It seems weird to be writing about something as frivolous as a game while the world is infected and on fire, but we do need a little distraction and joy… Read the rest of the article: Relicblade launches campaign for new two-player starter set

It's hard to imagine what places like ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome might have looked like in all of their glory. New Historia tries to shed some light on… Read the rest of the article: Ancient Rome in five-minute animated fly-through

You know how in movies where there's a mad genius tech-wizard/hacker (often a precocious teen) who can make the most fantastical creations with seemingly no effort? It's such a great… Read the rest of the article: Mad genius builds robotic arm to control synth with Nintendo Power Glove

David Lynch has finally uploaded FIRE (POZAR), the experimental animated short he did in 2015, to his new David Lynch Theater on YouTube. To create it, Lynch shared the still… Read the rest of the article: David Lynch's latest 10-minute animated short "FIRE (POZAR)"

Watch this video on YouTube Joni Mitchell's "River," from her 1971 masterpiece, Blue, has long been one of my favorites of her compositions. The sad, dreamy imagery of a wintertime… Read the rest of the article: Joni Mitchell's humblingly beautiful isolated vocals on "River"

I've always been a big fan of Caitlin Doughty and her Ask a Mortician YouTube channel, but I especially liked this almost 40-minute mini-doc she did on the disastrous voyage… Read the rest of the article: The gory details of the whaling expedition that inspired Moby Dick

The SEATBELTS, the original band that recorded the theme song to the amazing Japanese anime TV series, Cowboy Bebop, have recreated the song in social isolation. "Tank," the jazzy theme… Read the rest of the article: Original band does wonderful isolation version of the Cowboy Bebop theme song

Our pal Richard Kadrey has been posting a series of Passive-Aggressive Oblique Strategies, a spoof on Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies deck. Richard's cards even caught the attention… Read the rest of the article: Richard Kadrey's Passive-Aggressive Oblique Strategies

In Search of Tomorrow is slated to be a four-hour-long love letter to the sci-fi films of the 1980s. It is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter and has raised almost… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding "In Search of Tomorrow," the ultimate 80s sci-fi film documentary

Blogger Dave Strickson has been keeping an up-to-date list of all of the BBC 1 Peel Sessions that are currently available online. There is nearly a thousand sessions of music… Read the rest of the article: Nearly 1000 Peel Sessions now available online

Look at you with your mouth watering; look at you with your mind spinning over the new DEVO Energy Dome face shields. Join the Devolution with these DEVO dome face… Read the rest of the article: The shield you want — DEVO selling Energy Dome PPE face shields

Germans get the party started at physically distanced drive-in raveWatch this video on YouTube You've likely heard of neighborhood car parades, drive-in concerts, and the drive-through strip club. Now, you… Read the rest of the article: Honk your horns in the air and wave your glow sticks like you just don't care — it's a German car rave

If you're as ancient as I am, you might remember that awesome line of Revell "Visible" model kits: The Visible Man, Visible Woman, Visible V-8, Visible Mustang, etc. These see-thru… Read the rest of the article: See-thru rockets are GO for launch!

Today is the birthday of Stevland Hardaway Morris, aka Stevie Wonder (1950). Let's celebrate the musical genius of the man with this jaw-dropping drum solo from early in his career.… Read the rest of the article: Celebrate the wonder that is Stevie with a drum solo

Boing Boing pals, magician Ferdinando Buscema and writer Erik Davis (High Weirdness), have created a really lovely and provocative little four-minute “visual meditation” based on the PK Dick essay, How… Read the rest of the article: Ferdinando Buscema and Erik Davis on our pandemic house of cards

When Little Richard died a few days ago, everyone was quick to rightfully hail him as the true king of rock and roll (which he was always quick to crown… Read the rest of the article: Little Richard, gender-bender progenitor needs his propers

Watch this video on YouTube Here's a cool 1971 performance of Kraftwerk on Beat Club. This short-lived long-haired lineup included Florian Schneider, who passed away last week, the late Klaus… Read the rest of the article: Rare early Kraftwerk performances before they were showroom dummies

Do you believe in ghosts? I don't. But I do believe in the active powers of the human imagination, especially in an old, cold building filled with the world's "acquired"… Read the rest of the article: Are there ghosts haunting the antiquities of the British Museum?

My friend Steve Davee posted this fun project to Instructables. It's a perfect project for shut-in parents and kids to do together.

I have a love/hate relationship with musical reaction videos. There are kids reacting to heavy metal (or The Beatles), vocal teachers and opera singers reacting to rock vocalists, millennials reacting… Read the rest of the article: A classical flutist listens to Ian Anderson in 1969 and 1976