Another 15 minutes » fireworks http://blog.silverstone.nu ~ There is no reality, only perception Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:34:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Olympic opening ceremony fake http://blog.silverstone.nu/2008/08/12/olympic-opening-ceremony-fake/ http://blog.silverstone.nu/2008/08/12/olympic-opening-ceremony-fake/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:44:41 +0000 Draupner http://blog.silverstone.nu/?p=170
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    • ]]>     Today it was revealed that parts of the olympic opening ceremony was in fact fake. It was during an interview in Beijing Radio with one of the people responsible for the ceremony it was explained that the little girl singing (Lin Miaoke, 9) during the ceremony was in fact lip syncing, and the voice is in fact belonging to another girl (Yang Peiyi, 7) that was considered to be too ugly so she was replaced last minute with a girl more cute. In search for Chinese perfection they decided to combine the best voice with the best appearance. Yang says she’s still very proud to be part of the event though.

    Also part of the fireworks were fake, the firework footsteps in the sky were in fact computer generated. Despite of this, the opening ceremony was very impressive I think.

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