“The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport is a type of animal with a steel skeleton and a polyester skin. It looks as if there is a thick layer of sand coating the animal. It weighes 2. tons, but can be set into motion by one person. It stands 4.70 meters tall. Because of its height it catches enough wind to start moving.”
Watch the video.
I am speechless with joy.
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June 24th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
That is god damn amazing. I’m tempted to ask why, but who the fuck needs a good reason for something that cool.
June 24th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Simply stunning.
June 24th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
paybacks for turning me on to colin wilson xD
June 27th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
OH MY GOD
I WANT ONE!
June 28th, 2005 at 7:32 am
The Walking Building
The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport is a type of animal with a steel skeleton and a polyester skin. It looks as if there is a thick layer of sand coating the animal. It weighes 2. tons, but can be set into motion by one person. It stands 4.70 meters tall…
June 28th, 2005 at 9:07 am
Um, 2 tons eh? How do you stop the thing?
June 28th, 2005 at 9:56 am
[...] Grosse Haustiere selbstgemacht Heute im Make-Blog gefunden: Quelle: Rossignol (Ich dachte, die machen Skier! ;) This entry was posted on Tu [...]
June 28th, 2005 at 11:35 am
WOW! Fantastic!
June 28th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
More movies and more walking creatures at the artist’s site:
http://www.strandbeest.com/animaris%20rhinoceros%20transport_en.html
http://www.strandbeest.com/movies.html
http://www.strandbeest.com
June 28th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Don’t the Combine use these to smash cities apart?
June 28th, 2005 at 9:22 pm
The Walking Building
Via Rossignol and Make:blog : a video of the Animaris Rhinoceros Transport in action. I haven’t been this blown away since The French Giant Rocket Girl and her Elephant of Luxury or Neal Smith ’s giant Ghosts and Goblins woodcut currently on …
June 29th, 2005 at 7:02 pm
Creature Creation
Just came across the work of Theo Jansen (example below) from a link on Jim Rossignol’s blog. His creations are truly amazing. Their seemingly organic movements are both beautiful and strangely spooky (but in quite a peaceful way).
There move…
June 29th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Oy, I gotta lay off the sauce…
July 14th, 2005 at 3:33 am
[...] A thorough ontology of television plots. Very fun. Wind propelled, giant walking machine. Now if only cars could get the hang of this. Thorough histoy of suck.com. David Fost [...]
September 16th, 2005 at 11:47 am
Strandbeest auf der Ars Electronica 2005
Strandbeester sind Skulpturen, Maschinen, Kreaturen. Ihr Schöpfer ist der Niederländer Theo Jansen, der diese Konstruktionen aus Installationsrohren, Kunststoff-Folie, Einwegflaschen, Schnüren und Kabelbindern am Computer entwirft und da…
March 11th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
[...] eight it catches enough wind to start moving. I hope they publish the plans one day. [via] Link. This entry was posted on Friday, July 1st, 2005 at 11:14 am [...]
March 12th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
More walking machine madness.
http://www.nowpublic.com/node/32292
This guy has GOT to come to Burning Man 2006!!
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:07 pm
[...] Rossignol Art23 Jun 2006 12:07 pm London House Walking Theo Jansen’s Strandbeesten are coming to London. [...]
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:40 am
Just amazing. This man needs to bring that thing to UCF. Wow.
January 28th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Beautiful. The elegant, co-ordinated movement of its “legs” makes me think of the phrase “symphony in motion”.