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| SuperTouch art blog, Cheryl Dunn art show and Redneck Sushi Posted: 27 Mar 2009 10:24 PM PDT Richard Metzger is the current Boing Boing guest blogger Jamie O'Shea, for ten years editor of the genre-defining visionary arts magazine, Juxtapoz, probably the largest circulated art monthly in the world --I mean, hey, they sell it at Whole Foods-- is now an internationally known creative director and the editor of a new online blog called SuperTouch. SuperTouch is great --kind of a nice hybrid of PAPER magazine style party pics/gossip and the artistic fare seen in O'Shea's former mag, a cool mix. I was happy to see a post there about my pal Cheryl Dunn's "Spit and Peanut Shells: American Pictures" show at The Country Club gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cheryl's wicked cool and her website is one of my favorite artist's sites. If you are in Cincinnati, check her show out. |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:42 PM PDT  These Crayon Rings from Timothy Liles are lovely and would be fun to draw with, though at $50 for 10, they're probably too expensive to give to the kids. If you had a ring mold, though, you and the tots could have a fun afternoon melting down the crayolas, pouring them, and making your own set. Crayon Rings (via Geisha Asobi) |
| Daniel Pinkwater's new novel The Yggyssey online -- MIGHTY IS MY W00T! Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:27 PM PDT O frabjous day! Daniel Pinkwater has put most of the text of his news kids' book The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There online, along with audio of him reading the first chapter. Pinkwater may be my single most favorite writer in the entire world -- he's certainly the writer who had the biggest impact on me, through novels like "Alan Medelsohn, the Boy From Mars," collected in his 5 Novels omnibus. Mr Pinkwater, if you're reading this, I owe you one. I owe you several. And I can't wait to read this book! The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There The Yggyssey MP3 link to Pinkwater reading chapter one (via Neil Gaiman) |
| Reuben Margolin's kinetic wave sculptures Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:12 PM PDT Kinetic artist Reuben Margolin was featured on a recent episode of MAKE: television. He uses salvaged wood, metal, cardboard, and other recycled materials to create massive mechanical wave sculptures. Absolutely incredible work. |
| Preposterous AIG TV Commercials Found! Posted: 27 Mar 2009 07:51 PM PDT Richard Metzger is the current Boing Boing guest blogger Try this shit on for size: Next, the inevitable remix! Thanks Russ Gooberman! |
| Fake Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin Posted: 27 Mar 2009 07:25 PM PDT Richard Metzger is the current Boing Boing guest blogger Have you ever been walking around a 99 Cents store and seen a bottle of cheap cologne with a sticker on the box that reads: "If you like "Calvin" you'll love "Kevin!"? Apparently the same sort of thing applied to crooner/goofball double acts in the 1950s. Ladies and gentlemen, meet ersatz Martin and Lewis, Sammy Petrillo and 'Duke' Mitchell. |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2009 10:53 AM PDT Today is the final day of Boing Boing Video's live coverage of the 2009 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, with Killscreen TV + Offworld. We're streaming live video around the clock on our new Ustream channel. Tune in for conversations in our BBV@GDC studio with hosts including Matty Kirsch from Killscreen TV and Xeni from Boing Boing, visits from fellow Boing Boing bloggers, and the following special guests today, Friday March 27, 2009, the final day of GDC: * Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy, talking about his most recent game, Noby Noby Boy (note: previously recorded on-site at GDC) For BB Video + Offworld's complete video and blog coverage of GDC09, visit offworld.com/gdc09. Chat room after the jump, or you can hop directly to our Ustream page to view chat + video stream side by side. (Special thanks to our live stream host Ustream TV, to Wayneco Heavy Industries, and to our transportation provider at Virgin America. Video Crew members in the house this week: Jolon Bankey, Wes Varghese, Derek Bledsoe, Xeni Jardin, and Killscreen TV's Matty Kirsch and Allison Kingsley). |
| Open Rights Group benefit with me and Charlie Stross in London, May 1 Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:51 PM PDT Charlie Stross and I are doing a benefit talk for the Open Rights Group on May 1 in London, entitled "Resisting the all-seeing eye." Hope to see you there -- Stross is a ball, and ORG is a damned worthy cause, especially in this era of ubiquitous surveillance. Event - Doctorow and Stross: Resisting the all-seeing eye |
| Game-design lessons from Disneyland Posted: 27 Mar 2009 11:48 AM PDT  Today at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco, I saw an outstanding talk on the lessons for level design to be had in the design of Disneyland. It was presented by Scott Rogers, Creative Manager at THQ in Los Angeles, who taught himself level design for Pac Man World by thinking about the experiences he'd had on many visits to Disneyland. The talk was full of lively insights and fun facts about both Disneyland and game-lore, and Rogers was a great presenter. I took copious (for me) notes and photos of most of the slides and I've just put them online (Rogers says he'll put the slides up in better form shortly, I'll link to them when he does). * Walt invented lots of "moving people around" tricks that are useful in level design e.g. weenies (landmarks that draw guests towards certain locations)Notes from the talk |
| Nathan Wolfe, "Hunting for the Next Killer Virus" - TED video Posted: 27 Mar 2009 10:01 AM PDT From the TED archive, a new video: Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering new, deadly viruses where they first emerge -- passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa -- before they claim millions of lives.TED Talks: Nathan Wolfe (thanks, Jason Wishnow) |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:39 AM PDT Jason Leroy Savage will go to prison for 90 days for having sex with a vacuum at a car wash in Thomas Township, Detroit. From the Associated Press: (He) must also submit to drug testing.Man caught in vacuum sex act gets 90 days |
