I’ve got a new fascination, Strandbeests, kinetic sculptures made out of plastic tubes, that can travel up and down beaches. They actually look alive as they move. They are the brainchild of a Dutch man, Theo Jansen, who has been making them since 1990. He lets them loose on the beaches near Delft in the Netherlands and is making them more and more self sufficient and his dream is that one day to turn a herd loose.
I think he needs to come and let them loose in western Oklahoma or the praires in Osage county. I think it would be a wonderful sight.
I’ve already told Sweetie that I’ve always wanted to go to Delft. She’s not buying it, she suspects that geocaches are my motive. Little does she know…
Those are amazing! I’d love to see a herd of those let loose in Seattle!! Hope your holiday weekend is going well!
Sylvia
oh my, that is absolutely incredible!
thanks for sharing.
Have you shown Sweetie a picture of your latest fascination? She may allow you to travel to Delft if she understands your desperation! Personally, I totally understand.
The building is amazing of these Strandbeests, but they kind of give me the creeps. Don’t want to meet one on the beach.
Cool beans. Put one of these puppies on the west end of the Oklahoma panhandle and it would walk all the way to Enid.
I want beaches ‘strand-free’. hahahaha
How cool are those!!!! I’d love to get an upclose look at them. Thank you so much for sharing.
ˆlove these creatures! I bet Sweetie would love them too. 🙂
Don’t you find it a little odd that he refers to them as his offspring?!