June 8, 2007
LUCKILY, NO ONE WATCHES THE GAMES ANYMORE:
Olympic video risk rating was 'off the scale' (Daily Mail, 7th June 2007)
Experts claim the risk of seizures caused by the video for the London Olympics logo was "off the scale" and may have set a record for the highest number of TV-induced epileptic fits in the UK.Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2007 7:07 AM
Tests on the 2012 logo’s promotional video, which has also been blamed for causing migraines and nausea, showed that 126 frames of the film broke anti-epilepsy guidelines.
Comments
Not the summer games anyway.
Posted by: Bartman at June 8, 2007 7:34 AMIt might just be worse than the appalling Atlanta '96 Mascot "Izzy" (though I guess this is only the logo, and there is still time to hit new depths when a mascot is chosen...)
Posted by: Mike Earl at June 8, 2007 10:19 AMI thought nothing short of several decades of obscurity could erase the shame of Izzy, but here comes London to the rescue! Gotta love those Brits!
Posted by: BrianOfAtlanta at June 8, 2007 10:36 AMhttp://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030421/pattern_recognition.shtml
and
http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-William-Gibson/dp/0399149864
Posted by: Qiao Yang at June 8, 2007 12:16 PM