Posts Tagged ‘postertext’

Writer and illustrator Lisa Hanawalt snuck into the New York Toy Fair and wrote/illustrated a very funny, very snarky account of it for The Hairpin. My wife used to go to Toy Fair every year for work, and she always made it sound like a cross between a season in hell and Willy Wonka’s toy

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Snarky and funny illustrated account of a day at the New York Toy Fair

[Video Link] Jack Streat, the 17-year-old boy who made the AK-47 out of Lego pieces in the video above, has landed a book deal. LEGO Heavy Weapons will be released in May by No Starch Press. From LEGO guns mastermind and 17–year-old YouTube sensation Jack Streat comes LEGO Heavy Weapons, a collection of complete building

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New book shows you how to make Lego guns

[Video Link] Drug Policy Alliance’s Ethan Nadelmann talks about the raid at Oaksterdam University in the San Francisco Bay area. He speaks with Trish Regan and Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” Sign the petition to Obama to stop the medical marijuana raids.

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Federal agents raid medical marijuana school on Oakland

[Video Link] I’m looking forward to seeing this documentary. Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope — a film by Morgan Spurlock explores this amazing cultural phenomenon by following the lives of five attendees as they descend upon the ultimate geek mecca at San Diego Comic-Con 2010: — Eric, an aspiring illustrator, is hoping to

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Trailer for Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope

Copyfighting nerd rapper Dan Bull’s latest track is “Bye Bye BPI.” He created the video by asking his musician Facebook fans to submit photos of themselves holding messages to the British Phonographic Institute (the UK equivalent of the RIAA or IFPI). Here’s Thomas “CommandLine” Gideon commenting on Bull’s astonishing production process: It is astonishing how

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Copyfighting rapper Dan Bull to record industry: Bye Bye BPI

I blogged “Extermiknit!”, a knittable Dalek, back in 2007, but it turns out that an even cooler knittable Dalek of the same name was created on Feather and Fan in 2010, with an opening hatch containing a Kaled mutant, and here it is. After completing the top of the Dalek as specified, I created an

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Improving on the knit Dalek

[Video Link] “Tomorry is a drag man, tomorroy is a king-size bust.” Phillippa Fallon delivers a poem in High School Confidential (1958)

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Beatnik poem from High School Confidential

Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My hosts on episode 37 are cartoonist Ruben Bolling, whose comic, Tom the Dancing Bug, premieres weekly on Boing Boing, and Dean Putney,

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Gweek 037: Donald Duck is High on Arrival

Everyone seems to have A.D.D. these days. (In case you’ve been too distracted by your Twitter feed to remember, A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder — the inability to focus on any one thing for too long, the urge to do nine things at once, and the hyper, constantly shifting, unsettled feeling that goes along

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A.D.D. comic book: Exclusive essay and excerpt by author Douglas Rushkoff

Here’s the second episode of MAKE’s new podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I’ll interview one of the makers from the pages of the magazine. We created Make: Talk to find out about the people who write the how-to articles in MAKE. As you might guess, MAKE’s authors are often as interesting as the projects

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Make: Talk 002 – Bob Knetzger, Toy Inventor

Carl Franzen’s history of the SOPA/PIPA fight on Talking Points Memo is a fascinating account of the behind-the-scenes stuff that created the series of ever-larger protests that resulted in the bills’ demise. Of particular note is his credit to Tiffiniy Cheng, who, along with Nicholas Reville, and Holmes Wilson, forms a trio of Boston-bred activists

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Secret history of the SOPA/PIPA fight

Our friends at Adafruit Industries just announced FLORA, a new wearable electronics development platform. For the last few years Ladyada has been thinking about everything she wanted in a wearable electronics platform for Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. After months of planning, designing and working with partners around the world

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FLORA, Adafruit’s new wearable electronics development platform

Playboy’s website The Smoking Jacket interviewed cartoonist Chester Brown about his autobiographical novel, The Playboy. Jessica Campbell of Drawn & Quarterly (publisher of The Playboy) says, “OK, am I the only one who didn’t know that Hugh Hefner wrote to Chester after the publication of The Playboy to express concern about his guilt? This interview

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Playboy’s "The Smoking Jacket" talks to Chester Brown

[Video Link] This $50 controller looks cool, and the man in the video seems much nicer than Paul Christoforo. 60beat GamePad controller

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60beat GamePad controller plugs into iOS sound jack

[Video Link] When Glen Matlock (who probably wrote most of the Sex Pistols’ best songs) was kicked out of The Sex Pistols he formed a power pop band called Rich Kids. They only put out one album, but it’s one of my all time favorites.

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Rich Kids: "Ghosts of Princes in Towers"

[Video Link] A brave girl asks Michele Bachman why same-sex couples can’t get married. During a town hall, 16-year-old Jane Schmidt, the head of her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, asked the famously anti-gay congresswoman how she would support the LGBT community. After Bachmann said that “all Americans have the same civil rights,” Schmidt pressed her, even

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A 16-year-old girl challenges Michele Bachman on same-sex marriage

Ukrainian steampunk leatherworker Bob Basset’s taken a departure from his usual masks to produce these Christmas-themed “Mongol” decorative balls. Xmas ball “Mongol”

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Christmassy leather decorative balls

Arbroath says: “Anyone with a suspected marker pen in their trousers is now being closely monitored.”

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Unusual anti-tagging sign

[Video Link] Mel Marton of TUAW says: The NeXT episode was filmed by John Nathan for a TV series called Entrepreneurs produced by WETA in Washington D.C. Some of the most interesting sections are Jobs pressing Joanna Hoffman at the 11 minute mark. Hoffman was one of the original members of the Mac team. His

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20 minute documentary of Steve Jobs’ NeXT years

A stunning two-page illustration by James Bingham from the February 1952 issue of Argosy magazine, for Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Rocket Man.” I like the futuristic dome shaped house, with tinted panes of glass, and the mid century modern/Googie furniture and decor. The only thing I don’t like about it is the kid in

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Illustration for 1952 Ray Bradbury story, The Rocket Man

What a nice way to meet fellow geeks at the luggage carousel! Comes in a variety of colors. LEGO Brick – Luggage Tag: $4.95

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Lego luggage tag in the Boing Boing Shop

In Print online, Steven Heller reviews Zippy Goes to School: Born in Africa, the real Zippy lived the better part of his life with Bonnie and Lee Ecuyer. Adopted when he was just three months old, he was trained to eat at the dining room table with a spoon and fork (no knives, thank you).

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Steven Heller reviews Zippy Goes to School