by Matthew Cobb
Great video from Type bookstore in Toronto. Do any readers know the shop?
h/t @sophiescott
What the books get up to at night
January 10, 2012 • 3:30 pm
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If you liked that video, you will probably like this one:
http://bit.ly/yFrfIN
Not what I expected at all. I expected the war histories to march, the children’s boks to play, the wargame books to go to the computer, the cookbooks to go out back for a fry-up, and the sex books….
That was fun…
I’ve done some stop motion anaimation back in super-8mm days. Do you realize how much work and time is involved in doing that short and fairly simple video?
Exactly what I said to my wife, “What a huge amount of work!”
Genius work!
Man, are the owners gonna be pissed when they find out why the electric bill is so high in that place…
Yes indeed. It’s a good store!
This reminds me very much of a few of the early Warner Brothers cartoons that had “books come to life” themes. Have You Got Any Castles? (1938), Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939) and Book Revue (1946). There may have been others, but thos are the ones that first come to mind.
Incredible! It seams like it would take a lifetime to put together this animation.
That’s a really well-choreographed video.
I do know the shop. My wife and I frequent the park across the street, known for the albino squirrel population. Type is a great indie store, full of interesting picks and stacks of new books. The neon chandelier in the window has been there since the beginning, if I recall.
Too bad I live nowhere near Toronto.
Oh, yes!
Small independent bookstores in Toronto are becoming a rarety, but this place is a classic. In the 80’s could you walk down Queen Street West and pass 20 bookstores but high rents and less readers did them in.
Jerry, hope you come to Hogtown sometime in the near future. It would be great to see you speak live. I became a fan and a Gnu Atheist after I watched you on Television Ontario a number of years back.
Cheers!
Probably the same TVO show that send me over to Jerrys web site. I was well on the road to atheism but did not realize how many fellow travellers were out there.
Ditto on the request for a Toronto appearance. I’m sure CFI Ontario would be interested in having Prof. Coyne as a speaker.
The books in my house are always being rearranged. Might have something to do with 2 kittehs channeling their inner librarian…
My apologies to Matthew, saw this post half-awake this morning and thought it was Jerry. Very cool, none-the-less.
Cheers!
Jerry, you didn’t think that was real like the card trick, did you? 😉