Large floating contraptions, used by scientists to predict the acidity in the oceans, sit off the shore of the scientific outpost of Ny-Alesund, on the island of Spitsbergen in Norway.
It was already a spectacular view inside that floating glass contraption, so I couldn't wait to get to the top.
When we went gliding in Yorkshire, I had assumed it would be a wonderful ballet-like contraption floating silently through the air but it was a creaking, hulking machine at the mercy of the weather!
When we went gliding in Yorkshire, I had assumed it would be a wonderful ballet-like contraption floating silently through the air but it was a creaking, hulking machine at the mercy of the weather which I wasn't keen on at all.
Dunbar's pencil, watercolor, and collage illustrations reflect a more authentic playfulness, and the two spreads showing the various aerial navigators and contraptions floating around in the moon add an explosion of movement and joy to what is an otherwise rather stagnant plot.
After being cut free, the contraption floated to the ground with only minor damage on impact.
Flying in such a contraption must surely give the sensation of floating.
Playing on themes of metamorphosis and escape, a female performance artist wrangles a straitjacket with a modern twist, a 3-D hologram of a hand floats above a sealed contraption, and a Houdini-inspired chandelier does its best to fly.
