April 13th, 2005
...from MARS! Just kidding, this guy makes wind-powered giant walking and waving creatures from PVC and paper as an art project. It’d be awesome to motorize one of these and go walking through downtown Palo Alto, trampling on yuppies.
Movie of a crab-like one walking, more movies
Interview with the artist
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See Also: Legged Bicycle,Marching with a Giant Pencil,Graveyard of the World’s Fleet,
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April 13th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
my favorite picture is this
April 13th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
i don’t even know what to make of this.
it’s so sweet and super scary.
(something between a giant bug and a charlie chaplin movie.)
April 14th, 2005 at 2:52 am
Neal’s been working on some crazy walking “mecha” type desings. Neal, could you share?
July 27th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Better, streamed video of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests: http://www.glumbert.com/media/kineticsculpture
December 28th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Theo Jansen, at first I thought was nuts for thinking that these creatures would colonize on the beach…. but this man is beyond genius! If they can truly live off of stored wind in old bottles and navigate through obstacles without any computer or fuel, think how these inventions could benefit our way of travel or even the machinery used in industrial settings….
This man is indeed the new da Vinci.