My favorite place? Where science and art meet. This is pretty amazing:
More info is available (as well as his other works, which are pretty interesting in their own right) at the artist’s website. Watch the TED talk by Theo Jansen here (video with sound autoplays). There’s also a pretty good article on him in Wired from a couple of years ago.
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I want to go there and watch them! I love them. love.
This IS pretty fantastic. The movement reminds me of something our of a Miyazaki movie…like the moving house from Howl’s Moving Castle.