Posted on August 8, 2008 12:16 AM
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In this final installment of our
TCHO Chocolate trilogy,
Xeni and
Pesco go on a magical mystery taste test tour -- think
Willy Wonka meets
The Trip.
Former NASA software developer Timothy Childs founded the tech-minded chocolate company, and was joined by
WIRED co-founder Louis Rosetto.
In previous BBtv episodes we learned about the hacked-together, home-tinkered machines and high-tech wizardry that keep their factory humming. Today we dive in to the genetics of chocolate plants, and the hedonics -- the tasting experience -- of the finished product, where science meets sensuality meets sugar.
Oh hell, who are we kidding, you guys? We sat around and GOT HIGH on neuroactive cocoa alkaloids. We freebased theobromine and we LIKED IT. We liked it a LOT.
Warning: this episode is NSFC (not safe for chocoholics).
Previously on Boing Boing tv:
* TCHO, part 1: chocolate origins.
* TCHO, part 2: magical machines, mysterious molecules.
Related: read a feature about TCHO by David Pescovitz in the current issue of MAKE Magazine, Timothy and the Chocolate Factory.
Here are some iPhone snapshots from Xeni on Flickr: TCHO, Boing Boing tv.
(Special thanks to Amy Critchett, and Wayne & Breanna)
BBtv guest correspondent and
blog pal Todd Lappin of
Telstar Logistics takes us inside a steam-powered World War II "Liberty Ship," the
SS Jeremiah O'Brien.
We marvel (!) at the cool old retro-technology that kept this behemoth boat running to and from the beaches of Normandy, and we meet the volunteer caretakers -- obsessive nerds just like us, only with white hair! -- who keep her ship-shape today. Did you know that shipyards in the San Francisco Bay Area once churned out Liberty Ships like this in 4 days or less, during the heat of the war? Watch and learn, li'l skippers.
Todd has a rockin' photoset of images from the ship, too.
Shot for BBtv by Eddie Codel, during the Long Now Foundation's Mechanicrawl.
Previously: Multi-millenial Mechanical clocks - Long Now "Mechanicrawl" pt. 1
Today on BBtv, Austrian art collective
monochrom return with a new episode of their subversive puppet show: "Kiki and Bubu and the Good Plan." Our socked crusaders explore the connections between Michael Bay, the military-entertainment complex, Web 2.0 business cocktail parties, and the impending collapse of the American economy.
* BBtv: Monochrom's "Kiki, Bubu, and the Self"
* Nazi Petting Zoo
* Fisch Interview
* Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets
* Monochrom's Marxist sock puppets
* Monochrom: MyFaceSpace, the musical
* Monochrom: Campfire at Will
* Monochrom: Falco Stairs
* Monochrom: Bar code artist Scott Blake / Falco stencil memorial
* Human USB Hack / Very Simple Motor
* Mark's Curie Engine / Monochrom's love song for Lessig
Update: monochrom's own "director's cut" of today's episode is here.
Today on
Boing Boing tv, Xeni is joined by astronaut and American hero
Buzz Aldrin,
Virgin Galactic founder
Sir Richard Branson,
Scaled Composites founder
Burt Rutan, and other space luminaries for an exploration of private space travel -- the technology, the science, and the human experience.
We fly to the Mojave spaceport to witness the unveiling of WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft that will carry SpaceShipTwo and passengers on Virgin Galactic suborbital space flights.
Related: All about "Eve": Virgin Galactic mothership unveiled.
Posted on August 4, 2008 10:14 AM
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Boing Boing tv's UK-based music correspondent
Russell Porter interviews the young
experimental jazz band EMPIRICAL, from London. Today's episode includes an extended musical interlude, to ensure the mellowest possible Monday for all the peeps out there in BBtv-land. The band's "influences" roster says it the best:
Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Booker Little, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Steve Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Ray Brown, Jimmy Garrison, Bob Hurst, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Ben Riley, Thelonious Monk, Jason Moran, Wynton Kelly, Keith Jarrat, Herbie Hancock, Ali Farka Toure, Oumou Sangare and to many others to list.
Previous
PORTER REPORT episodes on BBtv:
Russell Porter: Hot 8 Brass Band of New Orleans, pt. 1
Hot 8 Brass Band, pt. 2
Russell Porter: Transgressive and rockfeedback.com, pt. 2
Russell Porter roundtable: Transgressive Records, rockfeedback.com, pt. 1
Russell Porter with Alice Russell, pt. 2
Russell Porter with Alice Russell
Russell Porter and Cadence Weapon, pt. 1.
Russell Porter and Cadence Weapon, pt. 2.
Russell Porter with George Pringle
Russell Porter with The Young Knives pt 1
Russell Porter with The Young Knives pt 2
Russell Porter with The Futureheads
Russell Porter with The Guillotines
Russell Porter with Peggy Sue and the Pirates
Russell Porter with Dockers MC
Russell Porter with Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
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