Happy Halloween!
Behold, Bena Currin’s pumpkin zoetrope (featuring a Little Green Man from Toy Story).
The above animated gif by Jason Hull shows the zoetrope in action really well. I love the uneven quality of the pumpkin’s surface, and the fact that it’s illuminated from the inside.
Welcome.
This is where I post findings related to my research on optical toys, media historiography, toys in general, play theory, cultures of childhood, and other related discoveries. Feel free to take a look around, and to share your own observations and findings.-
Recent Posts
Links
- Down to the Cellar
- Jack and Beverly's Optical Toy Collection
- Look with your Eyes
- Material World
- Muy Blog
- Playscapes
- Projections Project: Beijing
- Rebecca Onion
- Stereoscopic Media
- Strong National Museum of Play
- The Richard Balzer Collection
- Thomas Weynants' Early Visual Media Site
- Underwater Media
- We Love You So
- Within a Side
- Wooster Collective
- Workspace Media
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Recent Posts
- Notes from Orphans 8
- Jodie Mack’s Round and Round – Phenakistoscope Phun
- EDF Energy Zoetrope
- Pizzoetrope
- Tony Osborn, The Puzzling Unplanned City Zoetrope Machine
- Happy birthday, Eadweard Muybridge!
- Article in Early Popular Visual Culture
- Coca-Cola’s Virtual Thaumatrope
- Dain Fagerholm’s Stereoscopic Drawings
- Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium
Links
- Down to the Cellar
- Jack and Beverly's Optical Toy Collection
- Look with your Eyes
- Material World
- Muy Blog
- Playscapes
- Projections Project: Beijing
- Rebecca Onion
- Stereoscopic Media
- Strong National Museum of Play
- The Richard Balzer Collection
- Thomas Weynants' Early Visual Media Site
- Underwater Media
- We Love You So
- Within a Side
- Wooster Collective
- Workspace Media
