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The Playa Crawler: A Kinetic Walking Chair for Burning Man

In 2017, engineer Mark Ellis designed an innovative kinetic chair called The Playa Crawler to navigate the vast expanse of Burning Man. Inspired by the Strandbeest sculptures of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, this unique chair is specifically crafted to withstand the alkaline terrain of the Black Rock Desert.

Mark Ellis wanted a personal vehicle that was both functional and original for getting around Burning Man. This led him to create a chair that walks using a system of articulated legs. This mechanism, invented by Theo Jansen, allows the chair to move similarly to Jansen's giant sculptures, which are propelled by the wind along the beaches.

Built from laser-cut aluminum and steel, The Playa Crawler is equipped with two electric wheelchair motors, batteries, and is controlled via a wheelchair joystick.

Video by Jessbeegood

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Me, driving in my red convertible, wearing my red suit, with my red phone, picks up my red tweezers: maybe green isn't my favorite color

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ISMENE AND THE VOICE

A frustrated bookseller escapes her disintegrating society to attempt becoming one with a sentient library, and maybe do what she can for her country too.

I am going to start putting my novel Ismene and the Voice up on Royal Road, and selling the complete text as an ebook. I think I may start in December.

I figure, why not. I can share it with the world. Maybe. It's a weird world out there. I'm drafting Quin's book, which is a somewhat spicy mage-meets-prince with ~ skeletons ~, and I'll eventually fix up stories set in Armor Pilot Vier (you know; giant robots and the space war; sentient nonhuman life; post-rebuilding after the corporate hegemony). But Ismene has been done, and querying got me nowhere, and creation is a beautiful thing and why not share it. Even now.

I will post some excerpts soon. I have a question.

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Zhang He fighting a dinosaur, as recorded in scroll 17 of the San Guo Zhi

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Reblog and put in the tags what you would have been blogging about on tumblr in 2004.

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Bursts in two months late

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When someone looks at abstract art and is like “ugh, I could’ve made that” it’s like…yeah? You think you could’ve? I like how those squiggles and splatters look, and how the colors play against each other, and I bet you could make something like that too. Wanna give it a try? I’ve got acrylics and tape and cardboard we could experiment on. It’s fun to break art and composition down to its bare essentials without worrying about things like representation or naturalism. Come on, let’s paint some lines.

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Hello

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Naming my cat after Zhang He is finally paying off

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10 rules for being an exceptional leader from ‘philosopher king’ Marcus Aurelius.

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Alain Delon when birds landed on his camera. Venice, 1962.

📷 Jack Garofalo

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Happy 25th birthday to the Dreamcast, the console that humanity let down.

Also Happy Birthday to Yang from Street Fighter.

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[[I want the DNC roll call playlist so bad]]

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THERE IT IS

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future Publisher: Capcom Developer: Capcom, Iron Galaxy Studios (PS3, 360) Platform: Arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360 Year: 1999 (Arcade), 2000 (DC), 2004 (JP PS2/Xbox, EU Xbox), 2005 (NA PS2/Xbox), 2011 (PS3, 360)

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I'm in Hong Kong. Just passed this ad. It has to be a coincidence but god I wish it weren't.