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From the editors of Boing Boing, an eclectic video exploration of &#039;net culture, DIY tech, geeky curiosities, science, art, and more (tv.boingboing.net).
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<title><![CDATA[Unicorn Chaser: Offworld.com Dirty Dancing Death Dwarf]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  In Boing Boing tv's inaugural Friday Unicorn Chaser, we reprise our OFFWORLD debut episode with a special extended dance remix of editor Brandon "Dirty Dancing Death Dwarf" Boyer, funking out in Azeroth. 
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:04:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tibetan Sovereignty Supporters Hold Historic Meeting in India to Plan Future.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  In this special episode of Boing Boing tv, 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 Times story by Edward Wong about the "Special Meeting":  The conclave is the first of its kind since 1991. The Dalai Lama has called for hundreds of Tibetans to gather in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to help decide on a new strategy for Tibet.  In a statement released Monday, the government in exile sought to play down speculation that a significant shift in its approach to the issue of Tibetan independence might be near.  “A change in policy need not come from this meeting,” the statement said, according to Reuters. “If a change in basic policy is considered necessary, there is a way that is democratic and which has the mandate of the Tibetan people.” Lhadon and Tendor are updating the SFT blog here, and they suggest that people interested in following the story check Phayul.com, and the High Peaks Pure Earth blog, with commentary from Tibetans inside Tibet and China. Here is a statement on the "Special Meeting" from the Dalai Lama, who is not personally attending. The Tibetan Government in Exile is producing video reports from the Special Meeting here. Tibetan poet Woeser has published her thoughts on the meeting here. (Special thanks to Laird Brown, and Phuntsok Dorjee) 
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:34:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BBtv: Offworld Premiere. What's Offworld?]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Here's the debut episode of our regular video updates from OFFWORLD, Boing Boing's new gaming blog. Editor Brandon Boyer says:  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 the direct MP4 link, if you prefer a downloadable rather than the Flash.  Offworld bonus fact: in real life, my eyes and sword glow a much more vivid shade of blue. That is indeed, though, almost exactly how I shake a tail feather.     Like this episode? Tell Brandon and the Offworld gang what you think over at offworld.com: the comments thread is here.   (SPECIAL THANKS to the Project Lore guys, who showed us around the 'hood -- namely, Charles Ottaway.) 
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:12:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BBtv:  SELK Bag, Boing Boing Gadgets review with Joel Johnson]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.   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 lucky --  interpersonal intra-bag intercourse might be logistically difficult in these.  Tell Joel what you think of his Gumby impersonation in the Boing Boing Gadgets comment thread for this video. And  here is a direct MP4 link, if you prefer a downloadable video to the Flash embed above.  
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:19:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boing Boing tv Update: OFFWORLD, YES MEN, and THIS IS THE FIRST.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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 are: STEVE LAMBERT FROM the ANTI ADVERTISING AGENCY, ANDY BICHLBAUM form the YES MEN, and SCOTT BEIBIN from THE LOST FILM FEST. Some of those names might be aliases, who knows, caveat lector. They say they received a cease and desist over email from HSBC over a parody HSBC ad that appears in both the print and online editions of their Faux NYT, but oddly, the C&amp;D (they showed us a copy) is addressed to the REAL New York Times. We have not yet been able to confirm the lawyergram's validity with HSBC, but the email headers suggest it's legit. In this Boing Boing TV update, you will hear music from Q-Burns Abstract Message and Eighth Dimension Records, and you'll hear me talk about BBtv's new programming changes. (Special thanks to Eddie Codel, Sean Bonner, and Scott Beale, who covered the Yes Men item early on). 
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boing Boing tv (and Xeni) at NewTeeVee Live: video]]></title>
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Can't see the video?                       The organizers of the annual online video event NewTeeVee Live 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. NewTeeVee Live Star: Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin (GigaOm, and thanks, Om Malik, Liz Gannes, and Chris Albrecht) 
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:51:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gnarls Barkley animated music video from Walter Robot]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Walter Robot, aka Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie, produced this video for Gnarls Barkley's new track "Mystery Man." Here are previous Boing Boing tv episodes featuring Barminski's work.
