Backing away from a rooster

August 2, 2003 10:37 AM

Zoom!A nice series of images for a summer weekend. (Via Avva.)
posted by languagehat (17 comments total)

[this is good]
posted by machaus at 10:44 AM on August 2, 2003

Cool, thanks 'Hat.
posted by dhoyt at 10:52 AM on August 2, 2003

Pretty cool. Thanks!
posted by riffola at 10:54 AM on August 2, 2003

Very nice but I think the chain got lost in the last three images. Of course, I also almost always need to find something to complain about so boo hoo for me.
posted by billsaysthis at 10:56 AM on August 2, 2003

Was this scanned from something? I notice a distinct highlight on the left...
posted by jpburns at 11:04 AM on August 2, 2003

Nice link. Thanks.
posted by ginz at 11:06 AM on August 2, 2003

It's from a book, I think. Some corporate improv comedy troupe in Detroit uses it (or used to) for one of their skits; one of my miscellaneous jobs in the late '90s was scanning slides of these images and converting them to PowerPoint so they wouldn't need a slide projector anymore.
posted by kindall at 11:25 AM on August 2, 2003

The book.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 11:38 AM on August 2, 2003

great link! but where's the animation?
posted by poopy at 12:02 PM on August 2, 2003

It's quite a nice book, too. Not only are those images in the links scans, they're pretty bad ones: besides the highlighting the images are vertically compressed a good 20% or so. And since it's crisp line art the jpegging isn't doing it any favors either.

Which isn't to knock the link, but to say that if you do like the art there, you may really want to check out the book it comes from. It's an attractive production.
posted by furiousthought at 12:09 PM on August 2, 2003

Great stuff. Thanks.
posted by Fat Buddha at 1:14 PM on August 2, 2003

Video along similar lines. (realplayer, sorry)

...and of course, the daddy, Powers of Ten.
posted by inpHilltr8r at 2:16 PM on August 2, 2003

when i got to the end i tried to think back to the beginning and my brain went all fuzzy.
posted by carfilhiot at 3:45 PM on August 2, 2003

Marvelous. I'm ordering the books.
Istvan Banyai's site here. (warning: sound)
posted by 111 at 6:17 PM on August 2, 2003

Makes me think of Powers Of Ten.
posted by ukamikanasi at 11:28 PM on August 2, 2003

Nickeledon animated short of Zoom.
posted by mortisimo at 2:10 AM on August 3, 2003

very cool illustrations, languagehat - thanks! Nice summer imagery indeed.
posted by madamjujujive at 9:09 AM on August 3, 2003