HOMICIDE, SUICIDE: Chris Benoit

Come on, is this the face of a killer?

Chris Benoit, one of the best technician wrestlers that the world has ever seen, was found dead after hanging himself with the weight machines in his homes. Previously, he killed his wife and his mentally retarded 7 year old boy.

What were his reasons for killing them? Who knows. Could years and years of desensibilisation to pain and suffering? A roid rage caused by all the steorids he used to take? I don't think so, taking in account the Bibles found next to his family's bodies. Certainly, it was religious fanatism mixed with some psychiatric disease. So, instead of blaming steroids or wrestling, blame religion!

The funniest thing is that he pretty much stole the "homicide, suicide, genocide, death defying" nickname that his partner Sabu had. Well, he didn't enough have time for the genocide part.


Benoit's highest point of his carreer came in WrestleMania XX, defeating Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. Here we see him celebrating with his long time Mexican friend the now also dead Eddie Guerrero, who had just defended successfully his WWE Championship.

The worst of all is that this has ruined the whole "Death of McMahon" storyline where the owner of the WWE died in a limo explosion and the search for the killer was just beggining. Vince McMahon had to appear on camera to express his condolences and present a tribute to Benoit and the next day had to apologize for broadcasting a tribute for a murderer.

UPDATE NOTE:
A couple of videos from Benoit's greates moments used to be here. But the bastards at youtube pulled them out of their website. So instead, here's a photo tribute to Nancy Benoit, better known in the wrestling world as "Woman".


No wonder Benoit killed her!

DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH: the London 2012 logo?

The logo for the London 2012 Olympic Games has been revealed and it’s… different. Never before has an Olympic symbol caused so much reject and discomfort in the public, a poll showed that 80% of Londoners are against the design and demand its immediate substitution. All the British newspapers have done everything at their disposition to ridicule and attack this creation. With all due respect, to all of them I said: screw you, are you a graphic designer? No, most certainly not. And if they are, well, to bad for you.

Of course, this is not the greatest design in history (the only thing that bothers me is the London typography, which I think is too thin and its location is not quite the best one), but I congratulate de brand consultancy that created it for doing something that’s not conventional and present an authentic artistic creation of our times. Graffiti has become an integral part, like it or not, of any modern city, and this symbol is based upon this concept to show us an attractive and colourful image.

The worst thing is that most of the media question the price of £400,000 paid for it, saying that anyone could have done a better “little drawing”. This is a big problem for all of the graphic design industry in general. The world cannot undervalue a profession that, based in aesthetics and technique, gives flavour to our surroundings. Only a professional designer knows what’s visually appropriate and its regrettable that anyone believes he or she has the authority to say what’s good and what’s not. One doesn’t question the decisions and ways of a doctor or a plumber (in their own fields, of course) and specially not it’s an established world brand consultancy, like the one who created this dynamic new symbol.