The Strandbeesten.
I don’t know where it came from, I don’t really know what it is, but I know I want one.
STRANDBEESTEN_TRAILER from Alexander Schlichter on Vimeo.
The video is wonderfully wistful, which adds somewhat to my melancholy. We just sold our apartment this afternoon1. My time in Finland is drawing to an end.
1 And ‘Anchor Me’, by the Mutton Birds is playing on my digital music machine as I write this. More melancholy…
That is amazing. I can’t really believe it. Can it do the vacuuming?
It reminds me a bit of the Sultan’s Elephant.
What does it do? How is it powered? Seems like a an air pump of some sort.
I don’t really know what it is, but I know I want one.
Me neither, me too.
The Sultan’s elephant is amazing!
And a little further investigation reveals that the excellent TED has a video of Theo Jansen, father of the Strandbeest.
Both of these fantastimacal organamisms fill me with childlike wonder and glee!
Truly amazing… and beautiful! I would also like to have one!
The Little Giant, also by the Royal Deluxe, was in Santiago-Chile a few years ago… and it was a wonderful show.