Vale Fine Art, 619 12th Street, Paso Robles
A collaborative exhibition with original photography by Wendy Marvel, Felicia Michaels, Natalie Gamble. Also featuring Mechanical Flipbooks by Mark Arnon Rosen and Wendy Marvel.
Exhibiting through January 25th
This month we’ve been busy building out our flipbookits. Like so many of the other kit ingredients, the flipcards have gone through an evolutionary process as we involved our vendors and their respective expert teams.
Collaborations with Wendy Marvel
featuring artists Mark Arnon Rosen, Natalie Gamble and Felicia Michaels
Opening Reception: December 1, 2012
Vale Fine Art
619 12th Street, Paso Robles, CA
Fluttering images dance their way through a hypnotic story: what do we look for—and find—in mechanized visual narratives? (“Mechanical Flipbooks,” with Mark Arnon Rosen)
Female butchers with the heads of foxes lurk in a Louisiana swamp, their simian-faced sisters lounge seductively in a New Orleans brothel, and, at the Salton Sea, a trio of anxious bunny women sweat it out under the blistering sun. How does a mask change how we think about female objectification, subjectivity and power? (with Felicia Michaels and Natalie Gamble)
Here’s a photo of the SLA spindle mounted in the latest flipbookit housing.
The box design has been tuned up to accommodate a new motor, new bushings, a bottom hole for a wooden handle, updated materials and a hole for an optional toggle switch (for motorized units), and notches for position sensors (for smart-duino combo-boxes).
That was a mouthful!
Dear Kickstarters,
Now that the funding for Flipbookit is over, we wanted to make sure you know how grateful we are to you. For all flipbookit backers that pledged for any flipbookit variation, we’ve included an extra spindle in every flipbookit reward unit.
That means if you got a 3-pack, you’ll get three extra spindle assemblies.
Each spindle assembly is a $15 value!
You will be able to store an extra animation on each spindle for special occasions.
So to our dear backers,
THANK YOU!
Mark, Wendy and Steve
So, I told Wendy to add some levity to that Jumping Bones animation.
Here’s what she came up with!
Here’s the first of many animations to be available for Flipbookit supporters.
“Jumping Bones” will be a downloadable flipbookit animation template.
Stay tuned for more!
We showed a few of our mechanical flipbook series this month at the Motion Picture & Television Fund “REEL STORIES REAL LIVES” exhibit.
This photo is the latest revision of prototype, and it also happens to be one of the prototypes that was demoed at the NY Makerfaire last week. This one was the cleanest, but they all survived the show (kid testing and all). We tidied it up and brought it over to Patrick Posta, our ace photographer and friend.
At this point, this flipbookit is the nearest to what we expect the production units will look like. The boxes are NOT made of metal (even though the shiny spray-painted prototype on the home page looks like it). They are made with a rigid cardboard called e-flute that is laminated with a book-binders cover (just like an old camera or hard-copy book). This may not be the final exterior finish, but it’s close — and we do like it!
