Got to be one of the coolest things ever!Thousands turned over the course of the weekend to see "La Princesse" - a giant mechanical spider - make its way around Liverpool this past weekend as part of the ongoing European Capital of Culture celebrations.
It's great to see something that usually causes fright turned into something that brings joy and fascination. And the sheer size of her (evident in the picture above) made it as much a technological marvel as an artistic one.
Some of the commissions the CoC folks have presented this year have been nothing short of amazing. From one here in the so-called "world's capital", we should be embarassed. "The Falls"? Get outta here - what about:
** An 8-foot clockwork cockroach to run a obstacle course in Central Park made up of oversize Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts styrofoam coffee cups
** A huge robo-rat in the subway! From a distance, it looks just like your arriving train until it bursts into the station, fangs bared and giant claws scraping the length of the platform until screeching to a halt. (Whoa!!)
** Or the piece-de-resistance: a 30-foot-tall towering replicant of an NYU student on a Saturday night East Village pub crawl, wobbling through the streets on one shoe until finally passing out head first in the gutter at the southwest corner of St. Marks' and Avenue A.
Come on, Bloomberg! You're the art patron - get on it!
Be sure to check out La Machine's website for more photos from the event.
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