BBtv: Robert Plant and Allison Krauss interview (music)
Boing Boing — Hey, speaking of bluegrass... when Led Zeppelin founder Robert Plant teamed up with Nashville blues mama Allison Krauss, critics compared the musical collaboration to a hookup between King Kong and Bambi. But their album "Raising Sand," produced by T-Bone Burnett, earned the odd duo widespread raves. Boing Boing tv's London music correspondent Russell Porter caught up with Plant and Krauss backstage at the Mercury Prize, an annual award for the best ...

More Elephantblogging: Michael Nichols on photographing complex creatures.
Boing Boing — Last week on Boing Boing tv, we released a BBtv WORLD episode with a visit to Pendjari nature preserve in Benin (West Africa). I got close (a little too close) to a herd of beautiful elephants. Here's that post, and direct MP4 link here. When you watch that BBtv clip, pay attention to the bit right after the 1:34ish mark where the mommy elephant raises her trunk and gestures at us. I didn't know this, but that's a kind of greeting, it's the elephant initiating communication. Marilyn Terrell at National Geographic's Intelligent Travel ...

BBtv: Roots Reggae Legends Toots and the Maytals (music)
Boing Boing — ... 's London-based music correspondent Russell Porter for a visit on the venerable Mister Toots' tour bus after an amazing set at ...

(BBtv) Looking for the Perfect Bean: Kyle Glanville's World Coffee Tour, part 1 - Ipanema, Brazil.
Boing Boing — Boing Boing tv's global coffee correspondent Kyle Glanville is looking for the perfect bean, and you're invited along for the ride. You may recall his earlier appearances on the show when the 2008 US World Barista Champion introduced us to coffee roasting and espresso brewing at Intelligentsia. Today, we debut a series of episode featuring Kyle on a world coffee tour, and we join him as he visits plantations to learn about the growing, harvesting, and processing techniques of ...

BBtv WORLD: Roots of Voudun and Slavery's Legacy in Ouidah (Africa)
Boing Boing — Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. From the 17th to 19th centuries, millions of African people were sold
 into slavery, transported on ships 
to the Americas. With them came spiritual traditions 
including Voudun, which we now 
know as “voodoo.”
 Its roots are in the Dahomey kingdom 
on the West Coast of Africa, now the country of Benin. 
In today’s episode, I 
travel to Benin’s port city of Ouidah, ...

New Speakers Announced for NewTeeVee Live! [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... of Canoe Ventures, the new interactive advertising joint venture from the cable companies - Ben Ling, recent high-profile hire at YouTube and head of product management for all its syndication projects - Tania Yuki, senior product manager at comScore, who will be launching the firm’s new online video research initiatives - Xeni Jardin, host of the fabulous new web series “Boing Boing TV” - Felicia Day, star of the groundbreaking web ...

John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol II: "Wuthering Wire Transfers."
Boing Boing — Today on Boing Boing tv, we continue our SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, whose new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE launches next week. Hodgman himself describes this series as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM." ...

NTV Live: ABC, Canoe, YouTube, comScore; Michael Buckley, Xeni Jardin, Felicia Day!
NewTeeVee — ... David Verklin, CEO of Canoe Ventures, the new interactive advertising joint venture from the cable companies Ben Ling, recent high-profile hire at YouTube and head of product management for all its syndication projects Tania Yuki, senior product manager at comScore, who will be launching the firm’s new online video research initiatives Xeni Jardin, host of the fabulous new web series “Boing Boing TV” Felicia Day, star of the groundbreaking ...

BBtv -- Adele's "heartbroken soul": interview with Russell Porter (music)
Boing Boing — In today's episode of Boing Boing tv, our UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter interviews Adele, who describes her sound as "heartbroken soul." Adele's new album "19" was nominated for a Mercury Prize (think: Grammys, sort of, for the UK), and Russell caught up with her at the awards show backstage. Adele will be the musical guest on the October 18 edition of Saturday Night Live! The video for her song "Chasing Pavement" excerpted in today's BBtv was directed by Matthew Cullen. ...

(BBtv) John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer.
Boing Boing — ... hits the streets on October 21, but by no means is today's episode of Boing Boing tv any sort of, oh, how do the marketing people say it -- it's not a book trailer, and it is by no means a promotional vehicle for said book. ...

Boing Boing tv: Cafe Tacvba -- Interview and Performance (Music)
Boing Boing — ... caught up with the tacubos backstage after their set at the Outside Lands festival, and our UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter asked them important questions about their excellent shoes, and why lots of ladies run screaming to stage-rush them during shows (Answer: because they're awesome). ...

