Posted on October 30, 2008 9:55 AM
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Oh, man, this is weird. How do we explain this? So, the
Boing Boing tv team planned a series of episodes about Japanese monsters for Halloween, and for this purpose, we sent
Sean Bonner to Tokyo, armed with a video camera. The plan was: meet up with
Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda,
authors of the
previously-boinged book
Yokai Attack: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide, and hunt down the truth about mythical monstrous creatures from Japanese folklore.
We'd planned to start our Japanese monster series with a hunt for the Kappa, a water-dwelling, ninja-turtle-like, child-sized creature who is fond of cucumbers and human colon meat (I'm not making this up). Legend says the Kappa will reach into your butt to eat your colon, which is grosstastically awesome.
Anyway -- Sean made it to Tokyo, and shot evidence of the Kappa on Japan's urban streets (signs, blow-up Kappa dolls, stickers). But then, suddenly, the raw footage he was FTPing to us nightly just STOPPED. Bam. Just like that. And with it, all evidence we had of Sean's whereabouts and well-being.
Today's BBtv episode is part one of what we hope will be a two-part series on Kappa Hunting in Tokyo. IF HE SURVIVED. Sean, I hope you were armed with cucumbers, because the alternative is too horrible to imagine.
Previously on Boing Boing:
Japanese monsters, and how to survive their wrath: YOKAI ATTACK
A BBtv exclusive edition of the Alternate Reality Game (or 'ARG') revolving around the storyline of the Fox tv series
Sarah Connor Chronicles (and the
Terminator movie trilogy).
Enitech Labs designs cameras can take pictures of a future event by capturing faster-than-light "tachyon" particles. When pictures of ordinary scenery foretell post-apocalyptic outcomes, the developers find themselves in a race against time to publicize their findings and warn the public of the horrors to come...
(Thanks, Bart Cheever / millionsofus!)
Previously on BBtv:
Sarah Connor Chronicles (Terminator) ARG sneak peek: part 1.
An Alternate Reality Game (or 'ARG') revolving around the storyline of the Fox tv series
Sarah Connor Chronicles (and the
Terminator movie trilogy). The footage describes the development of a camera from
Enitech Labs that can take pictures of a future event by capturing faster-than-light "tachyon" particles. When pictures of ordinary scenery foretell post-apocalyptic outcomes, the developers find themselves in a race against time to publicize their findings and warn the public of the horrors to come...
(Thanks, Bart Cheever / millionsofus!)
Posted on November 26, 2007 12:00 AM
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LOLcats -- cute cat photos with ungrammatical but humorous one-liners -- are ubiquitous online. But today on Boing Boing tv, we explore their little-known historic origins in
a comic strip from the early 1900s, created by the great-grandfather of
Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Guest analysts on today's BBtv: internet blowhard
Paul Boutin, and Garfield expert
Jesse Thorn. Special thanks to
icanhascheezburger.
Posted on November 20, 2007 12:00 AM
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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.
Posted on November 16, 2007 12:00 AM
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Xeni 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. THAT IS ALL.
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