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| "Ooh-la-la. Vous est un Big Boy, aren't vous?" |
A week ago I was off the blog/radar in
Brittany, France. It's a region famous for its neolithic monuments (of which more later, I don't doubt) - but here's something it should be at least as famous for because it is TOTALLY F*CKING WONDERFUL:
Les Machines de L'île in the city of
Nantes.
The Machines is a gigantic ongoing steampunk art project inspired by Jules Verne. They build HUGE mobile creatures that are part vehicle, part puppet, and
all awesome.
BEHOLD THE ELEPHANT: it's 12m tall and can take 50 passengers on
a 45 minute walk!
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| (When the drivers aren't on strike, of course...) |
Here's a little something they built for China:
Their current project is the
Heron Tree, a 45m steel structure with a self-sustaining plant ecosystem, in which visitors and robots interact among the branches.
They are busy building working prototypes:
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| It crawls! |
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| It scampers! |
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| IT FLIES! |
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| It looks really weird! |
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| No, hold on, this is way weirder... |
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| OMG I'm going to have nightmares |
Already functioning on-site is the gigantic three-storey
Marine Worlds Carousel
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| Tentacles!!! |
... which we got free rides on because of the strike :-D
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| A hysterically happy Ashbless |
So, if you ever go to France, I wholeheartedly recommend a visit to
Les Machines de L'île :-)
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