Journey to the West animation by the Gorillaz guys/BBC olympics intro

[Slurpee]

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I don't care about the olympics, I don't really watch TV, and I don't live in the UK, so I haven't seen this until just now.

For the uninitiated, like myself about half an hour ago, Jamie Hewlitt and Damon Albarn of Gorillaz fame were hired by some French douche to make a Chinese Opera adaptation of Journey to the West- the ancient Chinese novel that Dragonball was based on. They were then, apparently, hired to make the animation sequence the BBC uses to introduce coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and they made that. ^^^


Mostly I just thought it was pretty cool.

[AC Slater]

I love these guys, they're amazing.

[TapedeckClock]

"Monkey" is a nice project due to it being an onstage and offstage performance and its originality.

[TequilaClock]

That was wonderful. I always wanted to have the book of Monkey, I have only done passages but it would do great for a read.

[Topcatyo]

Awesome stuff, though I kinda felt the whole Olympics ending was out of place.

[Thor]

China can't seem to decide if it wants to be proud of being ancient or being modern.