Friday, July 22, 2016
Giant Spider Roams The Streets
Hackaday: There is a giant spider the size of a house stretching its massive, delicate legs as it parades through the French city of Nantes. Is the Arthropod Apocalypse upon us? Fortunately not, for this arachnid is the latest in a series of performance pieces by a French theatre company, La Machine.
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So this is terrifying. At least it would be if it moved quicker. It’s going down a big street, but the spider is so giant that it barely fits through. It needs like twenty people to move the thing, and even then, they all have to be in sync and make sure the spider doesn’t fall over. Is it part of a parade, because if so, that’s a slow parade. It’s so giant that you’d think it would cross city blocks easily, but when those blocks are so tiny in width, it’s not so easy. I’d just feel bad for everyone behind it. Or if it’s in the back, all the parade watchers will be gone by the time it reaches them because they think the parade is over. If it’s not a full on parade, it’s still kind of... boring...? Just because it’s moving so slowly and not really doing anything different or unusual. I think I would leave well before I lost sight of it. I think it would fit well into a discussion in our Science of Scenery class, with all the hydraulic power needed. That said, I think It would work well as a still sculpture.
This is amazing. I confused on why this wasn't all over the media. The design of it is a little wierd since there's like a truck on the bottom of it controlling the movement, the the arms and body are very interesting. This gives me a "Transformer"/ "Power Rangers" feel because of how many people are controlling the spider inside. I can't even imagine how many lever and buttons there are. The only thing that isn't exciting, is the fact that it travels so slow. It would give it much more of a "wow" factor if it moved 20 mph down the street, but that also makes it a lot more dangerous. And I'm very curious on how the hydraulics work inside. But, I'm really disappointed this want in or near Pittsburgh for me to witness.
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