Doctor Popular, iphoneography master extraordinaire and jack of many wonderful creative trades, says:
— Read the restThis week, I'm teaming up with the awesome folks at Photojojo to share some of my favorite cell phone lens tips, like the one
above.
"We made a cute yo-yo video with some extreme slow-motion capturing," says Boing Boing pal and yo-yo master Doctor Popular. Produced for the web video series Distort.
Carla and I had a nice time at the 2009 San Francisco Zine Fest on Sunday. This week and next, I'm sharing some of the photos I took of the zinesters who came to sell their comics and zines. I'll post a new photo each day. — Read the rest
Download the MP4 here. Flash video above, click "fullscren" icon inside player to view large. YouTube channel here, subscribe on iTunes here. Get Twitter updates every time there's a new ep by following @boingboingvideo, and here are blog post archives for Boing Boing Video. — Read the rest
A salon owner in San Francisco is bringing back "hair metal" in her own unique way. Our friend, Doctor Popular, recently interviewed Donnelle Malnik, the gal behind Hair and Heavy Metal Salon in the city's Mission District. Donnelle's parlor is not your typical one—it's actually inside a truck decorated with posters from metal bands like Dio and Iron Maiden. — Read the rest
Doctor Popular says, "I recently learned that Alvin and The Chipmunks albums sound great when played at 16 2/3 RPM. Basically, this is half speed, so the actors' voices sound like normal people, but the music sounds super sludgy and heavy. — Read the rest
In response to Pantone's reveal of their "Colors of the Year 2021," Doctor Popular posted this image on Facebook with the remark:
"This is all I see when I think of Pantone's colors of the year. Now you have to see it too." — Read the rest
Doctor Popular created a variant of Chess, called 1D Chess. You can download the rules and different board layouts here.
— Read the rest1D Chess is a fun, innovative chess variant played on a single row of 16 squares. Each player begins with one of each piece and must take their opponent's king to win.
When one man's screen cracked, our pal Doctor Popular saw an opportunity:
— Read the restAfter a cat knocked knocked over his tv, Timothy Ryan Mulroney took a photo of the cracked screen and shared it on the Glitch Artists Collective on Facebook.
I thought it would make a great iPhone wallpaper… so I made it into one.
Did you know that Rusty Blazenhoff, who writes for us here at Boing Boing, has a wonderful newsletter called Rusty's Electric Dreams? You can subscribe to it here. The current issue of the newsletter (which is guest edited by Doctor Popular) has a link to a hand-soldering guide from NASA. — Read the rest
Today was a good day. A package from San Francisco artist Doctor Popular arrived in the mail. Inside were eight tiny publications, what he calls the Mini-Comics Mixtape.
He writes, "All 8 comics were drawn in under 24 hours with no planning in advance, so the stories can get a little out there." — Read the rest
This woolen Pac-Man sweater, an Icelandic peysa, popped up in my Facebook feed on Wednesday and it made me squee with delight. It's the handiwork of my friend Christine Clarke.
She told me that her husband, Doctor Popular, designed the sweater in knittingpatterns.is — Read the rest
Doctor Popular writes, "My new album, Destroy All Presets, was created using the Nanoloop cartidge on a GameBoy Advance. I decided to do it that way partially because I love working with limitations and partially because I love the sounds you can get off of these old devices. — Read the rest
Among the most recent video posts you will find on our video archive page:
• Alert guide dog buys couple enough time to escape
• What the math of music looks like
• Man does "karate dance" to Offspring tune
• Animation about cell phone data mining
• Rare Disneyland construction footage
• Vision-tweaking minimalist music video
• Extreme slo-mo yo-yo video with Doctor Popular
• Tintype stop motion animation of a circus
Ben Lowy got the cover of TIME Magazine this week with an iPhone and the photo-filtering app Hipstamatic. Not even for, say, a special tech issue or anything like that! Can't say I'm surprised—I use Hipstamatic with my iPhone5 and love the results. — Read the rest
InstaCRT sends your iPhone photo to a tiny CRT in Sweden where the displayed image is photographed and sent back to you. The CRT is actually a scavenged viewfinder from a 1980s VHS camcorder. Gotta love that digital to analog to digital warmth, right? — Read the rest
At left, the CRASS logo, first seen in the mid-1970s. Center and right, a recent design for the UK garment retailer "Hardware," which appears to have repurposed the CRASS logo after 35 years of prior use, and crassly so. — Read the rest
Live coverage of the Anonymous protest at BART's Civic Center station in San Francisco: SF Appeal, Ustream, AnonOps on Twitter, ioerror's feed, and #opBART hashtag. Mission Local has another video feed and liveblog here. — Read the rest
Illustration: Dave Jarvis (cc) via Wikipedia
I started an open "jokes" thread on Google+ today, and a lot of people contributed some very funny jokes I hadn't heard before. I thought I'd share some of them here on Boing Boing. — Read the rest
Katina from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Join EFF on February 16th, as nerdcore and chiptune artists
Dual Core, Crashfaster, Doctor Popular, and Trash80 sling dope
rhymes and bangin' bleeps for EFF's 21st birthday at the
future-focused BAMM.tv studio [43 Norfolk St] in San Francisco." — Read the rest
