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walking wind-powered sculpture
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:51 am
by winddoctor
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:28 am
by KUS
Mr. GQ does it again. Always on the cutting edge of current trends, gotta love it
Of course, being the dark-ages cavecreature I am, I found the "sex" link on the page irresistible and, lo and behold, a "Karma Sutra manual for in-car entertainment” covers almost anything on the matter including avoiding seatbelts and gearknobs how to prevent unfortunate use of the horn" (not sure why all of those weren't incorporated somehow, a bit lame on that front).
Also liked the dissolvable dress for those rainy autumn days
Do ya think?
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:31 pm
by Wavos Rancheros
Maybe we could get one of those things to help pick up firewood and garbate off the beach at Nitinat?
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:41 am
by Tedz
Thats really cool
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:47 am
by ~~~~~4j~~
I remember seeing this guy on the Discovery Channel. I found an old clip from Daily Planet, but I think there is a more recent one that shows more detail in how he creates each component. I'll keep looking.
The old story:
http://www.exn.ca/video/?Video=20010525-ww-strand.asx
edit: you can find a lot on this guy if you google "Theo Jansen"
more movies of his animals are here:
http://www.strandbeest.com/movies.html
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:32 am
by more force 4
Now why have I never seen these things before???? And they are from Vancouver?! They look like something da Vinci would have loved! Art meeting engineering meeting invention!
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:20 am
by ~~~~~4j~~
Although he was on Canada's Discovery Channel, he is Dutch, not from Vancouver.
You may notice the 2 litre pop bottles in his sculptures. If I remember correctly, these store compressed air generated from the wind catching components. After a pressure threshold is reached, this compressed air is released through the drive mechanism, and the creature moves. This explains why the sculptures move so quickly in seemingly little wind.