Flipbook Machine

Flipbook Machine The Flipbook Machine brings images to life through paper and mechanics. Flipping pages make these handmade sculptures live in real sound and space.

Creatures flit and flicker by to awaken the poetry of movement and inspire through nature and invention.

Designing, cutting, bending – and my favorite part – welding it all together. Take a look inside the studio to see how i...
08/11/2023

Designing, cutting, bending – and my favorite part – welding it all together. Take a look inside the studio to see how it all works, link in bio.

Views from the Flipbook Machine Studios. All of our works are handmade right here in Ridgewood, Queens.
11/10/2022

Views from the Flipbook Machine Studios. All of our works are handmade right here in Ridgewood, Queens.

06/07/2022

The goliath Atlas Moth easily soars by a gentle twist of the hand. ✨

06/02/2022

Happy throwback Thursday everyone! Here's one of the earliest flipbook machines I made after I invented it back in 2004. Made of image transfer drawings, vinyl records, and Victorian clock parts from the markets in East London. This machine was shown in the window of Riflemaker Gallery next to Piccadilly Circus in London in 2005. 📽

#2004

Check out this close-up of our purple-throated euphonia animation painted by my sister Sheila Fontanive! 🌿 ...
05/25/2022

Check out this close-up of our purple-throated euphonia animation painted by my sister Sheila Fontanive! 🌿

04/12/2022

“Machines…they kind of represent possibility. Machines for me became a type of language in my work where I could work with all the intricate details of how a machine functions but then also for a specific type of idea. And sometimes that’s just to facilitate a certain movement or sound or something like that.”

It's amazing what some little gears can inspire.
04/05/2022

It's amazing what some little gears can inspire.

04/04/2022

INTRODUCING...

~Hand-Crank Flipbooks~

Besides being a more affordable option, the new hand-crank allows you to thoroughly inspect each and every print and moment of the orange-barred sulphur's flight pattern!

For more information head on over to:
https://www.flipbookmachine.com/collections/hand-powered

02/14/2022

This is the Purple-Throated Euphonia, a song bird species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It's the latest edition available at flipbookmachine.com

12/17/2021

Colorthing -
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This is the process for how a piece called Colorthing was made. It was started first by making a physical armature model of a moth. I made the body from wood and the wings from cardstock. I machined and soldered brass ball hinges for the wings so they could move naturally. Connected to a flexible wire, the model was then animated in stop-motion style. After that, illustrations of each frame were painted with acrylics on paper. Then…. a long process … the paintings were screen printed in 4-color CMYK. In this video you can see the first stop-motion video, then the acrylic paintings, then the finished work. Phew…
Colorthing, 2016
                 

12/17/2021

With wings larger than human hands, the Attacus atlas is one of the biggest insects on the planet. A goliath homebody, this moth lives most of its life in the same tree, making it a particularly civilized giant. Renowned for exquisite wing markings, terracotta reds flow into soil and earth ochres, emblazoned with triangular windows bordered in black.
The Flipbook Machine brings images to life through paper and mechanics. Flipping pages make these handmade sculptures live in real sound and space. Creatures flit and flicker by to awaken the poetry of movement and inspire through nature and invention.

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