The beguiling strandbeest

I ran across this the other day in a piece about how “nothing is really alive.” I guess that’s debatable, but this clip is strangely moving because these man-made creatures display all the characteristics of life — including confusion and frustration. They’re not inanimate, yet they’re not exactly animate either because they require a man to pull them along the strand.

The music is perfect, Khachaturian’s “Spartacus.”

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