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VooDoo Lily: Enabling Creative Chaos

lnzy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:17:10 +0000

Chariot

lnzy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:49:56 +0000

Max runs off with the chariot.

VooDoo Lily Progress

lnzy — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:22:20 +0000

“In the mid-1800s, the story of a man-eating tree captured widespread attention. In a report he wrote for the South Australian Register, Carl Liche, a German explorer, claimed that while exploring Madagascar, he’d witnessed a woman climb the trunk of a large plant and drink its nectar. When the plant sensed her presence, it captured her with its tentacles and pulled her into its body.”

“Man-eating tree can refer to any of various legendary carnivorous plants that are large enough to kill and consume a person or other large animal. The earliest well known report of a man-eating tree was in still heavily-forested country Madagascar. With ninety percent of its indigenous flora found nowhere else in the world, it’s a jungle in which anything could be lurking”

Join me in “the little shop of horrors” production Voodoo Lily, or Dionaea muscipula

Man eating plant/Flower. Moving parts. Seduction. Drinking. What is not to like?

Voodoo Lily

lnzy — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:16:37 +0000

The VooDoo Lily is well under way thanks to our fabulous crew. We have many parts cut out and the shop is starting to crawl with snake like flaming buds and biting venus fly traps.
Jacquie, Townsend, and Nina were the first to jump in and make things happen. The photos don’t live up to the real thing but, here is a taste.
Come Join the crew. We still need motion experts as well as more wheels painted, flowers welded, mesh put on the forms and leaves cut out…and costumes if anyone has time.

Next work day is Sunday at 2:00pm

See you soon,
Lindsay

Quote for the day

lnzy — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:31:23 +0000

“You are not going to win with brakes”

Jet Blender

lnzy — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:58:59 +0000

Electric Picnic Festival
Stradbally Estate, Ireland

Participants mount a pulse-jet-powered carnival ride which turns a blender to make delicious smoothies.

Fireless Fireworks

lnzy — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:33:56 +0000

Washington Square Park, NYC

A watery event featuring the thunder, pulses, screeches and colors of a fireworks display without the use of a single pyrotechnic.

Photos by Julia Solis

DUELING RE-ENACTMENTS

lnzy — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:46:25 +0000

Washington Square Park, NYC
July 23, 2006

Just as history is written by the victors, conflicting versions of the wide and varied history of Washington Square Park are resolved in a maelstrom of violence and hilarity.

pictures and video from Laura Garcia-Barrio

Zombie Freak Out

lnzy — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:54:42 +0000

Philadelphia, PA

A wave of mutilation on the streets of Philadelphia. With live bands, dead DJs, and the zombie death squad. Groovy.

Death Rattler (Jet Fish)

lnzy — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:42:35 +0000

Robodock Festival, Amsterdam

A jet-powered carnival ride, built onsite at the Robodock festival in Amsterdam. Two booming propane pulse jets spun a 200-pound steel fish and a rider fast enough to turn the horizon vertical. Insanely loud. Radically unsafe.

Videos

and more:

Death Rattler

early jetfish run

first run of the pulse jet for jetfish

first jet test for jetfish