Theo Jansen’s strandbeest have the same primary objective as most organic life on Earth: learn, improve, survive. The artist hopes that they will one day evolve on their own through observing the strengths of other strandbeest.
A new species of animal roams the beaches of Holland. Made of plastic tubes, Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures move along the sand in a surprisingly organic way.
What could be stranger than a person twisted and frozen in time inches above a street? How about a wind-powered automaton bred to be the perfect perpetual motion machine?
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