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You know, I like giant industrial projects and all, but based on the headline I was expecting something a little more exciting.

Anyway, neat crane idea.

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If you want something industrial, art, giant, and sometimes spider, there's always Storm King! :)

https://collections.stormking.org/Browse/objects

(It re-opens in April, if anyone happens to be in New York and hasn't visited Storm King, I really cannot recommend it enough, it's a lot of fun, Dia too, Earth Room and Beacon are magic but honestly they're all amazing, so fun! https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites)

I was thinking more towards the strandbeest series (https://www.strandbeest.com/), although those have entirely too many legs to be spiders and are also not made out of aluminium.

Nice, but sadly no arachnids in sight…

Storm King no, although they did for a while, but Dia, yes:

https://www.diaart.org/collection/collection/bourgeois-louis...

Storm King also had a Louise Bourgeois. To me, if we're talking giant spiders, it's always always Louise Bourgeois.

Indeed, this one is spectacular.

If you want industrial giant spider, Kumo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E1PpbncR20 is a must see. "Les machines de l'île" have other beasts of the same kind: https://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/.

Super

You're not unreasonable for expecting something at least vaguely spider-like. This just looks like a big crane for assembling big wind turbines.

Is the "spider" part supposed to be the web-like aluminum frame of the crane? That seems like a stretch, but it's the most charitable interpretation I've got.

You gotta be the weirdness you want to see in the world! Let's learn to weld aluminum, and make our dreams come true.

For crane geeks, that _is_ pretty exciting. :)

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