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...What’s most impressive is the range of expertise he brings to the creation of these micro-creatures??he uses structural design, fluid mechanics, automatic controls, microfabrication, and more,” McKay Professor of Engineering Robert D. Howe writes in an e-mail. “By drawing on all these disciplines, he can create sophisticated devices with astonishing performance...
...they have an uncanny resemblance to living creatures??the beak-like pincers, myriad appendage, rubber tubing tail—it’s no accident: next time he sees one of them, it’s drinking water from a river. For the rest of the video, the robot creatures track him through his bedroom, the London Underground, and onto a rooftop, eventually driving him insane...
This dramatic allegory of the encroaching threat of machines in society is what makes this video so fascinating. But what makes it perfect is, in this case, all on the surface. The creatures?? lifelike movement (right down to their loping gait) and seamless photorealism make them the scariest music video villains since those “Thriller” zombies...
...reality—and perhaps art itself.And though the Sackler’s exhibit is in essence a reflection of a reflection—a Western perspective on an Asian perspective on animal life—it shares the positive connotations of the painting. “Evocative Creatures?? gives viewers a window into the foreign world of centuries-old East Asia, a world perhaps as mysterious and faraway to many Cantabrigians as the painting’s moon is to its gibbons. “Animal Motifs” runs until June...
...tell them that you believe in demons—who are not only supernatural creatures, crouching in the underbrush of the soul, but malevolent supernatural creatures??and you will earn first disbelief, and then a stare contemptuous enough to freeze over hell, if such a place existed...