Wednesday, May 11, 2011
♥ Survival Research Laboratories
Many artists throughout time have captured the attention of the outer world through their ideas that challenge the very foundation of tradition and morality. Due to this, clashing views of these realistic fantasies surface, thus bringing more realistic fantasies into the world and creating new views of art. One group that has been successful in this is Survival Research Laboratories. With their traveling performance machine art, they are able to travel the world to show people how they brought their fantasies into something that everyone can experience.
Survival Research Laboratories has brought many fantasies to life. They’ve invented things man never thought that machine could do, such as walking on legs, hovering, shoot vortex rings of air, or even shooting molting metal. One could compare the things they do to fantasy movies, such as Transformers, because of the wide audience they attract and the attempt to make machines come to life, but the difference between these two things is that in movies, it is normally computer generated, whereas with Survival Research Laboratories, there are no digital affects. Everything is hand made and executed in front of a live audience.
I think the purpose of Survival Research Laboratories is not to be “yanks with tanks” as Dutch protesters say, but rather to show that, when one’s mind is put to it, anything is possible. I think the reason the machines are made to be dangerous is to show that mechanics has the potential to be dangerous, however, shouldn’t be used in this manner because of how dangerous it is.
Because of this, Survival Research Laboratories limits their audience to people that will understand this concept and not use it for dangerous purposes, such as Amsterdam, Austria, and the United States. Other countries, such as Tripoli, Afghanistan, or Libya, are known for violence, thus bringing a show to those countries that shows dangerous machines wouldn’t be a great idea.
Survival Research Laboratories has brought many fantasies to life. They’ve invented things man never thought that machine could do, such as walking on legs, hovering, shoot vortex rings of air, or even shooting molting metal. One could compare the things they do to fantasy movies, such as Transformers, because of the wide audience they attract and the attempt to make machines come to life, but the difference between these two things is that in movies, it is normally computer generated, whereas with Survival Research Laboratories, there are no digital affects. Everything is hand made and executed in front of a live audience.
I think the purpose of Survival Research Laboratories is not to be “yanks with tanks” as Dutch protesters say, but rather to show that, when one’s mind is put to it, anything is possible. I think the reason the machines are made to be dangerous is to show that mechanics has the potential to be dangerous, however, shouldn’t be used in this manner because of how dangerous it is.
Because of this, Survival Research Laboratories limits their audience to people that will understand this concept and not use it for dangerous purposes, such as Amsterdam, Austria, and the United States. Other countries, such as Tripoli, Afghanistan, or Libya, are known for violence, thus bringing a show to those countries that shows dangerous machines wouldn’t be a great idea.
I AM
GRUMPY.
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