Xeni Jardin
Journalist, hypertexter, adventurer. Founding partner & co-editor of award winning blog Boing Boing. Host of Webby-honored "Boing Boing Video," in-flight on Virgin America. Contributor, present or past, to NPR, Wired, NYT, LAT, Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, and others; tech expert in broadcast news. Founding board member, Freedom of the Press Foundation. Loves music, Zero-G, named a plane. Multilingual.
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. Status: Alive.
Represented by Evan Dick, CAA (evan.dick@caa.com). Some press: LA Weekly, Guardian, Miami Herald, NY Press, LAT, Red Herring, Fortune, Coilhouse, NYT, Wired, Forbes, Fast Company
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- Feb 03, 15
After a 50 year break, Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, will publish her second book, titled Go Set A Watchman. Read the rest
- Feb 03, 15
Given his equally literary, visual, and technological interests, I'd imagine that Douglas Coupland appeals to a great many Boing Boing readers.
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In 1966, Topps issued a series of "Frankenstein Valentine Stickers" that have only improved with age. Read the rest - Feb 03, 15
Wandering through a used book store yesterday, I came across a book entitled A Treasure of Great Recipes. Normally this would not catch my attention, but the authors were Vincent and Mary Price!
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Relae: A Book of Ideas is marketed as a cookbook, but it’s so much more. Read the rest
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Whenever I meet someone Korean, I talk to them in Korean. Inevitably, they respond by asking how I could possibly have found interest enough in their country to study its language for seven years and counting.
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Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" meets A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)," courtesy of Andy Rehfeldt. (via Laughing Squid)
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Not long ago, I interviewed renowned UCLA urban theorist Edward Soja on my podcast Notebook on Cities and Culture. In researching what he'd said before about this ever-fascinating, ever-confounding city, I came upon Los Angeles: City of the Future?
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Marcin Wichary, my colleague at Medium, tells tales of typography that amazing, confound, delight, and startle me, and I'm not a designer. In a new post, he presents the problem of the Polish character Ś and how this particular bug emerged at the intersection of language, Communism, old habits, and Microsoft Windows. "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S"
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Later this month, more than 1,000 pieces of Disneyland memorabilia will be auctioned off, including a doll from It's A Small World, a skeleton from Pirates of the Caribbean, original Tomorrowland art by Bruce Bushman, and a ton more. Read the rest
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In the age of secret government snooping warrants -- which come with gag orders prohibiting their recipients from revealing their existence -- "warrant canaries" have emerged as the best way to keep an eye on out-of-control, unaccountable spying, and now they've gotten better. Read the rest - Feb 03, 15
Tim Schafer and members of the Psychonauts development team sit down with speed-runner Stephen "SMK" Kiazyk to watch him do a run of the game and witness the different ways he's found around their painstakingly crafted work in order to complete it as fast as possible.
Read the rest - Feb 03, 15Scott McCloud is best known as comics' most accessible, smartest theorist, thanks to his 1994 classic Understanding Comics. But the other McCloud, of superhero comics like ZOT! is equally beloved by the cognoscenti. With The Sculptor, McCloud reminds us that he is one of the field's great storytellers, with a story of love, art, madness and death that wrenches, delights and confounds. Read the rest
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Avant-garde minimalist composer Philip Glass will compose the score for Josh Trank's forthcoming film The Fantastic Four (trailer below). Read the rest
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Over the past decade I've been annoyed with traditional camera straps that go around your neck or diagonally across the body.
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It must be Groundhog Day, because British politicians are making us debate their repeatedly-failed spying legislation -- how is it that some policy initiatives never die, while others can't get any traction at all? Read the rest - Feb 03, 15The 60s wasn't just hippies and Woodstock. It was also the Golden Age of children's literature. Read the rest
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This is the stuff that I woke up to today. Can you believe it? Read the rest - Feb 03, 15
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- Feb 02, 15
I love my new Jackhammer Jill skateboard deck designed and made by Andreas Ekberg. Check out his website of beautiful creations.
