July 09, 2007
They Remind Me of Nausicaa
I'm working on getting my Monday photo up, but I wanted to pause to put this link up. My mom sent it to me and it is just too cool not to share. The original link she sent is from Rag & Bone Blog.
There is apparently an artist by the name of Theo Jansen who has focused on something that he calls kinetic sculpture. He makes these absolutely unreal pieces that move like some sort of giant alien monsters. They remind me very strongly of the huge creatures in Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind and somewhat ironically, they are powered by wind.
There are a number of other impressive video clips of his work available as well as numerous still pictures (which don't do it justice). I am very tempted by the longer dvd with videos of his work that is sold by strandbeest.com.
Alan also suggested that the Victorian steam punk folks might find this stuff thrilling and exciting. I agree, but I just can't stop seeing them as organic (despite the fact that similar designs would almost certainly work as purely mechanical and steam rather than wind driven). It's beautiful but extremely creepy in that sense.
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