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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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pakipride2007 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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what it that thing mae out of ?
Sharkinspector (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Plastic! :-)
micimacko33 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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WwWRcTrialPl (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!
u2ber87 (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Do those creature believe in Theo Jansen or do they believe they developed from simplier forms.

:)
etiennealive (1 week ago) Show Hide
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That's a very, very, very good question.
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vooght69 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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thats so ingenious it's awsome!!!
UTUV2 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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, the automatas is an old invetntion... this is an actualization by a good ingenner. we have to revalluate an applicate this kind of clean technice in all possible ways
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