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London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
The one good thing about this cauldron set-up is how close it is to the two flags. Very classic looking. Though Al Roker said it best. It looks like a bunch of flaming golf clubs. -
London's font came way before the development of their Look. Really, all fonts come before their respective Looks. I suppose Looks are in part developed to fit in with the font introduced in the logo. Athens' font worked very well I think. You can find it on Microsoft Word, but it still evokes a certain classicism to it that feels fitting for Greece. Like the Look, it said "Greece" without relying on all the typical notions of what Greek design are. I feel like Beijing and Rio's font certainty say "China" and "Brazil," but they're very obvious and easy about it.
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London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
NSNBC (and I imagine NBC as well) has has cauldron shots since Saturday actually, though from different angles. On Saturday it was from the bottom up right in the middle of it. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
One of those huge, crowd-packed thoroughfares at the Olympic Park would've been the perfect place to move this cauldron to or have an identical one at. Though i'm not convinced it's the most aesthetically pleasing thing. It only looks nice from certain angles and the flame burns really unelegantly. -
Compared to London's, Rio's typface is very hard to read. So I imagine it won't be used as extensively as London's which is used in a lot of different applications and used to spell out more than just "London 2012."
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London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Why didn't they place it at the other end of the stadium where the Tor was? Is there no gap there between the stands? The flame always looks nice behind the Athletics starting line, but you won't be able to see it where it is now. And on top of being rather small already, it's diminished a bit by being so close to the elevated media platform to its left in that picture. Oh well, London. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
I think they said 60,000 during the opening ceremony. So probably a bit more during Athletics. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
In hindsight, the ideas thrown around of London building a large tower, having multiple cauldrons, or whatever else was suggested before the 27th seem really unrealistic now. Clearly, London's budget was tight. Very tight. Tight enough to force them into the corner of only being able to build a small cauldron. Coupled with a very closed stadium roof structure and they were stuck with a small cauldron than can't be placed in a position visible from both the inside and the outside of the stadium. So they had to choose and they chose the inside probably simply because that's where the ceremony takes place. All very unfortunate, but in retrospect, not the most surprising move from London.n -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
That's a fair point. This cauldron situation is clearly another fruit of London's cost-cutting consciousness. And while it's admirable that organizers have tried to keep the cost of these Games down across the board, this is one area of the Games' delivery that I think ended up being compromised because of that. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
But the IOC isn't one all-knowing entity. It's made up of over 100 different people. I'm sure there were plenty of individual IOC members who weren't informed about the cauldron plans and would of objected if they knew about this cauldron set-up in advance. Unless of course the same members responsible for reviewing ceremony plans beforehand are the ones complaining now. But are they? -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Am I missing something? It didn't seem like there was a "global cauldron race" until London claimed that they didn't want to be part of it. Sydney's and Salt Lake's weren't very big. Good size if you ask me. Athens' made a lot sense in its stadium as it was designed by the roof's architect. Very harmonious. Torino's had to be so tall in order to be seen from inside and outside a stadium that closed throughout those Games except for the ceremonies. Beijing's was big... but that was Beijing. And it actually didn't seem that big from outside the Bird's Nest. Vancouver needed a second cauldron outside enclosed BC place to avoid exactly what London is going through right now. And I don't think that design was particularly excessive or unnecessarily big. Good size to be a photo backdrop. Of course cauldrons in general have definitely become bigger and more show-y since decades ago, but so have the Games at large. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
They were posted on Tumblr. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Haha that made me laugh. Though I would say Athens showed up Sydney first with its big bowing cauldron. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
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London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
I imagine on the ground level. On the stage it would get in the way of spectators. But surely the heat might be too much for peopel above it even if its not directly in front of them? I suppose they have everything figured out though. We'll see. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
As a piece of attrative design, this cauldron really only works from its dead-center looking bottom-up. So that's to say that it dosen't work. From every other angle, it looks like a bunch of tightly packed trees in the winter whose tops are on fire. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
*does not burn very elegantly -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
As far as cauldron designs go, I would put this one under "ok". Not as terrible as Torino's, but not as fantastic as Salt Lake's. I do think it would've looked wonderful in a high, prominent position "blossoming" and retracting throughout the Games. Too bad that's not going to happen. And the flame itself is awkwardly shaped on top of it and does burn very elegant like say Sydney's did. The lighting itself lacked drama and monumentality. In this department, Sydney and Barcelona can breath easy for another two years. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Shoutout to everyone who screamed, "ticket = cauldron!" You guys were right, etc. It's a nice cauldron. Looked stunning from underneath when it was coming together. But the actual lighting was underwhelming. I mean, 5 "pedals" are lit and suddenly the other 199 are ignited as well? How does that work? -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Has it been mentioned here that the choice of the final torchbearer was "a unanimous decision?" Reported by a correspondent on NBC Nightly News... -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Well, yeah. But that wasn't the point. -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Apparently NBC's Meredith Viera saw the lighting rehearsal and says that, "if they pull it off, it will go viral within minutes. It's fantastic." Hype hype hype! -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
I couldn't hold my nerve and had to come back in here. So it looks like it is indeed inside the stadium somewhere and will stay there? Well, I'll be honest and say it's hard for me to imagine a truly spectacular lighting for a cauldron that'll remain inside or even a cauldron design that somehow aesthetically makes sense inside the stadium. Seoul's was simple and classically shaped so it worked. Heatherwick's will probably be very sculptural and conceptual... Will that look good right in the middle of an 'athletics' environment? Regardless, this is still very intriguing. Less than 24 hours now! -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Haven't read the last two pages of this thread now that we got some concrete news. So bye, everyone! Enjoy! -
London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
NY20?? replied to SwissO's topic in London 2012 Ceremonies Discussions
Looking back at the Beijing cauldron thread, someone posted images of that cauldron being tested in the early morning hours of August 5th. That Ceremony was of course three days later on the 8th........ *Correction. It was the 6th, Beijing time. You can see that thread here: