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Month: August 2012

  • Support Independent gaming and Kickstart QONQR!

    Qonqr is a cool location-based mobile MMO that is being developed by an independent studio also named Qonqr. One of my close friends from college is a co-founder and they are trying to raise some money via Kickstarter to fund development of the next phase of the game. About the game:

    QONQR is a location-based, massively-multiplayer strategy game in which players use their smartphones to battle for control of the cities, towns, and neighborhoods in which they live and work. QONQR allows you to be a mobile operative on the streets, in coffee shops and even at the grocery store; battling for control and conquering the world. It is available right now on iPhone and Windows Phone, with Android development underway.

    Here’s a quick summary video with more detail:

    Please check their Kickstarter out if you’re intrigued, and lend them a few bucks. They are halfway to their goal of $25k and there are only 36 hours left in the campaign, so time is of the essence!

  • two-tone art: the teal and orange invasion

    I admit that I hadn’t consciously noticed the trend of how every Hollywood movie seems to be going for a two-tone palette nowadays, but this eye-opening piece lays it out in irrefutable detail:

    You see, flesh tones exist mostly in the orange range and when you look to the opposite end of the color wheel from that, where does one land? Why looky here, we have our old friend Mr. Teal. And anyone who has ever taken color theory 101 knows that if you take two complementary colors and put them next to each other, they will “pop”, and sometimes even vibrate. So, since people (flesh-tones) exist in almost every frame of every movie ever made, what could be better than applying complementary color theory to make people seem to “pop” from the background. I mean, people are really important, aren’t they?
    […]
    From this seemingly innocuous supposition was unleashed a monstrosity that would eventually lead to one of the worst films ever, and one of the worst examples of unchecked teal and orange stupidity

    The screenshots are hilarious, but at the end he takes teh same principle and applies it to classic works of art, and the result is utter genius:

    I’d LOVE to see someone do this for more pieces of art.

    It occurs to me that our politics is similarly two-tone, carefully calibrated for maximum opposition and “pop”.