Do you like the amazing Scanimation technology that brings the best-selling children’s books Gallop! (100 Scope Notes Review) and Swing! to life? Have you been looking for a way to fill approximately one minute today? You’re in luck, friend. Click the image below to try Scanimation for yourself:
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February 25, 2009 at 11:00 am
Emily
I think I would have been pretty mesmerized by this as a child. Hey, I’m pretty mesmerized now. There’s a portion of the subway tunnel in NYC (on the Q line, near the Dekalb stop for any New Yorkers out there) that has a similar thing set up with shapes painted on a wall behind a slatted barrier – when you go through not too slow and not too fast, its very cool. I ride that line all the time, but only recently noticed it – I’m not sure if its new or if I was just never looking the right way at the right moment before.
February 26, 2009 at 12:16 am
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I would love to see that subway tunnel! Always a good thing when you can mix children’s lit (kind of) and public transit. You know of any pictures?
December 18, 2009 at 12:42 pm
lasalebete
This is a cool little experiment!
The piece along the Q train is Bill Brand’s Masstransiscope. It was made in the 80s and only recently restored.
http://www.bboptics.com/masstransiscope.html
Apparently he was more inspired by the zoetrope, though the principles of scanimation seem to work really similarly.