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Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 15th. Asian Games Doha 2006
Created, conceived and produced by David Atkins Enterprises (website)
Alberto Navarro (Infinity Visions Inc.) Pyrotechnic Director and Designer
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"A magnificent spectacle"
View Photo Album: Opening Ceremony: Fireworks
"You Tube" Videos: Opening Ceremony - Closing Ceremony
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VISUAL SHOW DIRECTOR 5.2
NEW RELEASE
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PREGON 2005 EXPO ZARAGOZA2008
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El Periodico de Aragon
Interview (in spanish)
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005!
New Year's at the Space Needle , Seattle.
Watch a show simulation piece broadcasted by KING 5 TV in HDTV (2.9MB)
ATHENS OLYMPIC GAMES
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC "KIDS" MAGAZINE
JULY 2004
by Sean Pierce
MAGAZINE
JUNE 2004
by Paul Clarke
by Brad Kloza
and
by Lisa Chemery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/minutes/i_2903.html
Fireworks
Becoming Audiovisual Art
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
A moment with ... Alberto Navarro, fireworks designer
By
JOHN COOK
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/129469_amomentwith04.html
4th. Of July
Stories
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
By Katie Dean
DISCOVERY CHANNEL NEWS
Fireworks Become Art With New Software
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
IN THE PRESS...
WIRED MAGAZINE by Mike Drummond
American Institute of Physics by Emilie Lorditch
East Side Journal (Bellevue WA) by Cydney Gillis
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A collection of pictures taken by the Pyrotechnic Designer Alberto Navarro.
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This show won the
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THEMED ENTERTAINMENT ASSOCIATION
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THEA AWARD 2002
- The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) announced that the Tokyo DisneySEA Entertainment Program is the winner of this year's THEA award. The award is for Outstanding Achievement in Theme Park Entertainment and is rarely presented to an entire entertainment program. Tokyo DisneySEA is Disney's newest theme park in Tokyo, Japan, in partnership with Oriental Land Company. The new park is located adjacent to Tokyo Disneyland and, along with 2 new luxury hotels, constitutes the newly established Tokyo Disney Resort.
Complimenting the exceptional architecture and attractions, the entertainment program is a major feature of the new park. "Live Entertainment makes this park unique and the entertainment program was conceived from the beginning as a critical component of the park," says Steve Hedrick, who led the entertainment development as Senior Show Producer and Project Director for Walt Disney Entertainment and is now partner with ShoBiz Creative Entertainment Group. The entertainment program consists of 5 major stage shows, 2 spectaculars and 28 atmosphere acts. Those who visit the Tokyo DisneySEA park can see Ariel the Little Mermaid, live. The Little Mermaid and her undersea friends sing and perform acrobatic choreography above and all around the audience. Visitors also encounter magical flying spirits in a South American Lost River Delta, take part in the launching of an oceangoing luxury liner, experience both a daytime and nighttime fireworks and fountain spectacular and walk along the shores of exotic ports-of-call where rocks and trees come to life. Tokyo DisneySEA Entertainment won this year's THEA award for creative excellence, the innovative approach to show presentation and groundbreaking new technologies.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FIREWORKS
VALENCIA, SPAIN. OCTOBER 6-10, 2003
"VIRTUAL FIREWORKS AND SIMULATION AS A NEW TOOL FOR PYROTECHNIC MANUFACTURING AND CHOREOGRAPHY"
By Alberto Navarro . Infinity Visions Inc.
1ST. HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL FIREWORKS COMPETITION 2003
"WESTERN SERENADE"
RECEIVED "GOLD AWARD"
New Year 2003 PyroMusical Show at the Space Needle in Seattle
The first show ever designed virtually with the Fireworks Simulation Software "Visual Show Director"
- As Ken Nixon of PyroDigital said afterwards, this may well have been the most complex fireworks display ever attempted. The Lord of the Dance section alone used 1011 cues in 45 seconds, complexity on an unprecedented scale and the talk of the crowd afterwards. The display itself was an ambitious journey through fireworks history and was very well received by the crowd. It is very difficult to rate such a display since the "degree of difficulty" to use diving and figure skating terminology, was very high. The synchronization was flawless throughout, especially all the single-shot stars and comets where, normally, Roman candles might have been used. This, itself, added to the complexity of the display and paid off handsomely. The MagicFire electronic time fuses were used to great effect in the 2001 segment, where the booms of the salutes and the drums of the music were in perfect alignment. The material used throughout the display was fantastic, especially the vast numbers of girandolas used and I was quite surprised to see rockets fired from a US designed show - I think Alberto Navarro's Spanish roots were clearly showing here, as he told me afterwards there was a whole section of the display in pure Valencian fireworks. Because of the degree of difficulty attempted, some small criticisms have to be levelled. During the Blue Danube, the blues were insipid and were spoiled, in my opinion, by the red shells. The portion of the Offenbach segment when only tourbillon candles were firing was either a technical or other problem - I did hear talk that there just wasn't time to set up more product for this segment. A few too many low breaks as well and a mis-wired triple-feather fountain. These are small points, but when the aim is so high, they have to be made. The fire on ramp three was irrelevant, accidents can and do happen and there were no injuries; the fire crew were on hand to deal with it and did so rapidly after the display was over. The highlight was definitely the Lord of the Dance section and I think the theme of the display itself was well executed. Will Pyro Spectaculars be on the winner's podium and, if so, where?
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is hard to say. Nothing of this complexity has been attempted before. Dare
I predict that it will receive a Special Jupiter for being the pinnacle
in the art of the design of a pyromusical?