crabshell

Behind the Scenes at le Bernardin: blacklight for crabshell

Boing Boing 2009

The little figure shifts the beams back to the inert crabshell that looms taller than my head.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

The first belt of the harness is far too short to fit around the big crabshell, but I link all three sections of the harness together, wrapping the buckles on each end to cracks in the shell.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

What must be tons of inert crabshell wobbles, bumps, but then levitates ten inches or so off the marble floor.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

They had a big crabshell full of dirt off the road which they drew after them by a string, and in which they took no small pride and pleasure; but a young sailor, coming hastily round a corner, trampled upon the shell, smashed it, and passed laughing on.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the Pagan temples in which the Cannibals adored the divell.

Bracebridge Hall Washington Irving 1821

Some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples, in which the canibals adored the divell.

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821

In front of and below the throne, in the center of the gods’ circle of attention, looking incongruous here to say the least, are what looks like a giant, pitted, cracked metallic crabshell the size of a Ford Expedition, a couple of futuristic-looking devices, and a small, shiny, vaguely humanoid robot.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

As I’m clambering over the lowest part of Thicket Ridge, I see the little robot coming toward me, tugging along his floating crabshell friend like a little boy pulling an especially large Radio Flyer wagon.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981