Today, London receives a visit from a 13-strong Olympic inspection team to examine the city’s bid for the Olympics on 2012. I was amused to read that the proposed site for the beach volleyball event is Horse Guards Parade. In the immortal words of Victor Meldrew: "I don’t belieeeeve it!" Quite what our dear queen will make of it all, I hesitate to think…
London’s Olympic Bid
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5 responses to “London’s Olympic Bid”
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Oh, but what a dreadful boondongle the whole thing will turn out to be. We have to turn the lights on the Tower off while the committee of the great and the good come to London, so that it can be used as a projection screen. I’m very tempted to try a guerrilla campaign, switching on office lights in a pattern to send a suitably rude message!(In principle I don’t object to the Olympics. In practice, the prospect appals me).
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How about lights in the pattern of the Eiffel Tower? There’s probably enough windows in Shell Centre to be able to give a passable imitation… 🙂
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No good – the bastards have copyrighted the very image of the Eiffel Tower illuminated at night!
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I forgot to provide the link to the article (via Brian Micklethwaithe on Samizdata):http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2005/02/02/eiffel_tower_repossessed.html
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Entering "Eiffel Tower At Night" into Google Images returns about 1,700 photos. I’d like to see SNTE go after that lot. Still, there is a trend of this; recently the security guards in Chicago’s Millenium Park were preventing tourists from taking photographs of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture in the park "because the work is copyrighted".
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