Glittery Ephemera
Today’s Glittery Ephemera: Homemade Trebuchets
As if trainspotting, salted fish and hot dogs for breakfast, and Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee weren’t enough, the Brits have added homemade trebuchets to their list of cultural achievements. I’m too jealous:
But Americans won’t be left behind in the trebuchet arms race. Here’s an All-American flaming-piano-launching trebuchet.
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Except that IS the English trebuchet. For the American one (at least one of them) go to You Tube for “Giant trebuchet hurls a piano”.
TLMA-
Are you sure? How did all those California surfer types get into the dialogue?
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I just missed the link. Normally they’re set off from the main text by being underlined, a different color, or something. If this was, my browser didn’t pick that up.
The treb linked to is the same one used in the Pimp your Ride VW commercials, this time performing at Black Rock, NV, for the Burning Man celebration. Not great surfing in the Nevada desert.
The one I recommended was built by a Texan in a gravel quarry in Yakima, WA. Much bigger and more powerful than the VW one. No surfers involved there, either.
TLMA-
Yeah, we should probably tweak the palette a little. It’s set off in blue, but in some monitors it’s a little too close.
No idea about the commercials — don’t have a TV. I this case, “surfer” = drunk, partying American voices. We have no waves on the Gulf of Mexico, so I only have movies to go by for the accent.
That video you referenced is awesome, btw. The picture quality is a lot better than most of the trebuchet videos I’ve seen. Good times. . .
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