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11 JANUARY, 2012

The Joy of Books: A Stop-Motion Rainbow Intervention

A husband-and-wife duo’s imaginative stop-motion reconfiguration of the bookshelves in Toronto’s Type bookstore.

01 DECEMBER, 2011

Lovely Stop-Motion Book Trailers for Stiefvater’s Fantasy Trilogy

Cut-paper werewolves and newspaper fairies, oh my.

20 OCTOBER, 2011

Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles

An absolutely delightful cinematic collaboration between celebrated director Spike Jonze and embroidery goddess Olympia Le-Tan, celebrating books and romance.

08 JULY, 2011

Polymorphic Computing, Explained in Vintage Stop-Motion (1959)

Stop-motion animation about polymorphic computing from 1959, presaging everything from parallel processing to P2P filesharing to cloud computing to the very architecture of the Internet.