A San Diego-based Disney fan has made "happy haunts materialize" on his Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Player Weary Bones (who goes by the Twitter handle @capuchinokappu) has re-created the… Read the rest of the article: Disneyland fan re-creates the Haunted Mansion in Animal Crossing, and it's glorious
I'm so-o-o tempted to take up knitting again, because that's the only way to get my hands on this badass Wonder Woman shawl. For those of you more in the… Read the rest of the article: You can knit this badass Wonder Woman shawl
Alright, you've got our attention, Mattel. For their adult collector's market, they've created a Jean-Michel Basquiat X Barbie Doll. Barbie celebrates esteemed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose prolific body of work… Read the rest of the article: Basquiat Barbie
Wow. Voice actor Dee Bradley Baker is an incredibly talented man. Great Big Story: We are about to take you on an audio odyssey unlike any other. It’s kind of… Read the rest of the article: Voice actor shows off his skills by mimicking animal sounds
The Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo is pleading with the public to video-chat their garden eels starting on Sunday, because they are forgetting that humans exist. BBC: "Could you show your… Read the rest of the article: FaceTime some eels — because they are "forgetting about people"
Can't believe I had never seen this before! My pal Michelle posted it the other day on Facebook and I had to know the story behind it. It took me… Read the rest of the article: This Queen outtake is everything
Late last night, an unidentified clip of some free-spirited dude in Birk's playing a pan flute cover of Snow's "Informer" popped into my feed. Well, I had to know where… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy this dynamite pan flute cover of Snow's "Informer"
A total rockstar in my Bay Area community has created an incredible program. A big shoutout to Sydney Gressel who started Frontline Foods, a nonprofit that raises funds for restaurants… Read the rest of the article: Win-win: Frontline Foods allows restaurants to feed healthcare workers
Betabrand has just announced women's pants in "catstooth," a feline-tastic take on the classic houndstooth pattern. It's black and white like the original but you'd never know from afar that… Read the rest of the article: Betabrand's "catstooth" is a play on classic houndstooth pattern
The Treble, an alt-rock band out of Winnipeg, has taken inspiration from iconic music videos from the 1980s. Their recently released music video, for the single "No Secrets (There For… Read the rest of the article: Band pays tribute to classic '80s music videos by re-creating them in their own
Twenty years ago The Onion wrote that the "terse but expressive decals" depicting "peeing Calvin" are a "vital part of our national dialogue, used by millions of Americans to exchange… Read the rest of the article: Calvin peeing on COVID-19: familiar decal updated for 2020
You probably heard that the U.S. Postal Service is tanking, expecting to run out of money by October 2020. Interestingly, it's not funded by taxpayers, but entirely through the sale… Read the rest of the article: Help save the USPS with this Dog Mail Carrier Costume
Wow, here's something you don't see every day! Here's a video of dolphins "glowing" from the high amount of bioluminescence in the water off of Newport Beach, California. Patrickc_la shot… Read the rest of the article: Stunning new 4K video of dolphins swimming in blue bioluminescence off Newport Beach
A project near and dear to me is back. Coming May 1 to 3 is The Deconstruction! From my pal Jason Naumoff, co-founder of New Creatures, the group hosting the… Read the rest of the article: Collab on something creative for the upcoming Deconstruction online event
Nothing more punk than releasing your first album in 35 years — during a global pandemic — by surprise. You can stream X's Alphabetland now in this very post: [bandcamp… Read the rest of the article: Listen to X's Alphabetland right now
Take inspiration from a historical pandemic and make yourself this incredible beaked pieced-and-quilted mask, reminiscent of the kind doctors supposedly wore during the 14th century to treat bubonic plague patients.… Read the rest of the article: Sew this awesome quilted bubonic plague doctor's mask
"When they were putting a chip in your brain they sunk it deep, didn’t they?" With the help of an insider, Conan O'Brien crashed an online strategy meeting for TIBCO… Read the rest of the article: Conan O'Brien zoom-bombs a tech company's meeting and trolls them
Folks from countries most impacted by COVID-19 filmed themselves in isolation for this touching three-minute short. Ivan Cash and Jacob Jonas directed A Social Distance: Spanning more than 30 countries,… Read the rest of the article: Crowd-sourced film 'A Social Distance' shows life in lockdown from people around the globe
Years before I was blogging for Boing Boing, I had a string of regular jobs, ones that paid the bills but didn't feed my soul. That's not to say I… Read the rest of the article: New podcast interviews me on why I quit my day job to become a blogger and 'artrepreneur'
Samsung has announced that its TV boxes can be converted into small tables, magazine racks, and — yes– homes for cats! Samsung’s new ‘eco-packaging’ made from eco-friendly corrugated cardboard will… Read the rest of the article: Samsung's TV boxes cleverly convert into cat homes and more
