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Coachella music festival 2011

Bugaboos are alien insect-like creatures created by human imagination... their planet lies uncountable light years away in the farthest reaches of the cosmos!

After a crisis on their homeworld, they set out on a quest to discover humanity and unlock the secrets to imagination. Only then would the Bugaboos be able to unravel their true potential and claim back their planet!

Find out more at: www.bugaboozoo.com

Design: Gerard Minakawa

       
   

Boots, the stalwart Bugaboo, curiously inspects the crowd.

Find out more about Boots and his alien friends at www.bugaboozoo.com !

Design: Gerard Minakawa
Materials: Bamboo, steel
Bamboo DNA 2011

       
   

Baby Gold is a modelled after the earthly praying mantis... her mother is still out there in space, trying to reconnect with her!

Find out more about Baby Gold and her alien friends at www.bugaboozoo.com !

Design: Gerard Minakawa
Materials: Bamboo, wood, steel
Bamboo DNA 2011

       
   

Hopper is Baby Gold's best friend and he is also the tallest Bugaboo around.

www.bugaboozoo.com

Design: Gerard Minakawa
Materials: Bamboo, wood, steel
Bamboo DNA 2011

       
       
   

Xephyra is fast, inquisitive... she is a natural scout and farsighted enough to peer thousands of miles ahead!

Design: Gerard Minakawa
Materials: Bamboo, Wood, steel, acrylic, paint
Bamboo DNA 2011

Find out more at: www.bugaboozoo.com

       
   

Brian Brown, director of entymology at the Natural History Museum of LA County, shows me just one of the thousands of insect specimens on hand at this great institution.
       
    I spent many hours drawing insects wherever I could find them... these are just a few from the Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design, my alma mater.
       
    Welding the chassis for Xephyra, the dragonfly...
       
   

Long Hands, who uses his single large eye to beam video projections... it's how he communicates!

Find out more at: www.bugaboozoo.com

       
   

Hopper's 20-foot tall legs being attached!

Find out more at: www.bugaboozoo.com