Beautiful! Flowing! Magical! Genius! Real! How wonderful for us that there are some in the world who can make dreams come true! Thank you for your vision! LOVE IT!
OK, just watched it for the third time. Seems like the more I watch it the more incredible it is! So fluid and moving! I'm wondering about the music myself. At the end credits it says Calendar Girl February Re-Mix, Incoherent_Mumble_Train. Does that mean anything to anyone? Is that the name of the song; especially the song at the beginning of Animaris ..... help anyone?
Theo,may be you don't know"festiventu":festival of the wind in Calvi(Corsica),i am sure you(and your animals) have your place on there...even if the beach has become a little bit narow...
This is contemporary art worth seeing! Where is this taking place? How do they stop? Don't see brakes. Wait until the wind dies down? If it can move this fluidly over sand, wind and water it seems like there would be military applications. PVC pipes? Leonardo DaVinci influence. The "solid" one looks like a herd of elephants. Fantastic!
There's a show at MassMoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts. The artist's name is Bas Jan Ader, he died (we suspect) attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a 13 foot boat in 1975.
Yes, this is real. His name is Theo Jansen and he works in Holland. Uses the crank shaft model to translate pedal movement into the circular motion of a wheel, thus maintaining his 'animals' level with the ground on impact. Just like you and me! And, yes, this type of work is indeed being researched with utilitarian ends in mind. Professor Andrew Biewener, a biologist at Harvard, studies animal gait and economy of movement and designs robots with legs. Which can (theoretically, at this point) handle terrain that wheels cannot. The potential applications are vast, obviously. Glad to see so many people excited by Jansen's work; a beautiful marriage between science and art. Keep your eyes peeled for more!
yes this like the subject of art and engineering is like another exploration like the similarities between great chefs and great artists..visit www.monetspalate.com
calendargirl here. more songs i wrote and sang remixed by incoherent mumble train at www.calendarsongs.com. thanks dave for letting me know about this nice film of lovely sculptures!
It's refreshing to know that brilliance is still left in this world. When you degrade into politics and the like, there's nothing but disappointment. "Inspired Science" has it correct: Jansen has created a beautiful marriage between science and art. I am furthermore stunned into speechlessness and that's hard to do to a writer. I am humbled.
What majestic elegance!
Thank you, Theo, for an inspiring display of creative ingenuity and beauty. I have longed to see your walkers in action, ever since getting your intriguing book (sadly for me, in Danish) showing some details of the mechanism.
Magnificent.
Congrats most honourable " Meister Gears" I bow to you...
Always knew that it is WIND is what moves all life, This precision apparatus moves the inner me It is like a piece of tumbleweed crossing the desert or a lossened sail upon the ocean, I believe in this mode of transport in this life and afterwards too. Stay wired, feed the world with possibility.
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