A branding concept for Copenhagen fashion store PARISTEXAS by Danish design agency Scandinavian Design Lab what sez:

With this contrast-filled universe, the solution seeks not only to break with the traditional perception of beauty and fashion – it also challenges the classic approach to working with identity. The primary identity element is not only a logo, but also a symbolic universe with a life of its own.

Fair enough so.

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Luke O’Shaughnessy writes:

I’m communications officer for Educate Together. I noticed this post on your website recently in relation to Educate Together. The letter’s author may (or may not) be pleased to learn that the Minister for Education has today announced the establishment of the first ever Educate Together second-level schools… which we’re delighted with.

 

Educate Together Makes History As First new Second Level Patron Since 1930s

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What you may need to know:

1. Sawyer from Lost plays a burned-out basketball coach recruited to head up a US breakdancing crew in a bid for the world championships. Do you think they’ll win?

2. It’s in 3-D!

3. It co-stars Josh from Drake & Josh! We preferred him with the weight on.

4. Is this an elaborate homage to  Cannon Films?

5. Extra points for the ponderous voice-over.

6. That’s convicted woman beater Chris Brown with the blonde rinse. He’s got the whole menacing arsehole thing down to a tee.

Release Date (Ireland): Who cares?

Declining honeybee populations may not be entirely down to pesticides, fungal attack or some mystery virus.  A new discovery in the US points to a more gruesome cause and a more sinister culprit.

The parasitic fly lays eggs in a bee’s abdomen. Several days later, the parasitized bee bumbles out of the hives—often at night—on a solo mission to nowhere. These bees often fly toward light and wind up unable to control their own bodies. After a bee dies, as many as 13 fly larvae crawl out from the bee’s neck. The bees’ behavior seems similar to that of ants that are parasitized—and then decapitated from within—by other fly larvae from the Apocephalus genus.

“When we observed the bees for some time—the ones that were alive—we found that they walked in circles, often with no sense of direction,”

We’ll get our flamethrowers.

“Zombie” Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees (Kathrine Harmon,Scientific American)

(Pix: Christopher Quock/John Hafernick)

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Tiarnan Jones writes:

My flat mate, Phil Evans made this awesome skating…and AWESOME music video! the description on the video say it all really….y’all enjoy now! “A bunch of friends got together and turned an abandoned old roofless room  [in Bray, Co Wicklow] into something special with little know-how and a lot of graft! We invited our friend Max Zaska, a talented jazz musician, out to our bowl who took his drumsticks and his guitar and improved some really amazing songs to the skating that was happening with an industrious technique none of us have witnessed before.

Skaters in order of appearance: Rob Moss, Gibbo, Finn Merrins, Brian
Corscaden, Ciaran Hughes, Gav Coughlan, Shane Wheelan, Rich Gilligan, John Dillon, Patrick Bateman and Sherbert Dipdab.


ET the walrus at Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma demonstrates his extensive vocal repertoire.

Raised by humans since he was found starving and orphaned in Alaska by oil workers, ET recently celebrated his 30th birthday.

22words/tastefullyoffensive

 

Previously: An Olympic Conundrum

Catriona Cuddihy’s Olympics

The GameDock ($125) – currently within an ace of full funding on Kickstarter – turns your iPhone, iPod or iPad into a retro videogame console with a dashboard app that allows you to dual-play iCade games on the phone/pad screen or connect to a TV.

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