Rather than playa, how about an icy prairie?


Barry Crawford has a fundraiser for a magnificent project: MECHATEUTHIS.

He intends to display this glorious mechanical creation at Burning Man, which is fine, I suppose…but once Burning Man is over, he needs to keep moving north and east, because it’s ultimate destiny must lie in Morris, Minnesota, in my yard.

I wonder if the university would complain if I gave credit to teams of 8 students every semester, whose job was to crank it for my pleasure all the time?

Comments

  1. vytautasjanaauskas says

    “I wonder if the university would complain if I gave credit to teams of 8 students every semester, whose job was to crank it for my pleasure all the time?”

    I wouldn’t approach the administration with that wording if I were you.

  2. congenital cynic says

    That is one seriously awesome piece of work. That’s as cool as those beach animals that the Dutch artist Theo Jansen made. I just love stuff like this.

  3. birgerjohansson says

    We need to increase the oxygen content massively, so we get giant dragonflies again!

  4. Trebuchet says

    I love the collander thing for the eye. Seems to me my family used to have something like that.

  5. Funny Diva says

    Trebuchet:
    vegetable steamer!
    I have one in my kitchen! But it’s not mechanized, alas.

    Can’t wait to see a final video, where all the legs move…

  6. Trebuchet says

    @9, Funny Diva: Thank You! I knew it wasn’t a proper colander but couldn’t remember what it was used for. In our house, it was probably mostly use by me playing with it.

  7. says

    “I wonder if the university would complain if I gave credit to teams of 8 students every semester, whose job was to crank it for my pleasure all the time?”

    PHRASING!