Strandbeest July 5, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : General , trackbackLast week I nipped in to Trafalgar Square to see the strandbeesten. These are large moving models created by artist Theo Jansen. I had an interesting discussion with him there about the role of darwinian evolution in the design and devlopment of the ‘beasts’ and then I was interviewed by a German film crew, which was in turn videod by Gordon Joly, the other clips in the following montage are by me.
movie: here is strandbeest.mov ( 4.8Mb)
The beesten are currently on exhibition at the Institute of Contemporairy Art at the Mall, and the artist is giving a performance lecture tonight at the ICA
many more stills available through Flickr tags - strandbeest, strandbeesten
Update: The lecture was sold out, no returns. drat.
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Ah, this is back to the old days of the Andy Roberts blog: videos of stuff.
Now all you have to do is to figure out how to embed the videos within a flash player (as well as offering the .mov download)…
You want the next video delivered as a flash movie for some reason, I suppose I can do that. But would you want it play automatically on every visit, even after there have been several subsequent entries as happens on some other blogs ( with sound )?
eg http://distributedresearch.net/Linda/
Haha - that video is driving me nuts! The sound was an experiment but as I used a web based application to make and host the video I can’t easily just alter it to only play after you click. Can I be bothered to take the time to learn to use Flash properly and how to embed it? Or has web 2.0 made me too lazy to try? Hmmm.
Actually Andy, you needn’t bother being so sniffy about it as your one of the meet-up at Hampton Court on the old blog did the same thing, also with sound. until I complained about it! Nice to see the videos back anyway