The Strandbeest and the right to free creations
Strandbeest page is here.
http://www.strandbeest.com
I asked about the site on my vrhotwires discussion mailing list, and it got some debate going. I could feel the thread going so far off topic that I decided to blog out my thoughts.
So Carol said this morning:
Sob. The greatest danger to sealife is plastic in the water. These
beests are made of plastic tubes, lines, and films.
Jansen should keep his herds fenced in, clean up after them as they
disintegrate, and give them proper burials in trash heaps when they die.
To which I replied.
and christo land wrapping are just spread out garbage heaps...
its all evil!
the greatest danger to sealife is a mankind that has no imagination,
that doesnt dare to dream and so does things in ancient toxic ways...
ignore the typhoons! Buy another SUV!
here's a guy inventing a world where machines work with the elements
not against them. No exhaust pipe on these things...
He's trying to work inside nature...and I say go man go!
So then I pause to think a moment.
Hmmm maybe shes right.
I mean these things could hit the seas in no time.!
pollute the ecosytems like rabbits in australia...competing
with native species!
I can see such beasts that sail.
Messages in a bottle,
Floating and flapping around the world.
The message?
Kites can think.
Tumbleweeds drifting across the ocean.
They might have onboard gps to keep them away from coastlines,
And just exist in the deep water
Hmm
Holland where the strandbeest is emerging from (the web will make
Many artists head in this way...to copy the work is a great compliment) is
A place where for each person willing to think outside the box, there are
39 people to regulate him.
Carols worry for the beaches of Holland doesnt concern me much.
At least in terms of the original artist, but global tumbleweeds blowing
across the oceans should probably adhere to a no-plastic policy.
Bamboo and other decomposing materials are probably enough...
So other than pure art, are there other reasons that people would create
Animals and set them free into ecosystems?
Ive often dreamed of an unmanned sailboat that would just go back and forth
to needy places and deliver stuff from Vancouver harbour, where theres extra.
Remote control is so good now. Cell phone access and wifi are covering the
world. Machines that drive on their own and think are becoming possible.
Other machines could harvest and deliver useful things to their owners.
Like a boat that sailed around with solar panels and returned home when its
batteries were charged.The owner becomes like a yo yo master who sends
all these things out and hopes they come back charged...then sells charged
prius batteries off the dock next to the fishermen...