Beach Beast part 1

There are some gigantic moving sculptures in some parts of the world !


Yeah, they are kinetic sculptures, invented by Theo Jansen. He calls them 'Strandbeest' , or some call them ' Beach Beast' .

Who is Theo Jansen?
Well, Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist, or i should say he is a scientist turned artist, he born March 14 ,1948 in The Hague , Netherlands. He has been occupied with the making of new nature since 1990. Over the years, successive generation of his new natures have evolved into increasingly complex animals .

What is his idea ?
Theo Jansen wants to make "life" and he figures out the best way to do it is to start from scratch



He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals and are able to walk using the wind on the beach, his bizzare beach animals have their roots in a computer program that he designed 17 years ago which virtual four-legged creatures raced against each othere to identify survivors fit enough to reproduce. Deetermined to translate the evolutionary process off-screen, Jansen went to a local shop and found his own alternative to the biological cell , the humbe plastic tube.

He insists that animals are machines as well, he was making animals with just the tubes because they are cheap but later on they turned out to be very helpful in making artificial life because they are very flexible and mulifunctional as well. " There's a lot of variety in what you can do with just one material and this is what i try to do as well."

to be continued ....