People of all ages have found themselves transfixed over the last couple of years by YouTube clips of Dutch environmental artist Theo Jansen’s enormous wind-propelled kinetic sculptures. In the ...

Of course, all this may have diminished his deathless mystique. But as Theo Jansen has proved, there is no shame in actually executing your most harebrained ideas, nor in delivering TED talks about ...

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[Theo Jansen] has come up with a n intriguing wind-powered strandbeest which races along the beach with surprising speed and grace. According to [Jansen], it “doesn’t have hinging joints like the ...

Massive mechanical creatures meander down sandy beaches seemingly of their own accord, their bodies made of nothing but complex arrangements of PVC pipes. These beasts don’t display any robotic parts, ...

Theo Jansen in front of one of his Strandbeests, Animaris Umerus (2009), on Scheveningen Beach, the Netherlands, in 2009 Credit: Loek van der Klis/Courtesy Theo Jansen On an empty stretch of beach ...

We recently encountered some beasts in Salem that we'd never seen before. It's impossible not to smile when you see these beasts, maybe because they seem so alive — but they're not. "Somehow you see ...

Strandbeests – or “beach creatures” – are “moving,” “breathing” and “walking” sculptures created by Dutch artist Theo Jansen. “Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen,” organized by the Peabody ...

A Dutch artist who was trained as a physicist, Theo Jansen, 67, has spent the last 25 years perfecting the design of his Strandbeests (loosely translated, the name means “beach creatures”). Propelled ...

For the past 25 years, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has dedicated his life’s work to building an entirely new species. Specimens can often be seen on the beaches near Delft in the Netherlands where, ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. What you want to know: The scoop: Theo Jansen's Strandbeest project is like nothing else in the world. They're sculptures that move with the wind — or with human ...