Here’s some recently unearthed home movie footage of Disneyland in 1956, the year after it opened. The footage was shot by Jeff Altman’s grandfather using a Bell & Howell Filmo and 16mm Kodachrome film stock and includes a scene of his …
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Home movie of Disneyland in 1956 – Boing Boing
CreatureCast Web video series about wondrous animals . Posted by David Pescovitz, August 17, 2009 9:49 AM | permalink. CreatureCast is a collaborative blog by evolutionary biologist Casey Dunn and his students at Brown University.
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CreatureCast Web video series about wondrous animals – Boing Boing
My friend Jim Leftwich and I love the music of the Japanese surf band The Royalfingers. Here’s a video with scenes from Japanese monster movies set to the music of The Royalfingers’ “Black Sand Beach” from their 2002 (and only) album …
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Music video: "Black Sand Beach" by The Royalfingers – Boing Boing
Fresh Greens: Cars on shopping carts, 12-hour coffee and rat-eating plants. Posted by JaymiHeimbuch, August 12, 2009 3:00 AM | permalink.
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Fresh Greens: Cars on shopping carts, 12-hour coffee and rat …
Joining me each week are a variety of guests from science fiction literature, SF blogs and publishing to bring you the latest news and gossip from the world of SF. Guests have ranged from science fiction writers, including Jeff …
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Sofanauts: new science fiction chat podcast – Boing Boing
The 1947 film New Orleans is about the final days of the district and the fictionalized “birth of Jazz” out of its brothel scene. (No, it wasn’t the white owner of a gambling joint who brought jazz to the masses
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Storyville, New Orleans, and the 1947 film with Armstrong/Holiday …
Doug was talking about his new book Life Inc., the story of how corporatism has spread into all aspects of our life. The producers also made a terrific green room comedy sketch with Doug too.
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Rushkoff comedy sketch for Colbert – Boing Boing
Timed with the phenomenal Todd Schorr “American Surreal” retrospective at the San Jose Museum of Art, the fine artisans at Pressure Printing have issued this mind-blowing hand-stained intaglio print . Funnily enough, this particular …
Brian Crecente over at Kotaku has a terrific post up about backyard adaptations of classic video games . I can imagine playing them for lulz myself, but they’re particularly cool for parents with bored kids at home on summer break: …
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Classic video games reimagined as backyard "off your butt" games …
And I have to agree with RRH, except that “a few people” is probably an understatement. I’ll bet money that no more than 50% of the people who claimed a scene will actually turn in a usable recreation of their scene.
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Star Wars fan recreation – Boing Boing