Olympics Opening Ceremony

Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
edited August 12, 2008 in The Big Picture
I saw it on TV and i am speechless. Though missed 1 hour from middle but enjoyed a lot. What an event i hope i was there as a photographer :wink. I love opening ceremonies because of cultural touch. Looks like i am on my way to china (Kashgar) by road next year :wink

What are your thoughts ?
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  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited August 8, 2008
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    I saw it on TV and i am speechless. Though missed 1 hour from middle but enjoyed a lot. What an event i hope i was there as a photographer mwink.gif. I love opening ceremonies because of cultural touch. Looks like i am on my way to china (Kashgar) by road next year mwink.gif

    What are your thoughts ?

    Due to commercial television wishing for the largest audience, (and to charge for advertisements), it will not air on television until this evening, local time, here in the US. It is about 130pm here on the east coast now.

    But after your comments, I will be sure to watch!
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 8, 2008
    :jawdrop


    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/2008_olympics_opening_ceremony.html

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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited August 8, 2008
    I saw part of this before I had to leave for work, and it was pretty .... amazing!!!!!


    :jawdrop
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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 8, 2008
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited August 8, 2008
    I'm watching it on TV right now. :jawdrop :jawdrop
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  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2008
    Wow, that was incredible...the number of performers and the blending of technology was cool. Was amazed to at the price tag: $300M
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  • jwwjww Registered Users Posts: 449 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2008
    Yeah.. that was past incredible. ..amazing shots of it on that boston link!!
    ..I think I would be have been too stunned to click 1 frame!!!
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  • CuongCuong Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2008
    The show was no less than spectacular, but nothing on this scale is ever without controversies. In this case, it involves fake fireworks. So far I really like the stromotion photos.

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  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2008
    Cuong wrote:
    The show was no less than spectacular, but nothing on this scale is ever without controversies. In this case, it involves fake fireworks. So far I really like the stromotion photos.

    Cuong

    I don't know why there would be any controversy over the animation. At least to those of us watching in the US, the announcers on NBC specifically said that the sequenced that showed the fireworks across Beijing was animation.

    In fact, they used the sequence to discuss the production quality that went into the whole thing, including the animation and its timing to the real fireworks, where a few of the footprints were in fact real, timed to go off with the ending of the sequence.

    Guess Sky missed this...
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  • digismiledigismile Registered Users Posts: 955 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2008
    I bet the people working on the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada all gulped when they saw this opening!

    Even with animated fireworks (didn't know, don't care), I have never seen anything like this in my life. Watching the entire ceremony live in HD was an experience I will never forget ...

    How wonderful it would have been to be there and see it live!
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