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Astounding

Sunday 24th September

An astounding piece of engineering, and just as astounding puppetry. You may have seen this before - it’s from The Sultan’s Elephant, a three-day free show put on in London earlier this year.

Written by stu

September 24th, 2006 at 3:31 am

Posted in Arts, Curiosities

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13 Responses to 'Astounding'

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  1. Wow! That’s amazing :)

    Dakota

    24 Sep 06 at 8:12 am

  2. Yeah - amazing! I’ve no idea how that little girl managed to move all of those teensy puppets in such a lifelike manner.

    Rich

    24 Sep 06 at 8:48 am

  3. I’d like to see her climb the empire state building!

    Max

    24 Sep 06 at 10:08 am

  4. teehee @ Rich :)

    stu

    24 Sep 06 at 11:19 am

  5. I loved this. I want to ride on one of her giant arms.

    Mort's Mom

    24 Sep 06 at 12:20 pm

  6. Stunning! That’s all I want to say

    lordhutton

    24 Sep 06 at 7:35 pm

  7. Amazing… If you’re gonna do it, may as well do it good and proper!

    DoGGa

    24 Sep 06 at 9:14 pm

  8. Stu. M wants to know what the music was

    lordhutton

    24 Sep 06 at 9:31 pm

  9. Bjork, pehaps?

    Rich

    24 Sep 06 at 9:46 pm

  10. It’s ace music, isn’t it? It’s “Decollage” by “Balayeurs du Désert” and I’ve put it here for your temporary downloadification. I believe it was written especially for the show.

    stu

    24 Sep 06 at 9:54 pm

  11. Apparantly, the lyrics are taken from a song called “It Amazes Me” by Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh which has been recorded many times…

    Tony Bennett - 1958
    Blossom Dearie - 1958
    Joyce Breach - 1994
    Marian Montgomery - 1996
    Jack Jones - 1998
    Marie Bergman - 1998
    Gary LeMel - 2001
    Also recorded by Kaye Ballard; Dolores Hope;
    Kitty Kallen; Liza Minnelli; Julie Wilson;
    Norma Winstone; Billy Stritch; Bobby Short.

    stu

    25 Sep 06 at 10:38 am

  12. Heh, on first glance I thought “It’s big, it’s civic, it’s successful, it must be French!” and that seems to be backed up by the music choice! I love the frenchies, they know how to do cool public stuff (like the frenchie who lit up the minster for last guy fawkes’ night)

    sweavo

    26 Sep 06 at 12:28 pm

  13. That’s because they’re happy to clamber up and down that scaffold without a 324-point risk assessment. Everything else follows from there.

    stu

    26 Sep 06 at 12:31 pm

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