Alec E Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Can you at least confirm that it's a beautiful piece of work?
templeryan Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Just been watching the BBC news, maybe clutching at straws now lol, but anyone know what this is behind the presenters head to the left? It was there the whole time, even when the camera moved so it isnt a reflection I dont think. It looks like a ferris wheel or something. I noticed this too and was confused. It wasn't a reflection, it didn't move when the camera did and was visible from multiple angles. I'm pretty sure it's not the rings, as they were horizontal. This looks to be a blue circle, vertical on the roof of the stadium. During the news actually, you could still see the lights flashing inside... they're still practicing!
pjpauly2k Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Yeah, I wasnt sure if they were practicing or just making the stadium look nice, ha.
thepianoman Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 I saw this too- but on my TV it looked like it could have been a still image/placeholder being shown on the video screens on the roof?
baron-pierreIV Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Still another circle on the roof?? It's either that guy just had a blue rinse job or an apparition. I mean, what's a blue circle. ANd one of our on-site informants has already confirmed that's it's visible from within the scope of the stadium. Can't be that.
NY20?? Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 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!
Olympian2004 Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Does that blue circle actually belong to the stadium? To me it looks as if it's behind the stadium, it could belong to a building in the distance.
Cody1985 Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Hi Guys , I'm new here but i followed the hole discussion of the cauldron location. A few Moments ago I found this picture which I never saw before ... http://oi45.tinypic.com/2qx1b29.jpg Do we have our cauldron location or is it fake (left side) ? Hard so say for me ... But there is a Ramp near the glowing thing , I am confused
daveb81 Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Just been watching the BBC news, maybe clutching at straws now lol, but anyone know what this is behind the presenters head to the left? It was there the whole time, even when the camera moved so it isnt a reflection I dont think. It looks like a ferris wheel or something. i think this is the ferris wheel in Victoria Park which sits behind the stadium....they have a load of stuff there!!
baron-pierreIV Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Hi Guys , I'm new here but i followed the hole discussion of the cauldron location. A few Moments ago I found this picture which I never saw before ... http://oi45.tinypic.com/2qx1b29.jpg Do we have our cauldron location or is it fake (left side) ? Hard so say for me ... But there is a Ramp near the glowing thing , I am confused Welcome, Cody. Ramp? Glowing thing? Where? What part of the foto? i think this is the ferris wheel in Victoria Park which sits behind the stadium....they have a load of stuff there!! That's what I thot -- belonging to something else.
thepianoman Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Hi Guys , I'm new here but i followed the hole discussion of the cauldron location. A few Moments ago I found this picture which I never saw before ... http://oi45.tinypic.com/2qx1b29.jpg Do we have our cauldron location or is it fake (left side) ? Hard so say for me ... But there is a Ramp near the glowing thing , I am confused I think I see where you mean Cody- the underside of the Orbit observation deck?
pjpauly2k Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 i think this is the ferris wheel in Victoria Park which sits behind the stadium....they have a load of stuff there!! Ah ok daveb81, thanks for that, I thought it looked something like that but you never know. OK I give up! im finally admitting defeat like lots of others here. Its probably in the stadium. lol. Just have to wait till almost this time tomorrow to find out then!
baron-pierreIV Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 I think I see where you mean Cody- the underside of the Orbit observation deck? I saw that too. But it's too enclosed. It should be higher. But that could be the outside cauldron. It really didn't make sense to put up another tower just several meters away from that thing. Or maybe the Orbit is having their OWN cauldron -- regardless of what's going on inside the stadium.
Cody1985 Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 here is another picture , i marked the glowing thing and the platform/ramp i never saw a ramp/platform there before ... it coud be the final position for the cualdron , after it's lightning in the stadium because somewhere the cauldron must be seen by the public , right ? and there is no other building where it can be lift up ... BUT it's all speculations Sorry for my bad english
cormiermax Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Well that looks pretty cauldron like I must say.
thepianoman Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 That's a very good find Cody- it's difficult to tell from that photo. But a few of us have said all along that the Orbit would be a great spot for the cauldron- so perhaps this is where it will be!
baron-pierreIV Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Looks like a strong possibility. Another tower never made sense to me.
Olympian2004 Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 The platform seems to be new indeed (unless it's an optical illusion), but the Orbit had that red glow below its spectator platform already much earlier, when the stadium's wrap wasn't up yet: And folks, did you really believe they will install a flame right below the spectators' feet? By the way: What happened to Lakshmi Mittal's statement that the Orbit won't be the cauldron? I thought that this would put all that speculation about the Orbit to its final rest.
thepianoman Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 And folks, did you really believe they will install a flame right below the spectators' feet? Personally I was thinking more along the lines that if the cauldron was in fact there, it could be hidden under the observation deck then slide out onto the platform which has been added.
PyroKinesis Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 It will be fun to watch the final torchbearer zipline into the stadium from the Orbit.
baron-pierreIV Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 The Orbit all but killed any chances for another cauldron tower because the whole concept would have been redundant. But you can't do a great ceremony if you immediately 'honor' the Orbit placement for July 27. It would have to be after. (But there will be the "inside" one on the stadium floor.)
JimmyJoe Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 The platform seems to be new indeed (unless it's an optical illusion), but the Orbit had that red glow below its spectator platform already much earlier, when the stadium's wrap wasn't up yet: And folks, did you really believe they will install a flame right below the spectators' feet? By the way: What happened to Lakshmi Mittal's statement that the Orbit won't be the cauldron? I thought that this would put all that speculation about the Orbit to its final rest. They have said The Orbit WASN'T the cauldron, we know that is designed by Heatherwick, but nobody has ever confirmed that Heatherwick's design wouldn't be places ON Orbit. I think it's fair to say this is a modern day miracle keeping it secret so long!
baron-pierreIV Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Maybe putting the cauldron (whichever one it will be, the official one or a non-Heatherwick one) there is meant to block people on the orbit's deck from looking into events inside Oly Stadium?? After all, they would be getting a peek into events going on there?? So maybe a trade-off was worked out, Orbit would get the honor to 'host' a cauldron, but it will block free-loaders' view of the stadium inside??
JimmyJoe Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 plus both BBC and ITV studios look over Orbit and the stadium, for as long as I can remember both their studios have lookrd over the stadium in view of the flame. Unles they are looking over Orbit because they can't see the flame!
Olympian2004 Posted July 26, 2012 Report Posted July 26, 2012 Gosh, I will be so glad when these final 24 hours until the cauldron lighting will be over and we can put that Orbit discussion to rest...
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