The Chicken is ALIVE!

Yesterday, we drove up to Petaluma for the Rivertown Revival Festival. It was a free fest, where you end up just walking around, looking at people, drinking beer, eating different things, listening to music and soaking up some sun (what we in SW Louisiana call "this weekend.")



I first learned about the festival from Boing Boing's SRL shout-out. Survival Research Labs is not easy to describe (that's why we have wikipedia), but the performances are large robot dance-rodeo-fights with an emphasis on the art and expression of destruction, rather than efficiency.  We watched the Big Arm, The Running Machine and The Chicken perform.  The first performance was fun, mild and sans-Chicken. The second performance is captured in the video below. The Chicken is decapitated around 3:50.  The video that leads into this blog post is of small, revival-dressed children running around happily cheering for The Chicken which is starting its warm up: The Chicken is ALIVE!  They had a tough time watching the Chicken get picked-on and decapitated. I just hope they left before the Chicken was destroyed in the 3rd show.



What a fun day.