vancouver 2010 logo
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- mrsparkle0
yeah vburo, i'm serious. I've got family friends on the sunshine coast, they are a family of artists and designers so I'm going to get them to ask their 90 year old grandmother what she thinks.
I won't have an answer for a while I'm sure. maybe later this week...
- vburo0
oh, well that sounds good.
would be interesting to hear more then one native about it, but then i have no idea how difficult it is to do that there..
- t_rock0
yuck. uninspired and boring. the smiley was added at the last minute too.. brutal!!! Haida band will be so pleased to see they were beaten by Inuit to represent the Wet coast
- snuggles0
sorry to joke based on experience, I don't normally like to generalize...
- k770
It seems Canada in general can either be the first ones to neglect native culture, but when we need some sort of heritage or identity we are the first ones to embrace it.
©NegativeSpaceinteresting, in an ambiguous, vague, what does it all mean, type way..
- ric_s0
I really like Xrtions logo. I dont like the one they chose... even with the cultural significance.
- imnotnate0
yeah i meant you xrtions, but it really doesn't matter :)
shoot i'd like to see a documentary made about the logo... someone travelling across the country with it, showin 'er to people... native groups and such... gettin their reactions.
cbc, where you at?!
- snuggles0
One bitter native group..
- drbyers0
i must say that logo looks ASS-tastic...
- prophet0NE0
Here's a photo of the inspiration for the 2010 Olympic logo taken at English Bay in Vancouver.
- lhd0
I think it would b great without the smile. The smile isnt necessary.
clink'
*new wallpaper on lhd
- Visia0
Okay, not to sound rude here but since when was it mandatory to cater to the First Nations population when it comes to the olympics.
Last I checked there wasn't a single native person participating and I'm pretty sure that they're not exactly the number 1 demographic watching the olympics.
Also, now they're pissed about the fact that it wasn't a first nations person that designed the logo. I can almost understand that because the emblem to me looks like what happens when Disney picks up on something, polishes it to a squeaky shine and tries to sell it as "culture".
Beyond that, it has nothing to do with Vancouver in my opinion, plus it centralizes on one small demographic in the BC area.
If you really wanted to represent Vancouver then why not use Asiatic symbology?
Futhermore, when the olympics were in Montreal it's not as though they used a Fleur de lis or some sort of sylized poutine in the emblem.
Lastly, I just plain don't like it. I find it chunky and pedestrian. It has no action to it which I find very much contrary to idea of the olympics.
Perhaps it will spark conversations like this one so people can figure out just what the hell it is; and they may learn something from that. But that's not going to cause any major shift in opinions or political native relations in Canada. It almost serves to whitewash the mistreatment of the natives by the feds.
And, finally, the olympics are in 2010, not 1910. I would have rather seen something a little slicker, less chunky.
- Solid0
Visia said what I was thinking, but better ;D
- vburo0
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/s…
omg..
but i agree that the way it's depicted in the logo makes it indeed look like it's all been thru the "marketize-filter"..
it looks like a happy meal version of the real deal..
shite..
- ********0
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/s…
i wonder if this will be the first of many...
- ********0
first of all, i would like to personally thank all of the activists in this thread. i must say it has been one of the most pleasant and thoughtful debates i have read here in a long time. through all of the opinions shared i must say that my eyes and ears have opened, listening to locals, canadians and foreigners abroad. i am glad that we all share the enthusiasm and passion, even if we do not all agree.
secondly i suspected that if they depicted or singled out a race that it would have a ripple effect. canada is not just about one specific culture or heritage it is a mixture of race, religion and livelihood.
by choosing what they have opens a whole assortment of questions such as: the previous globe and mail article. or how about chinese canadians who developed our rail way system, and help build our economy...what is interesting will be hearing or reading about the reactions from across the nation.
- snuggles0
I hope that there is a 'reaction' from within Canada, but I can't see it making many ripples outside of our indigineous communities and even then, they'll most likely be along the lines of the globe and mail article..
I dunno, I'm a shut-up now as I'm not the most pro-canada guy here...
- nLHb0
i highly doubt anyone is even going to really care in the end. but i can be quite cynical
- ********0
maybe you dont know anyone personally that cares, but i certainly do. there is a difference between celebration and spectacle
- snuggles0
sure I know people who would care but they are nowhere near being considered mainstream popluous.
I don't see what you mean with "there is a difference between celebration and spectacle" ?