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Elizabeth McGrath, best known for her delightfully creepy and strange faux taxidermy beasties, has a small show of exquisite watercolors opening this week at Sloan Fine Art in New York City. Seen here is "20 Eyes" (watercolor, 22" x 15"). … Continue reading →

Liz Ohanesian, LA Weekly writer and periodic guest contributor to Boing Boing, has an in-depth look at the cosplay subculture phenomenon known as "Crossplay." Crossplay is exactly what you think it might be, cosplay that involves crossdressing. It's not the … Continue reading →

I don't know the real story behind this clip, purportedly of a 1939 "Underwater Boxing Match," but it puts a delightful Chaplinesque spin on the sweet science.

On eBay is this 1979 movie poster for the Polish release of one of my favorite films, Bliskie spotkania trzeciego stopnia. It's not clear to me that poster designer Andrzej Pagowski saw the film first, but no matter as the … Continue reading →

Kit, a herd dog at Flying Diamond Ranch in Montana's Paradise Valley. After a long day working with Gelbvieh cattle on the summer grazing grounds, Kit is resting in the shade beneath her owner's truck. When not herding cows, Kit … Continue reading →

John Schwartz has a nice piece in today's New York Times on science fiction as a tool for predicting the future: The dirty little secret of speculative fiction is that it’s hard to go wrong predicting that things will get … Continue reading →

(Image: Kitten on a tabletop, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from tomorrowgirl's photostream, contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.)

In the NYT, science writer John Noble Wilford reports that scientists have finally pinned a firm date on the earliest evidence of advanced tool-making by Homo erectus, a forerunner of modern humans. The new study dates the axe shown below … Continue reading →

Photography by Kristina Alexanderson: still-lifes with Stormtroopers. (via Bryan William Jones via Kuriositas)

[Warning: video contains graphic visual content of surgery which may be upsetting to some viewers.] For the launch of the game "DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION," Square Enix commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence to investigate prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation. Spence is … Continue reading →

At Indiewire's "Press Play" blog, Masha Tupitsyn 
has an essay on the life and work of John Cusack, and thoughts on the art of being yourself. Cusack, as regular Boing Boing readers may recall, is a periodic guest contributor to … Continue reading →

Jonny Quest Opening Titles from Roger D. Evans on Vimeo. Jim Leftwich sent me the link to this excellent stop-motion recreation of the opening title sequence for Jonny Quest. Wow! In 1964, Jonny Quest aired to rave reviews as the … Continue reading →

Smithsonian magazine presents "Ten Enduring Myths About the US Space Program." Of course, the moon landing hoax made the cut but there are several good ones in the mix: “Alan Shepard is A-Okay.” Several famous inventions have been mistakenly attributed … Continue reading →

Following Apple's loss of another iPhone prototype, a San Francisco man reported that a group of men claiming to be police officers appeared at his home and demanded to search it for the cellphone. One of the searchers gave him … Continue reading →

MG Siegler has beheld the legendary Amazon tablet. It is 7" big and has multitouch, a full-color backlit screen, Android, and a $250 price tag. Hardware-wise, then, it's rather like the Nook Color. Software-wise, however, Amazon is forking the OS … Continue reading →

Friday Freak-Out: Mellow Japanese psych to end the summer with Yuya Uchida & The Flowers covering "Summertime" from their 1968 album, Challenge!. Reissued on the Phoenix label and available from San Francisco's Aquarius Records, Challenge! also features covers of Hendrix, … Continue reading →

Starting about an hour ago, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich is answering pretty much whatever questions people pose him on Reddit. Among the gems: evasilev: What is the top priority policy change you would like to see outlined in … Continue reading →

Still feeding her curious fascination with twins and triplets, masterful oil painter Korin Faught has an exhibition of gorgeous new works opening at Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery tomorrow evening. The show, titled "Voices of the Lake," hangs until September … Continue reading →

Samsung's MV800 point-and-shoot camera opens like a book to allow HD previews of one's unflattering, arms-length self-portraits. Chin down, look up! The 5x zoom camera has 720p video capture, a 1/2.3" sensor, and a $280 price tag. [Samsung via Wired]

Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring another week of Boing Boing Blast, our delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. Watchismo has unlocked 'The Vault', a curated collection of high-end mechanical 'time machines'. Featured within are handcrafted timepieces from Italy, … Continue reading →