The third annual Art Buggy Derby, a combination of engineering and art and racing and weirdness, took over Philadelphia's Washington Square Park on October 19 with all manner of strange, art-making contraptions and costumed competitors. The idea behind the event is to build a foot-powered buggy that actually makes some kind of art as it's propelled along the course. It's the kind of thing you have to see to understand, so we made a video.

A fierce competition of both speed and ingenuity, the riddle of the Art Buggy Derby is that a team can cross the finish line second and still win first place--if the art produced during the race is impressive enough.

Video by Charles Michael Fulton

This year's $500 first-place prize went to "The Crayonator," while the $250 second-place prize went to "Kat Klix's Feline Fun Factory." Make Magazine, Kaloke Technologies, Art Star Gallery & Boutique, Ethnics Furniture and Ground Zero South sponsored the Art Buggy Derby 2008.