Have y'all seen Wenlock and Mandeville (the 2012 Summer Olympic mascots)? Seriously, what were they thinking?!? I think Mark Remy (the guy who writes the RW Daily posts for Runner's World) had it right... they do look like something out of a nightmare! In an attempt to find out just what these creatures were, I found the press release from the BBC. The video is actually somewhat interesting. It gives a historical perspective on Olympic mascots, and attempts to explain the current ones.
Since I was still kind of at a loss after watching it, I read the article. The most disturbing thing to me is the whole cyclops look, which I found out that the "single central eye" represents a "camera lens through which they'll see the world, and respond to it". While the creators of these mascots sure managed to pack in a whole bunch of symbolism, and the whole interactive animated thing is kind of cool, I'm just not sure that their focus groups were representative of the general public! #20
I think the best description I read was "space alien sperm" or something like that.
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ReplyDeletehahaha... that works too!
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ReplyDeleteI knew those mascots looked familiar!
lol... when I first saw the mascots, I thought it was an advertisement for a new Monsters Inc. or something... I kept scrolling down the page, and then realized that those were the mascots!
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