“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
WONDERFUL MUSIC! What a welcome change from the usual gritty, grotty, thumping, bumping, twanging, banging, howling, whining, stomping, stinking, unkempt, sweat-soaked celebration of unmitigated UGLINESS!
But the IMAGERY, of course, while ingenious, is profoundly unsettling.
By the way, if those remarkable anthropogenerated images "only" demonstrate the patterns and power of WIND, why do they strike us as eerie, monstrous and ultimately TERRIFYING?
Aside from the music, which I have already acknowledged as "wonderful," the video –– for which no illustrative ntroduction interpretation or scientific explanation was given –– creates a dstinctive aura of MENACE. I'd like to know more about the Artist-Creator's identity, background and intent.
On the Autonomous Partial Object from Zizek's "Pervert's Guide to Cinema"...
"The fascinating thing about partial objects, in the sense of organs without bodies, is that they embody what Freud called “death drive”. Here, we have to be very careful. Death drive is not kind of a Buddhist striving for annihilation. I want to find eternal peace. I want… No. Death drive is almost the opposite. Death drive is the dimension of what in the Stephen King-like horror fiction is called the dimension of the undead, of living dead, of something which remains alive even after it is dead. And it’s, in a way, immortal in its deadness itself. It goes on, insists. You can not destroy it. The more you cut it, the more it insists, it goes on. This dimension, of a kind of diabolical undeadness, is what partial objects are about.
OKAY, as always you've virtually forcd me to do my own research –– the price I must pay for your havung sparked my curiosity:
Theodorus Gerardus Jozef "Theo" Jansen ( born 14 March 1948) is a Dutch artist.
In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC able to move on their own and, collectively, entitled, Strandbeest.
The kinetic sculptures appear to walk. His animated works are intended to be a fusion of art and engineering. He has said that "The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds."
He strives to equip his creations with their own artificial intelligence so they may avoid obstacles such as the sea, by changing course when detected. _________________________
All that's fine and dandy, but then he goes on to say he hopes they will soon be able to develop a life –– and presumably a WILL –– of their own, and that eventually they will PROLIFERATE.
THAT'S where it gets truly FRIGHTENING.
We must never forget that GENIUS is akin to MADNESS.
This reminds me a bit of Jurassic Park. Believe it or not there really ARE biological scientists who really WOULD like to clone DINOSAURS from their DNA and bring them BACK to roam and ravage the earth one again.
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Doesnt anyone teach a good stiff series of courses on RAMIFICATIONS at places like MIT?
WONDERFUL MUSIC! What a welcome change from the usual gritty, grotty, thumping, bumping, twanging, banging, howling, whining, stomping, stinking, unkempt, sweat-soaked celebration of unmitigated UGLINESS!
ReplyDeleteBut the IMAGERY, of course, while ingenious, is profoundly unsettling.
I would not want to be anywhere near THAT beach.
Is there a POINT to this exercise?
Simply enjoying the "mechanics" of wind-power.
ReplyDeleteAs well as the potential of wind power.
ReplyDeleteWindpower: Fuel of the Future?
ReplyDeleteThe musical fruit
The more you eat
The more you toot.
Beans make wind,
So, direct the flow,
And you'll move faster
Wherever you go.
Beans help foster solitude
You'll soon be alone
After eating this food.
I knew a girl,
A terrible flirt,
The beans she ate
Tore a hole in her skirt.
Night time beans
Filled him with dread,
Because often the sheets
Blew right off his bed.
Beans beans!
Good for your heart
Eat more not less
For a roaring good start.
Back from Progress
You'll not be held.
Instead, your life will be
JET-PROPELLED!
~ FreeThinke
By the way, if those remarkable anthropogenerated images "only" demonstrate the patterns and power of WIND, why do they strike us as eerie, monstrous and ultimately TERRIFYING?
ReplyDeleteAside from the music, which I have already acknowledged as "wonderful," the video –– for which no illustrative ntroduction interpretation or scientific explanation was given –– creates a dstinctive aura of MENACE. I'd like to know more about the Artist-Creator's identity, background and intent.
? Because they're self-propelled?
ReplyDeleteMore on Theo Jansen, the artist.
On the Autonomous Partial Object from Zizek's "Pervert's Guide to Cinema"...
ReplyDelete"The fascinating thing about partial objects, in the sense of organs without bodies, is that they embody what Freud called “death drive”. Here, we have to be very careful. Death drive is not kind of a Buddhist striving for annihilation. I want to find eternal peace. I want… No. Death drive is almost the opposite. Death drive is the dimension of what in the Stephen King-like horror fiction is called the dimension of the undead, of living dead, of something which remains alive even after it is dead. And it’s, in a way, immortal in its deadness itself. It goes on, insists. You can not destroy it. The more you cut it, the more it insists, it goes on. This dimension, of a kind of diabolical undeadness, is what partial objects are about.
The "uncanny".
ReplyDeleteA lovely arrangement of Atumn in New York accompanies the second Standbeest video, but still nothin biograohical about the artist Theo Janson.
ReplyDeleteOKAY, as always you've virtually forcd me to do my own research –– the price I must pay for your havung sparked my curiosity:
ReplyDeleteTheodorus Gerardus Jozef "Theo" Jansen ( born 14 March 1948) is a Dutch artist.
In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC able to move on their own and, collectively, entitled, Strandbeest.
The kinetic sculptures appear to walk. His animated works are intended to be a fusion of art and engineering. He has said that "The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds."
He strives to equip his creations with their own artificial intelligence so they may avoid obstacles such as the sea, by changing course when detected.
_________________________
All that's fine and dandy, but then he goes on to say he hopes they will soon be able to develop a life –– and presumably a WILL –– of their own, and that eventually they will PROLIFERATE.
THAT'S where it gets truly FRIGHTENING.
We must never forget that GENIUS is akin to MADNESS.
This reminds me a bit of Jurassic Park. Believe it or not there really ARE biological scientists who really WOULD like to clone DINOSAURS from their DNA and bring them BACK to roam and ravage the earth one again.
}}}}}}}}}}}}}SHUDDER{{{{{{{{{{{{{
Doesnt anyone teach a good stiff series of courses on RAMIFICATIONS at places like MIT?
Believe me, they SHOULD.