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    Strandbeests


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

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    "We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us." --- Jean-Paul Sartre.

    "Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past." --- George Orwell.



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    Quote Originally Posted by W3MIV View Post
    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.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by w2amr View Post
    Shhh, you'll hurt his feelings.
    "If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
    telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
    “I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
    At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution

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    Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
    He's Dutch, he doesn't care ;)
    You guys got too much time to kill.

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    Privilidge from our social democracy ;)

    Quote Originally Posted by N4VGB View Post
    You guys got too much time to kill.
    "If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
    telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
    “I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
    At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution

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    keep that damned thing away from me.

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    If he actually had to work for a living he wouldn't have time for that "I'm bored out of my skull" tomfoolery.
    "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

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    I'm not sure , but I think this may infringe on a W1YW patent.....
    I won't question your Creator's wisdom , but you are responsible for your own actions .

    Russ, W5RB

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    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
    2010 Exhibition Science Museum, Seoul South Korea link
    "If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
    telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
    “I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
    At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution

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