Is PopTub a Warning Shot Across the Bow of Content Producers?
Mashable! — ... today that Google continues to excel despite the tough economic times surrounding them means that more content plays like this will continue.  The first major foray in this was obviously the Knol, and developed concurrently was the Calvacade of Comedy, but this show that uses the concept of promotion of user content as it’s cover, crosses the threshold into personality driven content, very similar to the content created by outfits like Revision3 and many top blogs like Boing-Boing and even us here at Mashable. Will all content ...

"Hazy Day," Subatomic Nixons: animated Barminski music video
Boing Boing — ... pedals, and one-eyed yeti, ahoy! The Boing Boing tv crew is proud to return to the work of one of our favorite multi-media savants, Bill Barminski of Walter Robot Studios. The filmmaker, composer, illustrator and animator shares this new video work, a hypnotic flight of fancy for his music project, the Subatomic Nixons. Enjoy the "Hazy Day," and happy weekend, everyone. Special thanks to Barminski and Christopher Louie, and all of the Walter Robot team. Here are previous BBtv episodes featuring their work. ...

BBtv: Nostalgia 77 Octet's beatnik "jazz jihad," interview with Russell Porter (music)
Boing Boing — Boing Boing tv's UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter speaks with Ben Lamdin, founder of the nine-piece, alt-jazz ensemble Nostalgia 77 Octet (MySpace). Here's how one reviewer described their music: Imagine Breakstra hanging with Cinematic Orchestra, or DJ Shadow teaming up with Elvin Jones and you're close to the sound of Nostalgia 77. A dark and stormy clash of breaks n' beats, moody bass lines, and cosmic jazz. Also includes the heavyweight cover of The White Stripes' "7 Nation ...

(BBtv) A Song For The New Depression: "Mom and Pop Killer," by The Grouch. (music video)
Boing Boing — ... Today on Boing Boing tv, a music video about life and death in the New Depression: Mom and Pop Killer, by Bay Area "intelligent hip-hop" artist ...

John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol III: THE STOMATOLOGIST.
Boing Boing — ... find my special the man?" A note from our musical director: The adaptation of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) which opens today's episode was remixed in flagrante 8-bit by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson. Also: a special and hearty thanks to the talented and generous Ehrich Blackhound (previously boinged here) for creating our new, typographically-correct opening slates for this parody series. Previously on Boing Boing tv: * SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I * SPAMasterpiece Theater, ...

LOLarts show
Boing Boing — Boing Boing tv pal Mark Day of YouTube has a fun video report up from the LOLarts show taking place in San Francisco. LOLarts - LOLcats art show! Kthx! See also this related item on Scott Beale's Laughing Squid blog, LOL Arts Show, A Benefit For Partners in Reading.

Joe The Plumber, meet Dave The Fisherman
Boing Boing — Ari Kuschnir of m ss ng p eces, an independent video producer who collaborated with Boing Boing tv on one of our favorite episodes ever, has produced this short spot about a working class guy from Michigan who sees the world differently than "Joe the (faux) Plumber." Watch: Dave The Fisherman (YouTube)

BBtv: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1
Boing Boing — ... Oh, man, this is weird. How do we explain this? Okay. So, the Boing Boing tv team planned a series of episodes about Japanese monsters for Halloween, and for this purpose, we sent ...

BBtv: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 2
Boing Boing — Today on Boing Boing tv we continue a series of transmissions from Tokyo by our monster-hunting comrade Sean Bonner, who vanished mysteriously while seeking a legendary shrine devoted to the Kappa, a water-dwelling, ninja-turtle-like, child-sized creature who is fond of cucumbers and human colon meat, which it may access by grabbing up your butt. In yesterday's installment, Sean hooked up with Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda, authors of the previosly-boinged book Yokai Attack: The ...

John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol IV: V1V4 M3X1CO.
Boing Boing — ... Link to Boing Boing tv blog post with instructions on how to subscribe to our daily video podcast, and ...

Xeni at Web 2.0 Wed 11/4 in SF: Future of Online Video Panel
Boing Boing — ... , I'll be hosting a panel about the future of online video. It's something I've been thinking about, and working on, every single day since we launched Boing Boing tv a year ago. ...

Shine The Light on Obama
Boing Boing — ... Spontaneous singing at the first Second Line in New Orleans since the presidential election, November 9, 2008: Shine the Light on Obama (shot by AnorexicRapper). Related videos: Sudan Social Aid and Pleasure Club 2008, also shot today in New Orleans (shot by cjdunn1), and Sudan Kids Getting Down today, to the sounds of the Hot 8 Brass band, who we've profiled before on Boing Boing tv (part one, part two). ...

The Best Video Podcasts about Tech, Software and Internet Culture
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... Cranky Geeks – John C. Dvorak and his team discuss the most controversial topics in tech. This 30 minute podcast is released every Wednesday. BoingBoing TV – This podcast from the "directory of wonderful things" is about tech culture, ...

