pThis is El Pulpo Mecanico, a flaming 25-foot mechanical octopus that was built after a successful Kickstarter campaign. It featured in the desert festival Burning Man in 2012 and recently it showed up at the Calgary art festival Beakerhead.ppThe organisers of the event say, “it’s a time and place where engineers show their creative sides, and artists get technical, where science hits the street, and everyone gets ingenious.” El Pulpo Mecanico fit right in.