Olympics Opening Ceremony Vid!!!

[quinara]

So, the Opening Ceremony happened and I loved it. I then had a dream of vidding it, but couldn't pick a song, and couldn't wrest the beautiful HD pictures from anywhere for love nor money. So I left it. But then Yuletide brainstorming happened, and hearing about other people's love for the ceremony fired me up again - and at that perfect moment, also, the song seemed obvious! For what else actually leads the viewer into the stadium after we've been taken on our jaunt down the Thames...? And, as usual, I managed to make the 'putery parts work eventually, mostly through sheer bloody-mindedness. So now there is vid! Which I of course accompany with Satan's words at Paradise Lost I 242-5, because that's how I roll. Also it's relevant.

Map of the Problematique.

I am, as ever, very fond of bright lights, which are somewhat flashing. There are a few slightly jerky sequences too.

is this the region, this the soil, the clime,
said then the lost archangel, this the seat
that we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom
for that celestial light?

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[ Olympics Opening Ceremony + Muse - Map of the Problematique [Rich Costey Edit] ]
[ stream in HD | download in proper 720p ]

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Comments

[starlady]

Thanks so much! When I first watched it I just got the spectacle - which was pretty spectacular - but now I definitely understand the actual vid, and it's really great! Now I want to watch it about ten more times, but I really like what you have managed to do here in terms of questioning history and stitching it all together!

[quinara]

Awesome! I'm so glad you get it and that you like it. :D