Set to Gustav Mahler‘s symphony number 5, watch this recently released compilation video of Dutch artist Theo Jansen‘s wind-fueled kinetic sculptures. He calls them Strandbeests, “beach beast” or “creature” in Dutch.
Want your own? There are table-top versions in kits that you can build.
In the archives: Adam Savage puts together a small model, and there’s a narrated New Yorker video from 2011.
via NPR.
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