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www.ted.com Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move — and even survive — on their own.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives www.facebook.com
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24 Responses to Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures
Wow, you’ve got to be trolling me. Goodbye.
P.S. Read a biology textbook.
The structure in a human body is simple, ancient and repeating: Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Calcium and Nitrogen. So please YOU stop. But you are right in that it’s comparing a blank canvas to the Mona Lisa. So, what really is a good description of Life? The more you entrench yourself in what you said before, the sillier you sound. Rethink and research, thank you and bye.
Comparing a crystal to a human body, in this context, is like comparing a blank canvas to the Mona Lisa. A crystalline structure is simple, ancient, and repeating, while a living organism is vastly more complicated.
So in other words, just stop. Please. Crystals aren’t alive.
And what is a human body but organized molecular structure?
There is a TED talk regarding seeking life in space and what it takes to distinguish life from non-life. You should listen to it. Also do a quick reference search online, dude, focusing on the properties of crystals. Buy some crystals from some hippie shack and stick them in the water, watch them grow.
Crystals are organized molecular structures, not living organisms. They do none of those 3 things.
Robotics
You mean like crystals? Crystals do those 3 of 3 things.
In another video he says “what I found about this experience of making new forms of life is that you discover all the problems that the real creator must have had creating this world”. Remember as his creations and others creations change and evolve, it is because of their creators own work, in this case the creator is Theo Jansen.
In other videos he says that what he feels when he sees these creatures is sort of like what “I believe the almighty creator must feel when he sees us”. Just saying.
Because he has a passion for what he does. I think he has found more love for these creations than most people find in their families of spouse. If there is a god, I can only hope he felt as passionate towards his creations.
LIES AND SLANDER!
This man is a genius!
yes it is.
i think he sees his strandbeests as living creatures. if he didn’t love them so much, he might not spend so much time creating them (or possibly vice verse). so it makes a sort of intuitive sense to me. (but i think he’s a brilliant engineer too. but i think he’s also an artist whose mind wants to be playful.)
The jellyfish has living cells in it, no?
Odd how he’s calling them “Animals.” I can see where he’s coming from, but kinda odd…
“By WHAT definition are these alive?”
By what definition are you alive? You’re an autonomous agent. Your brain reacts to stimuli and keeps some state information that also allows internally driven movement, much like these things. You’re just a more complicated physical system. The biggest difference is probably that these things aren’t replicators in any way, shape or form.
By the definition of :figurative” and poetic license. Not only this a jelly fish just survives for its own sake, having no greater purpose, and we call it alive. So I guess these are alive from a few points of view.
I see this was not a particularly original comment. Carry on.
Define alive.
Banned TED Talk /watch?v=N1b_Q1lprAk
And how may I ask, that it’s an insult to call him an artist?
We can pretend it is..
That would depend on your personal definition of the word.