Vintage mechanical trade cards

Mechanical Trade Card for Dreamland,Coney Island, ca.1900

Here you can discover a lot of different simple motions on old trade cards with his nostalgic design. The GIF pictures with his mostly two situations let us better understand the movements. See some mechanical cards from the collection of Ben Crane:
http://www.tradecards.com/scrapbook/mechanical/mechanical.html

Greets to Kyle Olmon ! You can find there a very similar card to your Valentine Chalkboard Girl you published on Febr.10, see here:
http://www.tradecards.com/scrapbook/mechanical/136.49.html

And here a part of the collection of Rene Servat(FR), see this funny sample of the vacuum cleaner L'aspirateur LUX, which movement gives back the lucent colours of the wallpaper! :
http://servat.rene.free.fr/figurine.htm (Click the title)

And here a part from an italian blog "Il favoloso mondo di carta di Toto".
http://ilfavolosomondodicartaditoto.blogspot.com/search/label/Mechanical%20Picture

Collection of Pop-ups Pops-up!

A spectacular secret stash of movable books by Corrie Allegro and his wife in Victoria, Australia is definitely worth checking out. Many exceptional examples dating from the 19th Century, along with a nice overview of the movable book development through the centuries.

Neue Thierbilder, Meggendorfer, Braun und Schneiderin, Munich, 1894

From their site: The Allegro Movable Book Collection is Australia's largest and most comprehensive collection of movable and pop-up books covering over 300 years of published history. Corrie Allegro is releasing books from this collection to the public, collectors and institutions. This book site will contain articles, news and related links to the genre of 'movable' books. Simply click on the headings above and browse the various stories and articles on movable books. Articles will be added regularly so don't forget to scroll down the lists.

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People Too (RU)

Behind People Too we find the 2 russian paper artists Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich, based in Novosibirsk (I wrote about them earlier). Thanks to the Blog of
the Museo Los Gurruminos: Papel y Arte (click the title). There you can find 3 links, one related to the Behance Network with a great picture pool: http://www.behance.net/peopletoo

Walter Ruffler on TV

"Bremer Stadtmusikanten", sand driven paper automaton, Walter Ruffler (c)

On the occasion of Walter Rufflers new exhibition "Papier in Bewegung" at Deutsches Zeitungsmuseum, Wadgassen, near Saarbrücken(DE) you can see this 3.25 TV-Movie from german TV SR. You will have the rare occasion to see Walter Ruffler with his paper machines in motion, but this podcast is time-limited (maybe 3 weeks accessable). Now the path:

http://sr-mediathek.sr-online.de/?id=2

Go to "aktueller bericht: 8.3.2011", scrolling at the right side

Click in the window and you get a content list

Click the entry "Ausstellung: Pop up"

Voila, enjoy it (best view with fullscreen) !

Papercraft 2 will release in march 2011

After the famous first book 'Papercraft' we get a new continuing book with the finest papercraft all over the world (see the Gestalten publishers note clicking the title),
including a DVD with a collection of papercraft related videos.
Thanks to the blog http://strictlypaper.com/blog/

Papercraft 2 - Book Teaser Video from Gestalten on Vimeo.

Free Toy Friday: Bouru

This week's free papertoy is Bouru! A collaboration between myself and illustrator and cartoonist Sam Garcia. You can download it from my site here. Enjoy!

Roadside Projects Shadow Box Kit

We've posted Jayme McGowan's awesome cut paper work here before and now she has a new little craft kit so you can join in the fun.This Shadow Box kit comes with everything you need to build this whimsical piece, wood, paper, instructions, everything. Even extra stuff to customize your shadow box. What a cool idea grab a set here from Jayme's Etsy store!