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Coca Cola incursion 'vandalised': Photo: @makesandbreaksPhoto: @makesandbreaks
IOC TOP sponsors Coca Cola's recent incursion across the Cut into Wick (appropriating The Big Wall outside Queens Yard for their video shoot) caused some controversy, and forced a retreat leaving behind merely the attempted rebranding of Wick as HW. @GoodNewsHackney flagged up this neat summary. An excerpt from the introductory section, setting the scene:

Coca-Cola, who are rather comically along with McDonalds’s one of the main sponsors of the Olympics, have replaced the graffiti with a ‘social realist’ style of mural depicting athletes deep in concentration. Coupled with its bright red background, the design no doubt unintentionally evokes communist-era artwork.

@highrisemurals gift to the locals was

Residents of #HackneyWick how would you like to see this filled?? http://fb.me/1BheKRNlD

with agency @monorex so generously, errrm, declaiming

Update on the phase 2 Monorex remix of the Olympic Hackney Wick wall http://instagr.am/p/HWkhGivS4U/

Hackney Wick fam - hope you like our present to you.. After a busy week of global attention! #HW

@annadubuis - yes of course, but with the vandalism it came a week earlier than planned...

For something completely different, perhaps amongst the wierdest protestations of dissent, via @AndrewSimms_nef there's @davidboyle1958's The Real Blog: What Londoners can learn from Covent Garden 1809 speculating on one possible response to the Zil Lanes.


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