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Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

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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 survive -- on their own.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/t...

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 10:11
Rating: 4.9061875
Views: 666687

Tags: Theo  Jansen  TED  TEDTalks  Talks  creatures  strandbeests  kinetic  sculptures  

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AlgisKemezys (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Nice art.
mortichro (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Organic machines.. reminds me of those Half Life 2 aliens
markinrs (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this isn't life anymore than a computer programm. It is still amazing to see them in action and great works on movement and the simple system used but without reproduction there can not be progress.get them to reproduce and we'll talk.
artepolimorfico (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
speechless
kreaturen (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@albertotem Living things don't necessarily need any of those things. We need food, because that is our energy input, and we have to excreet because we eat. That's a round loop... We need to reproduce and grow because we're built by autonomous cells. They are built by us, so they don't need to be born or die, and thus they don't need to reproduce or grow. They have a simple conscience; they know where the water is, and they know where the dry sand is. That might be enough for a new type of life.
Ramsez (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
sounds like borat
abbashashmi52007 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Wonder!
nurlanagabek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
certainly, they are not alive, to be alive creature should be able to operate information which they dont. it is a very good mimicry of life.
wonderboy8229 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@albertotem or, at least, reproduce - humans don't synthesize food (except in labs), plants do that for us
anjin77 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It's absurd that people might classify these as alive. They're kinetic sculptures - a feat of both art and engineering. The artist himself doesn't believe this - if you actually listen to him and the audience, you can tell he's just being facetious for levity.

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