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:58:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol IV: V1V4 M3X1CO.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Today on Boing Boing tv we reprise our ongoing SPAMasterpiece Theater series featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman. His new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE was released just a couple of weeks ago.   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." Today's installment: V1V4 M3X1CO., in which we explore supply chain management solicitations with the help of luchadores, mariachis, beautiful black-n-white señoritas from the silver screen of our abuelitos, and GIANT NARCO-KITTEHS WITH UZIS. 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.    Previous SPAMasterpiece Theater episodes on Boing Boing tv: * SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I * SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. II   *  SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol III And more Hodgman on Boing Boing tv:  *  More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer, part 2.  * More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer.   *  More Information Than You Require.
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:09:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 2]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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 Japanese Monster Survival Guide, and the quest began. But the team vanished mysteriously, and we haven't been able to reach Sean for a week.    Today, he reappears, with proof that he has touched the mummified hand of the cucumber-loving amphibious prankster. He also brings us irrefutable proof that some of Japan's greatest manga artists found a source of inspiration in Kappa art. Also on the streets of Tokyo, just outside the shrine, BBtv's yokai squad discovered MONSTER KITTEH.  Here are some photos from Sean.   Previously: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1     
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:15:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Oh, man, this is weird. How do we explain this?  So, the Boing Boing tv team planned a series of episodes about Japanese monsters for Halloween, and for this purpose, we sent Sean Bonner to Tokyo, armed with a video camera. The plan was: meet up with Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda, authors of the previously-boinged book Yokai Attack: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide, and hunt down the truth about mythical monstrous creatures from Japanese folklore. We'd planned to start our Japanese monster series with a hunt for the Kappa, a water-dwelling, ninja-turtle-like, child-sized creature who is fond of cucumbers and human colon meat (I'm not making this up). Legend says the Kappa will reach into your butt to eat your colon, which is grosstastically awesome.  Anyway -- Sean made it to Tokyo, and shot evidence of the Kappa on Japan's urban streets (signs, blow-up Kappa dolls, stickers). But then, suddenly, the raw footage he was FTPing to us nightly just STOPPED. Bam. Just like that. And with it, all evidence we had of Sean's whereabouts and well-being. Today's BBtv episode is part one of what we hope will be a two-part series on Kappa Hunting in Tokyo. IF HE SURVIVED. Sean, I hope you were armed with cucumbers, because the alternative is too horrible to imagine.   Previously on Boing Boing: Japanese monsters, and how to survive their wrath: YOKAI ATTACK
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:55:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol III: THE STOMATOLOGIST.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Today on Boing Boing tv, we reprise our ongoing SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, whose new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, has just been released.  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." Today's installment: The Stomatologist, in which we answer a lovelorn Russian woman's age-old question, "Why I cannot 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, Vol. II 
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:37:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Song For The New Depression: "Mom and Pop Killer," by The Grouch. (music video)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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 The Grouch.  (Special thanks to director Isaac Klotz.)
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:19:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[(BBtv) John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer, part 2.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Author, minor television personality, and Boing Boing guestblogger John Hodgman returns to BBtv for more heretofore unrevealed spoilers from his large new book of fake knowledge, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE. In today's episode, we answer questions posed by Boing Boing tv fans via The Twitter, including one from Annalee Newitz of i09 blog which pertains to the subject of nude self-portraits. You really should watch this episode all the way to the end. Here are previous Boing Boing tv episodes featuring Mr. Hodgman. 
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:10:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nostalgia 77 Octet's beatnik "jazz jihad," interview with Russell Porter (music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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 Army". Hard to resist whether you're a hip-hop head, music lover, or jazz freak. For fans of Bonobo, Quantic, Cinematic Orchestra, Radio Citizen, Portishead, Polar Bear, Poets Of Rhythm, and Sleepwalker.
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:16:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Hazy Day," Subatomic Nixons: animation from Bill Barminski (music video)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Butterflies, wah-wah 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.   
