miami gives red bull wings
sometimes something so weird comes along, that even I (who clearly has a lot to say about almost anything) can't figure out what to say. The Red Bull Flugtag is so weird that I'll just copy/paste what they have to say for themselves:
"Red Bull Flugtag challenges the brave and brainy to design, build and pilot homemade flying machines off a 30-foot high flight deck in hopes of soaring into the wild blue yonder…or often, plunging into the waters below. Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German, pushes the envelope of human-powered flight, but competitors need more than airtime to reach the podium. Teams are judged on three criteria: flight distance, creativity of the craft, and showmanship. This criteria has inspired flying tacos, prehistoric pterodactyls, winnebagos with wings and even Snoopy and the gang to grace the Flugtag flight decks! And after a year with no Red Bull Flugtags in the US, 2010 promises to be bigger and better than ever."
The flying machines take off from Bayfront Park and land into the warm waters of Biscayne Bay. On Saturday, July 10, I'm going to buy some Red Bull, take out the boat and laugh at a bunch of flying tacos and pterodactyls fall really hard into the water- because watching people fall is always funny right? and it's gotta be even funnier and weirder when you're wired on five sugar-free Red Bulls.
