Fans of Squeeze will likely dig this episode of Daryl Hall's "Live from Daryl's House." Glenn, Daryl, and the house band do a number of Squeeze tracks, interspersed with conversation… Read the rest of the article: Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook visits Daryl's House
-
Gareth Branwyn -
Gareth Branwyn Back in August, we took a look at the release of Dragonbane, the Swedish RPG based on the 40-year-old Drakar och Demoner (Dragons & Demons). In this Bronze Dragon Inn… Read the rest of the article: 5 things that Dragonbane does better than D&D
-
Gareth Branwyn As a full moon looms and distant Halloween howls chill the air, what better way to celebrate the creepiest time of the year than Fantagraphics' latest haunting endeavor: reprints of… Read the rest of the article: Just in time for the full moon and Halloween, it's Gene Colan's classic "House of Horror" werewolf story
-
Gareth Branwyn Originally conceived in the early 1970s as a collaborative tool for musicians, artists, and other creators, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies were embraced by generations of users across… Read the rest of the article: "Occult Strategies"explores magical practice through play
-
Gareth Branwyn Comic book fans will be thrilled to hear that Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Matt Lesniewski has a new series on the way. Lesniewski is set to release his latest, Faceless &… Read the rest of the article: Get ready for Matt Lesniewski's stunning new comic, "Faceless & The Family"
-
Gareth Branwyn In a beautifully crafted essay for the literary journal VQR, author Peter Bebergal (Season of the Witch, Strange Frequencies, Appendix N, and here at Boing Boing) delves into the peculiar… Read the rest of the article: "Son of Frankenstein:" Peter Bebergal takes childhood refuge in his favorite monsters
-
Gareth Branwyn A Florida man, Reza Baluchi, has been arrested by the US Coast Guard for attempting to walk on water to London in a "manifestly unsafe" craft, a giant human hamster… Read the rest of the article: Florida man in seaborne human hamster wheel arrested while trying to walk to London
-
Gareth Branwyn I'm sure I'm not the only fan of the vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows wondering what happened to Season 5. Maybe it's just me and my wife… Read the rest of the article: The tedious horrors of being called before the Energy Vampire Council
-
Gareth Branwyn In this Simone Giertz video, she builds a secret messages box where your confessions, overshares, rants, love letters, etc. are only readable for a few seconds after the box is… Read the rest of the article: Building a confessions box with self-destructing messages
-
Gareth Branwyn One of my favorite media surprises of 2022 was David Jenkins/Taika Waititi's dark romantic pirate comedy, Our Flag Means Death. OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH is based (very) loosely on the… Read the rest of the article: Season 2 teaser-trailer drops for "Our Flag Means Death"
-
Gareth Branwyn Here are some of the games that have found there way into the ol' game lab recently. As always, these are tabletop games that are new and interesting to me… Read the rest of the article: What's new in tabletop gaming for August, 2023
-
Gareth Branwyn When I discovered Tolkien and Lord of the Rings in my youth, one of the first things that utterly enchanted me was the fold-out map that came with the book.… Read the rest of the article: A deep dive into Tolkien's iconic Middle-earth map
-
Gareth Branwyn John Plant of the popular Primitive Technology channel continues his advance into the iron age. In this video he builds a new smelting furnace with insulated walls of wood ash… Read the rest of the article: Making a wood ash-insulated furnace for smelting iron
-
Gareth Branwyn Several years ago, YouTuber Eric Tozzi of Hand Tool Rescue lit up the maker community with his introduction and restoration of the "intimate contact vise," a rare 1913 vise for… Read the rest of the article: Building a "Fractal Chair" from a 1913 patent
-
Gareth Branwyn In this Tested video, embedded below, Adam Savage visits The Earl Hayes Press which has been making Hollywood's printed props, like ALL of them, for over 100 years. Adam nerds… Read the rest of the article: Archiving the history of Hollywood's printed props
-
Gareth Branwyn On June 22, PiL released their third video single from the forthcoming record, End of the World. Following "Penge" and "Hawaii" (Lydon's touching "love letter" to his recently-deceased wife, Nora),… Read the rest of the article: "Car Chase" is a new single and video from Public Image Ltd.
-
Gareth Branwyn I always enjoy hearing Danny Elfman talk about his work and his artistic inspirations. In this 17-minute GQ piece, he talks about his film composing work, from Beetlejuice to Wednesday.… Read the rest of the article: Danny Elfman discusses some of his more well-known film scores
-
Gareth Branwyn This fan-made "concept trailer" for season 2 of Wednesday looks amazing. Rumors have been that this season will be far more horror than the horror comedy of season 1 and… Read the rest of the article: Fan-made trailer for Wednesday season 2
-
Gareth Branwyn Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the single release of David Bowie's now-iconic Hunky Dory track, "Life on Mars?" If you've ever wondered if that phone ringing at the end… Read the rest of the article: Why does a phone ring at the end of Bowie's "Life on Mars?"
-
Gareth Branwyn In this Simone Giertz video, she travels to a Syrian refuge camp to meet Mohammad, the camp's resident toymaker and inventor. The two of them collaborate on trying to make… Read the rest of the article: Simone Giertz's touching meeting with a Syrian toymaker