The first thing Jeremy Cook thought when he saw a video of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest walking across the beach was how incredible the machine looked. His second thought was that there was no way he’d ...
[Theo Jansen] has come up with a n intriguing wind-powered strandbeest which races along the beach with surprising speed and grace. According to [Jansen], it “doesn’t have hinging joints like the ...
Welcome to this week’s roundup! Normally I review 60-80 videos, but after taking last week off to pay respect to the tragedies that had taken place. So far this week I’ve reviewed 130 videos, have a ...
Strandbeest is a kinetic sculpture created from plastic tubing and powered by sails. "I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don't have to eat," said Theo Jansen, the Dutch artist ...