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Surreal.
I'm not a big fan of the Olympics, but Chris Cope has a good take on things. An American living in Cardiff (Wales, you twit, part of the UK), he has an interesting perspective. And he certainly is right here:
That said, the BBC is certainly giving it its best effort. We are promised wall-to-wall coverage via TV, radio, online and mobile phones. Huge television screens have been erected in a number of city centers across the country. And a terrifying animated kung-fu monkey has been unveiled to promote the event.
In Britain, we are required by law to pay $275 a year for the privilege of watching television. This is where our money goes.
I'm particularly amused by the kung-fu monkey, whose name is ... Monkey. A two-minute cartoon of his traveling to the Bird's Nest with a pig and strange water zombie has been airing with increasing frequency over the past few weeks. It is surreal every time I see it.
Surreal is right. Wow. You've gotta see that to believe it.
Jim Downey
(Hat tip to Alix. Cross posted to my blog.)
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More Fun Than A Barrel of Monkeys!
Liked it.
Laughed.
Great tunes.
I'll give it about a seventy four because it is difficult to dance to but otherwise I think I'll just watch it again.
Monkey TV show in the UK
The use of the Monkey cartoon on the BBC is in response to the Monkey TV show that was very popular in the UK in the 1970's [along with The Water Margin - which I got a few Xmas's ago in a huge DVD box set :-)].
I thought the BBC Monkey video was excellent. Having said that I'm bored with the Olympics and they haven't even started yet!
Ian
Ha!
That was weirdly cool. Or coolly weird. I liked it, despite not knowing anything at all about the obviously folkloric characters.
And it kinda reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XEiV-l97o
Cool
Yeah that is obviously the work of Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame. The music was good, too - wonder if it is Damon Alborn/Gorillaz...
That's a pretty neat
That's a pretty neat animation. The character Monkey is aka Sun Wukong. The pig is Zhu Bajie and I guess the water zombie is meant to be Sha Wujing.
It's essentially Journey to the West only they're going to the Olympics instead of retrieving sacred scriptures...maybe a little grandiose.
Well . . .
As someone on my blog said:
Jim Downey
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Good Sportsmanship?
Well, it seemed reasonable to me. That is, to promote the other guy is part of the Olympic spirit.
As well, do you suppose that during the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake (the preparations for which I diligently worked on beginning the previous November) there was not any media mention of the peculiarities of the denizens of the state of Utah? I figure there were, and can only guess at the hearty reactions in bars and living rooms across the world.
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