{"id":391,"date":"2008-08-08T21:31:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-08-08T21:31:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:31:39","slug":"stunning-opening-to-the-beijing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/stunning-opening-to-the-beijing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning opening to the Beijing Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics  was the greatest show on Earth that will be hard to beat. It was the best of art, choreography, design and technology combined to create what could be one of the greatest live events ever presented on this planet.  Kudos to the Chinese and if this is the way the Olympic games are going to be, it will turn out to be one of the best ever.  To me it was a live spectacular with the aesthetics of the great Chinese film director  Zhang Yimou (Hero) and artists like Chai Guo- Qiang, who made his name in pyrotechnic art.  Simply put &#8211; creating art through gun powder and pyrotechnics in the sky.  Chai had a brilliant installation at the Guggenheim in New York untill about 2 months ago.  And guess what  &#8211; both of these brilliant men have created the opening ceremony together.  I am told that Steven Speilberg was supposed to do the show but pulled out in protest against absence of civil liberties in Tibet.  I appreciate his honesty and commitment to a cause, but do not believe that he would have been able to create a spectacular of such aesthetics, for it was so Chinese !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics was the greatest show on Earth that will be hard to beat. 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