{"id":331,"date":"2006-05-06T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/05\/06\/cool-and-it-doesnt-involve-the-web\/"},"modified":"2006-05-06T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T03:44:10","slug":"cool-and-it-doesnt-involve-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/05\/06\/cool-and-it-doesnt-involve-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool — and it doesn’t involve the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally I would post this kind of thing over at my “fun” blog<\/a>, because it doesn’t really have a lot to do with Web 2.0 or any of that kind of stuff, but I thought what the heck — it’s the weekend, so let’s loosen up and have some (non Web-related) fun. One of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while is the performance art put on by French theatre troupe Royal de Luxe, and they’ve brought their latest show to London this weekend, entitled “The Sultan’s Elephant.”<\/a> The BBC has a whole pile of photos and videos<\/a>, in some cases provided by cellphone camera owners and other “citizen journalists” (see, there’s some Web 2.0 to this after all).<\/p>\n

It’s loosely based on the work of Jules Verne, and was performed in France<\/a> last year. It involves two gigantic wooden puppets, one a girl about 35 feet tall and one an elephant with a fully-articulated trunk that is just as tall<\/a> and about 50 feet long. They are operated by a team of puppeteers dressed in period costumes, who in some cases are pulling ropes through enormous pulleys and in other cases are sitting on a giant metal superstructure<\/a> that surrounds the puppet. The photos really have to be seen to be believed.<\/p>\n

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Normally I would post this kind of thing over at my “fun” blog, because it doesn’t really have a lot to do with Web 2.0 or any of that kind of stuff, but I thought what the heck — it’s the weekend, so let’s loosen up and have some (non Web-related) fun. One of the … <\/p>\n

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