You probably wouldn't find a British city bothering to honour an author, let alone a science fiction author. You certainly wouldn't find a British city treating their citizens to a giant sci-fi themed puppet show for the weekend.
For the people of Nantes it went something like this:
Woke up to find large space ship crashed in city centre.
Still puzzling about this when 10 ton, 50 foot high mechanical elephant wanders into town.
The next day the space ship opens and 25 foot tall giant girl climbs out and goes exploring.
Girl meets elephant, the classic story.. They hang around together for a bit and then wander off to see more of the town.
Overnight the giant has obviously had a nightmare, she has sewn a row of cars to the ground using a giant needle and thread.
That day the sultan of the elephant gets to meet the mayor (I'm not sure who is presenting who with the large fish).
The weekend finished with a parade when the giant hitched a lift on the elephant.
France, the home of surrealism.
The pictures above came from the Nantes Royal de Luxe site which includes some nice little movies, there are some more galleries and reports on my del.icio.us links.
3 comments:
Don't you sometimes wish you were French?
Peut-etre.
But if we were French we wouldn't be able to speak Welsh. Where's the point in that?
Post a Comment