Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor-waiter-whatever, aspires against all odds to become America's next great action hero. In today's episode, he faces fearsome beautification trials that would surely deter lesser men, and happens upon a chance encounter with his idol: Keanu Reeves.
Previous Klaus Pierre episodes on BBtv:
Klaus Pierre: Red Carpet Botox Dreams
Klaus Pierre, French-German Action Hero in Training in America: Pirate Musical of Epic Fail
Klaus Pierre, French-German Action Hero in Training in America, studies Savate
Klaus Pierre, French-German Action Hero in Training in America at Coffee Shop.
Klaus Pierre, French-German Action Hero in Training in America, studies Swordfighting
Point Break and heartbreak
Xeni goes backstage at a
wearable technology fashion show held at the San Francisco
Exploratorium, and tries digital and analog clothing on for size.
(Still photographs that appear in this episode by Amy Snyder, used with kind permission of the Exploratorium)
In today's episode of Boing Boing tv,
Cory Doctorow checks in from his ongoing book tour for "
Little Brother," and reads a passage from this latest novel. We also learn all about the contents of his hotel minibar, and a cool steampunk watch he received which shoots cockroaches accross the room.
Previously on Boing Boing tv:
* Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
UK-based
Russell Porter chronicles alt music culture in the
Porter Report with aggressive wit and offbeat charm. Today, the "professional chancer and well known layabout" reports exclusively for Boing Boing tv from the beach in Brighton, with
Barry Hyde of
The Futureheads.
Here are previous BBtv episodes featuring Russell Porter. (special thanks to Jolon Bankey).
The BBtv crew is hard at play today, as you can see from the webcam snapshot above. We'll see you again tomorrow. Happy Memorial Day to our US audience. A quick peek at Wikipedia reveals that this is "National Sorry Day" in Australia, which sounded funny until we read the article; more here. (pic: cute old postcard scanned and Flickr'd by Dr. Haggis)
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