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Royce Reed, star of campy-bizarro viral videos: RIP
At Dangerous Minds, our friend and former (frequent) guestblogger Richard Metzger writes about the death of Royce Reed, co-star of the “Royce and Marilyn” viral videos. She passed away last night. "In...
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Could this be the best bad music video of all time? 3 Second Rule, by Lisa...
[Video Link] Maybe. It's a good contender for the next "Pardon Me." Mined from the internet by the honorable funnyhunter Robert Popper, of Friday Night Dinner and Look Around You: Season One and The...
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Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy: the cult rants of...
Schizovisionary cult radio ranter conspiracy theorist Francis E. Dec, Esquire (he insisted on the "esquire," even after having been disbarred from practicing law) was recorded by Los Angeles radio...
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Pregnancy fashion tips
Robert Popper, who always finds the weirdest shit, says, "Here’s some helpful tips on ‘pregnancy fashion’ from the amazing Desire Dubounet. You remember Desire Dubounet, don't you?" (more…)
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Houston's Beer Can House, photographed by a Boing Boing reader
Boing Boing reader Molly Block shot a wonderful set of photos documenting The Beer Can House in Houston, Texas. She shared them in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool. She writes: Native Houstonian John...
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Manualist plays 'Stairway to Heaven' with nothing but his sweaty, squeaky hands
https://youtu.be/PaBMmg-hdcc I would like to know Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's thoughts about this outsider musician's YouTube masterpiece: a cover of 'Stairway to Heaven,' played on this dude's...
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Fan of TV painting host Bob Ross? Watch the very first episode of his show.
What a gem was released upon the internet today! This video of Bob Ross: A Walk in the Woods, was Season 1 Episode 1 of his long-running “anyone can paint” television HOWTO show. (more…)
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Play this video at your next party. Don't ask questions.
I want the playlist for this weird video. (more…)
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Lovely short film about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis
Maud Lewis is the subject of Maudie, a biopic being released later this year as an awards contender. Canada's National Film Board made this charming 1976 short subject portrait of her life and work....
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Daniel Johnston covers The Beach Boys'"God Only Knows"
Listen to the wonderful outsider musician Daniel Johnston, who died last week, cover The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows." The cover was included on the 2006 compilation "Do It Again: A Tribute to Pet...
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Documentary about the life and death of Terry Davis, creator of TempleOS
TempleOS was one of the last bizarre wonders of the Internet, a 64-bit operating system made entirely from scratch by one man, Terry Davis, in pursuit of singular religious goals. Davis was mentally...
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Listen to Daniel Johnston's tragically beautiful cover of Carole King's...
In 1996, the wonderful outsider musician and artist Daniel Johnston, who died last year, recorded this lovely and moving cover of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend." Johnston's childhood friend Dale...
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Similaries between The Voynich Manuscript and outsider art by people with...
The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious 15th century vellum book full of bizarre drawings, mostly of plants and women, and text written in an unknown language or code. Explanations include a coded book...
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DC Comics to publish new superhero art by the late Daniel Johnston
The acclaimed singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston passed away in September 2019. Aside from being a pioneer of "outsider music," Johnston was also a visual artist. The Contemporary Austin recently...
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REM's Michael Stipe talks about his incredible collection of outsider art
According to the Tate Britain, the term "Outsider Art" describes art "that has a naïve quality, often produced by people who have not trained as artists or worked within the conventional structures of...
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Take a magical trip to Mary's Gone Wild Folk Art Museum and Doll Village
Mary's Gone Wild Visionary Folk Art Museum & Doll Village is a visionary-art oasis located on a country road that runs between Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC. Mary Paulsen says that she began...
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George Ohr, the Mad Potter of Biloxi
"When I am gone, my work will be praised, honored, and cherished. It will come," said George Ohr. It's only a little disconcerting when confident prophecies are entirely true. Friends of the American...
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When he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret...
When shipping clerk and former musician Frank Johnson died in Chicago in 1979 at the age of 67, his family was shocked to discover 2,300 pages of comics in bound notebooks that apparently nobody knew...
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The Scare-Fox (1910) was a mechanical device created to scare foxes away from...
The Scare-Fox (1910) was a mechanical device created to scare foxes away from pheasants and looks like a fantastic piece of folk art. The Scare-Fox worked by sending flashes of light outwards and...
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Insightful interview with Bill Wurtz of "history of the entire world, i...
If you don't know already, Bill Wurtz is that musician/artist guy who made that history of the entire world, i guess, video back in 2017. It's cool, y'know, if you're into that sort of thing. Which you...
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