#Pop-up books

[thepastisalreadywritten]

A book from the 19th century creating the impression of three-Dimensionality and spatial distance. 📖

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These are called Tunnel Books, which date all the way back to the mid-18th century, when they were originally called “peep shows.”

The concept was inspired by theatrical stage sets. Have you ever seen a live play with movable set pieces? If so, you may understand how they inspired tunnel books.

Where did the name “tunnel book” come from? Many of these types of books were created to celebrate the building of the tunnel under the Thames River in London in the mid-19th century. The name may have come from this.

Throughout history, tunnel books have often been used to commemorate certain events. They’ve also often been sold as souvenirs at tourist attractions.

[mudwerks]

(via Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera: Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978))

[slashingdisneypasta]

I think we need more pop up books. Very underrated! Horror movie moments that would make great, elaborate pop up features:

Jason jumping out of the lake at the end of F13.

Freddy's claw creeping up between Nancy's knees in the bathtub scene.

Michael sitting up after you thought he was killed.

Karen holding Chucky up and him going from Doll-Faced to Rage-Faced.

Bubba's mad chainsaw dance.

Chop Top, Drayton and Bubba all clumped together having that 'sex... or the saw' talk.

Tiffany's bubble bath scene!!

Candyman hovering above Helen.

Sheriff Hoyt using the hose (At the audience)

Pleasant Valley welcoming visitors under the Guts and Glory Jubilee banner.

Pinhead holding out his hand to you to show you such sights~

The red balloon hovering out of Pennywise's gutter.

Baby, Otis and Spaulding driving away all beat-up and bloody.

Norman appearing in the doorway with a knife in grandma clothes!!

Freddy and Jason staring eachother down in that burning building.

John Kramer standing up at the end of Saw.

Oh- and extra interactive features:

You can pull out Freddy's arms so they 'grow' in the scene where he's chasing Tina.

You can pull Bubba's door open and closed.

You can flip the mask off of Billy and Stu in the reveal scene.

You can tip the pigs blood bucket over Carrie's head (But also right it again and then close the book so nothing bad happens!! XDD)

Freddy might have a page where you can mix-and-match different costumes of his. Like you can give him his normal head, Super Freddy's top half and then Worm Freddy's bottom half. If you get what I mean?? Like those flip books.

Patricks business card would be detachable, of course (You'd take it outta his inside suit jacket pocket).

Oh!! A page full of newspapers you can flip open to articles like 'Chicago Mother Claims Childs Doll is Possessed', 'Krueger Released Free of Charges', 'Camp Crystal Lake Closed Down After String of Murders', etc.

You know those things where you turn a wheel inside a page and it changes part of the scenery? That, but you can change Jason's weapon (Machete, crossbow, bare hand, axe, pitch fork, saw, pickaxe, etc).

And- separate interactive Horror book idea: Leslie Vernon's book of Horror Trivia (With all due respect to Mr Ghostface), by Leslie Mancuso

[comicsmachine]

Hey Evanstonians and Chicagolanders! I'll be doing a meet-n-greet and book-signing for HERE COMES CHARLIE BROWN! A PEANUTS POP-UP from @abramsbooks at the great Bookends & Beginnings this Saturday, June 22, 11am-Noon! Hope to see you there!

[kt-turner]

Book Sculptures

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

The worst trauma comes from those who you love

[paulfc]

Pop-up book kirigami

Being the paper construction nerd that I am, I tend to differentiate between pop-up books and kirigami.

Usually pop-up books are opened to 180 degrees (i.e. flat) to make them work and on the whole kirigami is opened to 90 degrees, so if it is in a book you have to hold the page at 90 degrees to look at it and cannot just leave it open on the desk.

The other day it occurred to me that you can in pop-up raise a plane at ninety degrees and that this plane can raise a piece of kirigami, and it seems to work quite nicely, so making a kirigami pop-up book that could just sit is relatively easy.

Being true to my nerd nature pop-up books tend to open with the central valley perpendicular to the viewer while if displaying kirigami as above it is viewed from the end.

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

I was watching a webinar the other day in which an author referred to an Edward Gorey book I’d never heard of before as “the first horror story I ever read.” I was curious enough to see if I could learn more about The Dwindling Party, and then I discovered why it’s hard to find now … it’s a pop-up book! Here’s a video that shows us what the book looks like, so you can see the party getting smaller one by one!

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[doctorslippery]

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That is both awesome and pretty fucked up.

[thatwritererinoriordan]

In the Holly Jolly North Pole: A Pop-Up Adventure

[jmstater]

When STAR WARS really POPPED!

Before VR headsets and other such modern falderal, we got our 3-D fix through the engineering magic of pop-up books.

Tune in to Dad's Den for a look through the Star Wars Trilogy in pop-up form!

[dakeus-art]

I'm having fun making pop ups lately

[cheaptaxidermy]

micheal pop up !!

[comicsmachine]

The latest episode of It's a Podcast, Charlie Brown features a lengthy interview with me concerning, what else, HERE COMES CHARLIE BROWN! A PEANUTS POP-UP. My thanks to host Bill Pepper for the invite and the thoughtful questions and conversation.

[book0ftheday]

The Human Body by Jonathan Miller and Jeremy Cox, designed by David Pelham, illustrated by Harry Willock, paper engineering by Vic Duppa-Whyte and David Rosendale. Published in 1983 by Dark Horse Productions and The Viking Press.