{"id":669,"date":"2009-02-03T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2009-02-03T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:16:13","slug":"la-princesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/02\/03\/la-princesse\/","title":{"rendered":"La Princesse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This great spider is one of the newest creatures by the French company, La Machine (that I posted about a few days ago).\u00a0 Known as la Princesse<\/a>, her performance in the streets of Liverpool, England, last September was a highlight of\u00a0 the 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations there. She was commissioned by Artichoke, the company who brought Royal de Luxe<\/a>‘s Sultan’s Elephant<\/a> to London a few years ago.<\/p>\n

A giant spider conjures up dramatic visions of Shelob, huge rearing fangs, giant trapdoors, buildings being webbed in, or the populace being picked off one by one and spun into food parcels, tasty morsels for later. But in one of the BBC videos, her creator, Francois Delaroziere, described the emotion he wanted to provoke as ‘sweet and in love’.<\/p>\n

There are squillions of photos of la Princesse online now; here a few links as starters:<\/p>\n

Flickr pool<\/a>
\nLa Machine’s webpage on the event<\/a>
\nMain BBC webpage (portal) about the event<\/a>
\nRevealed: The secrets of the 50ft robo-spider<\/a> – ‘There is never a dull moment in Liverpool’ :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This great spider is one of the newest creatures by the French company, La Machine (that I posted about a few days ago).\u00a0 Known as la Princesse, her performance in the streets of Liverpool, England, last September was a highlight of\u00a0 the 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations there. She was commissioned by Artichoke, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,4,14,15],"tags":[969,970,971,61,1355,1365,265,207,1366],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-street-theatre","tag-la-machine","tag-la-princess","tag-liverpool","tag-marionettes","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-royal-de-luxe","tag-spider","tag-street-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-aN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}