Let me preface this post with the comment that I completely respect women's gymnastics. I think they are incredibly dedicated athletes and I feel sorry for their lot in life. I have never done the splits, nor completed a decent cart wheel. I am simply commenting on their style.
This is the 2008 Olympic games. The LZR Speedo swimsuit is tearing up the pool. The Chinese have spent billions of dollars making state of the art facilities to house the record setters.
Yet, why do the gymnasts continue to cement their hair to their head? The battle doesn't end there. For some reason, nobody has bothered to mention to them that blue eye shadow and really red rouge went out of style approximately 20 years ago, and for good reason.
It wasn't flattering.
I don't even know if I need to comment on the 30-or so odd clips in each of their cemented buns and pony tails.
And just what the hell is up with the glitter?
In total, the chronically sad looking, 13 year old, hair spray plastered, 80's makeup encrusted, SCRUNCHY WEARING Gymnasts in the leotards straight out of Jane Fonda's 1981 hit aerobics video make me more than a little frustrated that women's sports don't seem to have evolved at the same rate as men.
Judges?
Olympic Musings
Since the Summer Olympics 2008 have commenced, I will be periodically updating my blog with the news of our Storyhead Music Video piece featuring the Olympic Swim Team, and also random thoughts about China.
Here is the first:
According to Yahoo News:
Well, this makes me feel better about the world.
What if you were an Olympian, waiting for your event, and you realized you were now radioactive because of Rocket-Dispersal-Rain-Clouds dumping their toxic waste on you.
Even better, what if you were in a region, chronically plagued by drought and you suddenly found a miracle answer to making rain appear. You just spend I don't know what the average rocket costs, but I'm assuming somewhere in the... millions? So, you spend that money on the rocket instead of the more sensible option of I don't know...irrigation? a dam? Another river for heaven's sake?!
Anyway, you send the rockets up and they produce the rain. The farmers can grow their crop. People are fed. A nice solution, right?
Right. Until... you have farmers growing extra limbs, corn cobs that resemble the Incredible Hulk, and even better, a cycle of toxic waste that continues to pollute your country as well as the globe. But it's ok. Because... you made it rain when it didn't want to.
And you kept the opening ceremonies dry.
Wow, China, Wow.
Here is the first:
According to Yahoo News:
Meteorologists fired 1104 "rain dispersal rockets" into clouds over Beijing on Friday night in China's biggest operation of its kind to help prevent showers ruining the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
The rockets were fired from 21 sites to blow away clouds forming over the Games opening ceremony, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported.
"It was the largest rain dispersal operation in China, and the first time that such technology has been used to ensure the weather conditions for the Olympic opening," said Xinhua, citing Chinese meteorologists.
China has long dabbled in rain dispersal and rain-making technology, using a vast array of chemicals to either induce or prevent rainfall.
Scientists have viewed the technology as promising, but acknowledge that no method has been developed to objectively prove that such techniques work.
Well, this makes me feel better about the world.
What if you were an Olympian, waiting for your event, and you realized you were now radioactive because of Rocket-Dispersal-Rain-Clouds dumping their toxic waste on you.
Even better, what if you were in a region, chronically plagued by drought and you suddenly found a miracle answer to making rain appear. You just spend I don't know what the average rocket costs, but I'm assuming somewhere in the... millions? So, you spend that money on the rocket instead of the more sensible option of I don't know...irrigation? a dam? Another river for heaven's sake?!
Anyway, you send the rockets up and they produce the rain. The farmers can grow their crop. People are fed. A nice solution, right?
Right. Until... you have farmers growing extra limbs, corn cobs that resemble the Incredible Hulk, and even better, a cycle of toxic waste that continues to pollute your country as well as the globe. But it's ok. Because... you made it rain when it didn't want to.
And you kept the opening ceremonies dry.
Wow, China, Wow.
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