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	Ask the Optimist! - Part 1 An adaptation of George Saunders' short story "Ask the Optimist," available in his newest collection, "The Braindead Megaphone." Produced ... all » by The Sound of Young America and Hoggworks. Featuring: Andy Daly (The Office, Mad TV), Dan Klein (Kasper Hauser), John Hodgman (The Daily Show), Xeni Jardin (Boing Boing), Jonathan Katz, Jen Kirkman, Maria Bamford, James Adomian and Jonathan Coulton. View Video
	John Hodgman Interview/Hobo Sketch Montage In this Boing Boing tv episode, Xeni Jardin barges in to a hotel room where the great John Hodgman is writing his next book (not on a PC, oddly). The book comes out in 2008, and will include never before known knowledge about mysterious MOLE MEN (among many other things). Then, we enjoy a cavalcade of hobos drawn by Ape Lad -- these are but a few of the 700 hobos named in Hodgman's last book, Areas of My Expertise. ------------------------- Latest episodes and RSS feed at tv.boingboing.net. View Video
	American Furry pt. 1 of 2 In this episode of Boing Boing tv (more at tv.boingboing.net): Furries get no respect. Usually, when you hear about people who dress up like life-sized stuffed animals, it's in the context of an unfriendly internet joke, a sex gag on Entourage, or an insult that ends with "yiff in hell." But Brooklyn-based filmmaker Marianne Shaneen has spent more than two years following these people around, capturing their lives in and out of their "fursonas." She's working on a documentary film called AMERICAN FURRY: Life, Liberty and the Fursuit of Happiness. Today on Boing Boing tv, an exclusive peek at this feature in progress. Marianne provided us with access to some of her raw footage (she's accumulated 2+ years' worth!), and we selected clips, edited, added some audio, and produced the short glimpse you'll see here. "I'm looking for an editor, a couple of animators, finishing funds, and a producer," says Shaneen -- so if you'd like to get involved, email her at info@rabbitholefilms.com. Special thanks to Susannah Breslin for first pointing us to this project. (Music by T.bias.) -- Xeni Jardin. View Video
	Space Couture Runway show In this episode of Boing Boing tv (see more at tv.boingboing.net)... What would you wear in outer space? Fashion designers, space entrepreneurs, and intergalactic travel advocates gathered to answer that question recently on a runway (the couture kind) near Los Angeles International airport. BBtv's Xeni Jardin was there, with two pro fashionistas providing live critique and comic relief: Nony Tochterman of Petro Zillia, and Oren Shepher of Spear Collection. "Space Style 2007: A Giant Leap for Couture" took place during the TRANSFORMING SPACE, an annual conference hosted by the California Space Authority (CSA) and the California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI). Participating designers included Louise Bisby, Rain Sherman, Danielle Kelly, Samantha Ceora, Payam Emrani and Syuzi Pakhchyan of SparkLab (her cool LED light-up bracelets have been covered in Make:CRAFT -- 1, 2). Misuzu Onuki, creator of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) space couture fashion show, presented the finalist designs from that competition. Martin Bergstrom of Sweden showed off burka-like headdresses, and "mathematically-inspired" Japanese designer Eri Matsui presented a zero-G-inspired wedding gown. The event was co-produced and co-hosted by Randa Milliron of Interorbital Systems, a Mojave-based rocket company working to make space transportation a reality, and Karyl Newman, an artistic consultant to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Space Authority (CSA) hosts included Andrea Seastrand and Celeste Volz Ford. View Video
	Mole Men imagined by Ape Lad / Mole Crunk In an earlier Boing Boing tv episode, John Hodgman gave us a sneak peek at his next book in progress, which includes mysteries of mole men. What do they look like? We don't know, the book's not finished. But Hodgman did share some of their names with us. Florida-based artist Adam "Ape Lad" Koford drew some of the 700 hobo names recounted in Hodgman's last book, so we asked him to imagine the mole-men for today's BBtv episode. Next, kick back with some earthworms and Stoli, and dig the smooth underground sounds of DJ Mole-licious. This "mole crunk" track was written and rapped by BBtv segment producer Russ Gooberman, with music by BBtv associate editor Laura Lopez. What set you from, homie? 6.02 x 10^23. -- Xeni Jardin. ------------------------- Latest episodes and RSS feed at tv.boingboing.net. View Video
	BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is not exactly a music video. "Begins like a laudanum-induced Christina Aguilera karaoke hallucination, then u-turns into Carrie meets Karen Finley meets a back-alley psychosexual nightmare." — Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing, September 12, 2004 (http://www.boingboing.net/2004/09/12/online_surrealcomic_.h tml) Warning: This performance is not work-safe. Enjoy at your own risk. Shot on July 18, 2004 in Historic West Adams, Los Angeles. Performed and directed by Jen Collins Camera: Julian Hoeber Stills: Ann-Marie Rounkle More at jencollins.com View Video
	IF/THENMOTO Scenario planining event organized by Benjamin H. Bratton, Rebeca Mendez, The Culture Industry and Ogilvy BIG in 2002 for Motorola. Featuring Nicholas Negroponte, Cory Doctorow, Geoffrey Frost, Sadie Plant, Natalie Jeremijenko, Numair Faraz, Xeni Jardin, Adam Eeuwens, Rene Daalder, Joy Mountford, Christian Moeller, Michael Speaks, Greg Lynn, Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Stuart Redsun, Aaron Betsky, Tim Parsey, AJ Peralta, Raymond Roker, Miltos Manetas, Mai Ueda, and others. View Video
	Ask the Optimist! - Part 2 his new book of essays, "Braindead Megaphone."...saunders george optimist daly hodgman xeni jardin jesse thorn hoggworks puppets funny comedy satire hogg coulton View Video
	True History of LOLcats The origination of the LOLcats and cat macro phenomenon popularized on sites like icanhazcheesburger.com is revealed in this Boing Boing tv episode, with help from illustrator Adam "Ape Lad" Koford (hobotopia.com). -- Xeni Jardin. Latest episodes and RSS feed at tv.boingboing.net. View Video
	Cryptozoology In this Boing Boing tv episode: Yeti, sea serpents, Sasquatch -- fantasy creatures or flesh-and-blood biological oddities? Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson visits the Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine to explore these cryptid enigmas and more. Joel speaks with the museum's founder, blogger and cryptozoology expert Loren Coleman, who is also the author of Mysterious America. - Xeni Jardin --------------------------- Latest episodes and RSS feed at tv.boingboing.net. View Video
	American Furry, Pt. 2 of 2 In this episode of Boing Boing tv (tv.boingboing.net): More of our exclusive preview of American Furry, a documentary film in progress. Subtitled "Life, Liberty, and the Fursuit of Happiness," this feature project from Brooklyn-based filmmaker Marianne Shaneen involves more than two years' worth of footage, and explores many aspects of the furry fandom. UPDATE: Shaneen tells BoingBoing, "I've also got new video that I've edited up on my website." Part one of BBtv's sneak peek at Furry is here: Link. Next, a visit to South Park Studios. From the command center of crew member Keef Barkus comes this time-lapse video of the last 24 hours of show preparation leading up to the airing of a South Park episode. Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and the rest of the South Park team sure do move fast. (Music in this episode: Q Burns Abstract Message, Formidable Force, T Bias, and Kokomo Arnold.) -- Xeni Jardin. View Video
	Visions of the Future/Listography In this first episode of Boing Boing TV: Listography (a book and website by Lisa Nola about documenting your life in lists); "Visions of the Future" (some cool old French lithographs by a guy named Villemard about life in the future, which is now the present); and a Unicorn Chaser (title card art by Ape Lad; video is the theremin-playing robot LEV doing Patsy Cline's "Crazy," by Ranjit Bhatnagar of moonmilk.com. A production glitch resulted in a lack of credit for that robot theremin video inside the episode. Please forgive us, o robots.) View Video
	Virgin Americans: Game w/ Blogger Guest Stars Even bloggers consider themselves Virgin Americans. This latest video features Peter Rojas of Engadget; Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation; Xeni Jardin, Cory Doctrow, David Pescovitz, and Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing. See more at http://onboard.virginamerica.com View Video
	Space Couture pt 2 (The Galaxy is Fabulous) This Boing Boing tv episode is part two of our coverage of "Space Style 2007: A Giant Leap for Couture," an intergalactic couture show which took place during the TRANSFORMING SPACE conference hosted by the California Space Authority (CSA) and the California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI). BBtv's Xeni Jardin was there, with two pro fashionistas providing live critique and comic relief: Nony Tochterman of Petro Zillia, and Oren Shepher of Spear Collection. In today's episode, we meet Syuzi Pakhchyan of SparkLab, and check out her cool LED light-up bracelets. ------------------- more videos and RSS feed at tv.boingboing.net. View Video

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