Britishness
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Aug 08
the 2012 london olympics opening ceremony
mark sinker • FT + The Brown Wedge + TMFD • Art/Beijing Olympics 2008/britishness/mark e. smith/michael clarke/olympics/spectacle • 10 comments • 1,325 views
question: who should create and direct it?
preamble: the chinese capitalised (er haha) on A: a known gift for fireworks, B: a known gift for people prettily running with flags, C: spectacular oriental spectacle, D: a population as numberless as the pixels in the ocean — and the Brits limp far behind on all counts; my suggestion is that we should make a virtue of necessity and scrobble our counter-spectacle up round the sense of grumpy, lumpy, stubborn, dry-witted, weird-crop SMALLNESS, the aesthetic legacy of a small crowded windy greenfield crag dropped into the north sea
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