Strandbeest

Theo Jansen is the father of strandbeest. From Mark Hurst’s interview:

Q - Will these creatures live on in some fashion?

They can do it in two ways. They might live on the beach; the guy who works for me, he’s quite young, and he knows how to build them now. Maybe after I’m dead he can keep the beach animals alive, and he could get a pupil as well, and maybe it could go on for some generations.

But it would take several generations to make the beach animals truly independent from us. Today, every five minutes I have to do something to repair them again. But that’s longer than it was before; it used to be a few seconds. Storms, especially, are terrible for these beasts, but they’re surviving them better now. There must be a point where this period could go to weeks, or months even. They’ll need a way to repair themselves, and to multiply. They do that already a bit, but I have to help them very much doing that.

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• April 19, 2005 at 15:02
  in Pretty things

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