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The Chinese Olympic Opening in Beijing was full of symbolism, art, history, and choreography as well as technology, but mostly it was full of lots of people performing minute details that added up to masterful feats of synchronized movement that in turn became a feast for the eyes.

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I am hard put to say which one of these beautifully choreographed movements was my personal favorite. That said, the above image which referred to how the Chinese invented silk and reminded us of how they were into trade long before their nation burst onto the scene in the latter part of the 20th century may have come close. Their nation is rich in history and culture and have had a sometimes unseen as well as unparalleled impact on the rest of the world.

While this opening was a tremendous undertaking and powerfully well executed my takeaway is yes, their richest resource is its people who can do amazingly detailed work in order to create magnificient things, but there are still a lot of problems to be solved. Now that we’ve all witnessed this at least in great numbers hopefully we can throw some weight behind it to solve them. It would seem to be worth it.

China has both extended the olive branch and thrown down the gauntlet at the same time. Anyone care to pick it up where they’ve left off? If I am referring to the next Summer Olympics, I vote for Brazil. Rio would be able to compete with this extravaganza (not so sure about Chicago). Otherwise, I leave this interpretation up to the viewer/reader.

(as a final word on the opening ceremony, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention how far along LED lighting has come and will be with us now for some time to come after this)

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For more spectacular images like these I encourage you to visit Boston.com; they’ve done a magnificient job of parlaying the images (many more than I am showing) into the powerful story China’s film director, Zhang Yimou, created.

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