READINGS
Bazin talks about how creating an image is no longer done for the sole purpose of survival after death. It has grown into, as Bazin puts it, "Creation of an ideal world in the likeliness of the real". This was a tendency formed as early as when Leonardo DaVinci invented the Camera Obscura. Images are created for reasons both aesthetic and psychological. Bazin also discusses the mediums of painting and photography. He didn't like the realist art movement as it tried too hard to be accurate, and therefore felt that photography got painting back on track, for it allowed painters to stop trying to create perfect accuracy (since photos could do that easily) and instead allow them to move towards more traditional art objectives.
In "Persistence of Vision", Stephen Herbert questions the traditional theories behind perception of movement in films. This perception is in no way related to persistence as one might think (according to Herbert). Film needs to display 10 frames a second to create the illusion of motion. Flickering will ruin this illusion. Also, by slightly differing the pictures, "movement" is created.
FLIPBOOK
For my flipbook, I did a stick figure running with a day progressing around him. The sun goes up and down, and then the moon follows. I'm not a very artistic person, but I did a simple piece to make a statement. I tried to bring to light how we're always moving, and rarely stop to just enjoy our day. Notice how in the 24 hour cycle, the stick figure never stops running, and never really even breaks pace. The flipbook contained slides such as the following:
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