Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Audiences were left enthralled and entranced by two dazzling opening and closing ceremonies staged in the National Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the first European Games ... which saw Belgian-based engineering specialist WIcreations involved in making some key elements of these innovative and beautiful shows come alive.
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I love these articles about major world events, and the tech that went into building them. It’s a who’s-who of scenic automation and engineering companies. Its events like this that I would really love to work on, and possibly not so much the event and the effect and automation of certain elements. The mechanism that they used to make the magic carpet flow sounds amazing. I admit that there are very few times when it is actually appropriate to use a complex mechanical linkage for a theatrical purpose, but in this case, it sounds like it was well work the engineering effort. The other thing that I wonder about events like this is “Who dresses all the actors?”. Your standard costume shop could probably build all of those things giving enough lead time, but mass production isnt what they are set up to do. I wonder, do they hire an industrial shop to make the 1000s of costumes required?
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