This is the legendary soda-constructor style machina. I saw it on the BBC once in the summer and never found it again, until just now. Theo Jansen is interested in machining a new nature. And the new building blocks are a bunch of yellow tubes. Theo then took them down to the beach to 'herd'. The 'animaris' series feed on wind (apart from the big fat rhino) and come alive on their own, wandering along the long stretches of sand. The interesting thing is as all the tubes move together, they make those fingernail-on-blackboard squeaking noise mixed with the thunderous rumble of the feet hitting the ground, as if to communicate their new found life.
Click on 'film' to see clips in the website:
http://www.strandbeest.com/#
More on Sodaconstructor:
http://www.sodaplay.com/
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hey, i just came across the animaris species recently but hadn't seen the sodaplay - thanks a lot!
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