Boing Boing tv (and Xeni) at NewTeeVee Live: video
Boing Boing — ... invited me to join them yesterday to talk about Boing Boing tv's first year on the air, on the intertubes. Here's a video of our "fireside chat," which was in fact, actually by a fire of sorts. Video is about 15 minutes long. ...

Gabe & Max's Guide to Man Style #2: Beauty Tips
Boing Boing — ... . These are delightfully creepy, and some of the guys in the studio where we produce Boing Boing tv have found them most useful. Are you in Brooklyn Thursday night? ...

Gabe & Max's Guide to Man Style #2: Beauty Tips Gabe & Max's Guide to Man Style #2: Beauty Tips
Boing Boing — ... . These are delightfully creepy, and some of the guys in the studio where we produce Boing Boing tv have found them most useful. Are you in Brooklyn Thursday night? ...

Boing Boing tv: We're a Year Old, and Yes We Can (Announce a New Programming Plan)
Boing Boing — ... Today, we announce some changes over at Boing Boing tv -- the good kind. The show completed its first year of Boingsistence on October 2, 2008 (remember ...

Boing Boing tv Update: OFFWORLD, YES MEN, and THIS IS THE FIRST.
Boing Boing — In this week's Boing Boing TV update, we discuss what's ahead with the launch of BOING BOING: OFFWORLD, and we speak with the YES MEN about their EPIC STUNT last week in which they printed and distributed lots and lots of copies of a New York Times fantasy-edition, with the headline IRAQ WAR ENDS. Mark blogged about this last week, with video. We speak to three of the guys who made this event possible over a multi-channel iChat session that gets kind of melty sometimes. They ...

Joel reviews the Selk Bag, impersonates Gumby (video)
Boing Boing Gadgets — Halloo! Xeni here sneaking in a post on Boing Boing Gadgets! This week, Boing Boing tv is debuting regular product reviews produced with Joel and the crew, and we'll blog 'em here on Gadgets first. What better way to kick the series off than a lulz-filled analysis of the Lippi Selk Bag, a sleeping bag with arms and legs that makes our Joel look like a bespectacled Gumby? The funky-chunky "sleepwear system" ranges in price from $169 to $399. I imagine they'd really ...

BBtv: SELK Bag, Boing Boing Gadgets review with Joel Johnson
Boing Boing — This week, Boing Boing tv is debuting regular product reviews produced with Joel and the crew, and we'll blog 'em here on Gadgets first. What better way to kick the series off than a lulz-filled analysis of the Lippi Selk Bag, a sleeping bag with arms and legs that makes our Joel look like a bespectacled Gumby? The funky-chunky "sleepwear system" ranges in price from $169 to $399. I imagine they'd really come in handy at one of those outdoor all-nighter raves, unless you get ...

Boing Boing Launches Gaming Blog
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere — ... exploring and featuring gaming's blockbusters, powerhouses and the history of its respected decades-old institutions, but in general we hope to chase away a lot of the industry's cynicism and myopia that's set in and bring the joy of discovery and a fresh breath of playfulness and wonder back, because we're all in this to have fun, aren't we? The blog is part of the growing Boing Boing blog network which includes Boing Boing, Boing Boing Gadgets and Boing Boing TV. There's also an explanation of Offworld here from BB TV. If you enjoy ...

BBtv: Offworld Premiere. What's Offworld?
Boing Boing — ... After an oxygen fire knocked our interstellar video link temporarily out of commission, we bring you our Boing Boing TV premiere via Azeroth, where my spiritual Death Knight equal gives you a little background on where we're is coming from and where I hope to steer the ship. As usual, here's ...

BBtv: Tibetan Sovereignty Supporters Hold Historic Meeting in India to Plan Future.
Boing Boing — In this special episode of Boing Boing tv (Direct MP4 link for download), Xeni interviews Tibetan sovereignty activists Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin "Tendor" Dorjee from Students for a Free Tibet, over a Skype video chat. They're in Dharamsala, India, the home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government In Exile, and they're attending an historic week-long meeting taking place this week to determine the future of the Tibetan independence movement. Snip from a New York ...

(BBtv) Unicorn Chaser, Friday Review: Offworld.com Death Dwarf Dance
Boing Boing — ... Perhaps you were "busy" doing "productive things" like "earning a living" this week, and missed your weekly dose of Boing Boing tv? I'll re-embed the episodes below. ...

Joel Reviews T-Mobile Cameo Picture Frame (BBtv Video)
Boing Boing Gadgets — Ahoy, readers -- Xeni Jardin sneaking in a BBtv post here. In this week's Boing Boing Gadgets review episode on Boing Boing tv, Joel Johnson reviews the T-Mobile Cameo Picture Frame, which displays digital photos but also sort of works like a phone. Joel's thumbs were neither decisively up nor down, but rather pensively wrapped around a scotch SORRY, *BOURBON* tumbler. Here is an MP4 for your downloading pleasure. After the jump: a slideshow of the images Boing Boing Gadgets readers ...

