Tuesday, January 01, 2008

First Night 07/08

Well, it didn't rain.


Our Rocket made another appearance...


This year I built little roofs to keep out the rain...

... did I mention it didn't rain?

No confetti this year. Last year we used this dissolving confetti. Some of it is still there:

So the city decided they neither wanted more glued on dissolving confetti or to pay for people to clean up normal confetti. So, no confetti; as it turns out there was plenty to clean up anyway.

Mrs. TANBI had some new stuff this year. There was a gobo effect at Penn & 9th...

... to commemorate Pittsburgh's 250th birthday.

There were also three new looks in the show...

Dancing Happy Birthday:

Happy Birthday with bubbles:

And snowflakes:


I tried to shoot video of the finale again this year and again my camera wouldn't really cooperate. So there are two videos (which youtube squashed some), one for the top and one for the end...





All in all it was the big fun and a good gig. Thumbs up!

1 comment:

Peg said...

And I bet it looked even cooler in real life than it does in the photos, and that's saying something. Sounds like lots of fun was had. Happy New Year.

P.S. You know darn well if you hadn't built groovy shelters it would have just poured all day long...