I went into London to see the world premier of ‘The Book of Clarence (2023)‘ at the London Film Festival.

The trip into London allowed for some extra time to wander the South Bank and check out the street art.

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I went into London to see the world premier of ‘The Book of Clarence (2023)‘ at the London Film Festival.
The trip into London allowed for some extra time to wander the South Bank and check out the street art.
Tim Melville Gallery had an exhibition of Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s work. I love the strong and bold colours. I guess with circles and a subject of ‘Time’ it was hard for me not to be enamoured. I explained to Tim that it would be easy to take the static images of the Phenakistoscopes and turn them into a movie to show what they really looked like if they were being used as intended. He said for me to try it and this story is the outcome.
With a little messing about, I managed this with the minimum of tools. Just a CMD batch file to loop through the commands, ImageMagick commands, and Gimp to find the centre and size of the circles.
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