Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
Well the Chinese certainly raised the bar with the 2008 Olympics spending over £20 billion on the games!
Inside the Bird's Nest a crowd of 90,000 including dozens of world leaders witnessed lighting tricks, dancing, music and fireworks either side of a lengthy parade of athletes.
"This, it was hard if not impossible to dispute, was the greatest show the world had ever seen and it brought joy that became delirium in 1.3 billion people. The launch of the 29th Olympics was so stunningly choreographed, so meticulously planned - full dress rehearsals were under way more than a year ago - and went so far back into China's ancient history you suspected that Confucius himself might have been pleased." The Independent, UK.
The show featured flying acrobats and a giant 16-tonne globe rising from the ground - although not a single panda - in what might best be described as a breathtaking and brilliantly choreographed irrelevance which came to a jaw-dropping climax when Li Ning was winched high above the crowd to run around the vertical upper wall of the stadium before lighting the flame.
It was definitely a magnificent display on the use of light.
Gemma
posted by Light IQ @ Friday, August 15, 2008 
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