Each weekend at a bar in downtown LA, actors and audience gather to re-create the 1991 action-schlock cult classic Point Break (which starred Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze). Today on Boing Boing tv, we follow the quest of one lone German/French actor to find fame and greatness through the "Point Break Live" reality-play competition.

What has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 160G hard drive, 1G RAM, buck teeth, fur, and a big fat tail? Duh, Compubeaver! This taxidermy casemod was created by Kasey McMahon of yourpsychogirlfriend. Compubeaver boasts impressive technical specs, and can chew through logs or logfiles with equal ease.

Today on Boing Boing tv, Mauvais Rôle ("Bad Role"), a short animated film about a computer game character who gets fed up with playing the same lame villain roles all the time -- and takes matters into his own (clawed) hands. His quest leads him to new and increasingly more ridiculous casting calls, each one weirder than the last. And they lead him somewhere he never thought he'd end up...

What happens when a young elven hero goes on a hellacious drug binge and high tails it out into the desert? Today's installment of Boing Boing tv's 8-Bit Cinema provides a possible answer, melding the three worlds of Rad Racer, Legend of Zelda, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. RIP, Dr. Thompson.

Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor, aspires against all odds to become America's next great action hero. We met Klaus in the previous BBtv episode "Point Break and Heartbreak," in which he revealed his devotion to the great Keanu Reeves; today, Klaus studies broadsword combat, in hopes of conquering the RenFaire circuit and moving every zig for great justice. But breaking through to true action hero stardom requires endurance, dedication, talent, and Keanu Reeves underwear -- guess which one out of four Kl