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Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

http://www.ted.com Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even surviv...  
 
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How does he make the joints?
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can i eat it?
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He says his invention is even better than wheel, but absolutely not! Wheel is biggest human invention and it will remain .
How can he say that? A wheel when is moving ,do have a dynamic balance but this thing is independent of other feet to keep its balance.Another reason is that he is inspired from the nature and animals but we can not find any wheel in nature and it is the result of pure creativity of people of Ur in Mesopotamia (part of modern day Iraq)as early as 3500 BC.
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hm...
If we create one HUGE, like 1000feet, it would be perfect, and no one should stop him.
muhuhhahaha!!
disasturblastr12 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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i can tell he does not speak english well but this guy is amazing...ive seen other kinetic sculptures and he puts higher level
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The car commercial afterward was almost as cool as these simple life-forms.
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you'd have to make it out of different piping though.
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If somehow this artist and genious gets to read this, man, you have an extraordinary mind. Greetings from Chile.

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