Apartment two 2011, Robert Overweg, Mafia 2

Visual glitches in games have always existed and probably were first highlighted to non-hardcore gamers crowd when the “Enter The Matrix Game” hit public status and was literally littered with game glitches. But small annoyances and bugs can become an inspiration and part of creative process and Robert Overweg, a Dutch photographer in the virtual world who has exhibited throughout the world, has taken up the challenge to create a series of photos based on glitches in games.

Overweg dwells through the virtual worlds of first and third person shooter games. He looks into the similarities, differences and borders between the virtual and the physical world. Borders which are being tested and stretched by Overweg.

He sees the virtual world as a direct expansion of the “real” world, the virtual places where players come together in multiplayer maps are for Overweg the new public spaces of contemporary society. For him it is logical to document his experiences and research through his photography. While making use of the new possibilities the virtual world give him.

The end of the virtual world 2010, Robert Overweg L4D2.

Junkyard 2010, Robert Overweg, Grand theft auto 4

End of The World - Counter-strike:Source, 2010, Robert Overweg

More virtual photography can be seen at Robert’s website.

Unless you’re some kind of nerd who has stayed way too long in the cave and waited for your mum to clean your room, you problaby are no hardcore comics or superhero geek either. You might have watched most of Michael Bay’s recent productions and even found the first X-Men movie, as well as Wolverine Origins, awesome but chances that you know who has what power are… nihil.

Don’t fear though! Although we are not nerds ourselves, we do know how the internet works and generally manage it to find the nice small jewels out there on the main world wide web. A free service for our readers!

Today you will need a little bit more time for things though because this is about all the super powers the modern day super heroes have. In one diagram. An infographic even. It will take you a while to discover everything. Believe me. It.will.

Without further ado.

Super Heroes Super Powers Diagram

Via C4 Universe.

The main problem here of course being ‘Who defines what is weird?‘. Since this is my blog and not some weirdo’s, of course I am the sole and lonely only basement dweller judge of weirdness here.

Get used to it.

And that leads us to next question: ‘How weird do you have to be to waste your time compiling a collection of the weirdest wedding cakes?. Cakes which aren’t weird at all in the first place. You of course must be the highly coveted Dumbass of the Week, right?

Be fair, what’s weird about these wedding cakes?

I know you want to see a bacon wedding cake! You know you want to.

Did I say bacon wedding cake? Sorry, my NADD must have gotten the better of me again.

Find more absolute normal wedding cakes at Email Junk.

No seriously, while that shiny black coaster with glass front might look ace on your coffee table even playing Plants vs. Zombies in HD on it is *not* cool anymore. Plants vs. Zombies now follows the same fait as that scarification thingamingy unless…

Unless you get something really cool like miniature Plants vs. Zombies representations. How about a sprouting Hypnoshroom?

Or a Peashooter Seedling? This is the future to protect yourself from the Zombiecalypse!

Sadly both are sold out already but you can place an order for custom work from AnUnclesMonkey at awesome rates. I wonder if they ship to my neck of the woods.

Of course things could always have been worse and it could have been a tramp-stamp, right?

Bonus points for the name 7r0n, no NOT pr0n, you basement dweller! These are concept designs, not real watches (yet).

The perfect way to accessorize Tron style. More images after the jump.

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More pictures after the jump.

Visit Mark Edwards DeviantArt for even more pictures.

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We’ll even forgive you if you’re a softie and only can cope with ‘Lynch beginner level’ suspense like in Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.

So what if you could have your own, super-sized David Lynch?
It now is possible. Well kinda, that might have been a lie actually but Jamie Salmon went ahead and created his own Lynch. Imagine sitting at the table, with your Lynch replica and enjoying your food in real Eraserhead style. Sign me up for one, please.

More pictures at Jamie Salmon’s The Director page.

We would maybe make an exception for BigFoot or Alf but other than that, no pet animals are not the real deal. And so thinks Nick Drummond whose pictures of his preferred pet animal we gladly stole for this post.

Why? Because we can he keeps an AT-AT that’s why. And if you don’t think that rocks, well then maybe you shouldn’t be reading frankylicio.us.

More pictures at Nick Drummond’a AT-AT gallery.

‘Yes’, we say here at frankylicious HQ. Not that Batman isn’t awesome already but with lightsabers, now that’s the real deal.

Via iheartchaos.

But I know that we all are exhausted after this long week of ‘unproductivity’ and wish nothing else than to hit that first frozen one, you’ll have to hit the image to have a larger view of the flowchart.

Now you can hit the Vortex of unproductivity in good conscious.

Via interweb3000.

I’ll have two thanks. Until then, feel free to have your fun with your watermelon. Maybe you first should get some LEGO before you play with melons , still it’s awesome.

Photo Credit: Silverisdead.

Batman, Darth Vader, Lightsabers. Can it get it better? Thrown all three in one pot, right?

But maybe that’s the wrong thing to do.

So it seems that rumours of a Dark Horse – Batman cross-over comic could become reality? Who knows whether the dream of many a nerd will ever be realised. What it did bring though is this awesome drawing by Dave Dorman.

Photographer Josef Hoflehner has an amazing collection of surreal images of the beach near Princess Juliana Airport International in St. Maarten.

‘Few people realise just how rich in biodiversity the Southern Ocean is – even a single trawl can reveal a fascinating array of weird and wonderful creatures as would be seen on a coral reef,’ said BAS research cruise leader Dr David Barnes.

‘These animals are potentially very good indicators of environmental change as many occur in the shallows, which are changing fast, but also in deeper water which will warm much less quickly.’

I don’t think right now you are thinking of fish&chips, are you?

Images gladly stolen from The Daily Mail online. Hey, it’s news!

So we passed when the news of Marvel’s acquisition by Disney hit the wires and waited for cool stuff to come out and this is definitely one of those things we have been waiting for: The ultimate Disney Marvel crossover by T Campbell.

Picture stolen without authorization, but THIS, this we consider NEWSWORTHY! And you should go ahead and buy your print fron T Campbell.!

Original post at foodie friday.

As can be seen in the photos, this is another store with a ‘famous’ glass staircase.

From left to right are presented the macro-categories formed by the supersturctures, from the most abstract, like policy and infrastructure, to those which concern more closely in the everyday lives, like economy and society. Amid the environment as a meeting point between abstract and current, with new ideas about global geoengineering and translocalism.

Original entry by Density Design, the map in several parts Behance.net and in high res at Flickr (6k pixel wide!). The original sketch at Flickr (with high res version almost 9.5k pixel wide).

The truth is out there.