Thursday, May 20, 2010

London, Seriously ??


The '12 London Games
unveil their mascot.
Spawn of Izzy....


From the NYT : On Wednesday, the committee unveiled Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. The characters are not cuddly or cute, but steely, strapping and genderless. Each has a single eye (actually, a camera), a light on their heads representing a London taxi cab and bracelets that represent the five Olympic rings. Their amorphous, aerodynamic shapes make them look like science-fiction versions of Gumby. ( the rest)



2 comments:

Jennifer said...

Well, at least these characters depart from anime enough that it won't be so easy to photoshop Pedobear into the logo with the official mascots, as happened with the Vancouver Olympics' logo in several European newspapers.

b said...

oh my lord -- those are even worse than Izzy! They go so far to avoid being definably of any nationality but also are sure to include a male (pointy head) and female (blue crotch).

"Biology and technology are fusing" WTF is that supposed to mean?

I was telling my kids the other day about Atlanta's sperm-like Olympic mascot and they did not believe me.