Spider

Photo: Reuters [Boston]

1. [the_coffeegirl]

   Its so cool!

2. [zuzu]

   “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!”

3. [jathomas]

   Must… stop…!

4. [mycroftb]

   He is our hero!

5. [paxed]

   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.

6. [Anonymous]

   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

7. [Ministry]

   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.

8. [Robert]

   “Wiggy, wiggy, scratch, yo, yo, bang, bang.
   Me and Artemus Clyde frog go save Salma Hayek from the big metal spider.”

9. [DeWynken]

   Smoking pot leads to robotic carpentry!

10. [kerns]

    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…

11. [Guesstimate Jones]

    Awesome…what is the story behind it?

12. [urshrew]

    I sincerely hope that someone was playing the singer/songwriter, Will Smith’s “The Wild Wild West” while riding that thing.