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And another year passed by
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Verdammt! Schon wieder ist ein Jahr rum und hier hat sich nichts getan. Die Dev-Version der neuen Site liegt auch schon seit 1,5 Jahren rum und wirkt nicht mehr richtig frisch...
Immerhin hab' ich mich entschlossen hier auf deutsch weiter zu machen - mit 'ner eigenen Englisch-Kategorie für einzelne Posts. Naja, hier wird sich dann aber so bald wohl nichts ändern. Ich rechne noch mit mindesten 3-6 Monaten bis hier endlich was passiert.
Hello again
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Busy busy busy ... I just notices... uhm... my last post is actually quite old. You know... busy and stuff todo... Aha - I hear you think.
But behold! I have been busy recreating the site, hope to be able to show it to you soon. Additionally, I am working on a very interesting thing at the moment. I'm bursting not to tell you.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I have not forgotten about this site.
Edit: damn... I still have this old design running... hope to update it soon... nothing new here to see
The Art of Creating Creatures
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First I had this video as an extension for another article on kinetic sculptures, but it is definitely worth an own article. The video below is about Theo Jansen. You might have seen his famous Strandbeest in a BMW spot some time ago.
Really facinating. If I got it right, he even made a heavy metal construction of it which seemed incredibly easy to move. True, quite odd to picture the image of passenger vehicles with a dozend legs underneath... but hey, if it's comfortable, efiicient and fun to ride.
Choe U Ram Mechanical art
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I got to know Chue U Ram with an article I stumbled across over at one of my favourite blogs engadget.com about some wicked piece of machinery (check out their video). In fact, these are kinetic sculptures. See below for a sample of his art:
U-Ram Choe's work engages a fanciful dialog of aesthetics and machinery, and explores themes of biological transformation, flight, and movement. In his recent work, large-scale metal and plastic automata materialize with such a delicacy and weightlessness that it seems to take on the shape and silhouette of an organic life form. Motors, heat and light sensitive materials add to the intricacy of Choe's kinetic sculptures (extract from Wikipedia Entry here).
As Usual, you find more links on the article page.
