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Middle Finger, Olympics!
Submitted by Richard Eriksson on Thu, 2006-11-02 15:26. Vancouver 2010[Cross-posted to Urban Vancouver and my personal weblog.]
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.
2010 Riot?
Submitted by Richard Eriksson on Tue, 2006-03-14 21:14. 2010 | 2010 riot | riot | Vancouver | Vancouver 2010
In my scans for photos tagged with both 'vancouver' and 'olympics' on Flickr (the script I whipped up to give me RSS of that seems to be getting more and better results than a tag search), I found Andrew's photo you see to your right which has someone spray-painting "2010 RIOT" in public places. A quick search for '2010 riot' found another photo, this time with a nametag with the phrase.
