Theo Jansen

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From http://www.strandbeest.com/, discovered via anachrotech.

Theo Jansen, artist, studied science at the University of Delft Holland. The first seven years being a artist he just made paintings. Then he starts a project with a big flying saucer, which could really fly. It flew over the town of Delft in 1980 and brought the people in the street and the police in commotion. Since about ten years he is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventually he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

I want to live in a world where herds of wind-powered creatures wander the sands. Maybe there is hope for the future, after all...

Look at Theo's site for more information - especially his pictures and movies.

Comments

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**loses it**

**recovers**'

**reads aeduna's response and loses it again**

Oh dear...