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:47:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boing Boing tv: Cafe Tacvba -- Interview and Performance (Music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.    Café Tacvba (MySpace, Wikipedia) are one of the most, if not the most, imaginative and recklessly experimental indie rock bands ever to come out of Latin America. They formed in near Mexico City in the late '80s, and have been happily mutating ever since. I'm always kind of surprised when non-Spanish-speaking American friends don't know who they are -- they're sort of like the Radiohead of Mexico. Anyway, Boing Boing tv 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).      Sponsor Note: This episode, and other BBtv music features this month, are sponsored by the Crowdfire live music social media project. You can find images, video, and audio about the band featured in today's show at Crowdfire -- here's the search link for fan-uploads related to Café Tacvba.    Related Boing Boing tv episodes from Outside Lands:  * Roots Reggae Legends Toots and the Maytals (music)  * Broken Social Scene: interview and live performance (music) * Galactic's "Modern New Orleans Funk" with Xeni and Russell (music) * Interview with Cold War Kids frontman Nathan Willett (music) * Andy Gould, rock band manager, dances on the labels' graves. * Primus: Xeni interviews Les and Ler (music) * Kaki King, guitar hero: performance, interview with Xeni (music)  * BB Gadgets' Joel at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed * Carney at Outside Lands - a "Boing Boing tv Bus Session." (music) * Steel Pulse founder David Hinds at Outside Lands (music) * Boing Boing tv backstage at Outside Lands: (Xeni + Russell Porter)   (Special thanks to Wayneco for the magic bus, and to Virgin America for air travel.)
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:33:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.   John Hodgman's new book MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE 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.  No, we just noticed the star of Apple ads and Daily Show hijinks wandering aimlessly in the streets outside the BBtv studio this week. We invited him in for scotch and cocoa, and shared questions posed to him by BBtv viewers through the popular internet messaging website known as "The Twitter." We don't know how all those books managed to stack themselves from studio floor to ceiling. We are not holding those books in front of our faces in the first 10 seconds of this episode so that you might see the cover -- we're doing low-impact pilates. HEY LOOK, IT'S A CONTEST: If you would like to receive a Hodgmanically autographed copy of the book for which this episode is not a promotional trailer, reply to @xenijardin on The Twitter with the answer to this question:    What area of expertise does Hodgman credit Boing Boing tv for on page 592 of this excellent book?" We will select a winner randomly. Friends, spouses, love-slaves, and business partners of Boing Boing and Boing Boing tv are not eligible. (Serious face: this episode isn't an ad, we're just ridiculously hardcore fans of Hodgman. Watch our trufan-trailer here, then, seriously, go buy the book).   Previously on Boing Boing tv:   * John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol II: "Wuthering Wire Transfers."  * John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater.   * John Hodgman: More Information Than You Require. 
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:21:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Adele's "heartbroken soul": interview with Russell Porter (music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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.
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:22:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol II: "Wuthering Wire Transfers."]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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."   Today's installment: Barrister Abbey and Diana Khan in "Wuthering Wire Transfers," a tempting tale of financial transactions and naked lust that requires your soonest response.     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. * Previously on Boing Boing tv: SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:34:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BBtv WORLD: Roots of Voudun and Slavery's Legacy in Ouidah (Africa)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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,  one of the most important slave trade ports,  and a center of the Vodoun religion. We visit the Temple of Pythons and learn about Voudun religious practices, and witness some of the most important sites in the history of the slave trade. We walk along a beach that was the single most highly-trafficked embarkation point for West African slaves headed over the Atlantic to the Americas. One million people were forced on to ships here, many transported to Haiti and Brazil, where Voudun transmuted into voodoo and Candomblé.  Outsiders called this region the Slave Coast. Ouidah's residents today call the former boarding platform on this otherwise idyllic beach the Gate of No Return. -- XJ        (Photos: Xeni Jardin, CC license)
