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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

While we are on the subject of my new heroes (see yesterday's post about Clayton Boyer), I just saw video from one of the TED Talks featuring Theo Jansen. I misunderstood the scale, scope, and beauty of his vision. While I may still not know all of it, this video has given me a much greater appreciation for his attempt to create large-scale mechanical life-forms that roam wind-swept beaches. Truly an impressive vision and monumental feat.

[ Thanks S.C.! ]


1 comment:

  1. Hi Dug, it exists a 240 pages book from him "The
    great pretender", see here:
    http://www.010publishers.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=630
    with a DVD

    Best wishes
    Falk Keuten

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