June 14, 2006

A football fresco

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Unrelated to cell phones, but to football frenzy here in Europe. [via LunchoverIP ]

This is wild. German sports apparel manufacturer Adidas "has paid for an 800-square-meter fresco painted on the ceiling of Cologne's main train station in the style - reminiscent of the Sistine Chapel fresco by Michelangelo. It's actually bigger: the Sistine measures 530 square meters). Produced by TBWA ad agency".

...The fresco represents ten modern pagan idols (such as Britain's Beckham, France's Zidane and Germany's Ballack - all Adidas-sponsored)," writes LoIP.