This was my highlight of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture: three days during which I followed a 37-tonne wood-and-hydraulics spider around the city's landmarks, accompanied by fire, (fake) snow and jets of water. A lot of water, in fact.
the_coffeegirl
#1 – 8:53 AM December 19, 2008
Its so cool!
zuzu
#2 – 8:59 AM December 19, 2008
"Now to threaten President Grant to relinquish all United States territory to myself and several other nations who financially supported my building of this mechanical spider!"
jathomas
#3 – 11:25 AM December 19, 2008
Must... stop...!
DeWynken
#4 – 12:28 PM December 19, 2008
Smoking pot leads to robotic carpentry!
kerns
#5 – 12:39 PM December 19, 2008
WH40K sweetness is the individual humans apparently controlling each leg:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_in_photographs_part_2_of.html#photo29
note to self: build unitasked meat based control\processing units into *my* next vehicle...
urshrew
#6 – 12:56 PM December 19, 2008
I sincerely hope that someone was playing the singer/songwriter, Will Smith's "The Wild Wild West" while riding that thing.
Anonymous Anonymous
#7 – 2:12 PM December 20, 2008
Looks like "La Princess" to me - star of Liverpool's "Capital of Culture 2008" events.
More pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/825536@N25/
and here:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&ct=6&w=all&q=la+machine+liverpool&m=text
Guesstimate Jones
#8 – 6:25 PM December 20, 2008
Awesome...what is the story behind it?
mycroftb
#9 – 10:31 PM December 20, 2008
He is our hero!
paxed
#10 – 3:30 AM December 21, 2008
See the La Machine website: http://www.lamachine.co.uk/index.php/gallery/
Those are the same people who did the Giant girl / The Sultan's Elephant in 2006.
Ministry
#11 – 4:02 AM December 22, 2008
This was my highlight of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture: three days during which I followed a 37-tonne wood-and-hydraulics spider around the city's landmarks, accompanied by fire, (fake) snow and jets of water. A lot of water, in fact.
Don't miss the Flickr groups:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/la_machine/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/825536@N25/
La Princesse is apparently expected in Yokohama, Japan next year.
Robert
#12 – 6:25 AM December 22, 2008
"Wiggy, wiggy, scratch, yo, yo, bang, bang.
Me and Artemus Clyde frog go save Salma Hayek from the big metal spider."