A Grand Stage.
I'd just like to say that sometimes, I do feel guilty about blowing your minds all the time. It's not like I go out there and try and ruthlessly turn everybody's brains to mush. Having said that, my new discovery will, if you're aren't some fake, blow your mind:
This is a stage, for an opera. Sometimes, at night, I think about this. So yeah, i guess it isn't really a recent discovery, i think I saw it on the news years ago. I was thinking about it the other night and I just had to take a step back. Did I really see this on the news? or did i see it in some epic movie? or was this just something that appeared from my imagination and claimed it was from the news and I believed it?
I mean, when you think about it, an enormous skeleton overlooking a giant open book used as a stage for an opera floating on water?? Who would believe that? Nobody! it's A-mazing. So what to do? Go to google of course, although it's pretty hard to come up with a search string to find something like that when all I have is the image in my mind.
Eventually I came across it, but I apologise, I still haven't found any good qaulity photos of it, which is disapointing. You'll have to make do with the photo above and some tiny to pics of the opera here. Perhaps it was so awe inspiring that nobody could concentrate when they were taking photos. Anyway, if you want a concept of scale, that white smudge next to the skelton's hand is a person standing up. Yeah! I'm sorry your mind is hurting.
Anyway, in my search for evidence I discovered it was used as part of some festival somewhere in Austria. The most mind blowing part of all of this is that stage above was only used for two years! They have a new concept for this huge floating stage like every couple of years! I should just warn you that the stage above is one of the more simple ideas! You can see some of the other stages used recently at the official site, or you can see an evolution of the floating stage over 50 years at this site. Be careful, don't say I didn't warn you.
You can read about the role the stage plays in the opera, or the difficulties of sound design on such a gigantic outdoor stage.
If anyone finds any better quality photos of any of these stages, pass them on, it would be cool to see them.
This is a stage, for an opera. Sometimes, at night, I think about this. So yeah, i guess it isn't really a recent discovery, i think I saw it on the news years ago. I was thinking about it the other night and I just had to take a step back. Did I really see this on the news? or did i see it in some epic movie? or was this just something that appeared from my imagination and claimed it was from the news and I believed it?
I mean, when you think about it, an enormous skeleton overlooking a giant open book used as a stage for an opera floating on water?? Who would believe that? Nobody! it's A-mazing. So what to do? Go to google of course, although it's pretty hard to come up with a search string to find something like that when all I have is the image in my mind.
Eventually I came across it, but I apologise, I still haven't found any good qaulity photos of it, which is disapointing. You'll have to make do with the photo above and some tiny to pics of the opera here. Perhaps it was so awe inspiring that nobody could concentrate when they were taking photos. Anyway, if you want a concept of scale, that white smudge next to the skelton's hand is a person standing up. Yeah! I'm sorry your mind is hurting.
Anyway, in my search for evidence I discovered it was used as part of some festival somewhere in Austria. The most mind blowing part of all of this is that stage above was only used for two years! They have a new concept for this huge floating stage like every couple of years! I should just warn you that the stage above is one of the more simple ideas! You can see some of the other stages used recently at the official site, or you can see an evolution of the floating stage over 50 years at this site. Be careful, don't say I didn't warn you.
You can read about the role the stage plays in the opera, or the difficulties of sound design on such a gigantic outdoor stage.
If anyone finds any better quality photos of any of these stages, pass them on, it would be cool to see them.