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"Cannibal! The Musical," Matt and Trey's musical before "Book of Mormon" (video) Economix: terrific cartoon history of economics Comics Rack: Boing Boing's comics picks for September Caturday: kitten is hogging the TV remote Late '60s ad for space jobs at NASA JPL Drugs: Without the Hot Air, now in the USA! Former IBM Japan president questioned over upskirt filming TONX coffee, video shopping, and Pesco's wife Astonishing cigarette magic Troma Entertainment: 150 free films on YouTube Rushkoff: Apply for a Codecademy Fellowship! Fleetwood Mac: "Rhiannon" live, 1976 "Ready Player One" DeLorean prize awarded Dominique Pruitt "To Win Your Love" music video Yurei Attack! The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide How tracking down a stolen computer triggered a drug bust Controlled demolition of unexploded WWII bomb in Munich Toca Boca music video "Cannibal! The Musical," Matt and Trey's musical before "Book of Mormon" (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 01, 2012 12:17 pm Pesco blogged earlier about the news that weirdo indie film purveyors Troma are releasing 150 full-length movies on YouTube, for free. One of them is Cannibal! The Musical (1993), an awesomely awful film about the pioneering raw foodist Alferd Packer, directed by (and starring) Trey Parker, also starring Matt Stone. You can scroll down to ...
Read in browser Economix: terrific cartoon history of economics
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 01, 2012 12:11 pm One of my favorite books is Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. With simple comic art, McCloud presents the history of sequential comics, and how they work. It's as much about psychology as it is about the way comics use standard structural elements that work on a subconscious level to tell a story. A cartoon version of ...
Read in browser Comics Rack: Boing Boing's comics picks for September
By Brian Heater on Sep 01, 2012 12:00 pm It's September, and what better way to mark back to school season than with a little bit of mind-rotting comic bookery? We'll try to keep the grey matter melting to a minimum with the following selection. We've got two bits of autobiographical excitement, some cardboard-come-to-life for the kids and something for the omnipotent cosmic deity ...
Read in browser Caturday: kitten is hogging the TV remote
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 01, 2012 11:42 am Boing Boing reader Benjamin G. Levy, a Mac computing consultant based in Los Angeles, shot and shared this photo in the Boing Boing Flickr pool. Happy Caturday.
Read in browser Late '60s ad for space jobs at NASA JPL
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 01, 2012 11:36 am A late-1960s ad that ran in Scientific American, scanned and shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by fdecomite. The look is true to Mad Men, and the copy is true to life: I bet the Mars Curiosity team say stuff like that to each other all the time. Give that dude a mohawk—oh, and ...
Read in browser Drugs: Without the Hot Air, now in the USA!
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 01, 2012 09:28 am I wrote last June about Drugs: Without the Hot Air, the best book on drug policy I've read, written by David Nutt, the UK drug czar who was fired because he refused to bow to political pressure to repudiate his own research on the relative harms from illegal drugs and legal activities. Nutt's book has ...
Read in browser Former IBM Japan president questioned over upskirt filming
By Rob Beschizza on Sep 01, 2012 01:21 am Japan Today: A former president of IBM Japan has been questioned by police after allegedly filming up the skirt of an unsuspecting woman in a train station, local media reported Thursday. Takuma Otoshi, 63, used his iPod to take the illicit footage as the woman rode an escalator at a busy Tokyo station, the Yomiuri ...
Read in browser TONX coffee, video shopping, and Pesco's wife
By David Pescovitz on Aug 31, 2012 10:52 pm Joyus is an online retail start-up where the stories of the products (from a mix of smaller indie makers and larger brands) are told through videos. My wife Kelly Sparks is fashion director there. They focus on four categories -- fashion, beauty, home, and food. Last year on Boing Boing, Xeni posted about TONX artisanal ...
Read in browser Astonishing cigarette magic
By David Pescovitz on Aug 31, 2012 06:42 pm Masterful cigarette magic by Cyril Takayama.
Read in browser Troma Entertainment: 150 free films on YouTube
By David Pescovitz on Aug 31, 2012 06:24 pm Legendary psychotronic film studio Troma Entertainment, maker of such cinematic masterpieces as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke'em High, and Redneck Zombies, has put 150 movies (including some classics that it distributes) on YouTube for free viewing. Above is the 1932 film White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi. It's considered to be the first zombie film ...
Read in browser Rushkoff: Apply for a Codecademy Fellowship!
By David Pescovitz on Aug 31, 2012 05:42 pm Our dear pal Douglas Rushkoff says: I've been at Codecademy, the free online code school, as "Codevangelist in Residence" for two weeks now, and I'm as inspired and future-focused as I was the first time I met David Pescovitz at Morph's Outpost On The Digital Frontier. They're just launching a fellowship program for college students ...