Boing Boing Gadgets: Joel Reviews T-Mobile Cameo Picture Frame (BBtv video)
Boing Boing — In this week's Boing Boing Gadgets review episode on Boing Boing tv, Joel Johnson reviews the T-Mobile Cameo Picture Frame, which displays digital photos but also sort of works like a phone. Joel's thumbs were neither decisively up nor down, but rather pensively wrapped around a scotch tumbler. Link to post on Boing Boing Gadgets where you can discuss (and by "discuss", I mean make fun of Joel's holiday sweater). Here is an MP4 for your downloading pleasure. Below, a slide ...

Happy Thanksgiving from BBtv: "Hazy Day" music video fave
Boing Boing — ... Today, the Boing Boing tv crew takes the day off for time with family, friends, and food. We revisit one of our favorite good-vibe animation episodes, a lovely video from Bill Barminski. Perhaps you missed it? Do watch now. ...

BBtv: Friday recap + Unicorn Chaser - Joel of Boing Boing Gadgets in "UHHHHHH."
Boing Boing — As is our newly minted tratition, Boing Boing tv ends the holiday week with a Unicorn Chaser. In today's edition, Boing Boing Gadgets' Joel Johnson, who trekked out into the wilderness for this previous episode, returns there to perform the nerdcore anthem embedded above -- UHHHH. (MP4 Link). Not a single one of these grunts was repeated. All were taped in the order they appear in this remix, the morning after Joel was nearly bitten by a snake, doing a gadget review out in the wilds. ...

Portraits from Iran: "Pictures of You"
Boing Boing — ... At the same installation, we had a visitor tell us that he wanted to go and get dynamite and destroy the artwork. One of our staff members engaged him in conversation about the show, and within ten minutes he had changed his mind completely. Pictures of You: Images from Iran (Pars Arts) * Diclosure: By day, Sepideh works with DECA, the company with whom Boing Boing partnered to launch Boing Boing tv.

Boing Boing tv Update: Econopocalypse, Julie Amero, Holiday Gifts, Mumbai.
Boing Boing — Embedded above, and in glorious technicolor downloadable MP4 here: this week's Boing Boing update on Boing Boing tv. ...

(BBtv) Boing Boing Gadgets: Freestyle Audio Soundwave Underwater MP3 Player (naked video review)
Boing Boing — A career milestone for Joel Johnson on Boing Boing tv -- his very first shower scene. The naked gadget reviewer explains: What hath videoblogging wrought? It is my honor and personal shame to present my video review of the Freestyle Audio Soundwave underwater MP3 player. Using the miracle of not showing you my junk, this is my first nude videoblog, but remains safe for work. Except for my dancing, which if everything goes to plan, will induce crippling nausea. If you'd like a direct ...

(BBtv) Stormtrooping Akihabara: Silicon Valley meets Tokyo meets Star Wars meets Sexy Maids / feat. Joi Ito + Danny Choo
Boing Boing — ... otaku culture and has one of the most popular English language websites about Japan. One of his favorite things is to dress up as a storm trooper and spread his love and happiness in Akihabara. He is often accompanied by his side-kick Darth Vader, played by Hector Garcia who also has a super-popular blog about Japan. (Danny on CNN talking about this hobby of his.) When I talked to Xeni Jardin about this, we decided that this might make a good Boing Boing TV episode... and I think we were right. Thanks to everyone who participated and ...

(BBtv) Stormtrooping Akihabara: Silicon Valley meets Tokyo meets Star Wars / feat. Joi Ito and Danny Choo
Boing Boing — ... otaku culture and has one of the most popular English language websites about Japan. One of his favorite things is to dress up as a storm trooper and spread his love and happiness in Akihabara. He is often accompanied by his side-kick Darth Vader, played by Hector Garcia who also has a super-popular blog about Japan. (Danny on CNN talking about this hobby of his.) When I talked to Xeni Jardin about this, we decided that this might make a good Boing Boing TV episode... and I think we were right. Thanks to everyone who participated and ...

Stormtrooping Akihabara: Silicon Valley meets Star Wars meets Tokyo's Gadget and Maid district (BBtv)
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... otaku culture and has one of the most popular English language websites about Japan. One of his favorite things is to dress up as a storm trooper and spread his love and happiness in Akihabara. He is often accompanied by his side-kick Darth Vader, played by Hector Garcia who also has a super-popular blog about Japan. (Danny on CNN talking about this hobby of his.) When I talked to Xeni Jardin about this, we decided that this might make a good Boing Boing TV episode... and I think we were right. Thanks to everyone who participated and ...

