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Boing Boing Video review: Joel tries the Sigma DP2 camera

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:28:27 PDT

Boing Boing Gadgets' Joel Johnson reviews the Sigma DP2, which promises very high quality images with a compact device form.

BB Video - Pirate Bay Surrenders to Hollywood: Peter Sunde interview

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:50:19 PDT

At the Open Video Conference: Peter Sunde, co-founder of the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, speaks to Xeni Jardin via video chat from his home in Sweden, where The Pirate Bay is on trial for copyright infringement.

BB Video: "Web of Love," Prescient '60s Homage to Online Dating (Oddball Video)

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:24:38 PDT

A "Scopitone," an early 1960s video jukebox technology, featuring what appears to be a message about the perils of online dating. From Oddball Film + Video of San Francisco.

(BB Video) Mile-High Gaming with Virgin America + Google

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:36:06 PDT

Ze Frank, Kid Beyond, Shira Lazar, and World Puzzle Champ Wei-Hwa Huang joined Boing Boing's Rob and Xeni for in-flight networked Google gaming aboard WiFi-equipped Virgin America flights.

BB Video: "Ssshhh," by Hess is More, dir: m ss ng p eces (music video)

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:45:45 PDT

"Ssshhhh," a track from the new album "Hits" by Danish "playful techno" artist Hess is More, aka Mikkel Hess. Directed and produced by NYC-based m ss ng peces.

BB Video: Day in the Cloud - Google + Virgin America + mile-high fragging

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:27:06 PDT

Google Apps and Virgin America are teaming up for a day of cloud computing in the clouds. Boing Boing will be on-board with Jane McGonigal of IFTF.org.

BB Video: Omega Recoil, Mad Electro-Makers Who Craft Giant Tesla coils

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:18:07 PDT

Boing Boing video peeks inside the electrified world of Omega Recoil, a group of engineers and "makers" who craft giant Tesla Coils, and stage humorous and thrilling performances with those large electrical display devices.

BB Video: This Week in Space And Aviation, with Miles O'Brien

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:30:06 PDT

The veteran space and aviation reporter checks in with Boing Boing for updates on the shuttle launch, new information about the Air France crash, and the hearings into what led to the "miracle on the Hudson."

BB Video: Maker Faire Selects - CandyFab, DIY Screen Printing, Electric Music.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:56:53 PDT

Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing Gadgets editor Lisa Katayama profile three inventions at Maker Faire: The Yudu DIY screen printer, a sugar-fabbing device with Evil Mad Scientist Labs, and a musical Tesla Coil.

BB Video: "A VOLTA" from NASA Project: Narco-Cholo Game Ultraviolence

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:36:18 PDT

Music video from the N.A.S.A. (North America South America) project: "A Volta," featuring Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Love Foxxx. Video by Logan, with art by The Date Farmers

BB Video: Miles O'Brien on Technology Questions in The Air France Disaster

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:37:56 PDT

Air and Space reporter Miles O'Brien Skype chats with us on how black boxes work, whether flight data technology could be improved, and what might have gone wrong on AF447.

BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video - Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:00:17 PDT

An experiment in sculpting with mercury as a solid, from Theo Gray of PopSci.com, author of MAD SCIENCE.

BB Video: "Olé Cordobes," a 1966 Scopitone (via Oddball Film + Video)

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:18:40 PDT

Via Oddball Film + Video, a 1966 Scopitone that tells the romantic tale of a Spanish bullfighter, with help from an Amy Winehouse lookalike and mustachioed Flamenco dudes bearing overwrought facial expressions. The song is "Olé Cordobes," the credited artist is Miguel Cordoba.

BB Video: "Tank Tour" - One of World's Largest Collections of Historic Military Technology

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:24:10 PDT

Guest-host Todd Lappin walks us through one of the world's largest collections of historic military vehicles, collected by eccentric Silicon Valley multimillionaire Jacques Littlefield and now overseen by the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation.

