#la machine

[hidewaku]

横浜　みなとみらい　ラ・マシンの巨大蜘蛛　顔　操縦席

[puppetdaily]

La Princesse from La Machine

[battlebots-daily]

La Machine

[laughingsquid]

Frédette Lampre of La Machine Gives a TED Talk About the Wonder of Their Giant Mechanical Creatures

[hometoursandotherstuff]

If you’re into Steampunk, animatronics, art, and scientific mechanics, you need to go to the island of Nantes, France and work for the La Machine Company, located in an old shipyard warehouse. 

In their warehouses, they make giant fantasy machines.  From the very first sketches to fully functioning machines, the entire creative process is on display and shared for the public to observe in the open laboratory.

They made this giant steampunk spider. The company is into a genre of science fiction that fuses futuristic technology with the design aesthetic and philosophy of the Victorian age.

Artists at work in the wood shop. The 2 owners, François Delaroziere and Pierre Orefice, started out as set designers. 

There are two viewing terraces above La Machine’s workshop, where the public can observe the inventors and artisans in action as they carve and create their world of wood and steel.

Some lucky guests are chosen to test out the machines.

This is the Dragon de Calais. Forever at work on new outlandish creatures and creations from an alternate universe, La Machine, acts like an alternative and constantly evolving theme park of sorts.

The Grand Éléphant is one of their most famous creations. Climbing aboard the walking cathedral of steel is like travelling on the top floor of a travelling house – one that blasts steam out of its trunk.

The collective is constantly recruiting too. There’s an application on their website.

The Symphony, a permanent display, is an interaction between machinists and classical musicians: The musical universe is confronted with the mechanical sounds of the flute casserole, the tumbled piano, the Groovagaz - 50 musical machines, in all.

They also invented the Dinner of Small Mechanics. 

They’ve made the island the capital of steampunk and offer so many shows- this is the Plant Expedition.

This is the Fire Show on top and Incandescences. Something for everyone.

Judging by the crowds, this is just as popular as Disney World.

https://www.lamachine.fr/en/

[mascamaiorum]

The Grand Elephant of Nantes

Divine Beast Vah Ruta

“Delarozière is not particularly interested in the elephant looking like an elephant, nor his other creations, such as the ray fish or shrimp, closely resembling nature. The purpose of the works, he says, is their transgression of the real and the imaginary. They are made to partially resemble creatures which, through their illusiveness in the real world and proliferation in the narrative world, have entered into myth.”

[retrogeographie]

La Machine (Nièvre), l'avenue de la République.

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[demonicae]

Years ago I saw this during my lunch hour.

Trapped by the crowd in a tiny alleyway I saw this walk across my field of vision and I was honestly in awe of this thing.

But it also skeeved me at the time, and I've only just worked out why. And no, it's not 'because it is a spider.'

It's because it reminded me of these things...

You'd best believe I didn't leave that alleyway.