The Guardian covers more Olympic ceremony Skulduggery.

Locog denied Sendall’s claim, saying Boyle’s vision for the opening ceremony “was inspired by the very well-known Glastonbury Tor landmark and British history. The vision was Danny Boyle’s and his only”.

I was surprised when a friend posted a link to my facebook today.

“How Olympic cauldron fanned flames of fury at American design studio”

It seems that Locog, Danny Boyle, Heatherwick et al, were stealing ideas with impunity. I still find it difficult to believe that a cultural figure of Danny Boyles’ standing would simply copy an idea by a less well known (and less successful) artist. But the statement made on his behalf by LOCOG that the mound “….was inspired by the very well-known Glastonbury Tor landmark and British history. The vision was Danny Boyle’s and his only”, seems to lay the blame clearly at his door.

As far as I’m concerned this is an admission that Danny Boyle used the concept that this blog documents as his ‘inspiration’.

It would have been so much easier if they just asked and offered some kind of attribution, then everyone would win, and maybe I would have made the Birthday Honours list (Ha ha!)

To me it is looking increasingly like LOCOG/ACE gave a much stronger brief than has been admitted to the design team, perhaps this brief contained images and text cut and pasted from other LOCOG related initiatives. Could it have been a lazy LOCOG / ACE co-ordinator that has instigated this debacle? Perhaps time will tell. Where are the LOCOG whistleblowers when we need them?

I am intrigued to see what happens next!

If you have just picked up on this story please take the time to read some of my previous posts to put this latest news in a larger context.