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j.black

Website: http://lastmoths.blogspot.com

Bio: I make stuff and learn stuff.

Video: 3 Designers + 4 Days + Lots of Sweat = Omaha Beach Recreation

January 10, 2008 3:29pm

That is bloody amazing!
As a 2nd year university student studying digital media, I would cut out a pound of - no more no less - intern with the people who made this. Insane!

Music video roundup from the 1960s

January 10, 2008 3:22pm

The one for '7' punk and post-punk female singer videos doesn't work, because it should be /8/ punk and post-punk female singer videos. DUH! ;D

HOWTO make an animatronic lion mask with superpowers

January 8, 2008 4:59pm

Aw, HICCMUT, don't be a Goofus to the proverbial Gallant. Furry is just like any other subculture - there are crazies and there are norms, and this dude, regardless of subscribing to the Furry lifestyle, is a god damned artisan. Why shouldn't he be praised for making such an awesome object? It's so cyborg!

HOWTO make an animatronic lion mask with superpowers

January 8, 2008 3:36pm

Hey! Isn't the creator the same guy who was in that Furry documentary that was posted, er, here I believe? The lion obsessive!

Crumpled beer cans in porcelain

January 2, 2008 1:21pm

Ethan, I still think it is important to look at the styles of pottery which each artist is using to de-familiarise the respected physical objects themselves - because each style has it's own unique subtext. They're both blue glazes, certainly, but mock-Delft does not equal mock-Ming (Kangxi?) and vice versa. The significance of each glazes historical weight makes these two pieces extremely different - as does the violent object (weapondry) vs the pleasurable-sustinance object (refreshing drink vessel). Because of that I think it's wrong to say that Lie Xue's work is formally similar to Krafft's and thus derivative. They are simply artists using ceramics with traditional style glazes. If all works who use traditional ceramic techniques but with a ostranenie twist, does that mean Shary Boyle is derivative too?

Crumpled beer cans in porcelain

January 2, 2008 10:20am

Meh. I don't think it's right in saying Lie Xue's work is derivative of Krafft's. The medium might be similar, but the message I'm reading from them is totally different.

Krafft's use of Dutch Delft style porcelain paired with modern weaponry oozes suggestions of warfare in Europe as a timeless-yet-current situation which is both fragile and something that we keep with us as a cultural heirloom.

Lie Xue on the other hand, produces ultra iconic Ming (maybe a Kangxi hybrid!) presentation style porcelain. Traditionally used for, well, being presented to diplomats or other 'official' uses, Xue's assimilation of the techniques to produce crushed soda/beer cans is much more subversive than Krafft's in-your-face statement of fragile war. It's much more about what 'officials' do with gifts given to them in good will, or how we treat disposable/precious objects.

The Truth About Female Desire online

December 11, 2007 3:25pm

Did anybody actually watch it? I did. There were 8 women, a few of which were bisexual/bicurious, and one who was openly a lesbian. It wasn't about 'what turns you on' as much as 'how, physically and mentally, are women turned on'. The disconnection of mental excitement and physical excitement, etc.

It was a bit rubbish, purely because it didn't tell me anything new or exciting -- Violet Blue has way more to offer, but as an intro to shy British girls, it was well executed.

Push Presents: When Creating Life Just Isn't Enough

December 9, 2007 4:10pm

Somebody has to alert the Scobles, stat!

Karlheinz Stockhausen, RIP

December 7, 2007 6:09pm

Oh man, total sadness.

Tokyo fetish-fashion: "injured idol"

December 6, 2007 2:03am

Oh Bah Bah Hospital in Camden -- so silly!

Man Makes Life-Sized LEGO Minifig from Cardboard

November 23, 2007 7:43am

Ahahaha.

Run DMC on Reading Rainbow (video)

October 2, 2007 1:43am

This was my favourite episode of Reading Rainbow when I was a kid!

Music video made from wacky old religious footage

September 18, 2007 12:10pm

Fantastic! This has opened a whole new interest in Swedish electro-pop!

Welcome to the new Boing Boing!

August 28, 2007 9:24am

Yay, comments are good.
New layout is also good.
But serif fonts are bad.
OH NOES!

The conflict, it's immense.

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