If you’ve strolled south across the Millennium Bridge in London recently heading for Tate Modern you can’t have missed the enormous street art decorating the outside of the iconic former power station.
My favourite of the 6 pictures has to be the large pop art-style (in my limited art-world view) red indian chief looking out onto all those visitors heading to the Globe theatre. Gives a very nice feeling to the stroll into work!
It was created by the New York-based ‘artist collective’ Faile and for those with some spare cash looking to purchase an original work of art to hang on the wall, check out their shop. Only 5 copies of ‘In Trembling Whispers’ - to give the chief his proper title - are available to buy for the tidy sum of $2800.
Given the money made off the back of Banksy stencil graffiti I’d think seriously about tucking a couple away for the grandkids.
The BBC has a great story today about changing the internet to allow more top level domains, moving on from .com, .net and .org, etc to possibly allow companies an individuals to start all kinds of new domains.
Dr Paul Twomey, chief executive of Icann - the domains ‘regulator’ - gives a great quote:
Like the United States in the 19th Century, we are in the process of opening up new real estate, new land, and people will go out and claim parts of that land and use it for various reasons they have.
One colleague at work asked me how they could grab a share of this new wealth. I guess if the xxx domain finally gets the go-ahead somebody somewhere will be making a lot of money. It’s supposed to have happened for .mobi domains already.
Is the internet really like the wild west? It seems the virtual ‘land’ up for grabs would be the closest opportunity for 21st century citizens to experience the atmosphere of 1880s Oklahoma.
Anyone with even a passing interest in American sports will normally hold a marmite-like feeling about ice hockey (you either love it or hate it). Personally, I like the no-holds-barred approach to sporting triumph, especially as the end of the game draws near. In fact I’ve even gone as far as watch the Guildford Flames in action.
Whilst scanning this blog post on ‘the worst hockey logos of all-time’, I came across a now defunct team named the Denver Spurs who managed to combine the old west location of Colorado with the practicalites of ice skating:
An interesting feel to that late 60’s era logo! This may well form the basis of a new editorial series entitled ‘Odd Cowboy Logos’ - please do send more in if you spot one.