Read in browser Fleetwood Mac: "Rhiannon" live, 1976
By David Pescovitz on Aug 31, 2012 05:30 pm Continuing to fuel my rekindled love affair with Fleetwood Mac's California cocaine trilogy is this scorching version of "Rhiannon" live on The Midnight Special, June 11, 1976. Trust me, stay with 'til the end. The original track is from the 1975 album Fleetwood Mac. (Thanks, Tristan Eldritch!) Fleetwood Mac's Rumours at 35 - Boing Boing
Read in browser "Ready Player One" DeLorean prize awarded
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 31, 2012 05:27 pm Author Ernest Cline was on G4's X-Play this week to give away a fully-restored DeLorean to Craig Queen, the person who won the Easter egg contest that was hidden in the print copies of his novel, Ready Player One. In the video, X-Play host Blair Herter welcomes Ernest Cline, the author of game-heavy sci-fi novel ...
Read in browser Dominique Pruitt "To Win Your Love" music video
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 31, 2012 05:04 pm [Video Link] In July I posted a link to songstress Dominique Pruitt's "To Win Your Love." As I said, her work has a great 50s and 60s vibe. Here's a video for her song, "To Win Your Love," which will be on her upcoming album. I'm looking forward to hearing the other songs!
Read in browser Yurei Attack! The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 31, 2012 04:40 pm [Video Link] Here's the highly polished trailer for a very cool book I received this week, called Yurei Attack! The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide Yurei is the Japanese word for "ghost." It's as simple as that. They are the souls of dead people, unable—or unwilling—to shuffle off this mortal coil. Yurei are many things, but ...
Read in browser How tracking down a stolen computer triggered a drug bust
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 31, 2012 02:59 pm Over at MAKE, we've got an interesting story about computers stolen from a MAKE employee's car during Maker Faire Detroit, which led to a drug bust. Have you ever had something stolen? Your heart sinks, your mind races, and you become increasingly paranoid about the vulnerability of your personal property. I know because this is ...
Read in browser Controlled demolition of unexploded WWII bomb in Munich
By Jason Weisberger on Aug 31, 2012 02:13 pm During WWII the allies dropped millions upon millions of tons of explosives upon Germany, to halt German war production. Its not infrequent for German authorities to remove, destroy or incapacitate old ordnance. This bomb was found in Munich's lovely Schwabing neighborhood and could not be defused. It was decided to explode the bomb in place ...
Read in browser Toca Boca music video
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 31, 2012 01:28 pm A fun and infectious music video from our friends at Toca Boca, developer of apps for kids. It appears to be a teaser for an upcoming title.
Read in browser Meet SparkTruck, an “educational build-mobile” for the twenty-first century.
Dreamed up by a group of Stanford d.school students and funded through Kickstarter, SparkTruck is a mobile maker space currently traveling across the United States. At schools and summer camps and libraries around the country, the SparkTruck team offers workshops to help kids “find their inner maker” as they design and build projects like stamps, stop-motion animation clips, and “vibrobots.”
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRKXqDwieY&feature=plcp]
This might seem all shiny and new. And it is—but only in part. What’s so striking (and exciting) about SparkTruck is the way it combines old and new. It does so in the tools it gets kids using, which range from pipe cleaners to laser cutters. It does so in its educational approach, which combines cutting-edge (get it?) STEM and design pedagogy with the fundamentals of an old-school shop class. And it does so in its method, which combines the iconic, century-old technology of the bookmobile with the hot new form of the maker space.
In doing so, SparkTruck joins a growing number of libraries which are combining time-tested principles (like equal access to information) with new technologies (like 3-D printers), putting in maker spaces and media production labs alongside bookshelves and meeting rooms. As I’ve argued over on bookmobility.org, these combinations make sense because reading and making actually have a lot in common. They’re both creative processes that take existing materials and combine them in new ways. Getting people engaged in those kinds of processes—through imaginative thinking, contemplation, hands-on problem-solving, and collaborative learning—is what both maker spaces and libraries are all about.
Taking that commitment on the road with scissors and hammers and 3-D printers and a great big bookmobile-like truck, SparkTruck serves as a laboratory for new approaches, as well as a reminder that trying new things doesn’t have to (and probably shouldn’t!) necessarily mean tossing old ones out.
After all, what would those vibrobots be without classically crafty pipe cleaners and tongue depressors? And what would a library be without the creative, participatory, straight-up awesome experience of reading?
SparkTruck schedule [sparktruck.org]
How to arrange a visit from SparkTruck [sparktruck.org]
SparkTruck YouTube channel [youtube.com]
Signature: --Derek Attig, bookmobility.org
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