Wednesday, July 20, 2016

A Feast of Beasts

One more batch of beasts! First, some sketches from the lovely Lindsay Wildlife Experience in Walnut Creek, which I visited with my buddies from the SF Sketchers meetup group.


A couple of weeks later, we went on another sketching outing to San Francisco's world-famous Exploratorium to document an exhibition of Theo Jansen's curious wind-powered "Strandbeests".


Jansen's whimsical premise is that the Strandbeests are living creatures that evolve over the generations, so naturally I had to record the genealogy chart on the wall of the exhibit.


 There was also a demonstration of Scott Parenteau's human-operated Tinspider, complete with atmospheric artificial fog.


The evening culminated in the reanimation of a huge "extinct" Strandbeest. It honestly did feel a little bit occult!


And here's one last beast for the road, courtesy of the Academy of Sciences.

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