Theo Jansen - Kinetic Sculptor

Theo Jansen is the Dutch creator of what he calls "Kinetic Sculptures," where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered by the wind only.

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+6 1. Mooz commented 14 years ago

If you dig this there's a longer clip on google video.

Jansen's animals are definitely art: Stunningly beautiful and useless.
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+6 2. Tefkros commented 14 years ago

i saw this on youtube a while ago, very smart and radical.
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0 3. iWatch commented 14 years ago

nice vid...but it has been added before..why re-add??
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+4 4. Lasering commented 14 years ago

This video was already posted in Snotr in here [url]http://www.snotr.com/video/320[/url]
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+16 5. nooitaf (admin) commented 14 years ago

cant believe that BMW sticked their fingers in him .. :(
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-7 6. richardhalo commented 14 years ago

OLD shit!
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-1 7. DudWheresYourCar commented 14 years ago

intresting video
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-4 8. smodd commented 14 years ago

Make a esculture powered by wind like this but that can produce more wind and perpetual art forever....
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-3 9. Rigel commented 13 years ago

that is disgustingly awesome
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+1 10. Oddi commented 12 years ago

The frontier between art and engineering exists only in our minds...seems so far ahead..but ill remember that
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-1 11. Reaperdaddy commented 12 years ago

kinetic sculptor... sounds awesome to impress the ladies...
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0 12. ridebmxx3 commented 11 years ago

of course its a bmw commercal
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+1 13. Benishu commented 10 years ago

#5 That's exactly what i thought when i saw BMW logo, I was like "damn, another genius trapped by lobbies". I'm sure Da Vinci would be hired by Total if they could.