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:24:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Looking for the Perfect Bean: Kyle Glanville's World Coffee Tour, part 1 - Brazil.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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 Intelligentsia suppliers around the globe. In this first episode, Kyle visits the Fazenda Conquista plantation in Minas Gerais, Brazil where Ipanema Coffees grows, dries, and roasts their goods, with lots of weird gadgets and machines you probably haven't seen before -- some low-tech, some high-tech, but all really cool to watch. This plantation is one of the largest in Brazil, with 12 million coffee plants spread out over about 25 square miles of varying terrain. One of the most fun things about producing BBtv is working with people like Kyle, who share their expertise and life experiences with us in video through their own eyes. I learned so much watching this first installment with the BBtv team -- I especially loved the giant machines that look like AT-AT walkers, lumbering through the neatly trimmed rows of coffee plants. Also, for someone who drinks as much espresso as I do -- how did I never know that coffee beans are surrounded by an edible, sweet fruit, that when dried intact with the bean, make the flavor richer? Oh, and you have to check out the aerial tour of the plantation, which you can do in Google Maps or Google Earth: Link to Fazenda Conquista / Ipanema Coffees .kmz. Get ready for more of these java adventures with Kyle -- we're working on more, as he wanders the planet, looking for the perfect bean. Previous BBtv episodes featuring Kyle Glanville's Coffee explorations: * A Morning at Intelligentsia Coffee Part 2 * A Morning at Intelligentsia Part 1       
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:48:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Roots Reggae Legends Toots and the Maytals (music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  Toots and the Maytals are true reggae legends (more: Wikipedia, MySpace). Founder Toots Hibbert is credited with coining the word "reggae" in the band's 1968 single, "Do the Raggay." They've had more number one hit songs in Jamaica than any recording artist ever, and received a Grammy for Best Reggae Album of the Year in 2005.   He was a contemporary of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, and was featured in Perry Henzell's seminal 1973 reggae movie "The Harder They Come"  (Amazon link).  I joined BBtv's London-based music correspondent Russell Porter for a visit on the venerable Mister Toots' tour bus after an amazing set at Outside Lands, and we sat down with him for a conversation about the history of reggae, and what Toots thinks about contemporary hip-hop and dancehall -- and where his legacy leads. The generous vanity intro he did for BBtv is a thing of beauty, we can all die happy now.   Sponsor Note: This episode, and other BBtv music features this month, are sponsored by the Crowdfire live music social media project. You can find images, video, and audio about the band featured in today's show at Crowdfire -- here's the search link for fan-uploads related to Toots and the Maytals.    Related Boing Boing tv episodes from Outside Lands: * Broken Social Scene: interview and live performance (music) * Galactic's "Modern New Orleans Funk" with Xeni and Russell (music) * Interview with Cold War Kids frontman Nathan Willett (music) * Andy Gould, rock band manager, dances on the labels' graves. * Primus: Xeni interviews Les and Ler (music) * Kaki King, guitar hero: performance, interview with Xeni (music) * BB Gadgets' Joel at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed * Carney at Outside Lands - a "Boing Boing tv Bus Session." (music) * Steel Pulse founder David Hinds at Outside Lands (music) * Boing Boing tv backstage at Outside Lands: (Xeni + Russell Porter)   (Special thanks to Wayneco for the magic bus, to Michael Cacia, and to Virgin America for air travel.)
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:08:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Robert Plant and Allison Krauss interview with Russell Porter (music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  When Led Zeppelin founder Robert Plant teamed up with Nashville  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 album from the UK or Ireland. 
