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OCD Moment: Animated subway ads
April 25, 2006 ( geek )
So, DC just installed animated subway ads. They look like bigscreen TVs on the walls of the tunnel that you watch while going past. Of course, this would in reality just look like a big blur. Coming home tonight we pulled to a stop by them, and they're just little vertical lines. It turns out that they're actually linear zoetropes, designed by an astrophysicist-turned-artist-turned-advertising entrepreneur, Josh Spodek. I'm not sure why I find this so interesting, but read through Spodek's page -- he certainly strikes me more as a geek and artist who stumbled upon a hugely valuable advertising scheme than, well, a slimy advertiser-type. I mean, the guy's an open-source software supporter.
He has patented his linear zoetrope, though. Prior art, I can only imagine, was a bit difficult.
Posted by griffjon at April 25, 2006 09:41 PM
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