Katrina, 3 years later: Banksy throughout New Orleans. (16)
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Jonno D'Addario says: Over the past few days, Banksy street pieces have been appearing around New Orleans. This one is in my neighborhood, and the timing seems to coincide with the third anniversary of you-know-what this week. Someone else took a photo of this one in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. It references a local (in)famous anti-graffiti crusader named Fred Radtke, aka "The Grey Ghost", whose one man mission to eradicate street art and ...
Best of BBtv: Leslie Hall is gem-tastic (4)
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Boing Boing tv is taking a week off for organic yak-yogurt wrestling on a private Himalayan island; we leave you to enjoy some of our crew's favorite past episodes in the meantime. "Gem sweater diva" and midwestern maven Leslie Hall has appeared twice on our show. The video featured above is a tour diary she recorded just for us. If you like that, check out our backstage visit with her during a stop in San ...
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kate said:
AMAZING! I am so proud! she has come so far!
Weird "tribute videos" of celebs singing = pure YouTube gold (1)
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Snip from the blog for Bush League, who are Boing Boing tv's (loopy, sometimes drunk, always hi-LAR-e-ous!) studiomates: I desperately have to sign offline and move on with my life, but I just got hijacked by that guy who makes “tribute videos” of celebs singing. I found that he’s done them not just for Jer and Sinatra and Elvis and Marilyn and JFK, but for Diderot, Che, Voltaire, Blaze Starr, Brad Pitt, and King Frederick ...
Raisin Brahms (excellent pro-Art-ed video PSA) (13)
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YouTube link. GUTEN TAAAAG! Starring Tom Konkle of daveandtom, directed by Marcus McCollum. (Thanks, John Walsh!!!)
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Ingotheranchhand said:
This...is....awesome.
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Sam said:
Awesome Awesome Awesome. Go watch this.
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Eebs said:
"IT'S GOOOOOD!"
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MikeD said:
That is the best commercial I've seen in a long time.
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Christopher said:
hahaha i love me some raisin brahms
Tibet: "Beijing 10" return to USA; new Tibet docu "Leaving Fear Behind." (5)
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Image above: bloggers, artists, and pro-Tibet activists James Powderly, Tom Grant, Mike Liss, Jeremy Wells and John Watterberg arriving at LAX airport. They and others were held in jail in China for having participated in pro-Tibetan sovereignty demonstrations during the Olympics. More here. (via natdefreitas) Below, Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan: ‘Jigdrel’), a truly incredible documentary film shot by Dhondup Wangchen and other ethnic Tibetans from inside Tibet, about bringing Tibetan voices to the Beijing ...
Best of BBtv: Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto) (1)
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The Boing Boing tv crew is taking this end-of-summer week off from production, so we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last couple of months -- fun stuff you may have missed. Today, one of my personal all-time favorites: takenoko (竹の子), young bamboo shoots, with Joi Ito and original music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. -- XJ You may know Joi as a serial entrepreneur, a twittering globetrotter VC, a World of Warcraft junkie, or ...
BBtv: Steel Pulse founder David Hinds at Outside Lands (music) (3)
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Team Boing Boing tv was live and in effect all weekend long at the first Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate park. The event was a blast, and we interviewed many amazing artists here. BBtv's UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter hopped across the pond to join us for hijinks and great music, the first of which is this conversation with David Hinds, the frontman of legendary roots reggae band STEEL ...
UPDATE: US citizens detained in Beijing over Tibet protests are released, returning home. (4)
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A spokesperson for Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that the 6 US citizens who were detained last week by Chinese authorities for participating in pro-Tibet protests around the site of the Olympics have been released. The group included videobloggers and artists whose work has previously been featured on Boing Boing. All were sentenced to 10 or more days in jail. "James Powderly, Brian from Alive in Baghdad, and everyone else all arrive ...
Boing Boing tv backstage at Outside Lands: (Xeni + Russell Porter) (2)
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Boing Boing tv is live and in full effect at the Outside Lands Music and Arts fest in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The gates haven't opened yet as I type this, but when they do, more than 150,000 people are expected to pour in over three days to see bands like Radiohead, Beck, Wilco, Primus, Tom Petty, Manu Chao, Black Keys, Ben Harper, and dozens of others, plus some cool tech-art experiments we'll be ...