Unicorn Chaser: John Hodgman Spamasterpiece Theater Bloopers
Boing Boing — If it's Friday, and, why, yes it is, it's time for a Unicorn Chaser on Boing Boing tv. Today: bloopers, out-takes, and oblique lulz from the amazing John Hodgman, minor television personality and author of More Information Than You Require (Amazon link). Direct MP4 Link, if you prefer download. ...

Boing Boing tv Week in Review
Boing Boing — Oh, what a week we had in Boing Boing television. ♦ MONDAY: Our Weekly Update featured Dale Dougherty speaking with us about why he believes television news (specifically CNN) is having a hard time covering the economic crisis. We spoke to the substitute teacher in Connecticut whose life became an extended living hell because of pop-up porn on a computer in her classroom, and the stupidity of overeager prosecutors, lying IT "experts," and corrupt, buck-passing bureaucrats. We viewed snapshots of the tragedy in Mumbai, a city known ...

BBtv Update: Used Cameras to Skid Row; Claymation Splatterpunk; Clay Shirky Guestblog; Mark's Chickens + Yakety Sax
Boing Boing — In this week's Boing Boing update on BBtv (Here's a direct MP4 Link, 05:33 duration)... ♦ Remember that project we blogged about a few weeks ago -- Donate Your Used Digital Camera to LA's Skid Row Photo Club? Well, many of you did. The gadgets went to good use at the Skid Row Photo Club, and project participants join us today, live from the heart of Skid Row, to tell you why it mattered (and still does). They're accepting used camera donations, and project ...

BBtv WORLD + WITNESS.org: 60 Years of Declaration of Human Rights, and Rights of The Mentally Disabled
Boing Boing — (Warning: the video embedded in this post contains graphic content that viewers may find disturbing.) Boing Boing tv commemorates the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights this week in partnership with WITNESS. Have you read the declaration lately? You can do so here. It is as timely and essential to our world today as it was on December 10, 1948, just after the end of World War II. WITNESS was founded by musician and activist Peter Gabriel with ...

BBtv WORLD: WITNESS, 60 Years of Declaration of Human Rights, and Rights of Mentally Disabled
Boing Boing — (Warning: the video embedded in this post contains graphic content that viewers may find disturbing.) Boing Boing tv commemorates the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights this week in partnership with WITNESS. Have you read the declaration lately? You can do so here. It is as timely and essential to our world today as it was on December 10, 1948, just at the end of World War II. WITNESS was founded by musician and activist Peter Gabriel with other ...

BBtv: Xeni interviews WITNESS.org digital archivist Grace Lile on video and human rights
Boing Boing — Boing Boing tv is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights this week in partnership with WITNESS. Founded by musician and activist Peter Gabriel in 1992, the group uses video and online media to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. Today, we present this interview with the organization's digital archivist, Grace Lile about video as a tool to fight human rights abuses at home and abroad. She tells us about how WITNESS gathers videos ...

Machine Project's FRY-B-QUE is this weekend in LA
Boing Boing — ... , a wonderful little alt/tech gallery and event space in Los Angeles where we've shot many a Boing Boing tv episode, is hosting another one of their annual holiday season ...

(BBtv + WITNESS) A Duty to Protect: Child Soldiers in the Congo
Boing Boing — (Flash video embedded above, downloadable MP4 Here.) More than 20,000 children have been abducted and forced into armed service by warring factions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1996. In day two of Boing Boing tv's three-day special series in partnership with the video network WITNESS commemorating the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, we present this special feature on the lives of the child soldiers in DRC. In this episode, we'll hear from Bukeni Waruzi of ...

BBtv Unicorn Chaser: The Goofy Truth Behind Our Presence at a Certain Music Festival.
Boing Boing — (Flash video embedded above, MP4 Link here.) BBtv presents this week's Friday "Unicorn Chaser" -- the goofy truth behind Xeni and BBtv's UK music correspondent Russell Porter's reports from the SF Outside Lands music festival. Summer concert season is long gone, and the gaffer tape that once spelled "Boing Boing tv" on our tour bus has long since faded, along with our concert sunburns. So we figure it's safe to reveal how much dorking out took place between story tapings and band sessions. ...

(BBtv + Witness) A Massacre Remembered in Guatemala.
Boing Boing — (Flash video embedded above, MP4 Link here.) Today is the final installment of Boing Boing tv's three-day special series in partnership with the video network WITNESS commemorating the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In this episode: the story of Jesus Tecu Osorio, a Maya Achí man who witnessed one of the most horrific massacres of Guatemala's 36-year internal conflict, when he was a child -- and what he is doing to preserve the memory of victims, ...

