I love flipbooks and own several of them, mainly Fliptomania books. I saw this “Flip Book Fan: A Breezy Little Book” published by Chronicle Books in Amazon and thought it was quite funny, so I ordered it. The book measures approximately 4.5 x 3 x 0.5 inches, so it’s is bigger than the 4 x 2 inch Fliptomania books. The web page states that there are 112 pages, but there are only 56 because the pictures are just on one side. The fan appears to spin/oscillate as you flip through the pages, looking like a real moving fan. Also, the flipbook moves a bit of air while you’re “fanning” through the pages, so you could actually use it to cool yourself down a bit. So, it’s funny … and functional!
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You can almost hear the fan whirring as you spin through the 55 pages of this oversized flip book (see pic for height, length and width size comparison to standard flipbooks). Flip fast, and you imagine a super-heated day with a fan blowing at full power. Flip slow, and you picture a lazy summer day with a fan providing more sound than fury. Although many flip books tell a story, I liked the way artist Gail Borchert used an everyday, utilitarian object to highlight movement through still pictures. Fans, like wheels on a car, are like real-life flipbooks. When they move slow, you can see every single spoke or blade. When they move fast, their individual parts become a blur, but at some point in the rotation of a fan, the blades actually seem to be still, while fast-moving wheels on a car seem to be rotating backwards. This flipbook both plays off the idea of fans as a real time flipbook, as well as highlights their movement-defying properties. A smartly executed piece of work.
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You can almost hear the fan whirring as you spin through the 55 pages of this oversized flip book (see pic for height, length and width size comparison to standard flipbooks). Flip fast, and you imagine a super-heated day with a fan blowing at full power. Flip slow, and you picture a lazy summer day with a fan providing more sound than fury.
Although many flip books tell a story, I liked the way artist Gail Borchert used an everyday, utilitarian object to highlight movement through still pictures. Fans, like wheels on a car, are like real-life flipbooks. When they move slow, you can see every single spoke or blade. When they move fast, their individual parts become a blur, but at some point in the rotation of a fan, the blades actually seem to be still, while fast-moving wheels on a car seem to be rotating backwards.
This flipbook both plays off the idea of fans as a real time flipbook, as well as highlights their movement-defying properties. A smartly executed piece of work.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2017
