My friend DJ Kiva who teaches at Dubspot with me showed me this yesterday. It’s a compilation of a couple of clips of artist/engineer Theo Jansen’s work in motion. He calls it kinetic sculpture and it’s insanely beautiful.
September 22nd, 2009. esoteric luv, everything, ouchmybrain, praise, secret knowledge, un-realness, videos | 1 comment »
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Jansen is amazing – you should check out his talk at TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html
At work we’re adapting his walker design to function as a person-transporter:
http://vimeo.com/6058881
…he has an ingenious design, and it catches fire way less often than our other robots.