Day 26 - Flippin' Out!

As rain fell hard around our Dripping Springs home today, my daughter's thoughts turned inward...inside the house, to the DVD player. She loves movies in the rain. And since the deluge interrupted my Wimbeldon watching, I had no objections. She wanted 101 Dalmations -- a great old Disney flick. I still enjoy the Old Disney animation and I love the way every day-to-day item that Cruella De Vil uses appears evil -- her cigarette smoke, her car, even her phone just look delightfully devilish.

So after the movie, I asked Kate if she ever wondered how things were animated. She looked at me blankly. "You know, how drawings become active in a tv show or movie." She looked at me blankly. I began to wonder if she thinks that cartoons are real. I think I thought that, now that I think about it. Anyway, undeterred, I asked her if she'd like to see kind of a basic way of how cartoons are made. She said no. I countered -- "let's make a flip book!" Okay!!! She agreed.

So, I made one of my favorite old flip drawings...it can be found in just about every text book I ever had in college. It's two dots careening towards each other only to collide and evaporate into thin air. She loved it. She made one of her own of a rose blooming. At least she made like the first three drawings of it before she lost interest. But I loved the idea of a rose blooming -- a great flip book for sure and much better than crashing dots. Wish I were as creative as her. She also offered I could make one with a fish getting caught on a hook. She's good. I'm keeping her around.

If I can video these I will post them at some point. If you make a flip book of your own, comment and let me know what you did! They are such low cost fun.