I'm lovin' it!

Can't get enough of the Olympic coverage!

Just two more days to my Super Saturday in the Park!

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Even Woodborough, Wiltshire is ringing its bell to celebrate the opening of the Games today!

Let the Games begin!

Just back from Coca-Cola Olympic Torch relay event in Hyde Park!

Exhilarating.

Check out The Odyssey

Asif Kapadia's latest documentary for LOCOG sets the social context for the 2012 Games in London.

C4, BBC 2 and in selected cinemas.

Introducing Neville Gabie

I hadn't really thought about what an artist in residence did, but I found out when I went to meet Neville Gabie at the View Tube last Sunday, during the Open Weekend at the Olympic Park.

Neville is the official Artist in Residence at the Olympic Park, and employed for 15 months to record and comment on developments; he finishes in December this year; so it's less about the games than about the people who are building the park and what it takes to build it. He's also trying to make sense of the experience.

Among the projects he's creating are:

- making sense of the Olympic stadium by sitting on every one of the 80,000 seats! And providing the visual evidence.
- making sense of the volume of the main swimming pool, by drinking the equivalent number of litres of water: all 4.3 million of them!

Then there's a video montage of the characters on site, the work they do, their hopes and dreams.

He's also creating an exhibition of work and memories from the 500 artists who inhabited the Carpenters Road studios, left when the Yardleys Perfume Factory closed down. Their rubble is now providing some of the Olympic site foundations.

Previous to this position, Neville was artist in residence in Antarctica; and at Cabot Circle in Bristol.

An interesting take on career!

One year to go

Just one year to go until the 2012 Olympic Games!

Attended a Central Taskforce Briefing for the 2012 Games a couple of weeks ago. An alphabet soup of speakers from LOCOG, the Met, the ODA, the GLA.
It was brilliant. So inspiring.

We're a year away and the Park is finished, trials are underway. The attention to detail is as it should be.

Five years' work behind the scenes. Proud to be British!

London 2012 Olympics tickets

If you want tickets to the Olympics now's the time to log on and buy from the official London 2012 tickets site (You'll need a VISA card to do so!).

You can get up to four tickets for the most popular events, and you'll hear if your bid has been successful in May. Prices range from the ridiculous to the manageable. Worth a punt.