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Multiple dancing Bowies in bonkers 1978 Italian TV clip (video)
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 2:07 am
Richard Metzger says: This 1978 clip features the eternally popular Raffaella Carrà (now pushing 70) singing Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” as bald. mustachioed eye-patch wearing sci-fi weirdos, um, assist her..That’s only the “night” part, just wait until the troupe of caped, dancing “Aladdin Sane” clones show up near the end! Watch the video at [...]
Second attempt for SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon launch: Tue. May 22, 3:44am ET
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 1:57 am
A second launch attempt for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for 3:44am EDT, Tuesday May 22. Weather is currently 80% go. Watch it live here. For background, watch Miles O'Brien's PBS NewsHour feature, and SpaceFlightNow's QA with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceFlightNow will also have live coverage from Mission Control, with streaming video. (Image: [...]
Hot Chip: "Night And Day" (music video, dir. Peter Serafinowicz)
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 1:26 am
[Video Link] Above: "Night and Day," from Hot Chip's forthcoming album "In Our Heads" (June 11th, Domino). This music video was directed by Peter Serafinowicz, best known to most Boing Boing readers as an actor/funnyman in The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Look Around You, and a number of other TV series and films we've blogged about [...]
Sexy typewriter postcards of yore
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 12:39 am
On How to Be a Retronaut, an invigorating, 1910s-1920s gallery of winsome, partially unclothed lasses posed with typewriters. Hummina. 23 and/or skiddoo! They're ganked from marvellous Virtual Antique Typewriter Museum. Typewriter Erotica c. 1920s (via Making Light)
Ring of Fire: 2012 annular eclipse video made from 700 individual photo frames
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 12:32 am
[Video Link] Boing Boing reader Cory Poole is a 33-year-old math and science teacher at University Preparatory School in Redding, CA. He sends in this beautiful video of yesterday's annular solar eclipse, and says: This is a 60 second time-lapse video made from 700 individual frames through a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stacked Hydrogen [...]
Short documentary about Cosplay at New York Comic Con
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 12:23 am
Todd Bieber says: "I directed a video for Nerdist and Broadway Video. It's a fun series that takes you inside the world of Cos Play. There were so many videos out there poking fun at Cos Players that we wanted to create something that celebrated the culture." WTF is Cosplay? - Just Cos NYCC: Episode [...]
Star Wars supercut: Owen Lars
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 12:22 am
Phil Brown was the real protagonist in Star Wars. Thecussingchannel has a bunch more new Star Wars super cuts. (via Wired)
The Culture Maker: An Interview with Mark Frauenfelder Of Boing Boing
Boing Boing | 22 May 2012, 12:19 am
Kyle of the website Los Angeles I'm Yours profiled me and took a bunch of photos of my office. I had a great time chatting with him. Mark is based in Studio City, where he lives with his family in the hills neighboring Laurel Canyon. He grew up in Colorado for the most part, his [...]
The Bald Princess (a 4-year-old's drawing of Xeni, for women with cancer in chemo)
Boing Boing | 21 May 2012, 10:36 pm
I've been blogging and tweeting about my experience in treatment for breast cancer, including what it's like to go through chemotherapy. The chemo drugs I received made all my hair fall out (not all kinds do, but mine did). I've been going around "commando," as people with cancer say—bald, no wigs. Scarves or hats only [...]
People of Law & Order, eating
Boing Boing | 21 May 2012, 10:00 pm
Law & Order & Food is a Tumblr with nothing but stills of the Law & Order cast eating, which is something they seem to do a lot of, because the're in NYC, which has some pretty badass takeout. Also: it's characterization. Law & Order & Food (via MeFi)
