Text-o-possum / Your Psycho Girlfriend

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Xeni dons a tutu made of baby heads on today's Boing Boing tv: we visit the workshop of Your Psycho Girlfriend, creators of demented couture and cyborg marsupials from the future.

One of those mammal-machine hybrids is the text-o-possum (we meet him around 02:27). The left rear leg of this taxidermied texter hides a bluetooth keyboard projector that shoots ASCII into the ether with red lasers. No, really.

In part two of today's episode (around 3:09), a Boing Boing operative tests out the text-o-possum's capabilities for enterprise computing in an urban business environment. A elderly lady walks up and pets text-o-possum, then all hell breaks loose. And by hell, we mean comedy.

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Special thanks to Kasey McMahon and Vanessa Bonet of yourpsychogirlfriend. Illustrations in this episode by Adam Koford. Text-o-possum theme song ("Adagio for Possum and Bluetooth Keyboard in Laser Minor" ) by the Von Boing Boing Family Singers.

Creative Commons-licensed Flickr images used in this episode: by quemas™ "The tree of life," by scottobear "possum barrel", by saveena, "Minnie Pearl", by guybo, "curious possum", by wollombi "Possum," by wollombi "Possums2," by Nesster "enV," by wollombi "Mother possum with a blood plum," by wili_hybrid "Tree."

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#1 posted by GuabaMan

, February 7, 2008 7:41 AM

i think it needs more stability, perhaps suction cups on the feet?

#2 posted by strider_mt2k

, February 7, 2008 9:01 AM

Oh my god!

Funny stuff!

#3 posted by pt , February 7, 2008 9:12 AM

i think this is my favorite one so far, nice work xeni

#4 posted by Gemini Gypsy , February 7, 2008 9:34 AM

Lol--Ape Lad does it again! We're getting a little worried what with all teh hedgehogs--and now possums--going on as of late. Wait. R hedgehogs marsupials, too? Is there a theme going on here?

xeni, U R stunning in a tutu.

#5 posted by Michael R. Bernstein

, February 7, 2008 10:11 AM

Seriously demented. In a GOOD way.

#6 posted by windybt , February 7, 2008 10:35 AM

I love the double take when she mentioned crickets

#7 posted by Takuan , February 7, 2008 2:22 PM

And I trust this opossum is naturally deceased?

#8 posted by Xeni Jardin

, February 7, 2008 2:55 PM

@Takuan: yes, it died of ROFLMAO

#9 posted by License Farm

, February 7, 2008 3:23 PM

Xeni, the babydoll tutu looks like some deranged version of Josephine Baker. But the sound it makes as they smack heads is so very satisfying.

So explain to me the Text-O-Possum: is it pretty much just a stuffed possum with a Bluetooth text messenger built in? No, it doesn't have to be anything more; I just want to be certain there's not some feature I'm not seeing, like a speech synthesizer to make it speak your messages. That'd be like some fucked up cybernecro version of A Wind In The Willows.

#10 posted by Xeni Jardin

, February 7, 2008 3:26 PM

@license farm: the dead possum has a thing on its rear leg that projects a keyboard using laser light, it communicates via bluetooth with any compatible PDA or laptop. I tried using it on my iPhone and could not get it to work, but we did set it up with a little iMac and were typing text with it. Crazy, but simple, and yes it works. The possum makes it awesome!

#11 posted by License Farm

, February 7, 2008 3:48 PM

Yes, so I gather from the jingle. You going to post an mp3 of that so we can savor your pipes?

#12 posted by pixelspotlight , February 9, 2008 8:33 PM

WOW! And I have been missing out on this BB TV until now... this is the first episode I've watched... great stuff...
I will have to post it out on my site, http://tubeforme.com/

#13 posted by cszostek

, February 12, 2008 9:38 PM

I'm torn between this and "Compubeaver" for my favorite BBTV webisode.

Where can one get mannequin's these days? They are hard to come by in my area.