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January 25, 2006

Fantastic Beasts and where to find them


Dor Posner sent me some photos from a summer camp in Israel. I'm waiting to hear back from him with some more information about these constructions, but to get started here's a photo of a pioneered hedgehog- each spine is a quadpod wrapped in fabric and attached to the frame of the animal. Not for the faint of heart, I suppose this took a troop a couple of days to build. But if you want to make your scouts nervous hand them this picture and tell them they have 1 hour to build it...

The Statue of Liberty, the Sphinx, Santa Claus (with reindeer), Garfield and a dragon complete with Chinese temple will follow as soon as I can tell you a little more about how these incredible structures were made.

UPDATE: More info and photos here

(With apologies to Newt Scamander for the title)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW!
Pioneering as art. How big is this hedgehog?

Peter le Roux said...

I'd guess he's about 12 feet high. There are photos of people posing in front of it here

Wezzo said...

That is amazing, never seen pioneering at this lever ever!

Anonymous said...

Actually it was us who built it. Shevet Tzahala. It took us 3 days in the field, but it took about a month of preperation before...

Anonymous said...

bet ha cerem ya shakarn you liar. you should be ashamed of yourself. you wish u could build like that in jerusalem, but u cant. at least accept yourselves and try to improve, not lie about what youre not.