Saturday, April 16, 2011
How to Build The World's Largest Dinosaur
Gizmodo: "As if the anyone needs additional incentive to be interested in a dinosaur exhibit beyond, like, dinosaurs, the American Museum of Natural History is opening The World's Largest Dinosaurs, centered around a massive half-skin, half-dissected, life-sized Mamenchisaurus.
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I'm partial towards timelapse videos, but this one captured the exhibit's assembly from prefab pieces of this dinosaur, whereas I would much rather see the process of designing and building those pieces before it went into the museum. I followed the link to the museum's website and did some googling, but was not able to learn anything more about who had been contracted to make various aspects of this. Could it be the natural history museum hires individual artists / has an in house staff for this sort of thing?
This also seems straightforward compared to some of the animatronic dinosaurs that exist in other museum exhibits.
I wish we had a better view of the dino going up. I wanted to see how they actually make the different connections for the neck.
Museum Jobs always seem like fun for our industry. They require a different mindset when building and installing their product. If you have cases, they might need some for of hermetic sealing to keep the goods inside from rotting, etc...
Plus, jobs like these you can learn from! What better kind?
Like Daniel I am a big proponent of time laps videos, but this was not my favorite. The project however is definitely of interest to me. this is the sort of project, which is not theater, but to which theatrical practices are definitely applicable. The shop drawings for tat thing must have been crazy. not to mention the beautiful detail on the head which we see at the end of the video. the pride taken in this project shines as a beacon of what we should pursue in all of our theatrical endeavors. this is the goal, towards which we should strive.
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