It was past midnight on the wedding morning when, with trembling hands, I inverted the heavy cauldron over this contraption, which looked like a yurt.
But this contraption, which allows dogs to "pet" their humans and give them treats, really drives that sentiment home.
Six women were trained to operate the contraption, which was played like a pipe organ.
He proceeds to tear around a warehouse with it, barely able to control the contraption which, fortunately, is empty for the filming.
"I'm trying to make it as absurd and useless as possible," Mr. Herscher said of the contraption, which will turn off the lights behind him when he leaves the room.
As I landed, I thanked Leonardo for a wonderful ride". The contraption, which has seen two aborted attempts to fly over Salisbury plain in Wiltshire earlier this year, was built by Katarina Ollikainen, Mr Nicholas's Swedish girlfriend.
It took an hour to build the contraption, which ended up looking like a US-style mailbox.
They paid a Chinese engineer and a translator to spend three months teaching them how to use the contraption, which is the size of a sport utility vehicle.
But the Walkman will be fondly remembered as the contraption which transformed listening to music from an activity conducted principally in one's own living room, perhaps with glass of brandy in hand, to a means of irritating other people on public transport.
In operation since May, the contraption, which looks like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie, uses nets and a conveyor belt to scoop up to 25 tons of trash daily and deposit it in a floating dumpster.
This bizarre contraption, which took the production team months to build, is the proud invention of protagonist Colin Romain Duriss).
