Sadly I couldn't watch the whole ceremony but I saw quite a bit. It was most spectacular in terms of being a wonderful show. The last thing I saw was the burning Olympic circles in the sky, which was probably the only connection with the Olymics I could notice throughout that portion that I saw.
Other than that, it was a very good boasting of English people before practically the whole world... One piece was missing though, but I suppose it is going to be missing forever. On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > In keeping with the British distain for acts of enthusiasm, Cotty wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:26 , Steve Cottrell wrote: > >> On 26/7/12, Christine Aguila, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> In about 24 hours (Chicago time), I will be watching the Opening >>> Ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics held in London, England >> >> It was pretty good! >> >> Cheers, >> Cotty > > What he neglected to say was the Brits enjoyed it, the Queen was in her best > form jumping from a copter with Bond, the corgis stole the show almost as > much as the incredible show of technical theater (theatre) in the round. Lump > in throat seeing the single forged ring raised to join the other four to form > the Olympic symbol, though I would have liked it if they turned to the colors > of said symbol as they "cooled", vis raining down a shower of rain > forest-like fire. Another touch was the half ring of the beam engine > stopping, restarting as a full ring (good latches, I suppose). And of course > - Pink Floyd - barely heard over the din. Paul is getting old, did a pretty > good job of getting the locals very excited. > > The most beautiful part for me was that the entire thing was accompanied by a > fantastic female percussionist, backed by a thousand inverted trash cans of > various sizes beat upon with a hundred varieties of stick and mallet. Awesome! > > Neat torch… > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
