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Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies — Brooklynian

Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies

jeffrey
jeffrey
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff
All I can say is...

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Or, better yet:

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Comments

  • carnivore
    carnivore
    What they didn't say is that there's the head of a Tibetan dissident inside each one of those drums...
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    cough, cough, wheeze, i can just barely see it through all that "heat & humidity."
  • bullyboy
    bullyboy
    Well done, Jeffrey.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    i think it looks awesome. love the painting dancers.
  • shishkab
    shishkab
    the sheer scope and attention to little detail is amazing. it's really impressive.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    unfortunately, I kinda got bored like halfway through. then again, I had no sound. but I was wanting to see the outfits after last week's project runway.
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    I actually missed it last night , so I got up at 3AM and watched it in it's entirety - wow! It was the most beautiful, amazing, creative artitistic opening I can remember seeing at an Olympics.

    Now on to drug enhanced runners and emotionally/physically abused little girls doing amazing things with tortured bodies.
  • modsquad
    modsquad
    I thought it was remarkably two dimensional and a little cheesy. Costas had it right when he described the modern era as circa 1978.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/upside-down-flag-2397.html
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Where they got the Beijing Olympic logo:

    http://www.nickscipio.com/pod/2008/08/08_beijingolympics.html
  • modsquad
    modsquad
    That upside down flag thing is pretty interesting. With such attention to detail, I can't imagine how that got through. Somebodies head is going to roll, literally. Maybe they can use it in the beach volleyball final (women of course)
  • khuntiennang
    khuntiennang
    i have always been impressed with chinese ability to get such a massive group of people to perform together in sync and detail, so i had been waiting impatiently to watch this ceremony.

    so much so that i went to find the live streaming video online instead (partially, and longer too since it was unedited), and re-watch the whole thing again on nbc friday night. it was amazing, both the performance and the technology they use. very visual and artistic. i particularly love the human powered wavy box thing, and the tai-chi performance.
  • khuntiennang
    khuntiennang
    uh oh :mrgreen:
    http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Some-Opening-Ceremony-fireworks-were-faked?urn=oly,99745

    Some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked

    If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you were right.

    London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But -- hold on -- it's not necessarily as bad as you think.

    The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I'm not sure it's such a terrible thing.

    The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn't it accepted that some things might not be legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn't actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact that everyone could figure that out make it any less? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the firework-faking isn't that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn't on the up and up, then we'll have problems, China.
    :mrgreen:
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Apparently, not all went off without a hitch...

    Did anyone notice the BSOD projected on the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony?

    http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    And the 9 year-old singer pulled a Milli Vanilli:

    http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/08/another-olympic-secret-who-was-actually-singing-as-the-national-flag-entered-the-stadium/
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Top 5 Olympic opening ceremony moments China wants you to forget

    http://www.badmouth.net/top-5-olympic-opening-ceremony-moments-china-wants-you-to-forget/
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    whoa, hadn't heard about the...erm, sequestered...martial arts performers. that's the first one i've heard that actually bothers me.

    related: why did it take so long for the media to pick up on all those kids being han? it was noted at the time at our house -- it was pretty obvious. love how the nyt was like "we have real happy diversity, but china just has all these ethnic groups because they took over their land. oh, except for the native americans, but that's just one group." except that "native americans" isn't one group, unless all those chinese ethinc groups are just "native chinese". US = totally happy diversity. oh, except for kidnapping and enslaving and forcibly interbreeding with all those black people. but if you want a diversity omelet, you gotta break a few eggs.
  • khuntiennang
    khuntiennang
    how do you all like the closing ceremony? :mrgreen: i like the british performance, with the bus and all that :mrgreen:

    but overall, i still like the opening ceremony better.
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