-:9th April 2011:- When staying with our lovely hosts in Ohio for Thanksgiving, amongst the shelves of inspiring books, I also found a pile of vintage flip books upon my bedside table. Dancers in full skirts, acrobats in harlequin outfits and I was reminded of the fascination of creating little stick-figure flip books as a child. Desipte their vintage look, there was discrete website address on the back: www.opticaltoys.com. The company is based in Vermont and has an impressive array of vintage optical toys. The site is creatively animated, suggestive of the whimsy of what they sell: Little pop up gardens, hand shadow cards, a phenakistascope (the earliest movie toy from the 1930s)…
Type of post
Follow: @InkQuillibrium
- The Worldbank Live live9.extcc.com via @WorldBank 2 months ago
- The Worldbank Live live9.extcc.com via @WorldBank 2 months ago
- @Edward_Gero just saw the most terrible Celia and Fidel at the arena - miserable return to theatre. My husband said… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 months ago
- Just posted a photo @ Nanyuki instagram.com/p/CQeIhUNhxvPM… 11 months ago
- Rosalind heads home. First leg of trip with sedate companions enjoying #AvianBusinessClass instagram.com/p/CI3Bax9Fs3p_… 1 year ago
- Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CGOHLjVFpHdI… 1 year ago