Boing Boing Picnic: Aerial video from balloon, and a Doc Pop-scored report

Two very fun videos from the first-ever Boing Boing picnic, held this past weekend in San Francisco: first, a wonderful little montage of scenes, set to an original (composed live!) DocPop score, by Boing Boing reader Billy Green. (direct video link)

And then, what happens when you attach a Droid to a dirigible, by Boing Boing reader Neil Fraser. (direct video link)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Doctor Popular

Great videos!

The song used in the soundtrack is actually based on a sample from protestors at the G20 protests in Toronto. The audio in the above video was a live version of my remixing the song on my iPad using Chip Pad.

For anyone interested I’ve made my Riot Suit Remix song available for download here (along with a video) http://www.docpop.org/2010/07/take-off-your-riot-suit/
Billy Green

While I was editing the video, I kept wondering what they were saying, but I couldn’t quite figure it out. And now I know. :-)

Thanks again, Doctor Popular, for allowing me to use it. And thanks again, Boing Boing, for hosting such a fun picnic.
Anonymous

arg.
i wish i was there.
so far away…..
Anonymous

I hate to be the party pooper here Xeni, but calling that a dirigible is a bit of a misnomer, because dirigible means steerable.
BikerRay

So the Droid has image stabilization? You’d never know it from that video.
bruhinb

“What happens when you attach a Droid to a dirigible?”

I puke on my keyboard, that’s what.