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Found this over on the Makezine blog. It’s from an artist named Charlie Visnic and his site called The B-Roll: One Creative Thing A Day.

Recent projects have include Thomas Allen-inspired sci-fi pop-up book cover art, a praxinoscope made from old cigarette packs, a sculpture of a half octopus/half orca, cold cathode light painting, analog modular synth patches, interview profiles with interesting people I meet, and a random assortment of other mixed media art projects.

This one is called a “3D Zoetrope” – and while it’s not really 3D it is fucking cool.

Pretty neat, huh? In this age of the hidden magic of digital tech it’s refreshing to see analog works that thrive as much on their process as they do on their content.

I’ve always been in love with flipbooks, zoetropes, praxinoscopes and any other simple gadgetry that creates the illusion of movement and life ever since I first started drawing little airplanes in the corners of my math text book, making them swoop down and bomb the crap out of the page numbers. I like how Visnic employed the music from the record player as part of the apparatus – brilliant stuff. Someday I’ll cobble together my own old ideas for a gallery show of kinetic sculptures, photos and sketches that merges everyday mechanical objects with pathetically dumb visual gags – someday.

But right now I go draw some airplanes on a pad of post-it notes.

Cheers.