This I don't know. Has Boards of Canada ever been to California? heh
Of course, the validity of articles is best represented, in my opinion, by
a certain richard d. james :D
It could've also been a rotating club, much like those restaurants.
cheers,
/derek
At 12:57 AM 3/15/2001 -0500, Bill Wright wrote:
quoted 21 lines Some article said the song was named after a club in CA and not the toy? true?
>Some article said the song was named after a club in CA and not the toy? true?
>At 11:30 PM 3/14/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>>A real definition is at
>>http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=zoetrope
>>
>>Essentially, they're a sort of toy with slits in the sides. You place a
>>strip of paper that contains, essentially, a looping animation in
>>it. You spin it relatively fast, and look through the slits to see the
>>short looping cartoon (usually something relatively simple, given that
>>these are rather small). They're horribly "simple," but their inevitable
>>child-like quality makes it a key-in for Boards of Canada, who've made,
>>essentially, a musical zoetrope.
>>
>>You can build one here: http://www.groeg.de/zoetrope.html
>>or here:
>>http://www.actf.com.au/learning_centre/interim_tol/online_res/anim2/anim2_zoetrope.html
>>or here: http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/headstrong/zokit.htm which also
>>contains an animation to show what they look like.
>>
>>cheers,
>>/derek
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