BBtv Unicorn Chaser: The Goofy Truth Behind Our Presence at a Certain Music Festival.
Boing Boing — (Flash video embedded above, MP4 Link here.) BBtv presents this week's Friday "Unicorn Chaser" -- the goofy truth behind Xeni and BBtv's UK music correspondent Russell Porter's reports from the SF Outside Lands music festival. Summer concert season is long gone, and the gaffer tape that once spelled "Boing Boing tv" on our tour bus has long since faded, along with our concert sunburns. So we figure it's safe to reveal how much dorking out took place between story tapings and band sessions. ...

Los Angeles: Imaginary Foundation gallery show
Boing Boing — ... " t-shirt. The show is titled "I Dream, Therefore I Become," and will be the subject of Monday's episode of BBtv. Tune in, and turn on. ...

To do in LA: Glen E. Friedman's photo show at Shepard Fairey's gallery
Boing Boing — ... and got a sneak preview (as well as to help film and upcoming episode of BoingBoingTV about the show) and it’s breathtaking. Trust me, you don’t want to miss seeing all these photos in person. ...

I Dream of CES: Your Input Requested, With or Without Kitteh Assistance.
Boing Boing — Boing Boing TV will be traveling to Vegas for CES (Jan 8-11, 2009) with our colleagues over at Boing Boing Gadgets to do video reports from the show floor. Possibly with the assistance of hard-working investigative journalists like the guy you see above (who could frankly use a shave). Our video crew will be joining Joel, John, Rob to walk through the maze of consumer electronics offerings, separating the junk from the gems, and trying to parse what's worth separating you from your heard-earned samoleans. To get us started ...

I Dream of CES: Your Input Requested, With or Without Kitteh Assistance.
Boing Boing Gadgets — O HAI. Xeni here, dropping by for a quick post. Boing Boing TV will be traveling to Vegas for CES (Jan 8-11, 2009) with our colleagues over at Boing Boing Gadgets to do video reports from the show floor. Possibly with the assistance of hard-working investigative journalists like the guy you see above (who could frankly use a shave). Our video crew will be joining Joel, John, Rob to walk through the maze of consumer electronics offerings, separating the junk from the gems, and trying to parse what's worth separating you ...

BBtv: Bubblyfish at Blip Festival 2008 with Joel Johnson
Boing Boing — ... Today on Boing Boing tv, the first in a series of gaming/gadget features with Joel Johnson from an annual celebration of 8-bit/videogame-inspired music. Joel says: ...

The Road to CES: What do you want?
Boing Boing — (Embedded Flash video above, and here's a downloadable MP4) In just a few weeks, Boing Boing TV will be traveling to Vegas for The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show with the Boing Boing Gadgets guys -- Joel, John, and Rob. We're planning to broadcast video reports from the show floor. We're also bracing ourselves for lots of casino umbrella drinks. To get us started in planning our coverage on the blog in text, photos, and in video, we thought it might ...

The Road to CES: What do you want? (Boing Boing TV + Gadgets Wünderteam, ACTIVATE!)
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Embedded Flash video above, and here's a downloadable MP4) Halloo, Xeni visiting over here on Boing Boing Gadgets for a quick post -- yup, that's my blurry mug above. Go ahead, click my face! I talk! So, in just a few weeks, Boing Boing TV will be traveling to Vegas for The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show with the Gadgets guys -- Joel, John, and Rob. We're planning to broadcast video reports from the show floor together. We're also bracing ...

(BBtv) Blip Festival 2008: Joel interviews Jellica, Mr. Spastic, and Nullsleep
Boing Boing — (Flash video embedded above, here's a downloadable MP4.) Today's episode of Boing Boing tv is an OFFWORLD feature -- this time, Joel and Rob visit the annual chiptunes music gathering Blip Festival 2008, better known as "blipfest." Joel interviews several artists in this episode who create music inspired by the aural texture of old-schoold video games: Mr. Spastic, Jellica, and Nullsleep. ...

(BBtv) Blip Festival 2008: Joel interviews Jellica, Mr. Spastic, and Nullsleep
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Flash video embedded above, here's a downloadable MP4.) Today's episode of Boing Boing tv is an OFFWORLD feature -- this time, Joel and Rob visit the annual chiptunes music gathering Blip Festival 2008, better known as "blipfest." Joel interviews several artists in this episode who create music inspired by the aural texture of old-schoold video games: Mr. Spastic, Jellica, and Nullsleep. ...

Killing Capitalism With Christmas: Happy Holidays from BBtv + monochrom!
Boing Boing — (Flash video embed above, downloadable MP4 here.) Longtime Boing Boing tv contributors monochrom have brought us Soviet terrorism training videos, improvisational urban fires, and highfalutin economic philosophy from the mouths of sock puppets. Monochrom sock puppets Kiki & Bubu return to us today, for a very special holiday-themed episode: Kiki & Bubu & The Feelings. The yuletide song they perform for us is sure to be an instant classic ...

