Olympics Opening Ceremony – no images, just stuff
I had hoped to blog about an interview between Akram Khan and Alan Yentob, but getting there didn’t work out.
So rather than posting any of my own stuff, here are some of the more notable things I’ve found – or been shown – since.
The whole thing (for as long as we can view it)
3 minutes which might actually stay around
The Wall Street Journal was less than impressed
The Guardian’s enthusiastic take on the volunteers’ perspectives
The New York Times called it ‘weirdly and Unabashedly British‘ (and I agree)
CNN on the young athletes who lit the cauldron (mostly)
Skywalker1964 – the ceremony as a coded message to the Tories
Guardian – the view from abroad (and yes, even if people from other nations got all the cultural referents, they’re unlikely to feel the same about them)
BBC- A Britain as never seen before
io9 – Are Olympic Athletes really mutants?
NBC ‘snubs’ of Akram Khan
from deadspin, showing the actual performance
The socialised medicine parts (which my friend’s son calls ‘The Dreams’)
Various bits of footage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18971766
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffM1iHrZzJ0
Isles of Wonder, Opening Ceremony Music
Beckham’s trip under Tower Bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9GbjPn7_Jg