Here is a great video that shows what I am talking about with airbrushing models for magazines: www.youtube.com QUOTED FROM MSN “BEIJING - Chinese officials defended their decision to pass off the voice of a 7-year-old songbird as that of another girl at the Olympic opening ceremony, calling it a simple casting choice. Critics said it was a step too far in China’s obsession with the perfect Olympic Games. Beijing organizers of the games faced tough criticism Wednesday after a whistleblower revealed that the 9-year-old who performed a song during the spectacular opening ceremony was lip-synching to another girl’s vocal track. Yang Peiyi, a 7-year-old with bright eyes and a smile made crooked by the stubs of her first grown-up teeth, was heard by an audience estimated in the billions during Friday night’s ceremony, singing “Ode to the Motherland.” But they never saw her face. Organizers passed the song off as being sung by Lin Miaoke, another perky schoolgirl who donned a sparkly red dress and soared on wires above the 91000-strong crowd at the Bird’s Nest stadium. Beijing officials on Wednesday defended the decision to use both girls, saying the artistic directors could cast whoever they saw fit. And they were unapologetic about keeping the lip-synch a secret. “There were a number of candidates to sing that song and at the end of the day the artistic directors picked the best voice and the best performer,” Beijing organizing committee spokesman Sun Weide said. Wang Wei …
The Beijing National Stadium, also known as the bird’s nest will be the main track and field stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics and will be host to the Opening and Closing ceremonies. In 2002 Government officials engaged architects worldwide in a design competition. Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research Group to win the competition. The stadium will seat as many as 100000 spectators during the Olympics, but this will be reduced to 80000 after the games. It has replaced the original intended venue of the Guangdong Olympic Stadium. The stadium is 330 metres long by 220 metres wide, and is 69.2 metres tall. The 250000 square metre (gross floor area) stadium is to be built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a combined weight of 45000 tonnes. The stadium will cost up to 3.5 billion yuan (422873850 USD/ 325395593 EUR). The ground was broken in December 2003, and construction started in March 2004, but was halted by the high construction cost in August 2004. In the new design, the roof of the stadium had been omitted from the design. Experts say that this will make the stadium safer, whilst reducing construction costs. The construction of the Olympic buildings will continue once again in the beginning of 2005. In depth The stadium’s appearance is one of synergy, with no distinction made between the facade and the superstructure. The structural elements mutually support each other and converge …
zennie2005.blogspot.com — Last Friday’s Olympics Opening Ceremony in Beijing Olympics Stadium was without a doubt the greatest event of its kind in the history of the Olympic Games. It was China’s “coming out” party, and the organizers 0 million was well-spent. The results showed in China Olympian Li Ning’s levitating speed-skater style “walk” around Olympic Stadium and his lighting of a giant torch, which in turn caused what had to be the largest fireworks display in the history of the Olympic Games, if not the World. A spectacle that looked tremendous, and even animated, and that’s because it was. The organizers of the event admitted that computer graphics were used to “replace” the actual fireworks images because the fear was that the “haze” — read: smog — was so bad that a great camera shot of the pyrotechnics would have not been possible. Still, it was controversial because it took away from the overall historic effort and also took the wind out of the sails of the China Olympics, and sadly. I write that because regardless of that country’s problems, we’re all fans of the Olympics and want to see it go well. Period. But what was done reminded me of the movie “Wag The Dog”. That flick, which starred Robert De Nero and Dustin Hoffman, was about a war that was staged on a television set and never happened at all. With China’s actions, we’re a massive step closer to that possible occurence. China not only faked the fireworks, but the singer employed in the Opening …
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