Crazy Races: Baltimore Moving Sculpture Festival

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Moving sculpture racing is one of those crazy and charming spectacles that gather millions of participants and onlookers around the world. One of these days, a similar show will be held in Baltimore, USA - on it the designers of strange vehicles will be able to look at people and show themselves, the audience will see enough of fantastic moving creations … And we will be able to look at the best participants in these crazy races without even going to Baltimore - downright in this review.

Locomotive

The essence of all such races is that, firstly, you need to give free rein to your imagination and build a completely unprecedented iron horse (elephant, beaver, dinosaur, three-legged desman). Secondly, you need to make the monster move - usually on a muscular drive, like a bicycle. Even if it looks more like locomotive.

Horse racing on the red platypus

And thirdly - of course, you need to go to the festival and join the mad race! Actually the biggest race takes place in Humboldt, California - but the event in Baltimore, which usually takes place on May 7, is also very respected and attended. Sometimes even Huge Red Platypuses come to visit it.

Tin dragon

This event is sponsored by American Museum Vigenari Art … Vigenari art is the generic name of fine art, whose masters strive to depict not reality, but their inner world - in general, surrealism, psychedelics and fantastic realism under one roof, which tends to flow. It is not surprising that the museum favors the Race of Moving Sculptures: almost all of its participants look phantasmagoric - take, for example, a tin guest from the world of dragons.

DuckTales

Specificity crazy race in baltimore - also in the fact that in it the participants overcome different types of tracks, including water obstacles. In such cases, the bicycle turns into a catamaran, and animals give way to fish and birds (in particular, ducks).

Blue worm, mushrooms and hookah

However, everything is not so simple, because the logic of the action is quite insane. Very even terrestrial creatures also become waterfowl, for example, a philosophically minded Blue Worm - Alice's friend from Wonderland. Why is it so huge? Probably bit off too much from the mushroom.

Land fish

On the other hand, fish are also bored with swimming all the time, and they do not mind wandering on dry land - like, for example, this overgrown deep-sea angler.

Pink poodle

As usual, many people make their own wheel sculptures in the form of animals. Some will say that the pink poodle is not a sled dog, but a decorative one; that's how it is, but the race is also crazy, so it's okay.

Elephant

Just an elephant.

Floating carriage

Of course, many are haunted by the privileges of the exploiting classes - and they make moving sculptures in the form of carriages … Probably, "galloping" on a catamaran-carriage on the water surface is not quite a natural activity for any marquis and baroness, but it still looks dignified, almost like a royal wedding.

Mystical Crew

But this carriage looks more like a carriage from All Saints Day, where the driver, cheerfully grinning his teeth - pumpkin seeds, juggles with flaming skulls and sings obscene songs. But, as you can see, hellish horses are also pretty good at getting stuck in the mud - maybe because it's not the season for Halloween yet.

In a word, whatever the carriage, it can win the race and take the first prize. But crazy racing that is what they differ from the usual ones, that the main thing in them is participation. So cheerful competitors can easily go astray, drive through the streets, get stuck in a pub, swim, and generally enjoy life. Well, aren't they crazy?