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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?"

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

Marvel and Clover Press have teamed up to Kickstart a new series of artbooks titled "The Marvel Art Of…". These beautiful boutique books will feature renowned Marvel Comics artists and… Read the rest of the article: "The Marvel Art Of…" series features legendary artists like David Mack and Alex Maleev

In a collision of Jonny Quest and Infinite Jest, Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Dave Baker presents his latest creation: the graphic novel Mary Tyler MooreHawk. This po-mo mystery and pop culture… Read the rest of the article: Mary Tyler MooreHawk is a mind-bending graphic novel from Eisner Award nominee Dave Baker

Ren just keeps mainlining pain and heartache and turning it into beautiful, arresting art. He also continues to partner with talented video artists who bring additional life and dimensions to… Read the rest of the article: Another heart-wrenching song and arresting music video from Ren

For anyone who's played or is familiar with the "grimdark" tabletop miniatures game, Warhammer 40,000, the overt fascist iconography and brutal nature of the game have likely not been lost… Read the rest of the article: Warhammer 40,000 and its growing fascism problem

I must admit, before seeing this video, I'd never even thought of how ledger books were printed and what the challenges of printing ledger pages might have been. In this… Read the rest of the article: The wonderful world of antique ledger printers