BB Video - Boiler Bar: Oilpunk Creations + Sexy Burlesque Gyrations

Fri, 29 May 2009 09:02:55 PDT

"Punk, Hot Rod, Geek, Blue Collar, and Maker Culture mixed together with the Petroleum Golden Age of the last century."

BB Video: BIG YANK, a Weird '70s Jeans Ad (Oddball Film)

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:35:32 PDT

A weird old '70s jeans ad that appears to be promoting wedgies.

BB Video: "Dance Dance Revolution. With Flamethrowers. Pointed At You."

Wed, 27 May 2009 08:40:27 PDT

Dance Dance Immolation combines video games, music, and propane.

BB Video: This Week in Space, with Miles O'Brien

Wed, 20 May 2009 08:33:24 PDT

Guest contributor Miles O'Brien and Xeni Jardin catch up on this week's science and tech stories.

BB Video - Diving into Space: Miles O'Brien in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab

Tue, 19 May 2009 09:00:43 PDT

Space reporter Miles O'Brien visits NASA's Sonny Carter Neutral Buoyancy Lab, "the best spacewalk training there is this side of low earth orbit." In this episode, Hubble repair veteran John Grunsfeld practices the most challenging task of the last Hubble Repair Mission. Miles is the only reporter who has ever dived in the NBL.

BB Video - Guatemala Protests: Eyewitness Cellphone Video from Twitterers

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:54:09 PDT

A viewer-submitted report from protests in Guatemala City demanding justice for an assassinated lawyer who blamed the president for his imminent death.

BB Video - Miles O'Brien Reports: An Astronaut Climbs Everest

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:54:20 PDT

Space and science reporter Miles O'Brien, formerly of CNN, speaks with astronaut Scott Parazynski as he attempts to summit Mt. Everest.

Boing Boing Video: "To," an ambient animation by Bob Jaroc and Plaid

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:23:09 PDT

An ambient animation by filmmaker Bob Jaroc, with the music of Plaid, from the album "Greedy Baby."

BB Video: "Sebastian's Voodoo" - Vote for it, for Cannes!

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:10:53 PDT

Animated short by Joaquin Baldwin (http://www.pixelnitrate.com/), a UCLA grad student working towards his MFA in animation. A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his fellows from being pinned to death.

BB Video - $5 Cover: Craig Brewer's New MTV Series on Local Indie Music Life

Tue, 12 May 2009 10:46:39 PDT

BB's exclusive interview with director Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan) about his new MTV project, about local indie music scenes.

BB Video: "Ninja Assassin" - John Gaeta on Hybrid Entertainment Merging Film and Games.

Thu, 07 May 2009 10:45:54 PDT

The award-winning visual effects designer discusses the upcoming movie Ninja Assassin, and the future of "hybridized entertainment" that merges films and games.

Boing Boing Video: The Throbbing Gristle Interview

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:54:07 PDT

Throbbing Gristle, the band that invented "industrial music" in the 1970s, interviewed by Xeni Jardin and Richard Metzger in LA during TG's reunion tour. TG is Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and "Sleazy."

BB Video: ARPANET turns 40, and Vintage Computers in Slovenia

Tue, 05 May 2009 13:45:42 PDT

An exploration of hacker roots and vintage computer history at the Cyberpipe museum in Slovenia, with BB pal Johannes from monochrom.

BB Video: "Manifestations," An Animated Love Story, by Giles Timms

Fri, 01 May 2009 11:01:16 PDT

An animated short by Giles Timms in which the boxy cartoony Mr. Chip seeks love in a psycho-surreal alternate universe.

BB Video review: Tricaster, and the Future of Live Video Online

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:56:35 PDT

We review the Tricaster, a device that helps webcasters produce live video at high quality for less than conventional live television production.

BB Video: Top Chair? Joel Reviews The Herman Miller Embody and Steelcase Leap

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:09:38 PDT

BB Gadgets' Joel Johnson reviews two office chairs from Herman Miller and Steelcase, in this parody of the TV show TOP GEAR. Includes cute lovable bulldogs.