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Originally posted by MrSquirrel She did....of wait, you must have a longer tape delay. She sings right after the parade of nations.....and you can barely hear her singing over Bob the douchebag and Katie the snarf babbling incessantly. MrS

what?
i just watched when they light up the thingy.
do you mean i missed it??

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Originally posted by Zewad a plane of smoke, lasers coming from the sides perpendicular to it and a light from teh bottom shooting up,... will give you that effect... i was also curious about it

No..I am speaking about the physical effect of the sculpture separating into smaller and smaller pieces.

I know how they did all the lighting effects in principle....the actual design of the separating thing is what interests me.

MrS

Yup she sang already, then something for the older ones, simon and garfunkel at the end.

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Originally posted by BadBadNeil Fireworks seemed well choreographed (sp) too. The drum guys were good in the beginning. I had a hard time hearing some of the music too, heard a few familiar tracks and was like wtf since most evens don't seem to play trance but more classical type stuff or pop dance music. I didn't understand the order of the countries coming in but perhaps i missed something too.

They are done in alphabetical order in the native language of the host country, with Greece always coming first and the host nation last. Greece just had their flag brought in first then came in last since they fit both.

MrS

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Originally posted by BadBadNeil Yup she sang already, then something for the older ones, simon and garfunkel at the end.

was it before they light up the torch??


damn!!!!! i missed everything.

can someone care to tell me how was it?

yup before the torch and before the big blanket thing over the athletes. It was pretty cool i guess, im not a huge bjork fan but it looked good.

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel No..I am speaking about the physical effect of the sculpture separating into smaller and smaller pieces. I know how they did all the lighting effects in principle....the actual design of the separating thing is what interests me. MrS

yup... i dunno either,... oh well

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Originally posted by her throat cut was it before they light up the torch?? damn!!!!! i missed everything. can someone care to tell me how was it?

Bjork sang while they pulled her dress out so it would cover the athletes on the field (kinda old gimmick in my opinion...was nice in 1992, but even with adding the map to it, I think they should have done something more original there, especially since the production was very original up to that point.)

MrS

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel No..I am speaking about the physical effect of the sculpture separating into smaller and smaller pieces. I know how they did all the lighting effects in principle....the actual design of the separating thing is what interests me. MrS

I thought about changing my major to engineering for about 5 seconds during this.

I wish i recognized the torch runners. It was cool for that last one in the US with Mohammed Ali, etc because most of the world knew who the guy was.

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie I thought about changing my major to engineering for about 5 seconds during this.

Engineering would have had little to do with it.....you would need a degree like I have (Theatre Technology) to get into building things like that.

I know how a lot of the effects were done...but that one is still churnin in my head.....it would probably have been obvious had I been able to actually see the cables holding it up as it separated.....but my tv is neither HD nor very big.....sigh.

MrS

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel No..I am speaking about the physical effect of the sculpture separating into smaller and smaller pieces. I know how they did all the lighting effects in principle....the actual design of the separating thing is what interests me. MrS

I'm assuming multiple molds composed on top of each other and then split into pieces. They can fill the void in between two molds to create the separator shape. Just a guess though, I did some work with molds in college.

I think for them moving they had multiple lines running the length of the stadium. There could have been a single motor on the line that can run along hte length and also raise and lower the line below it. Who knows though

Did anybody cap the ceremony?

I wanna hear what tiesto played

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Originally posted by BadBadNeil anyone else think that was an odd looking cauldron? looked more like my zippo grille lighter

i thought it was weird, seemed wrong to be promoting cigarette smoking that way.

anyone see the google logo http://www.google.com/

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Originally posted by SebG Did anybody cap the ceremony? I wanna hear what tiesto played

Yeah someone did theres a thread in MD about it, and a TL in... the TL section.

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Originally posted by igottaknow i thought it was weird, seemed wrong to be promoting cigarette smoking that way. anyone see the google logo http://www.google.com/

cool,they always do it in holidays too

Well that was incredibly boring, no bias here but Sydney's opening ceremony was much better.

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Originally posted by Matt Jay Well that was incredibly boring, no bias here but Sydney's opening ceremony was much better.

I think it was a great opening ceremony... but I agree Sydney was better.... But heck, i can guarantee you Beijing's will be the biggest and most extravagant ever, there's no way the PRC will let themselves be outdone.

Maybe it's the sleep deprivation speaking, but the part with Bjork and her dress reminded me of the opera scene in Parasite Eve. Lol.

i could barely hear anything over the cheering of the crowd

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