Saturday, February 8, 2003

Pop goes the page. Pop-up and movable books is a partly interactive exhibition at the UNT Library, covering history, publishers and artists. You can move things around and lots of animated gifs demonstrate the 'movable picture books'. Another exhibition can be found at the University of Virginia: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection, with Quicktime 3D examples. Wonderful stuff. "Pop-ups, the generic name for mechanical, movable books, unfold and rise from the page to our surprise and delight. Through the use of rivets, flaps, tabs, folds, and cut paper, these books perform before our eyes. Each page becomes a stage, inviting action and participation. Here, physical transformations make dynamic the static illustrations. In the moment of touch, we, the operators, escape the mind and pop into the page." 1:31:58 PM     |

Public Transport. No comment. 'Irate' passengers stuck on Eurostar. Hundreds of passengers were trapped on a Eurostar train for five hours, after it broke down just minutes from Waterloo station. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 9:09:51 AM     |

Obelix, MobiliX, Masterix and Skrobelix. Astérix whups MobiliX. Reverse in Gaul legal brawl [The Register] "MobiliX, the Unix on mobile devices company, has suffered a legal setback in its dispute against the French publisher which owns the trademarks to the cartoon series Astérix the Gaul. Les Editions Albert René claims MobiliX is similar in name to Obelix, a character in Asterix the Gaul, and so infringes on its trademark." 8:59:31 AM     |