Tuesday, August 11, 2009

'Dancing Diggers'



You see this all over the place now, but I saw a local Birmingham group who had named themselves, very appropriately, the 'Dancing Diggers', back in 2007. They performed to mark the opening of a local craft centre called Boxtree's, on the outskirts of Solihull, only about 5 miles from me. It was a pleasure to watch, despite the sighs and yawns it gathered from others, but then again I am strangely fascinated by machinery and construction. It has always been an interest to me, one I have integrated into artistic projects and used to direct me in design work. Perhaps it has something to do with my father who is a precision engineer. Seeing his continuous quoting of incredibly-sized, mammoth CAD drawing's, has left it's imprint in me for sure.

2 comments:

  1. It looks like it would be great to watch! Was it somewhere very accessible to the public because there's lots of people there despite all the yawning!

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  2. I've seen the diggers and they are AWESOME! the amount you can do with a couple of JCBs and some basic pyrotechnics! Honestly, it was a lot of fun and the comedy value you can get our of machinery is quite surprising!

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