genealogy room: via Boing Boing, a service that maps the prevalence and distribution of one’s family name
the plot thickens: a 1919 screenwriters’ resource of ten million photoplay expositional combinations
die roboter: elementary school class in Mainz perform Kraftwerk
your brain on drugs: testing the web-spinning capabilities of spiders under the influence was an abortive forensics ploy for drug-testing
lowered-expectations: due to a profound lack of same-species mates, the coywolf is emerging
Friday, 30 October 2015
5x5
catagories: ⚕️, ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ช️, ๐ฌ, ๐ถ, ๐ฌ, environment, Rheinland-Pfalz
extracurricular or rolling-stock
Thursday, 29 October 2015
smรฅl, smol
persistence of vision
The splendiferous Nag on the Lake directs our attention to a lovingly curated gallery of mesmerizing phenakistoscope animations, whose looping effect (and themes, perhaps) are not much different than what’s produced by GIFs (which I have been kind of obsessed with lately).
Debuting in the early 1830s, the invention of Belgian Joseph Plateau but with several other independent animateurs promoting their own spectacles, the phenakistoscope spread quickly across Europe, the engaged audiences viewing a spinning disk through a series of tiny slits to achieve the illusion of motion. Until opticians devised techniques of projection—which saw an explosion in phantasmagoria with similarly prefixed motion picture devices—spectators had the Greek root ฯฮตฮฝฮฑฮบฮนฮถฮตฮนฮฝ, which meant deceptive. I hadn’t thought about it beforehand but the German term for an animated feature is “Trickfilm.”