X2110 (by Max Capacity +)
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
Just one of the issues surrounding the Olympics today involves the torch that had been mounted to the wheelchair of Devonshire born David Follett which extinguished this morning as he took part in the relay.
The BBC reports that LOCOG released the statement that the torch went out due to a “malfunctioning burner”. I am glad the Beeb can deliver these insightful comments in such nonchalance.
But of course, this is not the only problem LOCOG and the BarberOsgerby designed torch have encountered as EBay mania has taken over and several of the torches are actively being bid on as I type. If you fancy a nice souvenir in your living room, have a pop.
As an EBay fiend, I sort of understand the resale (regardless of whether Lord Coe & Co are are in the process of dis-encouraging it through all possible media outlets.) And isn’t it fair enough for the everyday people of the UK, who have lived and are still living through this four year circus, to make a quick quid in the same way corporations and the Bo-ro Johnson intend to through this showcase of London as a business centre to the globe? With the facade of community spirit and healthy competition, the reality is that London is being hawked this July and August for prospective investors to see the capital as a good place for business opportunity. These EBay sales are a small presentation of what the Olympics truly will be for London - a means to prosper financially, a saving grace.
“Happy Bidding!!” Indeed.
The torches themselves are the lovechildren of Hackney based design team Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Royal College of Art alumni.
The mesh like perforations may seem baffling at first, but the 8000 holes represent each torch bearer on the 69 day relay which began last week, travelling from Lands End to Westminster.
See the live route by clicking here
Sticky sitch
I’m moving from the dwelling I’ve occupied since I popped out of my Mama’s pinata into a two bedroom flat. (It’s exactly two parallel roads - and one park- away from here, so my Mum and I could move the furniture over on foot in a few trips. She caught a bad case of selective hearing when I mentioned this to her and I’m still waiting on confirmation before I lug the wardrobe out the front door.)
The exciting thing is, I get to choose the décor of my “OWN ROOM” (in her words) as a bartering tool to let the four walls that contain no less than twenty one years of history to be sold to a shiny new family.
So, I was advised- by the salesperson who desires my Mother’s hard earned cash in exchange for her extortionately priced floor boards- that I chose a scheme from a picture that sets a mood, or an overall theme to draw colours out from. At first I found buymyboards lady to be twitchy and a bit too keen to push her varying forms of ‘Château Grey Rustic Oiled Engineered Oak Floorboards’ for me to trust her wall painting tastes, but she had a point. And as I had no other ideas, I was facing the prospect of staring at three blank canvases of magnolia for the next year. And with the average age of first time buyers hitting forty by 2020, as you can read in The Independent’s Article from today I could be facing the reality of living at home for an extended period..
So after a few laborious days of looking through various Monet, Rosetti and Nordic landscape painting for colour inspiration. I settled on a definite theme.
Nicolas Cage.
See the uses of the yellow and blue in Sci-Fi thriller Next’s (2007) photography? Perfection. I cannot wait to paper my walls in the Californian babe and accent my new space with various pastel blue and yellow paraphernalia.
Next has 6.1 on IMDB. However, I wouldn’t recommend it for anything other than interior decorating.
You forgot bloated and annoying and AmericaniZed
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