Theo Jansen creates new creatures
In this video Theo Jansen shows off his crazy sculptures constructed of plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. They are "creatures" that are designed to move...and even to survive on their own. His awkwardness and the strangeness of his creation give the video a humorous tone. This draws in his audiences' interest, although that wouldn't take much effort given the topic. He also uses some demonstrative videos that include a narrator that describes the creatures like they would a new species that’s been discovered on the discovery channel. This adds to the humor, and further draws in the audience. To make his creatures move he uses various systems that are designed to run on wind, to be able to tell when to turn back from water (these things are designed to survive on a beach), and to even drive a pike into the ground when storms are coming. I would like to remind you, these things are solely constructed of plastic tubes and lemonade bottles! I would think that the purpose of the video is just to demonstrate something that is mind blowing. He doesn't go very in-depth into how it works, and what he does explain he seems to put into language that the average person would understand, such as when he describes the leg mechanisms. He compares them to bike wheels, which have difficulty going through sand, whereas the design he came up with can maneuver easily across the difficult terrain. Even after he explained the "brain" and the "nose" of his design, I still don't fully understand how it is possible without wires and microchips. What he designed is practically a robot without using any sort of computer. For me that is mind blowing, so I think that Jansen fulfilled his purpose, which was to amaze his audience, or at least give them something to think about.
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