode of The Tupperware Container of Ironic/Coincidental Hollywood Deaths. Aficionados of weird...
View ArticleAwfully awesome dance moves
Watch out, Mosh Girl and Napoleon Dynamite... a challenger appears. The world would be a better place if everyone felt as uninhibited and expressive as Happiness.
View ArticleVideo of a walk in Maple Creek Park
A Boing Boing reader claims the Frank L. Sharp's video about Maple Creek Park is much better than the Neature Walk video. I agree! Don't miss good-natured Frank's other videos. Maple Creek Park.wmv
View ArticleSarah Palin Breathing Wall of Nightmares
BEHOLD: The Sarah Palin Breathing Wall of Nightmares. Here's a bonus nightmare.
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Bryan Lewis Saunders' 15+ years of drug-induced self-portraits
Images: Bryan Lewis Saunders self-portraits on crystal meth (left) and huffed gasoline (right). Cord Jefferson at Good posted a cool piece on artist Bryan Lewis Saunders. Since 1995, Bryan has created...
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RIP LeRoy "Granny" Grannis, surf photography pioneer
Iconic images by Gannis: Mike Doyle surfing Waimea in 1967 and "Midget" Farrelly surfing Shore Break, Makaha 1968. Gannis was a master of using light to convey emotion. LeRoy Grannis, who along with...
View ArticleBrr.
It looks as if this guy filmed this whole crazy clip himself with no one else around. (via The Awesomer)
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Kid has right idea about royal wedding
Grace van Cutsem, 3, has clearly had enough. Photo: Reuters/Darren Staples.
View ArticleHow To: Make Polaroid Film
Joel Johnson and Bill Barol have blogged here before about The Impossible Project, a group of Dutch Polaroid enthusiasts who bought an old Polaroid factory and recreated the company's instant film...
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