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Oh goodie; another controversial “art” piece! Performance art on top of it. If this is art then so is that redneck compressed air canon that shot beer cans into pumpkins of last year. WTF??? I’m all for being ‘out of the box’ and such but aren’t there still unwritten guidelines defining today’s realities from hobbies and fantasies? Because if not then anything can be whatever you want it to be; heck a train wreck, projectile vomiting and a space shuttle flight can be performance art. Ooooh, projectile vomiting done in stop-motion; what an idea for a piece! NOT!
Oh my not another “what is art”. Well yes performance art can be anything and even painting art can be anything … let alone the art of photography with everyone doing digital. When I lived in Greenwich Village I regarded the annual “art” exhibits as “Fart”.
I like to think of the Spider and my reference below as superlative pre robotic puppetry theater art.
My favorite of this genre (Sultans Elephant Giant Girl) was done in London May 2006 by a French theater company Royal de Luxe and has hauntingly stayed in my mind.
Uhoh another What is art? Yes performance art/theater can indeed be anything. And photography art can be anything - consider all the digitals. When I lived in Greenwich Village, I called the street art shows (twice a year) “Fart”.
I think of it as advanced theater puppetry pre-robotic art.
I like the Spider but my absolute favorite of the genre was “The Tale of the Sultan’s Elephant” which was performed in London May 2006 and was produced by the French-based theater company Royal de Luxe
The giant girl has hauntingly remained in my mind.
How come only one of the operators had a head-shield? Must be the one who shelled out the euros.
The music was previously used to host Creature Features, scary movies shown at 8:30 every Saturday night in New York on channel 5. (Drewm, this was approximately 270 years before you arrived in the city.) Just hearing it I could smell the living room rug and re-live the thrill of staying up all the way until 10, and getting my butt scared off by those fabulous Universal horror flicks.
Art is like scholarship: You can do whatever you want. If you want credit or recognition, somebody besides you needs to decide it’s worthwhile, and probably that it was not an easy thing to do.
Not all art is made for art’s sake. I once saw a cop, all by himself, walk into a riot and get everybody calmed down in less than a minute. Art. I’ve watched a sous chef sharpen two knives and a cleaver until I was afraid to touch them, and then dress out an entire side of pork in about 60 seconds. Art.
Projectile vomiting in stop motion? Um, let me get back to you after I see the video.
Oui pretty spider driver, that is one ugly helmut⡅⡅ ❀❦♡✌
Art? who said anything about art, damned CC, stirring up trouble again!
Truly incredible. I’m grateful that the world *finally* has a giant spider robot. I mean, we’ve been waiting for this since what, 1984, right?
I would like to see DARPA’s Big Dog technology applied to this. Perhaps someday? ;-)
Lots of cool stuff there, very creative. Rox April Fool Mashup caught my eye, ha! been there naked skiing, sorry no pics available.
Phew!
Need anymore proof?
The CERN experiment was a complete success opening up a
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CERN 2008©
hey 1/2 of my post was swallowed up….WTF?
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. ~Chinese Proverb
Hey this gives a new twist to spider crawlers on the web. And speaking of interwebs, how come that thing could spit out water, smoke, flames and snow, but could not weave a web? Even a one-liner between a building and a lamp post would’ve been good. Perhaps the La Machine art co. could incorporate this into mechanical spider 2.0.
This reminds me of a roommate in a summer share house that I lived in back in the um, er I mean just last year: he had a pet tarantula that he kept in an enclosed terrarium, in the front room. Once a month he would pour a dozen unsuspecting live crickets in (bought at the pet supply store).
That big hairy spider would then stand up and patiently wait, motionless. When a cricket would wander to the exact convenient spot for the spider he would swoop it into his jaw with the front two legs, then savor the poor cricket for several hours afterward. This would be repeated for the next couple of weeks until the last cricket had vanished.
It was the best entertainment in the world for us back then, um last year. This would be another design I’d like to see added to La Machine’s big mechanical spider; except, of course, using unsuspecting American tourists there in Liverpool instead, and while the Beatle’s ‘Help’ blared from the beast’s buttock!
