Via Miss Cellania, we are afforded a quite fascinating look at the 1948 London Games, the first Olympics held after Munich’s 1936 event and the marking their post-war resumption, which compared to the current expense and corporate sponsorship is not only remarkable for the level of thrift and resourcefulness—a make do and mend attitude with athletes stitching together their own uniforms and college campuses and military bases acting as the Olympic Village—but also how the spectacle was pulled off in the name of international sportsmanship and provided much needed relief with the fighting in fresh memory and rationing and austerity continuing for many.
one year ago: half the world in the sun (with synchronoptica)
eight years ago: proxemics plus machine mirages
nine years ago: a maths sleight of hand plus ghost malls and the Gruen Transfer
ten years ago: border security, home and abroad
eleven years ago: US-EU trade disputes
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