I enjoy watching field events, but they're so infrequently aired. Track events longer than the mile (yes, I know it's 1500m, but colloquially it's a mile) bore me - they're like NASCAR minus the car.
I wish they would show handball. You virtually never see it anywhere here, but it's a cool game to watch.
Seems like most of the airtime here is given to diving and gymnastics, two "sports" I absolutely abhor.
*(I've had to explain myself on this many times. I'm not saying these events aren't athletic or that they don't require a tremendous amount of skill and training, but I have a hard time accepting anything as a "sport" when the winners and losers are determined solely by judges. By that definition, a beauty pageant or a chili cook-off would be a sport.)
I love the olympics. i like pretty much every sport, although i have to say that the ones that i do find very hard to stomach are synchronized swimming (as a commercial of some years ago recited: Add, sharks... then you can call it a sport
😀), synchronized diving and rhythmic gymnastics. meh.
I used to love wathing just about any Olympic sport (WTF is up with rhythmic gymnastics?) but NBC has comletely ruined them with their endless stream of "human interest" angles on th athletes. Show me the ****imng competition. I couldn't care less about their stories.
word.
and please, please, PLEASE show them friggin' LIVE!
i do not care to watch them on prime time, i do not give a frap about packaging or background on the athletes.
I want to watch the EVENTS and i would like to watch them ALL, and i want to watch them AS THEY HAPPEN.
yes, i WILL change my own schedule to watch them live and i WILL get up at 3 am to watch an archery qualification series or any other obscure event, but I will NOT watch them delayed, when I already know the results.
NBC is the worst thing to ever happen to the olympics, i swear. And it looks like it gets worse every time.
The 100 meter final delayed should get people fired on the spot.
Now that I've seen it in use around the city and on various pieces of merchandising, signage and collateral, as well the different ways in which it can rendered, I've completely changed my mind about it and think it works pretty well. Putting my graphic designer cap on for a second, the two most important things it achieves in my opinion, are:
1. It cuts sharply through the urban visual grease and clutter of London because it looks like nothing else out there. Along with its typography, it's immediately unique and identifiable; an important factor when you see the signage and wayfinding stuff that's going up around the city and on the tube for the many thousands of visitors that will be here.
2. As a brand device that's supposed to represent London, it's fairly jagged, edgy and gritty for this kind of thing. It's the closest thing to punk that you'll see for an event of this scale with this level of corporate involvement and is far more representative of London's diversity and vibrancy than a slick brand identity with gradients, curved lines and forms and blander typography. That's not what this city is about. Seeing it against a white background in one colour isn't representative of its various uses and versions; it's pretty versatile...
So yeah, I've become quite fond of it, in its own little misshapen way. 🙂
I trust your judgement, but most of what you say would have been true for any logo they picked, not only about the one depicting lisa simpson giving a BJ (sorry, i just CAN'T look at the logo and not see that anymore. unfortunately some things cannot be unseen
😀)
I know, true, it would get old. This is why I firmly believe that, with the exception of the months of December/January, the Northeast of the USA has the ideal weather. 🙂
really? i love winter in NYC
