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Collettivo FX sent us these great shots from Italy. We love the clever use of space and larger than life characters.

Well this is clearly the best thing ever.

Wahoo! It's official: the IT Crowd will reunite for a final episode. My favorite new sitcom of the century will be back -- something that seemed less and less likely as the careers of its stars reached heights that were beyond the scope of UK TV.

During a Q&A session at the German re:publica digital conference, IT Crowd creator and writer Graham Linehan announced that he is bringing the award-winning geeky British sitcom and cast members (Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry) back to Channel 4 for one last special forty-minute episode. According to Bleeding Cool, this final episode is to be filmed in three weeks time. The script for the special was written over a year ago, but due to a pregnancy and the actors being busy in other TV and film projects, it was postposed.

IT Crowd Creator Graham Linehan Bringing the Geeky British Sitcom Back For One Last Episode (via IO9)

Pieter Hugo shot the series ‘The Hyena & Other Men’ in Nigeria. Pieter was captivated by the first pictures of the ‘hyena men’ that he came across randomly. He went to live with them on the periphery of Abuja in a shantytown – a group of men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys and a few rock pythons.

Nigerian newspapers told him that these men were bank robbers, bodyguards, drug dealers, debt collectors. Myths surrounded them. It turned out that they were a group of itinerant minstrels, performers who used the animals to entertain crowds and sell traditional medicines. Pieter realised that what he found fascinating was the hybridisation of the urban and the wild, and the paradoxical relationship that the handlers have with their animals – sometimes doting and affectionate, sometimes brutal and cruel. When looking back at the notebooks he had kept while with them, the words ‘dominance’, ‘codependence’ and ‘submission’ kept appearing. These pictures depict much more than an exotic group of travelling performers in West Africa. The motifs that linger are the fraught relationships we have with ourselves, with animals and with nature. Read more of Pieter’s fascinating journey here.

All images © Pieter Hugo

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If there’s one thing Inglourious Basterds needed more of, it’s comedy podcast-style riffing on the fantasized events of the movie-theater massacre that takes out the Third Reich at the end of the film. And who better to offer commentary from a theater balcony than Statler and Waldorf, resident zinger experts on The Muppet Show?

After a Redditor posed the question of which Muppet would have the best chance of assassinating Hitler (our money is still on Beaker), a documentary editor took some clips of Statler and Waldof, cutting them into the climactic movie theater scene, so now Mélanie Laurent’s maniacal revenge laughter and burning Nazi flags are interspersed with the Muppet geezers flinging puns. It creates some incredibly morbid humor, but still oddly fascinating.

stop freaking out. here’s that video of magnetic putty eating metallic things that you didn’t know you needed.

This video footage of metallic putty eating magnets is super freaky.

Paintings by Shirin Sahba. Submitted via Tumblr.

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Hidden inside a nondescript freight elevator in a NYC TriBeCa alley lies Museum, a delightful cabinet-of-curiosities drawing from weird collections around the globe. Museum is now open for its second season and includes such items as: "Personal Ephemera from Al Goldstein, The Rocks and Tools from Tom Sach's Mars expedition, Objects Made For Prisoners or by Prisoners in US Prisons, Fake Vomit from Around the World, Tip Jars collected by Jim Walrod, Surf and Turf Potato Chips, and more."

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This video is beautiful.

I really love Computer Jay's work. The passion and effort he puts into his music, video and programming boggle my mind. The 8bit style game he wrote to stand beside Savage Planet Discotheque is a lot of fun too!

Previously on Boing Boing: Computer Jay's Omni Bent

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Pearl Bank Apartments by jonolist on Flickr.

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Apollo 11 audio transcript 

Space turd #3 (First crap around the sun)

Apollo 10 audio transcript

In his early days Ed Freeman was a musician and worked as a road manager on the last Beatles’ tour before his mid life career change. Now he creates commercial and fine art photographs. His architectural series ‘Desert Realty and Urban Realty’ are neither photographs nor paintings.

While the Desert Realty images are mostly of abandoned buildings in the Califoria desert the Urban Realty pictures where shot in LA. As he is interested in exploring the borderlines between photography and computer imagery, like he says ‘the grey area between realism and fantasy’ his photographs have been manipulated to enhance the ordinary sturctures and sets them in the middle of nowhere. Desert Realty has been published as a book by Chronicle Books and is available on Amazon.

All images © Ed Freeman