Video of the Week: The Joy of Books

by tylershores on January 18, 2012

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:

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