Wow that was awesome. I hope we have these in my dystopian future.
Anyone who wants to see more of him:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_oZo[/media]
His work is incredible, very complex.. but he seems a little eccentric, what with that remark about God and all.
[QUOTE=Pythagoras;25869977]I hate how he keeps referring to them as lifeforms.
They don't have any sensory input, they don't react to stimuli, they don't reproduce, they're just complex kinetic art structures that move in a straight line.[/QUOTE]
In a way, they do both have sensory input, and react to it. They change direction when they're either too far away from the sea, or touching it. So they both detect the sea through "sensors" and react to it.
And I think the way he views their reproduction is, any that he builds that works good/better than the others, he adopts that design in the next iterations, so kinda passing on some of their identity... But I think thats getting a little too abstracted.
:iia:
Amazing.
[QUOTE=gnome;25878614]If he let them "live" on their own, wouldn't they eventually end up walking into the ocean?[/QUOTE]
They have water sensors on them.
Nice.
Kinetic sculptures are the shit, there used to be a thread about them.
I've met this guy in person, followed a short workshop (nothing fancy really) and he explained his art to us.
Quite awesome really :v:
[editline]6th November 2010[/editline]
Good thing he's still going strong. He said that the economy recession hit him in the sense that several scheduled appointments around the world were canceled because they couldn't afford it anymore.
First, they need some way to defend themselves from things (people, animals, the elements) without hurting others, I.E, a protective shell that goes all the way around it and cuts off at the legs and it crouches and the shell protects them if it senses danger (solar powered 360 laser scanner that has a range of up to 10-20 feet?) and the shell would also pretect its delicate inerds from rain, snow, water, ect.
I know these ideas are probably impractical, but it may work.
I also know very little about scanners/solar powered things, so if this idea seems dumb, then it probably is.
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