Middle Finger, Olympics!
Posted by Richard on Thursday, 2 November 2006
Kris Krug just posted a photo of a poster seen in Gastown, and surely elsewhere, of a stylized middle finger made out of the Olympic rings. If it had the Olympic colours, it probably would have been less subtle, but let's be honest, I don't think a lot of people, myself included, initially saw an obscene gesture made with one's hands, but a body part that people are more discreet about. I wonder if the people who were behind the 2010 Riot stencils are behind this poster as well.
I walked right by it not thinking to take a photo of it. Not only do I work in the same office as a company with a citizen journalism site, but I work with citizen journalists. If you see them any of the posters elsewhere in Vancouver and use Flickr, be sure to tag them with 'vancouver' and 'olympics' so that they show up in the search for both tags.
[Cross-posted to Daily Vancouver and Urban Vancouver.]
interesting.... we should start a vancouver olympic protest group for the pics we've been taking.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/vancouverolympicsprotest/
I made a note in the description about not needing to be against the games to participate. It's about documenting the resistance, not necessarily belonging to it.
That's one pissed off inukshuk.
rather than fragmenting the opposition, how about we join under one banner ?
2010watch.com
No way. On the Internet, you don't join just one group, you join 'em all!
power in the numbers! power to the people!
nod to Sillygwailo for joining them all!
themarina uses this photo to adorn a blog post about the Vancouver Olympics failing before they've begun.
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Against Rights, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
No thanks.
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