WindWalkers: Wind Powered Sculpture Stalk the Beach
September 6, 2020
Description:
Numerous specimen of the Strandbeest evolution on music of Khachaturian’s Spartacus. It open the archives of fossils. Theo Jansen’s work since 1990. He tries to make new forms of live on beaches. His animals get their energy from the wind so they don’t have to eat. In the future he wants to put out in herds.
Below, BBC report.
September 6, 2020 at 12:30 pm
Damn! I just lost an hour and a half on the “also suggested” videos triggered by this one, with flashbacks to differential equations problem sets.
September 8, 2020 at 1:48 am
This is really awesome.
September 9, 2020 at 10:16 am
I first saw these a few year back and found them visually compelling, also unnerving.
September 9, 2020 at 1:38 pm
Strangely, I had the same reaction. They ARE compelling, and perhaps the “unnerving” part was thinking that after the SHTF climate-wise some of these walking a beach somewhere may be the only evidence that humans ever lived there.