The video today was truly amazing to watch. Leave it to the French to provide the world with artful giant spiders; and tiny black holes, too.
Holy Jiminy Cricket!!!, it’s Jiminy Cricket, himself!; the surviving, swaggering, sneering, supercilious, and saucy taunter of predatory arachnid mega-spiders!
FREEDOM FRIES!!!!!!!
It was nice knowing all of you. Thanks CERN. Good job.
all the YouTube videos have been sucked into a black hole
I don’t know… I admire the engineering of the machine–pretty cool. Why a spider though? Why not a giant robot person, or a tyrannosaurus rex, or godzilla?
I saw the giant elephant and girl puppets in Calais in 2006 and the spider in Liverpool. I think the elephant and girl were more beautiful and moving than the spider, maybe because there was more of a story. Still, there was something very real about being stuck in a crowd in a packed street with a three-storey spider bearing down on you! I’ve made videos of both. In the spider one I’ve speeded up its movements in the last bit so that you can see the mechanical coordination of it’s legs. It moved at 2mph.
Spider video here:
Giant elephant and puppet girl here (part 1):
There’s also parts two and three for that one - there should be a link on the page from part 1.
yes
a sandworm from dune… that would be cool.
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LOOOOOOLOLOL. but fuck violence.
but, what the hell is it supposed to do?
All I can say is; “I know Leo G. Carrol was over a barrel when tarantula took to the hills.” :)
geek power!!!
OH NOES!!!!!
gruesome i think im gana voment .. hahahahahahah XD
I love that music. It gives you that 30’s 40’s feel of creepines. Very well done. If it wasnt for the sound effect, this would have not been as cool
That’s amazing!
God how lame - it’s a ‘float’ - & a bad 1 (bunch of visible operators!). It would B so EASY 2 just put some better hydraulics in there, & make the skin from fiberglass or something else light, so can walk without the aid of a friggin CRANE! HAHAHA ROFL!
Try again guys. Use yer’ heads, or maybe hire Japs 2 do it next time ;) Oh, & put the operator(s) INSIDE! DUUUUHH!~
they wernt inside the huge elephant a few years ago their no supposed to be inside it . (if they wer supposed to operate it from inside im sure they wud have dun a better job than that ) and the point about it is to be made of wood not SUPER realistic fibre glass and crap
Your’re retarded. This isn’t a debate. Now go have sex with a black or something - bee-och!
oh sorry . i was just sayin . besides i know it wasnt a debate i wasnt tryin to MAKE it one.wth was with the ‘black’ comment? what makes u think i wanna do that ?
Bla bla - go shove another cheeseburger down yer’ throat, Walmart Whale =P
as far as i know . they dont have a walmart here in britain
U know a chick is extra-fat n’ hideous when they post fantasy art as their avitar. That’s reality. All your idiot words can’t put a blindfold on my X-Ray vision, U loser.
extra fat ? i dnt wanna have a picture of me for my avatar . i dnt have to . whats the point? besides i know a few people who dont have pictures of themselves for an avatar and they arnt ‘extra-fat n’ hideous’ oh and my words arn’t idiotic either . theyre simply how my mind works and how i sort out arguments . its just me
U seem 2 think I bother reading your nonsense. Get a clue.
u obviously do , otherwise u wudnt reply
God how lame - it’s a ‘float’ - & a bad 1 (bunch of visible operators!). It would B so EASY 2 just put some better hydraulics in there, & make the skin from fiberglass or something else light, so can walk without the aid of a friggin CRANE! HAHAHA ROFL!
Try again guys. Use yer’ heads, or maybe hire Japs 2 do it next time ;) Oh, & put the operator(s) INSIDE! DUUUUHH!~
OMG! you can tell none of you were actually there,
it was amazing! and if they were inside they wouldn’t have been able to see. if you thing it would be so EASY you go and make one!
and you can say what you want about me and other people i don’t give a damn the reason WE havent got a picture of us for our avatar is because we dont want creepy perverts looking at us!
fcmon man the spider dost evn atak th ecity ther crazy NOT REAL THIS IS $H!T
asda is owned by walmart it just dosnt sell as much stuff, thats also why its so cheap probably