A satire, a post-appocalyptic circus, a mechanical spectacle; performances by Mark Pauline and SRL are all of these. Started over 30 years ago in San Francisco, SRL has become a venerable force in industrial art and robotics. This was the first SRL show since relocation to Petaluma. It featured the Running Machine and Big Arm. While there were no pyrotechnics and no fumes or noise, that old element of danger was still there. A steel bar from the photo kiosk that was destroyed early on, went flying off at almost lethal velocity but landed in a random (and empty) section of field nearby (pieces of the demolished kiosk are seen in the foreground of photo #1). Mark Pauline is in the black cowboy hat.
