Theo Jansen, voor God spelen

[IAmCatToo]

Did you take these photos yourself? Where does Theo Jansen work? I've seen many photo's and interviews in this workshop. Where is it located?

[lesboerin]

@IAmCatToo This is located at Ypenburg, you can see it from the highway A13, just at the point were the A13 ends on the A4. One sees the last A13 exit Rijswijk off-ramp in the second/third shot. It is on the earth dyke between the former Fokker Aircraft factory and the Defense Instruction School (exit Delft-Noord). Ypenburg was a former airbase bordering The Hague. It is now a new suburban area filled with houses. I do not know if his facility is still there. This is a documentary.

[davife21]

no sea tan pirobo viejo catrehijueputa, ahora por inventarse esa mierda, tenemos que hacer un puto proyecto igual al suyo, claro como usted si no trabaja, viejo culi chupado caga seco.

[larsie21]

the man is a genius

[farmhandfilms]

I'm speechless...after watching that 'thing' move by 'the wind' on the beach...I don't even understand..it's so much more beautiful than anything powered by gasoline.

[DJALIPETITA]

i love this man, his art his work....

groetjes von catalunya

[DeLaars]

Hey, mooie audiodia. Ook die koyaanisquatsi-muziek geeft een hele bijzondere sfeer. Ik kwam achter je account toen ik zocht op NFTA. Ik ben zelf al m'n hele leven bezig met het maken van filmpjes en wil zelf ook naar de NFTA. Heb je dit filmpje als aanmeldingsmateriaal gebruikt?

Laras

[lubbersdennis]

Nice video, I'm waiting to see more work of you on youtube!

[sorrellindustries]

Never contract with Millitary or Government, they will steal your invention and either use it or suppress it, never giving you any credit. You do realize you are creating walking robots and the wing design is of one of the fastest flying insects known about but havent been caught yet or at least published as being caught.

[TheLangfords]

And why, exactly, would the USG steal a design for a plastic robot that cannot outpace a walking human, cannot carry a load, cannot deal with rough terrain, and cannot turn cormers?

They're not even wings, they are sails! These things don't fly, they get blown down the beach.

If they were going to pinch something useful, they would have gone for Aibo or Asimo, but they can't, because Sony and Honda are richer than USG can afford to take on.

[sorrellindustries]

I say that with foresight. The design is similar to an insect so fast people can't see it. Go back to 1980's robots, what appeared clumsy peices of junk now evolved into Asimo. look at the first airplanes, you wouldve scoffed at the airplane if you lived back then, do you see the resemblence?, this has future potenial to out perform the jet if powered and used for flight, just give it 15-20 years of advancement.

[TheLangfords]

There >is< no insect faster than humans can see, they are artifacts of video chips being too slow to image normal insects when they are out of focus.

Theo's beasts are not moved by the wings, because they are not wings, they are >sails< - the winnd makes th sail flap, the sail pumps air into a bottle and valves release the air through the mechanism that drives the legs. The design and materials are all open-source, you can build them out of lego. I built a set fo the legs out of paper.

[sorrellindustries]

You did not carefully read my words, I said if powered. instead of wind powered, use a motor to power it for flight but never mind you don't even believe that "sky fish" exist. Do you actually think that all answers lie in the science journals? corections are made all of the time, scientists become baffled at new findings.

[TheLangfords]

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On 8th and 9th August 2005, China Central Television (CCTV) aired a two-part documentary about flying rods in China. It reported an incident that happened from May to June of the same year at Tonghua Zhenguo Pharmaceutical Company in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, which debunked the flying rods. Surveillance cameras in the facility's compound captured video footage of flying rods identical to those shown in Jose Escamilla's video.

[TheLangfords]

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Getting no satisfactory answer to the phenomenon, the curious research staff of the facility, being scientists, decided that they would try to solve the mystery by attempting to catch these airborne creatures. Huge nets were set up and the same surveillance cameras captured rods flying into the trap. When the nets were inspected, the "rods" were no more than regular moths and other ordinary flying insects.

[TheLangfords]

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Subsequent investigations proved that the appearance of flying rods on video was an optical illusion created by the slower recording speed of the camera (done to save video space). This is the empirical evidence, showing that the "rods" themselves can be captured, and that they do indeed prove to be ordinary animals.

[TheLangfords]

"You did not carefully read my words"

Yes I did. I'm afraid I was charitable, and laid the fault of your statement at the door of poor grasp of English. I see now that it was wilful ignorance of basic scientific principals, in spite of the observed facts.

I leave you to your paranoia. Don't forget to check the tinfoil on the windows - can't let the mind-control rays get in, can we?

[sorrellindustries]

Continued:

I am also open to the idea that modern recording devices are recording things that we never knew existed, just as microbes were not beleived to exist until the microscope, my grand father refused to believe in the 1950's that other planets existed and carried that belief into the 1970s. I don't want to believe a lie yet I don't want to be in the group who insisted that the planet was flat.

[sorrellindustries]

Thanks for adding the details, I will consider your comments, as in one video it appeared that the rod penetrated directly through a man, so I am open to the possibility of it being part of the modern digital recording.

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[TheLangfords]

"through a man"

That is a perspective problem - the out-of-focus insects are generally much closer to the lens than the actual subject of the image, so they >appear< to travel much more quickly, just as near-by telegraph poles seem to pass more quickly than distant hills on a train journey. They will also, therefore, travel quite a large apparent distance between frames of video, thus seeming to travel through objects.

[sorrellindustries]

We advance because of the dreamers. scientists always say things are scientifically impossible, but the dreamers combined with persistant pursuit to turn science fiction into science fact has always been and just because something is elusive doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

[sorrellindustries]

The Langfords: Sorry for the "poor grasp of English" I find myself very confined due to the word limitations here so I leave words out and simplify hoping that people will understand.

[deathcrayon]

Pwnt.

[sorrellindustries]

Your wing design is exactly like a super fast flying insect

look up "rods" or "sky fish" this is an insect that is unknown by science as it moves so fast the naked eye can barely see it, the sky fish have been caught on camera and freeze framed, thier wings look and function exactly like this invention.

You may have created, just like the wright Brothers, an early model flying machine that will out fly any modern jet.

[TheLangfords]

That would be the same "rods" that have been identified as ordinary insects flying quickly across video images that cannot refresh fast enough to show individual wingbeats, then?

The reason "rods" don't show up on film cameras is because the film reacts much more quickly than a CCD chip, and can capture the instects in focus.

try reading science journals instead of conspiracy websites.

[Jogannez]

subtitles comin' up...

[TheLangfords]

Can't wait...

[hotjamz5]

are you serious? thatd be awesome

[TheLangfords]

Any chance of English subtitles? I love the strandbest concept, but I don't speak Dutch.