| ChronOpsis flipbooks are carefully hand-assembled one-by-one and arrive at your mail box complete and independently functional. No further power source, accessory procurement, installation, systems testing, engineering or compatibility testing is required. | ||
| TO BEGIN: turn off, unplug, or otherwise disable tele-vision(s), video cassette recorder(s), electric eyes, "imitated-reality" viewing devices, and any other digital or analog image-producing machines that could distract, interfere with and/or otherwise dull one's visual acuity and imagination. | ||
| LIGHTING: ChronOpsis cannot guarantee satisfaction when flipbooks are viewed under high-intensity arc lamps, greasy shop "trouble" lights, or emergency key-ring L.E.D.s. Most frustrating (and potentially injurious) to the anxious flipbook viewer will be the popular "strobe" lights as found in contemporary discotheques. After extensive testing at the ChronOpsis phenakistoscopic environment laboratory, parrafin and/or beeswax-fueled light sources ("candles") have been proven to excel in providing the ideal, light-limited, acutance-buffered situation for maximum retinal "after-image" effect. We recommend unscented. | ||
| VIEWING: Gently grasp the flipbook with left hand, thumb positioned in the convenient space allotted between the brass or steel screw-heads, left fore-finger underneath. Grasp right ("business") end in similar fashion, positioning right thumb against the outer edges of flipbook pages. Slowly rotate left wrist to gently bend spine of flipbook away from yourself while maintaining right thumb position, allowing pages to "flip" by from front to back, creating a pleasant illusion of motion due to your slow retina-to-brain transmission. Best results may be had by slightly rolling right thumb in opposition to left hand movement, smoothing out animation to a most simulacrous effect. NOTE: the original engineer of the ChronOpsis flipbook line, a stubborn, old geezer biased towards the dexterous (Latin dexter, right-hand), designed the flipbooks such that the left hand provides a relatively passive role, the much more glamorous flipping function reserved for the spoiled, overrated right hand. The retrous and others so creatively inclined may discover their own methods of operation, leading to liberation of the left hand and possible nauseating side effects from upside-down or sideways viewing. |
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© 2005 Patrick Kelley.