Fire snail1/31/2024 The group is made up of two-dozen volunteers– engineers, artisans, film people, teachers from the industrial arts workshop The Crucible, and workers from Tesla Motors and Tesla Coil. Sarriugarte’s art group, The Empire of Dirt, created all these mobile creatures for Burning Man. Additionally, Sarriugarte says, “Both Kyrsten and I are totally enamored with the whole apocalyptic… you know, society has been wiped out, and going back to the city, visiting and finding a grocery store full of stuff.” Sarriugarte’s fascination with the sci-fi mechanical creatures of his 1960’s childhood, fused with Kyrsten’s childhood love of Disney’s Main Street Electrical Parade, inspire their creations. There’s the Electrobite, a joystick-controlled, ride-on pre-historic Trilobite fossil that glows blue from underneath the wheelchair-based Golden Zeppelini “flying machine ” and the pair of glowing 50 foot-long fire-breathing vehicles called Serpent Twins - Jormungand (Midgard) and Julunggul (Rainbow). ) There’s the Alpha Fox’s landing craft, The Zolander, which is a tow behind trailer created for Mate and Sarriugarte’s daughter Zolie. There’s the moon-landing-inspired SS Alpha Fox, which blows fireballs from its roof “blaster.” (“Really cheesy 1970s looking spaceship vehicle,” says Mate. ![]() The snail makes its home, when not attending events, in Sarriugarte’s West Oakland warehouse-along with a half dozen other spectacularly imaginative inventions. They tracked down a stripped-down Volkswagen on Craigslist and began constructing the giant snail they named The Golden Mean, from a mathematical rule they used in its creation. Then one day, Sarriugarte says, when “the economy was going to hell and I just didn’t have a lot to do, I woke up one morning and said, ‘We should build that car.’ ” They tossed the idea around for two years from the time they first drew the snail in 2006. ![]() “She described it to me, and we sat and drew pictures on a napkin.” “Kyrsten woke up one morning and said she had a dream that we were driving around in this giant snail,” says blacksmith and self-proclaimed Oilpunk Jon Sarriugarte of his sound designer wife, Kyrsten Mate, who has worked on Oscar-winning films. Doolittle-ish, 12’6 foot high, 18 foot long, 3000 pound, glow-in-the-dark, fire-blowing, motorized, iron snail, was built atop the skeleton of a 1966 VW Bug. Although calcium carbonate makes up about 98% of the shell content of most mollusks, the fire snail’s shell has a high deficiency of this compound, made up for by the robust supply of periostracum.THE SNAIL. The black periostracum is quite rare and found only in the most unique species. The black color of the snail is due to an abundance of silky black periostracum, a naturally occurring compound that makes up the outermost layer of the shells of many mollusks. For the first time ever, I’m impressed by the shiny effect snail slime has on a gastropod, because it weirdly highlights the unique colors and gives everything a twinkle. ![]() If this isn’t awesome enough, the shell and the elongated eyes are a jet-black color that completes the entire Dracula effect. However, the fire snail is the only species where a large percentage of the muscular foot is a bright-red color, and only a fraction of the upper part is black. There are about 60,000 species of snails and slugs in the world, and quite a number have red and black body colorations, such as the red-bellied black snail.
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