It's a Bird! It's a Crane! It's the Coachella Mascot

Today marks the annual pilgrimage of 100,000 sun-seeking music fans to the Southern California desert for the three-day Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Sure Jay-Z's playing. So are Thom Yorke, MGMT, DEVO, and Gorillaz--but there are also giant art and architectural installations created by a who's who of Southern California architects. This year, Crimson Collective, an L.A.-based group of artists, architects, and designers constructed Ascension, a 45-foot tall crane with a 150-foot...