Stratos jump successful!

Adidas exploitation projection at Olympic park

London 2012 sponsor attacked over workers’ sweatshop conditions MORE HERE

Mass Games 2012

 A general view is displayed while artists perform during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, 2012 in London, England

   

The mass games see 100,000 people performing a choreographed show of simultaneous dancing and gymnastics on the pitch of Pyongyang's May Day stadium. 20,000 performers sit on a bank of seats, flipping coloured cards with high speed to form detailed composite pictures, sometimes moving! Mass games festival in North Korea. The performers are honouring the image of the former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung.

Government-organized demonstrations or state demonstrations are demonstrations which are organized by the government of that nation. (wikipedia)

Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) - Opening Ceremony - London 2012 Olympic Games

Cloned Horses Can Now Compete in the Olympics

Reversing an earlier ban, the international governing body for equestrian sports has decided that cloned horses can compete alongside their traditionally bred counterparts. "The FEI will not forbid participation of clones or their progenies in FEI competitions," the Federation Equestre Internationale said after its June meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, according to The Chronicle of the Horse. "The FEI will continue to monitor further research, especially with regard to equine welfare.” HERE

Balotelli is partying with his Mother

New Aethletics

adiZones and Lo-Lifes

This week I attended Regeneration Games, a talk at FreeWord on the branding and aesthetic ideology of Olympic-driven regeneration. Alberto Duman organised the event and presented three 'artifacts' of regeneration: the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower, a promotional PDF selling the regeneration of Newham to Chinese investors, and 'adiZones'. The author and critic Owen Hatherley was then invited to respond to 'adiZones', a small development project intended on delivering part of the “Olympic Legacy” in the form of better community sports provision.
a MUST READ HERE

154 yards iPod throw

the olympic picasso more HERE!!