Killing Capitalism With Christmas: Happy Holidays from BBtv + monochrom!
Boing Boing — (Flash video embed above, downloadable MP4 here.) Longtime Boing Boing tv contributors monochrom have brought us Soviet terrorism training videos, improvisational urban fires, and highfalutin economic philosophy from the mouths of sock puppets. Monochrom sock puppets Kiki & Bubu return to us today, for a very special holiday-themed episode: Kiki & Bubu & The Feelings. The yuletide song they perform for us is sure to be an instant classic ...

BBtv Unicorn Chaser: Diesel Sweeties Laser Robots
Boing Boing — (Flash embed above, or download an MP4 video here.) Happy Hols from Boing Boing tv! In this week's Friday Unicorn Chaser episode, Sculptor Chris Yates creates laser-cut robots for the holidays, based on the Diesel Sweeties webcomic by R. Stevens.

Two Iranian Bloggers in Danger: Omid Reza Mirsyafi and Hossein Derakhshan
Boing Boing — ... , with whom we partnered to launch BBtv) shares word of a new series of blogger arrests inside Iran. The only really solid coverage I was seeing was in Farsi, so I asked her to please translate for Boing Boing. Here it is: ...

Boing Boing tv year in review: Galactic Super Funtime
Boing Boing — ... Happy Lazy-Time on Boing Boing tv! We're slowing down for the holidays, and taking a few weeks to gloat over all the fun stuff we produced together in 2008. Come join us in the seasonal gloating! Right here, under the genetically engineered mistletoe, by the warmth of burning fuel cells. ...

Best of BBtv in 2008: Xeni Flies in Zero Gravity
Boing Boing — (Flash embed above, here's a downloadable MP4 link) Continuing in our retrospective of favorite Boing Boing tv episodes from 2008, we return to zero gravity today. With me on the Zero-G weightless flight featured in this episode are Intel Chairman Craig Barrett; my friend Sean Bonner from metblogs; and a bunch of science teachers from grade schools and high schools throughout the United States who were on board to conduct microgravity experiments for the kids back home. ...

Joel Johnson on the Road to CES: What Do You Want? (BBtv + BB Gadgets)
Boing Boing — Continuing in Boing Boing tv's "Road to CES" series, Joel Johnson at Boing Boing Gadgets sez: Although we didn't bother with CES last year, this year the Boing Boing team will be out in the cold Las Vegas desert, sifting through piles of sadness incarnate to find the precious products that might actually make our lives — if not truly better — a little happier in the coming year. I'm more excited about going to CES as I have been in a long time. ...

Joel Johnson on the Road to CES: Film Noir Edition (BBtv + BB Gadgets)
Boing Boing — Continuing in Boing Boing tv's "Road to CES" series, Joel Johnson at Boing Boing Gadgets sez: Although we didn't bother with CES last year, this year the Boing Boing team will be out in the cold Las Vegas desert, sifting through piles of sadness incarnate to find the precious products that might actually make our lives ??? if not truly better ??? a little happier in the coming year. I'm more excited about going to CES as I have been in a long time. ...

Boing Boing tv: Christmas Cards from a K'iche Maya Pueblo.
Boing Boing — ... This week, the Boing Boing tv crew is taking a week off, and we've been revisiting some of the episodes that mean the most to us over the past year. ...

BBtv: David Silverman's Holiday cards, and Tuba Carols
Boing Boing — Happy holidays from Boing Boing tv! Continuing in our retrospective of favorite episodes from our first year: Each year, David Silverman (director of the Simpsons Movie, and longtime director of the TV show) illustrates holiday cards for friends and family. Xeni visits him in his home studio for a re-enactment of the craziest years in holiday cheer, complete with tuba carols. ( Flash embed above, and here's a direct MP4 download link. ) ...

BBtv: David "Simpsons" Silverman's Holiday cards, and Tuba Carols
Boing Boing — Happy holidays from Boing Boing tv! Continuing in our retrospective of favorite episodes from our first year: Each year, David Silverman (director of the Simpsons Movie, and longtime director of the TV show) illustrates holiday cards for friends and family. Xeni visits him in his home studio for a re-enactment of the craziest years in holiday cheer, complete with tuba carols. ( Flash embed above, and here's a direct MP4 download link. )

BBtv .08 retrospective: "Animals," by Minilogue (dir: Kristofer Str??m)
Boing Boing — ... Continuing in our lazy-time retrospective of favorite Boing Boing tv episodes from the past year, we revisit an animated music video gem by ...

BBtv .08 retrospective: "Animals," by Minilogue (dir: Kristofer Ström)
Boing Boing — ... Continuing in our lazy-time retrospective of favorite Boing Boing tv episodes from the past year, we revisit an animated music video gem by ...

