Strandbeests

[w2amr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA&feature=email

[W3MIV]

Clever. Genius-level invention. But, at the end of day, more plastic beach junk that someone will have to clean up.

[w2amr]

Clever. Genius-level invention. But, at the end of day, more plastic beach junk that someone will have to clean up.Shhh, you'll hurt his feelings.

[PA5COR]

He's Dutch, he doesn't care ;)


Shhh, you'll hurt his feelings.

[N4VGB]

He's Dutch, he doesn't care ;)

You guys got too much time to kill.

[PA5COR]

Privilidge from our social democracy ;)


You guys got too much time to kill.

[kc7jty]

keep that damned thing away from me.

[N4VGB]

Privilidge from our social democracy ;)

The same here.

[kb2vxa]

If he actually had to work for a living he wouldn't have time for that "I'm bored out of my skull" tomfoolery.

[W5RB]

I'm not sure , but I think this may infringe on a W1YW patent.....

[PA5COR]

Theo Jansen does work, and has fun.

He was born in the same city as i was...;)

THEO JANSEN
Born 1948 in Scheveningen, Netherlands
Studies physics at Delft University of Technology

1975 - 1980 Paintings and drawings
1980 Flies UFO across Delft
1981 Flies UFO across Paris

1984-86 Develops the painting-machine in Delft

1986-2008 Write fortnightly columns for de Volkskrant national daily newspaper
1986 Rotterdam Computerprint, 40 m long x 3 m high, Rotterdam Central Station

Teacher at the photography department, Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague
1989 Shares exhibition at Het Prinsenhof with the Inventieven group. Makes large rocket, which was launched at the opening

1990-present Drill machine project, The Hague Light sculptures with an ultra-light plane, Delft
1990 Develops Animari (beach animals)
Engaged in designing a ‘new nature’

Zogenaamd Ik, book published by Bzztoh, The Hague
1994 Writes columns for Metropolis-M
Exhibits at Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
Awarded the Sandberg Prize by the City of Amsterdam

‘Mission Impossible’ exhibition at Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
1995 Exhibition at Stroom (HCBK), The Hague
iorama ’95, Martinihal, Groningen
1996 Receives Max Reneman Prize
Klimmen in lucht, book published by SUN, Nijmegen
Animaris Sabulosa exhibited at KunstRAI
Exhibition at Galerie Maurits van de Laar
Exhibits Panorama 2000 at Centraal Museum, Utrecht
The Making of Panorama 2000, NPS film by Leon Giesen
2000 Artificial evolution of a herd of seven animals on the beach at IJmuiden

2003 Grand Exhibition, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Ypenburg project. Construction of a laboratory on top of a sound barrier hill alongside the Rotterdam-The Hague motorway (A13). Includes a 50 metre wide sandpit and a bone-yard for deceased beach animals.With a portocabin as a workshop
2005-2006 Lectures in the US, several conferences

2006 Animals let loose in Trafalgar Square, London
Exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London
ETAT, Exhibition in Taipeh, Taiwan
BMW commercial televised in South Africa
2007 Lectures at TED conference, Montery (CA), USA
Lectures at New York Academy of Sciences
‘The Believers’, exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (Mass.), USA
BMW commercial televised in Germany
BMW commercial televised in Spain
Exhibition Souls and Machine Reina Sophia Museum Madrid
2009 Exhibition Hibya, Tokyo watch it here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xqoaQMgjE)
2010 Exhibition Science Museum, Seoul South Korea link (http://www.theojansen.co.kr/%20http://imnews.imbc.com/replay/nwdesk/article/2642934_5780.html)

[ki4itv]

Some of the hardest working people I know are artist.
The biggest risk-takers too.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

The Chinese are VERY excited over this!
Just think if there were a military application for something like it, and there is.
The military works in "Fronts", setting up safe zones and placing denial in others.
Having something like this scurrying across a potential minefield is an excellent way to not only clear the area, but requires resources that the other military needs to expend to deal with this.