Neal Stephenson's new novel, Anathem: sneak peek at glossary (5)
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Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle) has a new novel coming out in just a couple weeks -- Anathem. Some of us here at Boing Boing have been following this one with much obsession. Here's a sneak copy of an abridged glossary of neologisms and language-bending goodies from the book. My favorite Stephensonism here is "bulshytt," which doesn't mean exactly what you think it might. PDF Link to preview glossary for Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
Beijing and Tibet: GRL's James Powderly, Brian of "Alive in Baghdad, 4 other US citizens receive 10-day jail sentence (7)
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A representative of Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that 6 American bloggers and pro-Tibet activists who went missing in Beijing for days after being detained by authorities have re-appeared -- and that authorities have given them a sentence of ten days in jail each for "upsetting public order." The names of the missing bloggers/vloggers and activists presumed to have been those jailed: - James Powderly (Graffitti Research Lab ) - Brian Conley ...
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"A representative of Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that 6 American bloggers and pro-Tibet activists who went missing in Beijing for days after being detained by authorities have re-appeared -- and that authorities have given them a sentence of ten days in jail each for 'upsetting public order.'"
Beijing update: New protests and detentions, 6 protesters still missing. (17)
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A quick update on previous BB posts (one, two, three) about American tech-artists and activists detained for pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. A Students for a Free Tibet spokesperson tells Boing Boing: Everyone listed here is still missing. - James Powderly - Brian Conley - Jeffrey Rae - Jeff Goldin - Michael Liss - Tom Grant They were all working in Beijing in different ways, as citizen journalists and activists. My opinion at this point is ...
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Andrew said:
that. not. good.
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"A quick update on previous BB posts (one, two, three) about American tech-artists and activists detained for pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. A Students for a Free Tibet spokesperson tells Boing Boing..."
BBtv WORLD (Tibet): Inside Lhasa (1)
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Today's episode of Boing Boing tv is a new installment of our "BBtv World" series, in which we bring you first-person accounts of life around the world. In this episode, I travel to Lhasa during an annual Tibetan Buddhist festival. Link to Boing Boing tv blog post with discussion, downloadable video, and podcast subscription instructions. The first thing that hits you when you arrive in Lhasa is just how close to the heavens you are. ...
Beijing: "Alive in Baghdad" videoblogger among US citizens detained (5)
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Following up on two previous posts today about the detention of tech-art protesters in Beijing, we now have word that videoblogger Brian Conley of "Alive in Baghdad" has also been taken in by authorities. Conley and others previously announced as having been detained were working with the group Students for a Free Tibet to document pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. Here is SFT's statement: Beijing - Brian Conley, creator of the well-known videoblog, Alive in Baghdad, ...
Beijing: Activists detained after lighting up "Free Tibet" LED Throwies banner near Olympics site (24)
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An update on the pro-Tibet tech-art protests happening in Beijing: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) tells Boing Boing that a group of five pro-Tibet activists displayed an LED Throwie Banner near the Olympics site in Beijing. The protesters, all of whom are US nationals, were promptly detained by Chinese authorities. From SFT, via email to BB: This was inspired by GRL's "Throwies" project, and the building and implementation of this was done by a ...
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Andrew said:
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Craig Maloney said:
Wondering what part of the brain gets you to go to a foreign country known for it's lack of a sense of humor about such shenanigans, and light up this steaming pile of dog-shit on their front porch? I'm sure these activists thought they were doing the right thing, but I'm also certain they'll whine that they're Americans and should be allowed to do this. Dumbasses.
GRL's James Powderly detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet "L.A.S.E.R. Stencil" art protest - Boing Boing (15)
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Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing they learned of Graffitti Research Lab founder James Powderly's detention by Chinese authorities in Beijing via a Twitter direct message that read "held since 3am." I just spoke to the SFT representative who has been Powderly's closest contact, and this person says Powderly has now been held for more than 19 hours with no further word. So far there's no acknowledgment from officials in Beijing that Powderly ...
Web Zen: Sunday comics zen (5)
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farside photoshop married to the sea minimalist stick figure theatre scary bear pope alien cat and girl diesel sweeties kookie previously on web zen: more comic zen 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!)
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Jaume said:
sona a resposta de tècnic a pregunta de Continguts: "Defineix 'sempre'. Això no està als requeriments!"
BBtv: Monochrom - "Bye Bye" (a short film) (1)
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A short film by monochrom about a man who dies, is reborn, and sprouts gills. Link to Boing Boing tv blog post with discussion, downloadable video, and podcast subscribe instructions. Created by Harald Homolka List, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Evelyn Fürlinger (link to monochrom site for this film, here are other short films from them in German) Previous work from monochrom on Boing Boing tv: * Monochrom: Economic Recession Wisdom from Sock Puppets. * Monochrom's "Kiki, Bubu, ...
