IdFLQ - HONG KONG
Ok, well. The fireworks tonight WERE an improvement over last Saturday's, but well, then so would throwing a few sparklers up into the air...
Tonight was Hong Kong, and as a Chinese competitor, you expect a lot, and I mean a LOT. A few years ago the Chinese had fireworks that looked like 3 dimensional cubes. PHENOMINAL. You see something like that and you really want to see something as equally impressive. And it seemed that Hong Kong was well on their way...
Their opening was impressive. Large, high, colourful, and the music was up-beat. A few minutes in, you saw that they were were 'writing' on the sky. What they were writing was 2 0 0 8 The year the Summer Olympics will be in China. Now I'm on the fence on this... on the one hand, I was impressed with the creativity and thechnique to not only get an '8', but even more so a '2'. On the other hand, I was a little turned off on this being used even remotely as an advertisement for the Games.
Overall, the display was good, but I found it really failed to impress through the mid-section. It was a little too repetitive... 5 minutes of the same design and colour combination and you lose me... and repeat, repeat, repeat...
Their Finale was quite nice. Not as bombastic as I like em but as strong as their opener.
Ok enough babble, on to the pics...
It starts...
Tonight was Hong Kong, and as a Chinese competitor, you expect a lot, and I mean a LOT. A few years ago the Chinese had fireworks that looked like 3 dimensional cubes. PHENOMINAL. You see something like that and you really want to see something as equally impressive. And it seemed that Hong Kong was well on their way...
Their opening was impressive. Large, high, colourful, and the music was up-beat. A few minutes in, you saw that they were were 'writing' on the sky. What they were writing was 2 0 0 8 The year the Summer Olympics will be in China. Now I'm on the fence on this... on the one hand, I was impressed with the creativity and thechnique to not only get an '8', but even more so a '2'. On the other hand, I was a little turned off on this being used even remotely as an advertisement for the Games.
Overall, the display was good, but I found it really failed to impress through the mid-section. It was a little too repetitive... 5 minutes of the same design and colour combination and you lose me... and repeat, repeat, repeat...
Their Finale was quite nice. Not as bombastic as I like em but as strong as their opener.
Ok enough babble, on to the pics...
It starts...
Me likey the purply-pink ones...
OK, now THIS is phunkadelic!...
Interesting, no?
Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........
Sometimes small is impressive! ;-)
Fi-nal-e!
GOLD: England
Getting close to the end...
Fi-nal-e!
And now...
Four competitors down...
Our scores are as follows:
GOLD: England
SILVER: Hong Kong
BRONZE: Spain
And then you have...
Mexico
