Comments on: When Drain Pipes Stampede

When Drain Pipes Stampede

Blue Stone — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:29:38 -0800

Theo Jansen makes strange creatures that prowl beaches, powered by the wind [.avi]. "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature." - Strandbeest. [via Tipping The Sacred Cows]

By: warhol

warhol — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:52:05 -0800

As featured on Mefi back on aug 13, 2002 and Dec 6, 2002. Amusingly, the post from Dec 6 mentions it being mentioned before.

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:07:14 -0800

I searched for a few different permutations of strandbeest, (which is included in both previous mentions) using both the google and mefi searches, and got back nothing, nada, zip, bubkis. Someone might want to look at that.

By: cyrusdogstar

cyrusdogstar — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:18:16 -0800

Despite the fact that I remembered the original post(s) when reading your FPP, Blue Stone, my immediate reaction wasn't "double post!" but "I remember that, it was wicked cool!". So hopefully there will be some folk who never saw it back in '02 and will get a chance to look at these crazy things for the first time =) Of course, 'double post!' was my second reaction. But I try not to be mean about it, so...;)

By: wsg

wsg — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:18:40 -0800

If you search "theo jansen" it's there.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:30:18 -0800

Kind of cool stuff, after reading the post I was thinking of the guy from American Beauty who films the plastic bag in the wind but this far, far cooler. If he hasn't taken these to Burning Man yet then he really needs to make plans to go. Then again, so do I.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:22:46 -0800

Double post, but a beautiful one. Thanks for reminding me of this!

By: warhol

warhol — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:35:58 -0800

odd, I simply searched for "strandbeest" and found the hits. I did need to change the scope of the search from "the last year" to "since day one". Ah well. No biggie.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:17:55 -0800

Still nifty for those of us who were busy those days and missed the FPPs, tho. The sandcastle is dead, long live the Beestie!

By: geekhorde

geekhorde — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:47:13 -0800

I am so friggen tired of people calling out 'double post!' Seriously, it smacks of assholeshness. Cool post, whether I caught it in 2002 or not. Which I didn't. Thank you.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:51:10 -0800

cool, but creepy.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:46:33 -0800

that scene in american beauty tries too hard, simple vehicle or not

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:05:27 -0800

Ach... warhol ... er ... I guess I maybe should have had a look at that. :o/