Saturday, August 09, 2008
Olympics Fever
Went over to Graeme's yesterday to watch the Opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics. Was brilliant. The start was just amazing...2008 drummers counting down to 8:08, 8.8.08.
The technical aspects of the show where mindblowing...how they thought of it, then worked out how to do it... and the amount of people working together.. so much practice...just amazing.
We were all dreading what a disaster the opening ceremony for 2012 will be...can't imagine getting more than 3 English people to work together! We came up with alternative ideas.. highlights from our culture... Eddie Izzard to light the flame! (yes I did cheer Azerbijahn in the parade!). They had drummers and caligraphy and the printing press and fireworks....what have we invented?? pork pies and queues!!!
So...a great day celebrating the start... esp the chinese takeaway! ...looking forward to some great sport...going to be hard to not spend the week in front of the telly.
The technical aspects of the show where mindblowing...how they thought of it, then worked out how to do it... and the amount of people working together.. so much practice...just amazing.
We were all dreading what a disaster the opening ceremony for 2012 will be...can't imagine getting more than 3 English people to work together! We came up with alternative ideas.. highlights from our culture... Eddie Izzard to light the flame! (yes I did cheer Azerbijahn in the parade!). They had drummers and caligraphy and the printing press and fireworks....what have we invented?? pork pies and queues!!!
So...a great day celebrating the start... esp the chinese takeaway! ...looking forward to some great sport...going to be hard to not spend the week in front of the telly.# posted by Harley @ 7:13 PM 
