Postcard : THE SEAGULLS (Les mouettes)

an animated postcard by Pascal P. PARMENTIER (France)

Magic ! By sliding sideways the transparent plastic sleeve on the card, you’ll see many seagulls fly !

On a principle reminiscent of the animated cards of Rufus Butler SEDER >, cards of Pascal P. PARMENTIER contain 2 phases of a movement. These phases occur one after the other by sliding sideways a transparent grid on the drawing ...
(more explanations HERE>)

The animation :

Video :

PASCAL P. PARMENTIER

Born in Nancy (France) June 27, 1948.
At age 5, he decided that later he will be a dustman for the pleasure of hanging at the back of a truck.
He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Nancy.
Crazy creator, he had several workshops-shops in Paris, but ... constantly interrupted by customers, he prefers to settle in Saint-Jurs (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) in the countryside, where he slowly built his house, and let his children grow nicely and continue to create his moving or cutting cards ...

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