Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests Roam the Northeast

(slow music plays)

My name is Dale Yompson and since 1990

I have been making

new forms of life. They re called Strandbeests.

They re metal forms of life.

Every spring I bring a new animal to the beach

and then I do the whole summer trying to

fix them with the wind and all the sand and in the fall I

declare the animal extinct and it goes to the bone yard and

then with the knowledge I gained in the summer, I start

building a new beest. Looking at Strandbeests you see more

than an animal but also something mechanical.

And that does a lot for seeing into people s minds, making

them smile somehow. I am going to make a new species

on Earth so why not give the planet

a new species to manifest.

(light pipe music)