2004-2005
Hot Shoe Salon, March 12-13
455 N. Ferro Ave, Tucson
Also shown at
2004 Bay Area Book Arts Jam
Flipbooks are usually seen as simply amusements, but the format offers
interesting opportunities. Held in the hand, they can be inspected carefully
at close range. As you would pick up a stone on a trail and turn it over
in your hands, a flipbook invites you for a closer look by its scale and
its availability to touch and manipulate its pages. By giving the viewer
control over the “playing” of the motion shown, the book gives
the opportunity to slow, stop, break down, and replay that motion in a
way that is impossible in other time-based arts.
I have been making flipbooks for several years, and have refined my process
into a format that works well. I begin by recording video of motion in
the landscape: water rippling, clouds forming, trees swaying. I download
the video onto my computer, where I edit the scenes down to 2-second clips.
Each clip contains 60 still frames, which I extract, process in PhotoShop,
and layout in a 6-page document. The pages are printed on soft-gloss paper
on a color laser printer, and I cut each page into ten flipbook pages.
I collate the pages, and bind them with a metal clip. Each completed book
is 2” high by 3.5” wide and fits in the palm of your hand.
About the Book Arts Jam
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cottonwood tree's leaves flutter in the wind.
Seventy flipbooks (14 editions
of five each) which I will show at the Book Arts Jam.
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