A wonderful video from the folks at Toronto-based Type Books. If you love books, it’s quite worth the two minutes to check it out.
I think I spotted Jose Saramago and Umberto Eco on those parading bookshelves.
Maria Popova at BrainPickings.org adds a nice thought on the appeal of spot-motion videos –
“(One thing that’s always drawn me to stop-motion as a storytelling medium, particularly such labor-intensive executions, is the peculiar, paradoxical way in which it bends our relationship with time, at once compressing its scale and making its passage all the more palpable.)”
It’s a well-done, Fantasia-like bit of bookish fun:
