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Beauty Is Embarassing, Wayne White

LIMBO Is Now Available For the Mac App Store

LIMBO, by Playdead Games, is now available in the Mac App Store. The game, originally for X-Box I believe, is about a little boy who enters Limbo in search of his missing sister. Neat concept, but what's truly remarkable  is the breathtaking B&W artwork and atmospheric sound FX and level design.

 

The Flying Insect Eqivalent of the X-Wing Assault on the Death Star

Swiped over at FilmDrunk. This is incredible and you should definitely click-thru and watch it in hi-def over on You Tube. Thanks to hi-resolution slo-mo, you can actually see bees clinging to the backs of hornets, who then go spinning off into epic death spirals. (SPOILER) When the hornets finally infiltrate the hive, the film crew somehow managed to get macro footage of hornets pulling bee larave out of their cocoons and feasting on the lil' bee babies. Take-away — DO NOT FUCK WITH JAPANESE HORNETS.

 

Quantum Locking = Nerd Boner

Occupy Wall Street Signs by Jay Shelowitz

You've Gotta Get Mad...

Fight the Power

Wu Lyf — Dirt

Malcolm Gladwell on Income Inequality

Some Decent Fall TV Logos

For the most part, television show logos are throwaway crap. I'm always amazed that the networks throw millions of dollars at developing these shows, but can't spend a few more bucks on the wrapper. FX has proven to be one of the exceptions to the rule (HBO generally does a great job too). The eerie gothic/deco influenced logo for the new Ryan Murphy show, American Gothic, is so unexpected and weird, it sets the tone for the show perfectly. And the double "N" slash for The Ringer logo is a clever nod to the show's premise of overlapping twins pretending to be a single person. Both logos communicate ideas. This is what good design does. So everyone else in the newtwork marketing and design departments — your fired.