Wow, you guys went crazy on the forum!

Dreadful as the weather was, it wasn't the reason for the late start. We were just all slow eaters!

The order of the displays was:

Pirotecnia Caballer (Spain - no music)
Pirico (Italy)
Glorious Group (China)
La Ronde (Effectively the Pyjama day fireworks)
Panzera SAS (Italy)

If only there had been more wind - it was really very smoky but it did clear a bit towards the end. The displays were excellent and people made a lot of comments about Pirico and Glorious (especially with Patrice Guy's competition-level choreography). It was quite eerie say in my usual seat without the usual crowds around - we all missed Michel Lacroix's inimitable countdown too! Still, a great time was had by all and the weather certainly didn't dampen anyone's spirits (as my headache this morning attests).

Paul.

Salut


Je n'allais certes pas manquer cà. Finallement je suis allé sur la Rive sud juste derrière le site de la Ronde près de la piste cyclable.
Au moins on pouvait regarder les feux en demeurant dans l'auto.
Près de nous il y avait ces gens dans une Camry beige. Le gars
semblait filmer le spectacle. Je me suis dit que cà devait être une gars de ce site.
Le tout a débuté avec un retard mais après nonobstant la plusie et parfois le foutu panache de fumée, nous avons adoré le spectacle.
Vraiment de belles présentations des firmes participantes et c'est le fun plusieurs finales.Les feux ont attiré des spectateurs autour de nous les vrais maniaques.Malheureusement certains quittaient prenant pour acquis que c'était terminé.Or il y avait juste une pause entre chacune des prestations.
Nous avons été comblés par ce spectacle magique de presque 60 minutes.
Next....les feux Telus de décembre et nous y serons. Avec le froid et la neige c'est spécialement beau et encore plus poétique.

Roger

Alright, here is display # 1 from last night: Pirotecnia Caballer (Spain - no music)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7nzkos2uaw

Enjoy!

Here is Pirico's display:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dRPhua0V4Q

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7uJ0eOtu0

I will try to post as many of the remaining displays as possible tonight.

Noticed the red and green lightning shells by Pirico? Met the guy who makes them...

And note the different colors the Italians offer...

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Caballer also has red and green lightnings but not same as Pirico's... Must be different formulations... yes, definitely different formulation....

Nice videos, as always, Tyler. You can clearly hear the rain in the background as well, and of course the smoke accumulations seem most prevalent in the last clip there. As Fuji pointed out, I too was enamored by the rapid red and green flashes. I was also quite excited about the use of the various bright salutes, shell of shells and multi-breakers combinations seen, while interspersed with some huge farfalle shells. The lower effects in all clips were excellent, though it's a shame that some of them were blocked out by smoke in the latter clip of Pirico's display.

On a final note, in part 1 of Pirico's display, I honestly never heard such a distinctive, and funny noise coming from those kinds of shells at the beginning! I hope to see the firm participate in the Montreal fireworks competition in the near future.

Thanks again, Tyler.

Trav.

On a final note, in part 1 of Pirico's display, I honestly never heard such a distinctive, and funny noise coming from those kinds of shells at the beginning! I hope to see the firm participate in the Montreal fireworks competition in the near future.

They've used this effect during their demo in Berlin... Forgot the name of this effect. I also wanted to say that those were good and unique...

Those distinctive noises are made by "hummers". There's nothing new or unusual about them - Brocks of England were famous for them about 100 years ago! They are made of small tubes with a hole in that spin very fast on-axis - it is the spinning that gives them the distinctive sound.

Paul.

Hey all,

I've had lots of fun today, watching over the final "two and a half" displays that I had not posted yet. Again, I warn you, YouTube's compression totally takes away from what I'm seeing on my full digital videos copies - but you can at least take a look and decide what you'd like to download when they appear as "member only videos."

Glorious Group's 20 minute display:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dE2WbvJ6mY

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSMoKgySs8

La Ronde/Panzera SAS (the first couple of minutes is La Ronde's 'leftover' display. My question: Are all of the annual Pyjama Day displays this good??):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUZ9oEHhn8

Enjoy!

^^^

Superbe! You could tell, though, that alot of the shells were marred by a seriously thick area of dense smoke, making some of them looking like hemispheres and other effects, including shells, totally inconspicuous in part 1 of Glorious Group's display. Part 2 was pretty cool in that there were some nice colors used in a mix while in good tempo, though the latter piece was a little redundant in firing with the alternating single and double shells above the cracklers of green, red and light purple ball stars at mid level. The finales were pretty neat, and the one in the final clip reminded me a lot of the Panzera finisher structure seen in 2003.

I've heard from viewers here, with regards to the Pyjama fireworks, that they tend to be pretty good overall, especially in 2004 where a lot of material was left over, particularly (I believe) from Caballer. I've only started hearing about the event as of 2003, though - I'm not sure if it was taking place prior to that.

And thanks, Paul, for the explanation on those distinctive noises. Are these sorts of techniques implemented to create other similar noises that we commonly hear for other effects?

Trav.

Merci à ceux qui ont capté et mis en ligne des vidéos de ces deux soirées de feux. J'en ai regardé quelques-uns et je visionnerai les autres au cours des prochains jours. L'horaire tardif des feux, les piètres conditions météorologiques vendredi soir et un agenda par ailleurs chargé ces jours-ci m'ont dissuadé d'assister à ces spectacles, non sans hésitations et déchirements...

La Ronde/Panzera SAS (the first couple of minutes is La Ronde's 'leftover' display. My question: Are all of the annual Pyjama Day displays this good??)

Certaines années, les feux des pyjamas ont été très intéressants. Cet événement, amorcé en 1999 avec des feux traditionnels puis poursuivi avec des feux pyromusicaux à compter de 2001, était en train de devenir une nouvelle tradition qui attirait beaucoup de spectateurs à La Ronde. Elle a été interrompue l'an dernier à la suite de compressions budgétaires mal gérées et elle n'a pas été reprise cette année, bien que des publicités radiophoniques annonçaient encore l'événement le week-end même de sa tenue.

Il est vraiment dommage que le grand public ait été privé d'un feu des pyjamas à la faveur de quelques professionnels réunis en symposium et qui, de toute façon, allaient voir des spectacles pyrotechniques faits par diverses firmes.

Est-ce là toute l'estime que La Ronde a pour son public?

Frédérick

Than kyou very much Trae for the videos... I think you did a gret effeort to show us the shows!!! (cause it was rainning, right?)

The Panzeras finale is really good.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !

Well it was really nice meeting everyone on Friday. I can`t believe we waited in the rain for 2 hours lol. It was well worth it though. All my friends thought I was nuts when I told them what I did.

Près de nous il y avait ces gens dans une Camry beige.

Salut,

Et oui c'était nous qui tourner un peu en rond Roger, je pense que vous étiez dans un Corolla si je ne me trompe pas. En tout cas, nous avions bien aimé le spectacle malgré la fumé. Au moins nous étions dans le comfort de nos autos =)

Jeff

Salut JTF

Oui une Corolla noire. ...La prochaine fois que je vois ta camry nous irons nous présenter. Il n'y avait que les vrais passionnés pour assister à ces feux ...dans des conditions pareilles. J'imagine à quel point le spectacle aurait été super bon avec une belle température.

Roger