Different sort of potential communication medium

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Different sort of potential communication medium

Postby dsteve54 » Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:14 pm

Kinetic sculpture. I just thought it would be of general interest as a different medium.

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Postby Slava » Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:37 pm

Don't know how I missed this one when it came out, but I've seen it now.

I loved the cool sand walkers. I'm rather less pleased that it turns out to be an ad for BMW.

I'm wondering, too, just what this is meant to "communicate." What does it mean?
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Postby Stargzer » Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:30 pm

Hey, someone has to pay for art!

I just wished he could have made a wind-powered walker that sifted the sand to remove the trash left by beachgoers, but then, that's just the practical side of me taking pot-shots at the artistic side.
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Kinetic sculpture

Postby Audiendus » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:02 am

Somebody ought to coin a specific word for these contraptions. "Kinetic sculpture" and "sand walker" aren't quite descriptive enough. Any suggestions?


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