“Pleased and slightly nervous” aptly describes my feelings as an audience member at an SRL event. Maybe not “slightly”. I remember one in downtown SF (next to the SFMOMA site?) with a V-1 buzz bomb engine. They were dropping what I guessed might be balloons of acetylene gas into it. I thought the audience would be showered with glass from the adjacent building, but that didn’t quite happen. (IIRC, there were also giant stumbling robots of some sort, but I was more focused on the loud explosions and subsonic rumblings.)
I think this piece is actually a sculpted version of Mark Pauline's hand: <a href="https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2018/01/IMG_0245.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2018/01/IMG_0245.jpg</a><p>Details and gory photos at <a href="http://www.srl.org/yard/misc/injury.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.srl.org/yard/misc/injury.html</a> ("In 1982 Mark was working with a rocket motor that exploded in front of him.")
I wasnt sure if this was pure satire or something real until I read this part:<p><i>...capable of hurling a standard two-by-four at speeds up to 200 miles per hour. Violence and danger are materials in Pauline’s work, and fear is often a reasonable response..."</i><p>Then I was nearly sure it was satire. I read more and saw the photos, and am now nearly convinced it's real. I kind of don't want to look further and pierce the veil of uncertainty.