BBtv Favorites from 2008: TechShop, a Community Tinkering Space
Boing Boing — (Flash embed above, downloadable MP4 link here.) Continuing in our retrospective of favorite Boing Boing tv episodes, we revisit the fun we had checking out TechShop, an open-access public workshop that's kind of like a health club with heavy machinery and sparks instead of treadmills. Tinkerers, inventors, and hackers pay a membership fee, and in turn receive access to professionally-maintained gear, workshops, mentors, and a community of like-minded makers. Currently there is only one site in Silicon Valley, ...

BBtv Favorites from 2008: TechShop, a Community Tinkering Space
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... Xeni here, popping in for a post on Boing Boing Gadgets to share one of our favorite Boing Boing tv episodes from 2008. We're doing a year-end retrospective all week on the motherboing. ...

Boing Boing tv Best of 2008: TCHOcolate Magical Mystery Tour Trilogy
Boing Boing — ... In part one of Boing Boing tv's multi-part exploration of Tcho, we begin in the lab, and learn about the origins of chocolate: it's a weird looking fruit with biological roots in faraway tropical lands. How this fruit is cultivated, harvested, and cured determines the flavor of the final product, and we learn about the hedonics -- the sensual nuances -- of this exotic and temperamental element. ...

Boing Boing tv: The Herd, "2020," music video by Mike Daly (buh-bye, 2008!)
Boing Boing — ... A special treat from Boing Boing tv for your New Year's eve revelry, we're gonna sneak this one last episode in before the clock strikes 2009 here! Enjoy this music video for Sydney, Australia-based band ...

The Official Streamy Awards Nominees
NewTeeVee — The International Academy of Web Television announced the official nominations for the first annual Streamy Awards, which were created to recognize excellence in original episodic Web television programming. We’re co-hosting the Streamys with Tilzy.TV and Tubefilter, and the ...

Birdcage Dress by YourPsychoGirlfriend
Boing Boing — The fabulous Kasey McMahon of yourpsychogirlfriend.com, whose Compubeaver and Text-o-Possum we featured in early Boing Boing TV episodes, has sent along this amazing photograph of a newly completed work: a fully functional birdcage dress. By "fully functional," I mean that it has birdies in it. There's an Instructables for it, too! Roll your own. (thanks, Christy Canida and Kasey McMahon) ...

Boing Boing Video Nominated for Multiple Webby Awards. Hey, Vote for Us!
Boing Boing — Boing Boing Video (formerly Boing Boing TV) has been selected as a nominee for the 13th Annual Webby Awards in three categories, and has been selected as an Official Honoree in a fourth category. Huge, heartfelt, and humble thanks to everyone who made this possible, all contributors, cast, crew, and partners, past and present. In this blog post (above, below, and after the jump) we've embedded the highlights reels we submitted to the Webby Award judges for ...

Boing Boing Video: recent episodes, in case you missed.
Boing Boing — Here's a recap of the past week in Boing Boing Video episodes. Above -- Digital Open: A Call for Entries. Boing Boing Video is teaming up with Institute for the Future and Sun Microsystems to launch The Digital Open, a global expo for youth innovation. (Download MP4) Above: War Dialer, an experimental animation by Bob Jaroc and Plaid. Best experienced with headphones -- the ...

Vote For BB Video TODAY In The Webby "People's Voice" Awards or the Cat Gets It
Boing Boing — Kittens. Look at him there, the one on the left is Phillip. Until now, he was having a whale of a time. Vote for Boing Boing Video (formerly Boing Boing TV) today in the Webby "People's Voice" Awards, or Phillip gets it. Yes, that's right, this is shameless self-whoring, taken to the proverbial "whole 'nother level," fueled with the power of kittens. Tomorrow's the last day to vote, so I am not messing around. Here is how it works. (1) Mouse on over to The Webby People's Voice voting site. (2) Click "Online ...

Boing Boing Video: Welcome, Miles O'Brien!
Boing Boing — Just as we invite guestbloggers to the Boing Boing blog, we periodically welcome guest correspondents to Boing Boing Video, our daily online video program. I am thrilled to announce today that we have the honor of welcoming none other than Miles O'Brien, former CNN anchor and reporter, one of the most esteemed space and science journalists on the home planet, as a Boing Boing Video guest contributor. Snip from his bio: "Miles is a 26-year broadcast news veteran - with nearly 17 years as CNN's science, aerospace, technology ...

The return of BBTV: Boing Boing's former video acronym taken over by bedbugs
Boing Boing — We used to call our original video episodes "BBTV," and we don't anymore. We call it Boing Boing Video now. Well, ladies and germs, allow me to present to you the inheritor of that acronym: BBTV is now the name used by Bedbug TV, a guy who makes episodic web video content about how to deal with bedbugs. I think he runs a pest control company. His videos crack me up. The one above deals with how to cope with bedbug infestations in your home electronics products, like if your "electronics, books, ...