Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm surprised to read that people feel so strongly about this. The opening ceremony is simply entertainment or theatre, like a super Hollywood blockbuster movie. Seems like they put on a pretty spectacular show to me. Now Michael Phelps you could consider to be a REAL annoyance ;-) ;-) Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: [Leica] Fakes Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > It wasn't only the fireworks that were faked: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7556058.stm > > Nothing is real anymore! I feel completely at a loss for words to describe how I feel about how we are manipulated with fakery, how the producers of such propaganda take pride in their work, and how one of the participants in the fakery, the actual singer, was convinced (or told) to be happy to have been tossed a crumb. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com