- Feb 03, 15
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I bought my first Zojirushi stainless steel mug as a Christmas gift for my wife. She likes to take a lot of coffee with her to work for the day, typically filling both a travel mug and a thermos. I was looking for something that would keep a couple of servings of coffee hot for a long time, but would be easier to drink from than a traditional thermos. I came across this product, with extremely good reviews, and decided to get one for her to try. Read the rest
- Feb 02, 15Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber follows up his magesterial Debt: The First 5000 Years with a slim, sprightly, acerbic attack on capitalism's love affair with bureaucracy, asking why the post-Soviet world has more paperwork, phone-trees and red-tape than ever, and why the Right are the only people who seem to notice or care. Read the rest
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We use a lot of butter at my house. And we like our butter soft, so it is easier to mix in to recipes, and so it doesn't rip toast apart when applied with a knife. Instead of keeping butter in the refrigerator, we keep it in a butter crock (AKA butter bell, butter pot, or French butter dish) on the kitchen counter. Read the rest
- Feb 02, 15These may be the most unexpectedly gorgeous and disturbing examples of experimental GIF art I've ever seen. Read the rest
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GIF: gif.flrn.nlHere are some of my favorite very simple animations by artist and GIF-master Florian de Looij. Read the rest
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Sneak peek at a collaboration with @lanihorn’s 7yo son Judah. He composed and performed a song called “Ocean,” and I made a little video with my snapshots from Hawaii. Lani, stay tuned, @ohigotchya is planning another surprise…
Found someone who can do great vivid colors and funky cuts in Hawaii so it’s official, I can safely relocate here now 😂🌈
Noni, the renowned Hawaiian superfruit of spam and multilevel haole marketing, literally smells like ass mixed with durian mixed with fermented corpses
North shore on Kauai and Oahu tomorrow: no bullshit waves up to 40 motherfucking feet it’s going to be so completely awesome to witness! I am so lucky to be here right now.
A day of up to 30 feet on #kauai north shore. Was so incredible to watch these gifted surfers do their thing. Here is another set, again not the largest but beautiful. Pilaa. #hawaii
Pilaa, Kauai, north shore. We saw waves up to 30 feet high today. This was not the biggest, in this video, but it’s one I wasn’t too busy drooling over to record. #kauai #hawaii #surfers #surfing
The faces of the ancestors look out from these holy cliffs. #NaPali #kauai #hawaii #maoli #kanakamaoli
One of the most amazing cliff formations along Napali is this, referred to by Native Hawaiians by a name that means The Red Eye. I kept thinking: OMG it is the actual Eye of Sauron. 😶
Everything in this bowl, right down to the salt, is local. The poi is the fermented tart funky kind and it is hella ono. #kauai #hawaii #grindz
Listening for whales with this awesome vintage-design device. Drop an attached cable into the sea, and we hear their songs amplified. No need to, though: they “mugged” us by swimming right under the boat and then breaching next to us. Northern Pacific Humpbacks. Liko Kauai Cruises, native Hawaiian owned and (mostly) operated.
Savory breakfast bowl, morning in #Kauai #Hawaii. Poi from Hanalei, greens/breadfruit/ume from @beijingwaxneedle and family. Mahalo/omnomnom
Little Momma, resident cat at Kalalea Juice Hale near Anahola on the main road. #Kauai #hawaii
I made a friend at the coconut/juice/açai stand near Anahola. Her name is Little Momma. She once had a family but they “left in a hurry” according to Robin at the juice stand, leaving behind 9 (!) cats. All were adopted but Little Momma. She gets by fine, though, and is fed and loved by all who come for a drink or fresh fruit. Better than going to a non no-kill shelter where she would likely not make the adoption cut. Feral kitty FTW. #Kauai #hawaii
Today’s beautiful, bountiful haul. Breadfruit (!) and back yard lilikoi, and greens (mizuna, daikon greens, a garlic-chive) from Jon Letman’s lovely wife Hiroko; tangerine & rambutan & coconut from a roadside stand near Anahola. #Kauai
