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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see / I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me. — Woody Guthrie, Remember the Mountain Bed |
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Chicago’s Olympic logo has been released. Well designed, it evokes the Olympic torch while paying tribute to the host city and its legendary urban skyscrapers.
Vancouver’s Inukshuk, by comparison, is quite different with its bold, blocks of colours. The rationale of the Vancouver organizing committee behind the Inukshuk—a structure which means nothing to this region of the world outside of the context of hiking trail markers—is that it evokes Canada and these are Canada’s games, not Vancouver’s.
While they are certainly correct about evoking Canada, I can’t shake the feeling that these are this city’s games first and foremost. Chicago didn’t seem to have a problem.
Posted by skooter at 8:24 AM
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