The invasion has begun!

The invasion has begun!, originally uploaded by miquel_martin.

Ok, don't panic, let's not do an Orson Welles War of the Worlds drama here! (incidentally, not much people ever did). This is actually the S-Printing Horse before the Heidelberg Printing Machines building in, well, Heidelberg, near where I live in Germany. You might have heard of the company, but the chicken/horse remains, fortunatelly, largely unknown (yes, that's a guy's head reading a book out of the horse's backside). I liked this picture, at any rate, for it very much reminds me of H. G. Wells' tripods, or Half-Life's. How come that guy's looking so relaxed, by the way?


Va, conserveu la calma! A veure si podem evitar un drama estil Guerra dels Móns de Orson Welles! (de fet, ben poca gent la va perdre, la calma). Aquest és, de fet, l'S-Printing Horse davant l'edifici de la Heidelberg Printing Machines situada a... Heidelberg, prop d'on visc a Alemanya. Pot ser heu sentir a parlar de l'empresa, pero el cavall/gallina not te pas, afortunadament, gaire fama (sí, això de la cua es un payo llegint un llibre que surt del cul del cavall). En qualsevol cas, el motiu pel qual m'agrada aquesta foto es per que em recorda els trípodes del H. G. Wells, o els de Half-Life. Com és que aquell senyor va tan tranquil en plena invasio, per cert?

If you'd like some more info on this picture, there's a bunch of extra details in flickr.