Posted on September 8, 2008 9:37 AM
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John Hodgman is known throughout galaxies far and wide for transcendent wit and bookish LOLs. You may know him from the
Apple ads, the
Daily Show hijinks,
his blog, or his book,
Areas of My Expertise (
Amazon link), which begat the
Internet Hobo Craze of The 21st Century.
What you may not yet know about him is this: he has a new book coming out October 21, 2008, titled More Information Than You Require (Amazon link).
The new compendium will include mole men. And, frankly, it's pretty sweet. We visited with him during a hotel hole-up at the Chateau Marmont, and interrupted his writing flow. He forgave us, and offered us a ham sandwich with some Soylent Green. Please to be watching.
(Ed. note: We aired a mole-man-centric cut of this visit late last year, but we're revisiting again to reveal more undiscovered Hodgmanic goodness. Stay tuned for all-new fun with this guy, planned soon.)
Posted on August 21, 2008 8:13 AM
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Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor-waiter-whatever, aspires against all odds to become America's next great action hero. Today, in the final chapter of our observational documentary of this Hollywood hopeful, we witness his final challenge -- the American immigration system. His green card has run out, and that is a dilemma no amount of drop-kicks or ninja-punches can solve. Goodbye Klaus. Auf wiedersehn or whatever. Ciao. See you on the laptop screen.
Previous Klaus Pierre episodes on BBtv:
Posted on August 14, 2008 8:42 AM
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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 heads to the hills above Hollywood, where scrub brush and aspiring starlets bask in the sun, to work out with a really mean personal trainer. Warning: episode contains cucumber
masks masques and pushups.
Previous Klaus Pierre episodes on BBtv:
The 1982 cyberpunk cinema classic
Blade Runner remains one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time, and tops many a nerd's favorite films list.
Today on Boing Boing tv, Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson visits the studio of artist and futurist Syd Mead, who designed the film's dystopian look and feel. We learn about the "erotic machine" he dreamed for the replicant Zhora (this breast-shaped dreampod was cut from the script when director Ridley Scott ran out of dough), the 1 2 3 *4* alternate opening scenes designed by Syd (one of them, which involved shoveling dead bodies, was deemed "too Holocaust"), what really lights up those building facades, and many more secrets.
Syd explains he envisioned the world of Blade Runner as a place "you wouldn't want to be for too long," and describes the challenges of designing for "a love story with moralistic underpinnings... if we could actually make people, would we treat them like dishwashers? Just use them up and throw them away?"
If you like this episode, you might want to pick up:
BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT [Amazon]
VISUAL FUTURIST: The Art & Life of Syd Mead DVD [sydmead.com]
And more Syd Mead books on Amazon.
Previous episodes in BBtv's Syd Mead trilogy:
Joel Johnson interviews Syd Mead: part 1.
Joel Johnson interviews Syd Mead: part 2.
(Footage from the movie Blade Runner courtesy Warner Bros. Entertainment / Warner Home Video; Artwork courtesy of Syd Mead Inc.)
Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow visits his favorite comic book store in all the world --
Secret Headquarters, in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. With shop owner Dave Pifer, Cory walks us through some of the graphic novels and comics he loves, everything from manga to zine howto manuals to
Jodorowsky to
Warren Ellis. Cory is particularly fond (as are all of us at BBtv) of the shop's awesome simultaneous tribute to Stan Lee and the Sex Pistols
in this t-shirt, "God Save Stan Lee."
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