Recently, Boing Boing presented a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. We are extending the series. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series. — Mark
Mind Blowing Movies: Funny Bones, by Bill Barol
[Video Link] 1995's Funny Bones, by the British writer/director Peter Chelsom, is either a comedy about dark things, like betrayal and manslaughter, or a drama about funny people, like a pair of retired vaudevillians who are winding down their days scaring children in the spook house on the Blackpool amusement pier. — Read the rest
My three-year-old has been having awful insomniac spells at two in the morning all week and we're at a loss for getting her back to sleep . Last night, when she came into our room, I desperately grabbed my phone off the bedstand and went YouTube spelunking for something to get her calmed down enough for a story and (maybe) sleep. — Read the rest
I know you guys love mash ups and psychedelic/surrealist art so you may really enjoy this, some experimental work by Jim Henson in the 1970s that mixes his puppets/Muppet work with his lesser known experimental film work (pre-Sesame Street Henson was nominated for an academy award in 1967 for a live action short called "Timepiece").
Aibo's got nothing on the 1960s robot dog Gaylord. It's another Marvin Glass wonder, and Bedazzled has the TV commercial for it. Caution: contains jingle that has earworm qualities. Link
Basta is one of my favorite music labels. Based in Amsterdam, they've reissued a lot of Raymond Scott's work, from his early big band songs (many of which were used in Warner Brothers cartoons) to his mindblowing 1950s and 1960s pre-Moog electronic music. — Read the rest
Recently, Boing Boing presented a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. We are extending the series. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series. — Mark
