Wednesday, August 02, 2017
Giant Spider vs Ancient Dragon
Uncrate: It's just another day in Ottawa as a giant mechanical spider and an ancient dragon fought in the streets of Byward Market. Awakened by underground construction, Kumo emerges from the depths and attacks Long Ma, an ancient half-horse, half-dragon, the protector of humanity. Street theater company La Machine created Kumo and Long Ma, bringing them to the Canadian capital for their North American debut.
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This was such a cool video! The audio weirdly panned to my right ear a couple seconds in. But ignoring that– this is such an ambitious project, and it turned out amazing. The spider looks so realistic, yet you can see the guys who are operating it. It's so cool to see it scale the side of a building to defeat this dragon. I would’ve loved to see more about how these giant machines are operated. There have to be about fifteen people on each– do they all get a leg? What do their comms sound like? “Hey Joe, lift the 6th leg a bit so we can climb on top of this bridge.”
La Machine did (and still does) amazing projects. I looked at one from 2012 where they made a “flying greenhouse” that travels to the world “collecting plants.” There is a video that goes along with this “The Plant Exhibition.” It sounds amazing! I love it even more than the spider and the dragon fight. There are about ten guys, all dressed in the same beige tracksuit. They stick what looks like a multimeter in a plant, and say “it needs a sonic massage.” Then this orchestra plays a beautiful piece all for the plant to die. “We’re losing her Captain… she’s gone.” It reminds me of the Netflix paper/ stop motion movie The Little Prince.
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