Windpowered, Walking Kinetic Sculptures
Published by jwbjerk
on
December 9, 2006
in ARTS


"Well, maybe there are new things under the sun.
Theo Jansen has built lots of these otherworldly moving sculptures, which when blown by the wind, actually walk. The one in the picture above weighs 2 tons, and can still be pulled by a single person or blown by the wind. And it has seating.
 It’s hard to describe, you have to see them in motion."

The most interesting part of these sculptures, other than the fact that they are constructed in such a visually interesting manner, is that they are powered by the wind. When you look at the video of Strandbeest, it looks either like some one is inside moving it like a puppet, or that it is some kind of robot. These other more skeletal wind sculptures have an airy nature that reminds me of fossils or ancient dinosaurs come back to life.

http://www.strandbeest.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY&feature=related