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#185324 - 06/14/09 06:36 AM animaris umerus
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5249
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
If you'd like to see the larger animaris umerus in action click video link. Theo Jansen is an engineer/artist spending his life creating animals from PVC electricity tubes. They walk on windpower. This week he experiments at the beach trying to attach a water sensor system so when it walks free and the tide comes up it will seek dry grounds.
[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2abYvWcJzRw[/video]
Edited by BranShea (06/15/09 03:18 AM)
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#185332 - 06/14/09 01:10 PM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/13/05
Posts: 3269
Loc: R'lyeh
I saw his TED lecture online about ayear ago. He is an interesting artist/engineer. His contraptions use 2 liter soda bottles to store up compressed air when the wind dies down on those lovely Dutch beaches. (I am pleasantly reminded of the scene on the beach, in Soldier of Orange, when the Dutch partisan are challenging one another to pronounce the name of the town Scheveningen which served as a shibboleth at the time.) The locomotion mechanism is simple and elegant. They are beautiful._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#185342 - 06/15/09 03:33 AM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5249
Loc: Netherlands, the HagueI wrote the name by memory so the h is out , but it doesn't change much to the meaning. I add a link here to a flickr-image ( better than mine) which shows those two liter plastic bottles you talk about clearly. Up the tail. Such a vieuw!
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#185360 - 06/16/09 04:38 AM
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/27/02
Posts: 2154
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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#185381 - 06/17/09 04:03 PM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5249
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
beach beast
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#185410 - 06/21/09 02:09 PM 
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 5300
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
beach beast
Animaru umeris: 'file' woked fine for me: terrific, thanks for sharing._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
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