the tiny screen is sucking me in.

[Fritz]

https://video-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo...06eea22598&oe=556B34A0

[freeradical]

What is this thread about?

[steve...]

Sorry, something went wrong.

I saw it earlier but it's not working now.

Interesting video but what's with the square format and poor quality?

[OWC Jamie]

link worked earlier
looked like a giant robot parade in (if I had to guess) Brussels
if it's the video I'm thinking of

[Fritz]

Sorry. I seem to be coming up with bad links today.

[space-time]

Fritz wrote:
Sorry. I seem to be coming up with bad links today.

link worked fine earlier.

[Fritz]

NSA

[SteveG]

Try this=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKlWFWgkjfw

edit: shorter different better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPpDLaYBFo
Or any Youtube : Royal de luxe

Royal de Luxe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/titan...yssey.html Since 1989, Royal de Luxe has made its home the western French city of Nantes. The city is also the birthplace of Jules Verne, whose stories captivated founder Courcoult as a child with their tales of fantastical travel and encounters with other-worldly creatures. After taking a shine to the director’s pioneering street theatre work, the Mayor of Nantes enticed him to set up shop in the city with the offer of a disused rice warehouse as a base and some generous subsidies.
Despite becoming a global success, travelling the world with his giant sagas while continuing to stage smaller-scale works in Nantes, Courcoult has maintained an impenetrable air of secrecy around the work of Royal de Luxe. He rarely grants interviews and never allows French journalists to visit the company’s workshop, arguing that the spectacles demand an element of surprise in order to work their magic on an audience.

Around 100 people work here during peak production periods at the company and the complex contains a bar and a canteen where the actors and technicians can enjoy a daily three-course lunch. Royal de Luxe has the air of a cult, tucked away at the edge of the city. Indeed, many of the members ended up there after being personally seduced by Courcoult’s egalitarian theatrical vision.

Etienne Louvieaux joined the company 25 years ago when he was working as a lighting technician for rock groups. Since then he has been responsible for the special effects, like the water geyser the Sultan’s Elephant sprayed over the crowds in London.

“We have a very strong feeling here,” he reflects. “The public must think the special effects are real. It is like an illusion, a magic trick. Jean-Luc calls it 'imaginary realism’.”

Jean-Yves Aschard also met Courcoult in the Eighties and is the inventor responsible for the human details that make the giant puppets so lifelike. He initially made the Little Girl Giant’s eyes blink manually with bicycle cables but later came up with a radio-controlled system that gave them a more naturalistic look. “It was very important to have human movement,” he says. “Not too fast, not too slow. It mustn’t be robotic. When she wants to sleep, the blinking slows down.”

Similarly, the breathing system he came up with is designed so that the lungs inflate and deflate in a synchronised motion. When the giants sleep at night in the streets, their eyes stop moving but the breathing continues. “It is important that the giants have life but not that they are human. This is the poetry.”

Susana Ribeiro met Courcoult in Lisbon and impressed him with her welding skills. Like most members of Royal de Luxe, she moves between a technical and a performance role. In Liverpool, she will conduct the movement of the Little Girl Giant as she progresses from her starting point in Stanley Park.

Suspended from behind by a crane, each giant, constructed from light but flexible poplar wood, is moved by between 20 and 40 people, called Lilliputians, on a system of hydraulic pulleys and levers. “I stand facing the giant and co-ordinate who should move what,” says Ribeiro. Because of the size of the giants, it is impossible to rehearse in situ so Ribeiro has to respond to the unexpected. “Sometimes there is a tree or a lamppost where you don’t expect one, so you have to change plans,” she says. “The Lilliputians are very important. They are serving the giant. People see our team work and we become part of the puppet’s personality, her energy.”

[SteveG]

also try 'The Sultan's Elephant'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0PoWfPzmI