When looking at art, the rule of thumb is not to get too close, lest a no-nonsense guard shame you with a reprimand. In the case of Theo Jansen's strandbeests, it's important not to crowd around ...

Theo Jansen in front of one of his Strandbeests, Animaris Umerus (2009), on Scheveningen Beach, the Netherlands, in 2009 Credit: Loek van der Klis/Courtesy Theo Jansen On an empty stretch of beach ...

Theo Jansen wants to make "life" and he figures the best way to do it is to start from scratch. A self-styled god, Jansen is evolving an entirely new line of animals: immense multi-legged walking ...

DELFT, Netherlands — The famous wind-powered beach beasts have scuttled along the Dutch North Sea coast, into a swanky Miami art show and even onto “The Simpsons.” They now have a final resting place ...

If you could mash-up natural history with art, you'd probably find Theo Jansen would be close by. The 77-year-old Dutch artist has been mixing media and combining it with everyday objects since 1990 ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Reuters/CBS Newspath) - Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who designs gigantic skeletal sculptures that use wind power to crawl and fly, said he wants to make new forms of life. Jansen ...

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[Theo Jansen] is famous for his giant walking Strandbeest creations. They’re elegant, impressive, and powered by nature, and their walking mechanism is a thing of beauty. If you’ve ever wanted to ...

The 73-year-old artist's project was in part to "encounter .. the problems of the real Creator," he wrote on his website. This Dutch artist’s creations aren’t exactly alive, but seem to have a life of ...

The concept was inspired by the automatons of ancient Greece and the mechanical creatures known as Strandbeests of Dutch artist Theo Jansen. NASA has never sent a rover to Venus–for good reason. The ...