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:23:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Broken Social Scene: interview and live performance (music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.      Boing Boing tv is wrapping up the work week with a music feature on Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie rock music collective with about 20 members. Like a giant litter of hipster kittens! Together, they create a sound best described as Baroque Pop.  Each musician contributes their own unique style into an fusion of rhythm and ambience.  They’ve won two Juno Awards (sort of like Canada’s Grammys) for Alternative Album of the Year. BBtv's UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter caught up with Brendan Canning, one of the band’s founding members, at the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco.   Note: this episode, and other BBtv music features this month, are sponsored by the Crowdfire live music social media project. You can find images, video, and audio about the band featured in today's show at Crowdfire -- here's the search link for fan-uploads related to Broken Social Scene.    Related Boing Boing tv episodes from Outside Lands:   * Galactic's "Modern New Orleans Funk" with Xeni and Russell (music)  *  Interview with Cold War Kids frontman Nathan Willett (music)  * Andy Gould, rock band manager, dances on the labels' graves. * Primus: Xeni interviews Les and Ler (music) * Kaki King, guitar hero: performance, interview with Xeni (music) * BB Gadgets' Joel at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed  * Carney at Outside Lands - a "Boing Boing tv Bus Session." (music)  * Steel Pulse founder David Hinds at Outside Lands (music) * Boing Boing tv backstage at Outside Lands: (Xeni + Russell Porter)
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:26:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BBtv WORLD: Elephant-blogging in Benin with Xeni (Africa)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  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. Today: an ambient exploration of the creatures rustling around in a West African wildlife preserve at dawn.   I traveled to Benin not long ago, and I shot this video on a small handheld digital camcorder. This episode of our daily show is a little experiment in trying to convey what this place feels like, first-person, without too many words.    The Pendjari Biosphere lies in Benin's remote rural northwest, along the border of Burkina Faso. Despite poaching and environmental damage,  it's still home to a diverse number of species -- elephants, lions, monkeys, cheetah, and around 300 species of birds. We traveled here during the dry season, when animal spotting is easiest. Here is what we saw at dawn (the time of day when critters all come out to the watering holes and rivers). Poaching is still a big problem in this area, and organized trophy hunting for foreign tourists is still legal and in demand here (mostly visitors from France; Benin is a former French colony and French is the official language). Lion hunts are a lucrative trade in this extremely poor region, where most people are subsistence farmers.  But eco-tourism and less-invasive safari experiences are becoming more important to the local economy here, and offer a more sustainable future. Note: don't miss the epic baboon ball-grab at 0:35, and the mama elephant ripping tree branches off and getting ready to kill us around 1:50. We were too close to her kids, and we were having a hard time leaving quickly. Do not taunt happy-fun elephant. Related BBtv WORLD episode: BBtv World: Green tech and internet at the Songhai Center in Benin (Africa) 
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<link>http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/10/02/bbtv-world-elephantb.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:22:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater.]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  BBtv is launching a series of episodes featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, as the world waits breathlessly for the launch of his new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE . We have read it, dear viewer, and it is splendid. Today, the debut installment of Boing Boing tv's SPAMASTERPIECE THEATER, which Hodgman himself describes 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." We'll be releasing more of these in the coming weeks. Each one is composed exclusively of actual, unadulterated, unsolicited email. Like virtual raw foodists, we would not think of cooking perfect fruit that falls so gracefully from the internet's tree of life. We hope you enjoy. { fade to black, fade in Hodgman in the library chair, surrounded by spam ephemera}   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.
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<link>http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/10/01/john-hodgman-in-bbtv.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:40:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Galactic's "Modern New Orleans Funk" with Xeni and Russell (music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  New Orleans is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to the guys in the band Galactic, it's the motherland of funk. In today's Boing Boing tv episode, Xeni and Russell catch Galactic's Crescent City Soul Crewe live at the Outside Lands festival, and speak to them about the band's homage to this birthplace of jazz and its ancestral influence on many other forms of modern music. The band's newest release, From the Corner to the Block, is potent stuff, and pulling in rave reviews all over.  ( Sponsor note: Crowdfire is sponsoring this series of music features on BBtv, and you can find crowdsourced snapshots, audio, and video about this band at crowdfire.net. )
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<link>http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/09/30/galactics-modern-new.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:47:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russell Porter with "folk-n-roll" band Rachel Unthank & The Winterset (music)]]></title>
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Can't see the video?   Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now.  We're kicking off the week at Boing Boing tv with a visit from our London-based music correspondent Russell Porter, who sits down with Rachel Unthank & The Winterset, a experimental folk-roots ensemble from Northumberland, UK. Rachel and Becky Unthank are sisters, and Russell caught up with them at this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize, where they are up for high honors.  In his "best albums of 2007" review, Paul Morley of Observer Music Magazine described the band's work as "tough as it is gentle, as ancient as it is modern, and as coldly desolate as it is achingly intimate. They might not end up being the best-selling British all-girl group of all time, but they're well on their way to being the most charismatic and imaginative."  The girls are currently on tour throughout the United States and Europe. Their 2007 album The Bairns is lovely, and you can pick it up at Amazon, iTunes, and elsewhere around the web.
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
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