| Cabinet of Curiosities of Bonnier de la Mosson Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:14 AM PDT  Morbid Anatomy's Joanna Ebenstein visited the Cabinet of Curiosities of Bonnier de la Mosson, a magnificent 18th century collection of marvelous natural wonders now installed in a library attached to Paris's Museum of Natural History. The actual cabinets themselves are absolutely incredible! From Morbid Anatomy: Cabinet of Curiosities of Bonnier de la Mosson |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2009 07:57 AM PDT squirrel messenger Permalink for this edition. Web Zen is created and curated by Frank Davis, and re-posted here on Boing Boing with his kind permission. Web Zen Home and Archives, Store (Thanks Frank!) |
| Artistic and scientific anatomical models from Anatomy Tools Posted: 27 Mar 2009 06:34 AM PDT   Yesterday, I blogged about the photos I'd caught of some beautifully detailed artist's anatomical models on sale in the dealer's room at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco. I ended up going back later in the day to buy one of the models (they brought their "slightly irregular" stock to the show and are selling it at half off), and I got to talking with the staff about their wares. It turns out that they're on something of a holy mission to introduce high quality, affordable artistically rendered anatomical models to the fields of science, art and medicine, replacing the standard, multi-thousand-dollar, low-quality anatomical models with sub-$500 versions that are much better rendered and easier to grasp. But these are more than teaching aids or artist's reference -- they're absolutely drop-dead gorgeous sculptures, created by a Bay Area artist called Andrew Cawrse. The more I look at the model sitting here on my desk, the more enthralled I am with it, and the more clever grace-notes I spot in the various cutaways that make clear a thousand myriad elements of anatomy (and I had to laugh to discover that the cross-sectioned penis is attached by a magnet, so it can be removed by customers who aren't allowed to show penises in their workplaces). |
| Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA Posted: 27 Mar 2009 06:19 AM PDT Artist Justine Lai's new project is a set of oil paintings of her having sex with every president of the USA, in order. NOTES ON JOIN OR DIE (Thanks, Frank W!) |
| Wil Wheaton teaches his son to slay dragons Posted: 27 Mar 2009 11:46 AM PDT Wil Wheaton is leading a kitchen-table game of Dungeons and Dragons with his teenaged son and some of his son's friends, and documenting the campaign in his blog. This is absolutely charming, a heartwarming tale of our proud geek heritage being passed down through the generations. D&D was the first thing to capture my attention as thoroughly as reading had. I remember just falling head over heels for it -- the miniatures, the painting, the storytelling, the dice, the paraphernalia, the social circle. It was all I could think about for years. I haunted the downtown D&D stores like The Four Horsemen and Mr Gameway's Arc (which had a full-scale replica of the bridge of the Enterprise on the top level!), and hoarded graph-paper like it was going out of style. Reading this brings it all back to me. As John Rogers notes, "They are, in the end, about a father sitting down at a kitchen table, for hours, teaching and telling stories with his son." He looked up at Nolan and their other friend. "If I get behind her, I can get out of reach of her claws, and I do all kinds of cool stuff when I'm flanking someone."and so the campaign begins... (Part I) and so the campaign begins... (Part II) and so the campaign begins... (Part III) and so the campaign begins... (Part IV) a few thoughts and lessons learned from behind the dm screen |
| New York Times warns that new financial rules could "wreak havoc" -- 1999 Posted: 27 Mar 2009 06:03 AM PDT From the 11/5/99 New York Times: "CONGRESS PASSES WIDE-RANGING BILL EASING BANK LAWS By STEPHEN LABATON": ''Today Congress voted to update the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and replace them with a system for the 21st century,'' Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said. ''This historic legislation will better enable American companies to compete in the new economy.''CONGRESS PASSES WIDE-RANGING BILL EASING BANK LAWS (11/5/99) |
| Classic Gutenberg project books read aloud by Roy Trumbull Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:56 AM PDT Roy Trumbull, a talented reader, is working his way through the best of Project Gutenberg's texts, reading them aloud in a podcast called "Story Spieler." He's got a lot of classic science fiction, Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary" and lots more. Roy read some of my work aloud and did a fantastic job with it, and I'm really enjoying listening to his work on these stories, too. It's a great way to mine the past for some of the great and forgotten works of literature. |
| Printing a ukelele on a laser-cutter Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:49 AM PDT The folks at NYC Resistor laser-cut this sweet little flying-V ukelele, designed with open source tools. It's just a half-size prototype. but there's some there there for sure. Open-Source Ukulele Proto Uno Lazzzzored FTW! (Thanks, Nathan!) |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:29 AM PDT  Becky Stern has followed up her plush model of her damaged femur with a complete, anatomically correct plush knee. Go Becky! She adds, "I used elastic to give the ligaments realistic stretch, and even gave it the capability to dislocate, just like my real knee. Built using anatomical models and the pictures my doctor took from inside my knee during surgery as references." Plush Knee (Thanks, Becky!) Previously: |
When I got home from school, my room was full of ghosts..._again!_ They were being invisible, but I could feel the cold spots in the air. 
This collection is discussed at length by Celeste Olalquiaga in a piece entitled Object Lesson / Transitional Object which ran in a 2005 issue of Cabinet magazine. Here is an excerpt from that piece, which discusses the original cabinet of Bonnier de la Mosson at great length: 
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated. 
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