La Princesse in Liverpool - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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Incredible photographs of an incredible spider robot. Must see. Be sure to read the captions on this one. My favorite: "Huge special effects are used like something from a film but its right there in front of you." Amazing.

"As part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, the French group La Machine were commissioned to create a large piece of street theatre, on the scale of their earlier work, the Sultan's Elephant. Many were expecting to see something using the iconic Liverbirds, the symbol of the city but instead we got a spider."

A 50-foot mechanical spider, marauding through the streets of Liverpool...

A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.