A while ago, we posted an YouTube video of artist Theo Jansen’s astonishing Strandbeests, the huge, mechanical walking beests made of PVC pipe that are propelled by the wind. Jansen considers to himself to be grappling with a new form of life. In this video, he talks about the reproduction of the Strandbeests, and echoes…
Read Moretoast spoons and the (r)evolutionary process
When Consilientist | Futurist Stuart Dambrot alerted us to Norwegian designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen’s toast spoons, we were totally smitten. We envisioned them brushed with olive oil and a cut clove of garlic, to eat our soup/stew/eggs with. Then we realized that they were part of a bigger study, of the idea that “Like the fascintating species of nature…
Read Morerobo-rainbow: cool video, via chance encounter
robo-rainbow from mudlevel on Vimeo. We missed the cross-town bus and shared a taxi with a stranger as much in a hurry as we were. He turned out to be a “Consilientist | Futurist” his mind going places we can’t imagine, like: “Consilience is, after its use by biologist E.O.Wilson in his book of the…
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